Exactly. Hybrid cars have very little effect on a electrical economy, but it gets the masses thinking this way. In addition simply using thousands of engines with hydrogen (instead of BMW using like 20) gives a bigger test base, and encourages more development of high compression engines.
Personally I'd still like to see the goverment stop taxing ethanol so heavily. Ethanol is cheaper to produce than gasoline, it's renewable, higher octane, and solves the foreign oil crisis. Still the US governemnt uselessly taxes ethanol, and requires that ethanol be mixed with gasoline when used with vehicles. This 10% gasoline doesn't cost much, but when gasoline is used with ethanol, the ethanol must be degrees of magnitude more pure. Instead of seeing ethanol at about $1 a gallon, it costs about $2.40. The takes impressive savings on fuel to marginal (ethanol is 113 octane, so much more exotic than super premium ultimate gasoline), and leaves the market to racers almost exclusively.
Your Prius cannot compete with the horsepower numbers of a VW 1.8T, or a Passat(I4, V6 or W8). A Prius may have been a better choice, but you should consider the cost of batteries when you want to keep it over 4 years. When the 2000 hybrids start failing (~2008) yours will not be worth as much.
The prius is nice in its own right, but its not comparable to a VW.
Anything can be seen as a lie. Libel isn't limited to simple name-calling. It's simply written information that is not correct. She might have bad vision, or she might not even know who's running the job site. Odds are she's right, but simply making unoffensive claims can still be libel.
While Linux most certainly is a viable alternative to Microsoft wherever it is used, that's not why Unisys is jumping on board. Unisys has come to this point because they finally realized that Microsoft isn't going to do anything important with large servers. They already ruined any credibility with the Unix crowd, so Linux is their only option. They could use FreeBSD, but Unisys management is obviously not smart enough to realise that BSD is in the market.
If he wanted to be a lawyer he wouldn't be working at slashdot. Now you're probably thinking that now I'm putting the blame back on democrats who shot down this "pro-blogger" bill. Not the case. This is just typical congressional garbage that we are all just supposed to put up with. Rider laws have become the norm, and it's just wrong. Unfortunatly this isn't a them-vs-them issue, it's an US-vs-them issue and nobody is likely to take up a fight with congress.
No, actually all of those technologies came from pre-moon shoot technology. Dont give me any garbage about super insulation, nobody uses that. EM was built for satillites, and they were all working much before we landed anyone on the moon (or even started with man occupied orbits)
The ISS was supposed to be better than the Russian Space Station, but it's been more of a political celebrity travel destination than a research center. We made the station to friendly, while making it too small. Would you even consider putting a ISS-sized shelter on the moon? Then why did spend that insane amount of money putting it in orbit?
This may be where the lack of statistical IP is not a good thing. On second thought I'd say storing your information in you punkin head is a better idea than on your HD. Hard drives fail, and you dont want to leave ports open to banks... or anyone else who you dont trust.
1: False alarms will not help you. Having someone keep track of your large purchases is probably a good idea, but that's not stopping someone from buying a cell phone, gas, groceries, etc.
2: Your are not responsible for purchases made with a stolen, or fake card. It is only when someone makes an account in your name that you really get in trouble.
3: Most people make the same logical mistakes that you do, and I'm not going to check someones card when they order pizza. If I intended to stop fraud (which is a valiant pursuit), I'd get an intership with the FBI. I'm sure workers at many of the places you shop will share my view.
While fundamentally it is wrong, so is the use of the court system by meddlesum agencies like the RIAA. Courts cost money to operate, and the taxpayers foot a large portion of that bill. Honestly I dont think there's over 1% of the population who approves of their money being spent to get some greedy organization a judgement (or settlement) against little johnny.
Oh, and don't forget about all the time the FBI wastes taking down warez groups.
While Microsoft was never really a dog you liked, they weren't really the city eating blob they are today until windows 98. Microsoft started abusing their monopoly very clearly at that point, and they have been getting worse ever since. I dont think anyone should fear google, or walmart (well, maybe walmart), but the kind of government that puts up with corporate wrongs.
Dont boycott google, they're a good site. OTOH, if I found a search engine that gave me 80% as good results I'd probably start reccomending them just so I could feel safe in case google turns evil.
*nix is better in terms of letting the program get its job done, and supporting *nix is useful in terms of spreading the FOSS way. Windows of course has the larger userbase, but I'd say that would be more of an argument of popularity or profit (although you could interpret usability that way as well)
I was thinking of citing wxWindows, but I couldn't think of a cross platform app that used it. GTK wasn't written for cross platform, but Gaim is still my favorite AIM client... so I wont hold it against that author.
The kernel that is being run doesn't really matter to a user when they consider one specific program. Usually what matters is the librarys being used. While supporting Windows is a honorable goal, using Win32 exclusive libraries creates problems. The windows implementations of Gaim, and wget work well because the foundational libraries project authors used to write the software have been ported to platforms that did not already support them. When you choose to write an open source program using proprietary libraries, porting to a more useful platform is hard, and the lack of forsight observed is just frusturating.
I think the quoted in this post was trying to get false sympathy. By using someone elses foundation you are gaining advantages that allow your job to be done more easily, However when that foundation is closed source you do no favours to people who would improve or port your project. So unless you want to do ALL the non-foundational work yourself, find a good open source foundation, or write your own OS foundation.
This is more of a practical argument than a philosphical one. I'm sure the/. crowd will not assess many pity points for whining.
Yeah, I'm too optimistic for some. Depending on your system the latest C-version of linux 2.6 may be completely unstable, or run just fine. When you make landmark changes to implement drivers for hardware, hardware that hasn't even been implemented in systems as of yet the result is random instability.
I hadn't heard about a shift in release style that the unlce poster mentioned, but as he stated, it doesn't really matter in practice. Earlier on a Quazi-"D" release was implemented as linux 2.4.12, which was really just a mission critical patch to 2.4.11.
Obviously with all the lingo used to discuss this topic, the kernel versioning system is too complex, and implemented incorrectly. There is no reason for fundamental changes to be implemented in the "C" revisions.
Yeah, everyone likes to get their features, but whats the point when your kernel is unusable? This is not just a subrelease, its the 14th subrelease of the 2.6 kernel. Linux 2.4 is too old to be usable with newer systems, and 2.6 may be totally unstable on your system. Most of the features mentioned in this release aren't even implemented in manufactured system hardware, so their inclusion is not urgent.
I would have much rather read "New features: nothing" at this point in the development of 2.6.
I understand that many evolutionary scientists do not believe that the big bang created the universe. This however says nothing of the integrity of evolutionary science curriculum currently being taught in the schools. It is my understanding that after a theory is shot full of holes, new textbooks are still written heavily based on this theory, until a better theory comes along. Children are asked to learn that the earth is 5 billion years old today, but 40 years ago it was a number like 50 million. These are useless non-facts, and when you teach the exisitance of the universe as a set of facts and uncontested theories this is what you are reduced to.
I think you should go over you notes a little more carefully. There is no more solid evidence that rocks and rain can build single cell bio-organizms than there is solid evidence of a single theory of the origin of the universe.
In fact macro evolution has not been backed at all. The problem here is that according to the evolutionary model, the time process from one distinct species to another is hundreds of thousands to millions of years, and any skeletal specimen would under any normal circumstance be totally unrecognizable normally, or just unsupportable if you are really lucky. The thing is, with no transition species alive today, reconstructing one from bones at an archeological site is not doable. Bones are put together to form a specimen from a significantly large area, and they are only associated to one skeleton if they fit. Of course if you can draw the skeleton after you collect the bones, there is no restraint on the evidence you use. You might as well just draw something, and call yourself a philosopher.
As for intelligent design in nature: you could argue that animals like beavers, ants, termites etc exhibit intelligent design. Of course it might be instinct, but I dont think it really matters. OTOH, why would you desciminate against humans in your take of nature. Intelligent design is obvious when you see a 747 that is safer than playing football.
I'll have to agree that ID was a tricky move by theists. It's mostly a move to "Get God back in the schools", but by abstracting the specifics of God, they have got around anti-religious rules. The problem with "teaching" either a evolutionary model or a ID model is that neither one is backed by strong enough evidence to be called anything other than a theory, and not only that but both have so much difference of opinion in the specifics.
We know that both evolution happens (and can be observed in a micro sense), and that intelligent design happens. Neither one however can be reproduced scientifically without resources, just like the ID supporter cannot say what was before God, and the Big bang supporter cannot tell you what was before the proton.
The problem is that teaching either view as fact, like rules of spelling or like algebra is just not productive. I dont think that teaching ID in schools will help things, unless it lowers confusion levels in students. OTOH by presenting a case for both an ID method and a (macro) evolution method should give students a more open mind, and allow them (although not force them) to come up with an intelligent conclusion on their own.
I appreciate your reply, and yes I do take the respect of consumers as a large part of my game purchasing decisions. OTOH, most of the game industry just acts like sheep at this point, blindly following the rest and giving lame excuses.
The solution will be a long way away for me, I'm not of the wealth to start hiring graphic designers and studio engineers at this point, even if I did have a vision for an excellent video game.
Perhaps it is because more people are familiar with C++ than Python, and by writing the AI and other game rules in C++ the Civ 4 team has made modders job easier.
I'd like to take the opportunity to completely disagree with Soren on the point of No-CD cracks and anti-piracy measures to insure high sales. Epic has done excellent with every UT release even though they have no irritating protection measures. Scene releases are usually dumped if they dont come with the cracks necessary to run a game, so by forcing a paying user to keep his CD in you are just spitting in the face of your loyal customers. If I buy Civ 4, I'll want to just get the CDkey, and let someone keep the scratched CD. By game publishers requiring a no-cd hack, I am tempted to just skip the license and hack the cd key as well.
I think this is the better answer to the overall problem. When you pay for a phone line to your house, you buy it so people can call you. When the phone companies implement a POTS (T is optional in this case) they are supposed to accept calls. My guess is that a consumer group should go after companies that use this software feature, backed by users of said companies.
"I guess this is illegal in my country (Brasil)." Funny thing about the law, that usually doesn't matter. Also think about the how much laws can change from country to country, even when they share borders (Canada and U.S. rules about TV rebroadcasting come to mind). In the case of TV rebroadcasting Canada shut down a lot of internet rebroadcasts just because the US government (backed by media companies) strong armed them.
This is one of those problems that theoretically shouldn't be completely fixable, but everyone knows that it is from past experiences.
First, wow why would you post anonymously and use a signature?
Second, yes, there are problems with what rights a program is given by default in an operating system. This is mostly a problem with the operating system though, and not the software. If the software must report to the user itself, it could report something safe, and do anything else the author intended (Think pop-up windows with the close image that loads your browser with junk instead.)
Honestly I think that the best solution to this problem is already present. Multi-user operating systems allow users differnt rights, and you should run a program as a user that has only the rights it needs. Security problems then only arise in a single area(the operating system), and can be addressed more easily because a larger set of individuals use the operating system than the set of individuals using any random program.
My reference to burning was more a joke than anything. The board does seem to have trouble running while hot, even if hot is in the range of normal operating temperatures.
This release is strictly to fix bugs because no doubt a lot of people think like you. Eventually the 20 extra plugins that you didn't think were necessary in the main build will all be a pain to install manually, so someone will package them into one "ultimate" release. Well maybe not considering we're talking about programming software and the honor of maintaining your own distribution is strong, but in general companies are usually better served to release new versions to introduce new features while maintaining the older versions.
Have fun with your VIM, my professor is on the Emacs police squad so I'm happy to use that for now:)
Oddly enough, my Matsonic Athlon XP/PC133 mb ran like junk for the first 6 months and it hasn't had trouble ever since. I guess whatever burned out wasn't helping performance:)
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Exactly. Hybrid cars have very little effect on a electrical economy, but it gets the masses thinking this way. In addition simply using thousands of engines with hydrogen (instead of BMW using like 20) gives a bigger test base, and encourages more development of high compression engines. Personally I'd still like to see the goverment stop taxing ethanol so heavily. Ethanol is cheaper to produce than gasoline, it's renewable, higher octane, and solves the foreign oil crisis. Still the US governemnt uselessly taxes ethanol, and requires that ethanol be mixed with gasoline when used with vehicles. This 10% gasoline doesn't cost much, but when gasoline is used with ethanol, the ethanol must be degrees of magnitude more pure. Instead of seeing ethanol at about $1 a gallon, it costs about $2.40. The takes impressive savings on fuel to marginal (ethanol is 113 octane, so much more exotic than super premium ultimate gasoline), and leaves the market to racers almost exclusively.
Your Prius cannot compete with the horsepower numbers of a VW 1.8T, or a Passat(I4, V6 or W8). A Prius may have been a better choice, but you should consider the cost of batteries when you want to keep it over 4 years. When the 2000 hybrids start failing (~2008) yours will not be worth as much.
The prius is nice in its own right, but its not comparable to a VW.
Anything can be seen as a lie. Libel isn't limited to simple name-calling. It's simply written information that is not correct. She might have bad vision, or she might not even know who's running the job site. Odds are she's right, but simply making unoffensive claims can still be libel.
While Linux most certainly is a viable alternative to Microsoft wherever it is used, that's not why Unisys is jumping on board. Unisys has come to this point because they finally realized that Microsoft isn't going to do anything important with large servers. They already ruined any credibility with the Unix crowd, so Linux is their only option. They could use FreeBSD, but Unisys management is obviously not smart enough to realise that BSD is in the market.
If he wanted to be a lawyer he wouldn't be working at slashdot. Now you're probably thinking that now I'm putting the blame back on democrats who shot down this "pro-blogger" bill. Not the case. This is just typical congressional garbage that we are all just supposed to put up with. Rider laws have become the norm, and it's just wrong. Unfortunatly this isn't a them-vs-them issue, it's an US-vs-them issue and nobody is likely to take up a fight with congress.
No, actually all of those technologies came from pre-moon shoot technology. Dont give me any garbage about super insulation, nobody uses that. EM was built for satillites, and they were all working much before we landed anyone on the moon (or even started with man occupied orbits)
The ISS was supposed to be better than the Russian Space Station, but it's been more of a political celebrity travel destination than a research center. We made the station to friendly, while making it too small. Would you even consider putting a ISS-sized shelter on the moon? Then why did spend that insane amount of money putting it in orbit?
This may be where the lack of statistical IP is not a good thing. On second thought I'd say storing your information in you punkin head is a better idea than on your HD. Hard drives fail, and you dont want to leave ports open to banks... or anyone else who you dont trust.
1: False alarms will not help you. Having someone keep track of your large purchases is probably a good idea, but that's not stopping someone from buying a cell phone, gas, groceries, etc.
2: Your are not responsible for purchases made with a stolen, or fake card. It is only when someone makes an account in your name that you really get in trouble.
3: Most people make the same logical mistakes that you do, and I'm not going to check someones card when they order pizza. If I intended to stop fraud (which is a valiant pursuit), I'd get an intership with the FBI. I'm sure workers at many of the places you shop will share my view.
While fundamentally it is wrong, so is the use of the court system by meddlesum agencies like the RIAA. Courts cost money to operate, and the taxpayers foot a large portion of that bill. Honestly I dont think there's over 1% of the population who approves of their money being spent to get some greedy organization a judgement (or settlement) against little johnny.
Oh, and don't forget about all the time the FBI wastes taking down warez groups.
While Microsoft was never really a dog you liked, they weren't really the city eating blob they are today until windows 98. Microsoft started abusing their monopoly very clearly at that point, and they have been getting worse ever since. I dont think anyone should fear google, or walmart (well, maybe walmart), but the kind of government that puts up with corporate wrongs. Dont boycott google, they're a good site. OTOH, if I found a search engine that gave me 80% as good results I'd probably start reccomending them just so I could feel safe in case google turns evil.
*nix is better in terms of letting the program get its job done, and supporting *nix is useful in terms of spreading the FOSS way. Windows of course has the larger userbase, but I'd say that would be more of an argument of popularity or profit (although you could interpret usability that way as well)
I was thinking of citing wxWindows, but I couldn't think of a cross platform app that used it. GTK wasn't written for cross platform, but Gaim is still my favorite AIM client... so I wont hold it against that author.
The kernel that is being run doesn't really matter to a user when they consider one specific program. Usually what matters is the librarys being used. While supporting Windows is a honorable goal, using Win32 exclusive libraries creates problems. The windows implementations of Gaim, and wget work well because the foundational libraries project authors used to write the software have been ported to platforms that did not already support them. When you choose to write an open source program using proprietary libraries, porting to a more useful platform is hard, and the lack of forsight observed is just frusturating.
/. crowd will not assess many pity points for whining.
I think the quoted in this post was trying to get false sympathy. By using someone elses foundation you are gaining advantages that allow your job to be done more easily, However when that foundation is closed source you do no favours to people who would improve or port your project. So unless you want to do ALL the non-foundational work yourself, find a good open source foundation, or write your own OS foundation.
This is more of a practical argument than a philosphical one. I'm sure the
Yeah, I'm too optimistic for some. Depending on your system the latest C-version of linux 2.6 may be completely unstable, or run just fine. When you make landmark changes to implement drivers for hardware, hardware that hasn't even been implemented in systems as of yet the result is random instability.
I hadn't heard about a shift in release style that the unlce poster mentioned, but as he stated, it doesn't really matter in practice. Earlier on a Quazi-"D" release was implemented as linux 2.4.12, which was really just a mission critical patch to 2.4.11.
Obviously with all the lingo used to discuss this topic, the kernel versioning system is too complex, and implemented incorrectly. There is no reason for fundamental changes to be implemented in the "C" revisions.
Yeah, everyone likes to get their features, but whats the point when your kernel is unusable? This is not just a subrelease, its the 14th subrelease of the 2.6 kernel. Linux 2.4 is too old to be usable with newer systems, and 2.6 may be totally unstable on your system. Most of the features mentioned in this release aren't even implemented in manufactured system hardware, so their inclusion is not urgent.
I would have much rather read "New features: nothing" at this point in the development of 2.6.
I understand that many evolutionary scientists do not believe that the big bang created the universe. This however says nothing of the integrity of evolutionary science curriculum currently being taught in the schools. It is my understanding that after a theory is shot full of holes, new textbooks are still written heavily based on this theory, until a better theory comes along. Children are asked to learn that the earth is 5 billion years old today, but 40 years ago it was a number like 50 million. These are useless non-facts, and when you teach the exisitance of the universe as a set of facts and uncontested theories this is what you are reduced to.
I think you should go over you notes a little more carefully. There is no more solid evidence that rocks and rain can build single cell bio-organizms than there is solid evidence of a single theory of the origin of the universe.
In fact macro evolution has not been backed at all. The problem here is that according to the evolutionary model, the time process from one distinct species to another is hundreds of thousands to millions of years, and any skeletal specimen would under any normal circumstance be totally unrecognizable normally, or just unsupportable if you are really lucky. The thing is, with no transition species alive today, reconstructing one from bones at an archeological site is not doable. Bones are put together to form a specimen from a significantly large area, and they are only associated to one skeleton if they fit. Of course if you can draw the skeleton after you collect the bones, there is no restraint on the evidence you use. You might as well just draw something, and call yourself a philosopher.
As for intelligent design in nature: you could argue that animals like beavers, ants, termites etc exhibit intelligent design. Of course it might be instinct, but I dont think it really matters. OTOH, why would you desciminate against humans in your take of nature. Intelligent design is obvious when you see a 747 that is safer than playing football.
I'll have to agree that ID was a tricky move by theists. It's mostly a move to "Get God back in the schools", but by abstracting the specifics of God, they have got around anti-religious rules. The problem with "teaching" either a evolutionary model or a ID model is that neither one is backed by strong enough evidence to be called anything other than a theory, and not only that but both have so much difference of opinion in the specifics.
We know that both evolution happens (and can be observed in a micro sense), and that intelligent design happens. Neither one however can be reproduced scientifically without resources, just like the ID supporter cannot say what was before God, and the Big bang supporter cannot tell you what was before the proton.
The problem is that teaching either view as fact, like rules of spelling or like algebra is just not productive. I dont think that teaching ID in schools will help things, unless it lowers confusion levels in students. OTOH by presenting a case for both an ID method and a (macro) evolution method should give students a more open mind, and allow them (although not force them) to come up with an intelligent conclusion on their own.
I appreciate your reply, and yes I do take the respect of consumers as a large part of my game purchasing decisions. OTOH, most of the game industry just acts like sheep at this point, blindly following the rest and giving lame excuses.
The solution will be a long way away for me, I'm not of the wealth to start hiring graphic designers and studio engineers at this point, even if I did have a vision for an excellent video game.
Perhaps it is because more people are familiar with C++ than Python, and by writing the AI and other game rules in C++ the Civ 4 team has made modders job easier.
I'd like to take the opportunity to completely disagree with Soren on the point of No-CD cracks and anti-piracy measures to insure high sales. Epic has done excellent with every UT release even though they have no irritating protection measures. Scene releases are usually dumped if they dont come with the cracks necessary to run a game, so by forcing a paying user to keep his CD in you are just spitting in the face of your loyal customers. If I buy Civ 4, I'll want to just get the CDkey, and let someone keep the scratched CD. By game publishers requiring a no-cd hack, I am tempted to just skip the license and hack the cd key as well.
I think this is the better answer to the overall problem. When you pay for a phone line to your house, you buy it so people can call you. When the phone companies implement a POTS (T is optional in this case) they are supposed to accept calls. My guess is that a consumer group should go after companies that use this software feature, backed by users of said companies.
"I guess this is illegal in my country (Brasil)."
Funny thing about the law, that usually doesn't matter. Also think about the how much laws can change from country to country, even when they share borders (Canada and U.S. rules about TV rebroadcasting come to mind). In the case of TV rebroadcasting Canada shut down a lot of internet rebroadcasts just because the US government (backed by media companies) strong armed them.
This is one of those problems that theoretically shouldn't be completely fixable, but everyone knows that it is from past experiences.
http://www.aa419.org/vampire/ladvampire.php
Let your bandwidth do the work.
First, wow why would you post anonymously and use a signature?
Second, yes, there are problems with what rights a program is given by default in an operating system. This is mostly a problem with the operating system though, and not the software. If the software must report to the user itself, it could report something safe, and do anything else the author intended (Think pop-up windows with the close image that loads your browser with junk instead.)
Honestly I think that the best solution to this problem is already present. Multi-user operating systems allow users differnt rights, and you should run a program as a user that has only the rights it needs. Security problems then only arise in a single area(the operating system), and can be addressed more easily because a larger set of individuals use the operating system than the set of individuals using any random program.
My reference to burning was more a joke than anything. The board does seem to have trouble running while hot, even if hot is in the range of normal operating temperatures.
This release is strictly to fix bugs because no doubt a lot of people think like you. Eventually the 20 extra plugins that you didn't think were necessary in the main build will all be a pain to install manually, so someone will package them into one "ultimate" release. Well maybe not considering we're talking about programming software and the honor of maintaining your own distribution is strong, but in general companies are usually better served to release new versions to introduce new features while maintaining the older versions.
:)
Have fun with your VIM, my professor is on the Emacs police squad so I'm happy to use that for now
Oddly enough, my Matsonic Athlon XP/PC133 mb ran like junk for the first 6 months and it hasn't had trouble ever since. I guess whatever burned out wasn't helping performance :)