- Sun SparcStation IPC, 25MHz, 24MB RAM, 270MB HD, cgthree fb, Redhat 5.3 - Sun SparcStation 10MP, 4x55MHz Ross Hypersparc, 128MB RAM, 9.1GB HD, Solaris 9 - Sun 3/80, 25MHz 68030 (I think), 68882, can't remember the ram, no HD at the moment - Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, 200MHz Ultrasparc I, 192MB RAM, 4.3GB HD, Aurora Linux - Sun Ultra 10 Creator, 333MHz Ultrasparc IIi, 576MB RAM, 6.4GB HD, Solaris 10 - SGI Iris Indigo, 33MHz MIPS R3000, 16MB RAM, 420MB and 1.2GB HD, 8-bit graphics, Irix 5.3 - HP Apollo DN300 (can't remember the specs, sitting in the garage), Domain/OS 10.3 I think - IBM AS/400 9406-500, 1 RS64 CPU, 3 DASD, 8mm drive, OS/400 V4R3 - IBM AS/400 9402-400, 1 RS64 CPU, 2 DASD, big tape drive, OS/400 V4R4 - Compaq Portable III, 16MHz 286, 1MB RAM, 40MB HD, 5.25" floppy, 2400bps modem, orange plasma screen, windows 3.0 - Panasonic Sr. Partner, 4.77 MHz 8086, 512K RAM, 20MB HD, 5.25" floppy, green screen, internal thermal printer, DOS 3.3 - Packard Bell Legend 300CD, 60MHz Pentium (I have a 66MHz spare), 32MB RAM, 430MB and 1.2GB HD, Windows 98 - Apple IIc, RF modulator box, nuff said - Tandy TRS-80 with assembly editor cartridge
There's been more, but my parents had a tendency to throw out stuff I left at their house. Pretty much if I know the specs for the machines above, I use them. All of the above work, and when they act up, I fix them. The SGI does some CAD work, the Ultra10 does computational fluid dynamics, the Ultra1 does finite element model postprocessing and visualization, the IPC has to have its NVRAM programmed every time I boot it (I've got the commands down by heart), I'm still learning the AS/400s, the IIc gets used at 80's night parties for games, and some intrepid programmer managed to get some entertaining movies (yes, real, honest to goodness video) to play at a decent framerate on the Panasonic Sr. Partner.
I miss the old Sound Blaster 16s. They were pretty decent cards. I still have a couple of them around, but the lack of ISA slots in most machines is keeping them out of service. My mp3 playback computer uses an old Diamond Monster Sound MX300 (Vortex2) card, and its pretty awesome. Old, but awesome.
I guess you've never used a UTStarcom (Sprint\Verizon PPC\XV) 6700. Everything the iPhone can do (except the retarded accelerometers to rotate the screen) and a real keyboard. Sure, it comes with Windows Mobile, but I can partition a miniSD card, change some settings in the device bootloader, and actually run linux on it.
Quality hackable devices for enthusiasts are few and far apart, and the 6700 is definitely very high up in hackability for fun and productivity. And how well did this device do? Well, I've seen about six of them total "in the wild." But everyone and their dog has a Treo. So tell us all again how the iPhone is going to do well...
Whew, I was scared. The first time I read this post I saw "Lower the cost as they don't have to spend as much in development (eventually) for their own OS/2."
Whoa there AC, these ain't PCs I'm talking about. People commonly forget that there's far more to computing than PCs.
What is it that computers do? Compute! Mathematics. I just have to deal with computers that aren't exactly meant for Joe Windows User, Bob Apple User, or AC Linux User, so if that makes me an "elitist troll" so be it. Computational fluid dynamics, finite element modeling with millions upon millions of nodes in a mesh, mechanical system modeling, and more are all computational tasks suited for a different class of computer than most people are familiar with. Sun, SGI, IBM, heck, even some Dells require memory that is easily twice the $80/GB price point that makes you sweat. The components of these machines must be of the best quality, the most robust design, and extremely trustworthy. ECC is icing on the cake. When I submit a compute job that is going to take five days, I want to be damn sure that the results I'm getting are correct. There is no room for a bit error. There have been two occassions in my year and a half tenure at the aircraft design and engineering firm I work for where this has been a factor. A computer detects an uncorrectable error in memory and halts. I submit the job again, if the error occurs in about the same place, I run a diagnostic, verify that the address is roughly the same again, then pull that memory module and replace it. Its not cheap, but how safe would you feel flying in airplanes that have been modeled and analyzed with unverified computation?
In case you aren't aware, most workstations won't even function with bargain basement memory installed. The workstation is supposed to be reliable, and that stuff can't guarantee reliability all the time. I just mention this for workstations, but the same goes for servers and minis. So what if you have checksums everywhere? They don't necessarily tell you where a problem occurred, or even if its in hardware or software. If you don't believe that the better grade memory makes a difference, I have some SparcStations, Iris Indigos, and AS/400s in perfect, original, working condition (that get regular use) that you should check out.
I'll set my cluebat down with my remaining hand out of respect for your four-digit ID.:)
I had to install the newer driver to fulfill my side of a software support contract. The software still worked, and I probably never would have had a problem with the "out of the box" installation, but if something did go wrong, they wouldn't help me. However, the only difference I noticed is that a few things rendered nicer. Functionally it was no different.
Its VERY high end software, with an acquisition cost near $100,000 per seat, and the support is in the thousands of dollars per year realm. Not something to play games with. I am a little disappointed that I don't have another one of those machines to do some long term testing with.
Also, please note this is the ONLY time I've had such good luck. I was honestly prepared for a horrendous battle with the machine likely lasting a week.
Opensuse 10.1 on a Dell Precision 670. Worked flawlessly "out of the box." Compiled the nVidia graphics driver for the Quadro FX 540 card I have so I could use professional CAD software on it. No problems. Go ahead, come try to chop off my hand. I'm sitting here waiting with cluebat.
You either do not fully understand what you are talking about or missed several important points.
Inertia - You state a train is more efficient because we're good at making low friction moving parts, yet you completely neglect to mention the thousands of tons of weight that needs to be moved in a train. I'm pretty sure that pound for pound, a passenger train is much heavier than an aircraft with comparable passenger seating.
Fluid dynamics\aerodynamics - You clearly do not understand the concept of lift. Lift is generated by the aircraft due to its forward motion and the flow of air around the aircraft. Note that while wings are the primary source of lift, other surfaces (canards, horizontal tail, and even the fuselage) can generate lift. Another poster mentioned lift over drag (L/D) values for modern commercial passenger aircraft. It is not uncommon to have a cruise L/D of 23-25 for one of these aircraft. It is not particularly difficult to design or build aircraft with these efficiencies either. The physics, design, engineering, and manufacturing methods are well understood.
Performance - Max cruise speed of a Cessna CJ1 jet is 380kts, which translates to about 437mph. Given the average specific gravity of Jet-A at standard temperature, the burn rate of 700lbs/hr, you have a volumetric burn rate of about 100gal/hr. Therefore, your fuel economy is about 4.37mpg. Granted, that is for a CJ1, mileage varies on aircraft. A C172 four passenger piston single can get over 20mpg. I'm making no statement regarding how great these numbers are because I know nothing about fuel consumption rates for trains, and I'm into general aviation, and can't say what the fuel consumption of a 747 is. I just figured you could use some real numbers though.
Fuel types - "Aviation kerosene" (jet fuel) and diesel fuel are chemically almost identical. They are both in the general class of hydrocarbons known as kerosenes. Jet-A (the most common civilian jet fuel) is thinner and more pure than automotive diesel and does not have the same lubrication properties. Unmodified, a diesel car engine will happily and smoothly run on Jet-A, although with slightly less power, but the smoothness makes it practically unnoticeable. I've run my Mercedes on Jet-A hundreds of times. I'm almost positive that it would be interchangeable as a fuel in a locomotive.
There are different forces at work for vehicles that stay on the ground and vehicles that fly; it is too simplistic to say that "Anything that stays on the ground is going to have a huge advantage." There are dozens of UAVs that have unbelievably high loiter times. This is easily obtainable data. Additionally, what uses more energy, a medium size wild cat running at 40mph, or a hawk of the same size flying at constant altitude at the same speed?
You really used a lot of words but didn't say much. Hopefully this will help you make a believable point or let you disprove your statements.
I work as the sysadmin at a small engineering firm. We used to be completely a UNIX shop, with HP Apollos, HP 9000s, Sun Sparcstations, SGI Indigos, and IBM RS/6000s. A couple years ago the president decided that Windows was the way to go and he trashed all the workstations. This was shortly before they hired me. I discovered that they trashed all the workstations but kept all the old UNIX servers and added linux servers. However, there was now no way to safely test software because there were no workstations for development. There was also a lot of scientific software and expensive development tools that were now useless. I got so angry and flustered I dragged in a Sun Ultra1 that was sitting around at home and convinced the president to give me an SGI Iris Indigo that was collecting dust in his workstop. That helped a little. My craptastic Pentium 3 Windows XP workstation is the oldest, slowest, and least powerful box in the office and does maybe half of what I need, and when I say "I'm not performing effectively with this" I just get shrugged off. I think next week I'm just going to grab an Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 from my pile of machines at home and put it at my desk because I will be a hell of a lot more productive with the TOOLS I ACTUALLY NEED TO DO MY JOB. If I had an SGI Octane and a Sun Ultra 80 to supplement the Windows box, I'd be completely happy.
If you write anything that can be accessed publicly, you are potentially risking the entirety of the machine it is running on, or worse. A poorly written "Hello World" program written in PHP pulling the string "Hello World" from a MySQL database could be enough to get the server pwn3d. If you don't understand the fundamentals of security in programming, you shouldn't be programming in an environment where your ignorance and lack of education can cause damage to a company.
I agree that most CS programs in the US don't teach security methods, nor do they teach the concept of vulnerability. How is a box pwned? How do you feed a program the right data to execute arbitrary commands? How can you test that? I know the CS program at the local Big 12 university in the city I live in sure as hell doesn't teach any of that.
This is not new territory for Boeing. They've had a solid oxide fuel cell APU in the works for several years, and its doing rather well. I did some aircraft design work involving the integration of the Boeing SOFC APU. As of 2005, the best fuel efficiency is 75%, which when considering a 18,500 BTU/lb heat content of Jet-A, works out to about 0.246 lb/hr/kW. Much better than the 40-45% efficiency than the engine generator can deliver. The worst cruise fuel efficiency for the fuel cell APU was 59%. They want to obtain a 1kg/kW power density for the fuel cell stack and a 0.5kW/kg overall power density for the system by 2015. The stack weight looks achievable, but the system weight is still too high and the lightest weight designed system achieves 0.45 kW/kg.
I had a brand spankin' new Gateway Core 2 Duo laptop with 2GB RAM running Vista Home Premium. Thankfully, it wasn't mine. I connected to my office network (switched fast ethernet, nothing special) to download some files off a server (Windows Server 2003). I needed 1,167 files, with all the files being 1K or 2K in size. The copy dialog said at first it would take 7 hours to copy, and then dropped down to about 54 minutes after about one minute. Out of twisted curiosity, I let it go, and sure enough, it took an hour to download the files. The server was otherwise mostly idle, and none of our XP, 2000, Linux, or Unix workstations have these problems.
Thanks for making me enjoy my old computers so much more, Microsoft!
You neglected to mention temperature considerations. Batteries don't like to be really cold. Why do you think so many people have trouble starting their car in the winter?
No, Americans haven't abandoned Detroit for "Japanese quality." Spend some time in a large college town. Champaign, IL, Ann Arbor, MI, Lawrence, KS, College Station, TX. You'll see more 80's Japanese deathtraps held together with wire and tape belching horrible things out the exhaust than in any other place. Americans abandoned Detroit for Japanese low prices, and nothing more. You can't play the quality card unless you're going to start talking about Volvo and Mercedes. Before you decide to argue, look up the mileages, safety records, actual maintenance required and performed, and average age of these cars on the road. And yes, those same college towns have tons of Volvo 200\700\900s and 80's Mercedes rolling around happily in decent condition.
What have you had to do with your Toyotas and Nissans to keep them running for 200,000 miles? How much oil are they leaking or consuming? How much has engine compression decreased? How many different systems have you had to perform serious maintenance on? What are the environmental implications of that?
Its a funny thing that the two car companies that have the longest lasting cars on the road both offer extensive support services for even the oldest of their cars. Why? To keep owners happy and to help the environment by keeping the same cars on the road as long as possible.
Back to the Prius. Do you have any idea what the costs will be to perform electric motor service on the Prius? How about work on that proprietary transmission? What about the electrical distribution system? Look at how long laptop batteries last; the Prius batteries aren't that different, and they work in environments much worse than laptop batteries. The problem with the Prius is it is the only one of its kind, and that is going to make parts costs astronomical, and mechanics worth working on them few and far apart. Its not just the batteries that are going to nuke the life expectancy of these cars.
If you don't think that Japanese cars are a plague on the environment (in the US at least), visit your local junkyard. Count the number of Volvos you see there. Note that most of them will look like they've been hit by a train and deserve to be there. Same goes for Mercedes. Then look at the number of Hondas for example. Note how many don't have a scratch on them. Also note how much newer most of them are compared to their European counterparts. It never ceases to amaze me when I'm at my local Pick n' Pull.
Japanese quality and environmental friendliness in automobiles, my ass.
If only Jack would join forces with Fred Phelps, we'd have the ultimate legal team for all that is moral and right in this world.
In all seriousness, I think Jack should move to Topeka with Fred. With the two of them together, I think we can justify the use of nuclear weapons on American citizens. Just two of them. It would so be worth it.
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...in which case the Average Joe could do more harm then good if untrained in performing CPR. When someone starts performing "CPR" based on what they see on TV rather than what they could have learned in a class, they increase the risk to the victim. Average Joe has been known to further injure unresponsive people or contribute to their demise. This is the reason for easily accessible CPR/First Aid training, so that Average Joe knows what he is doing and can actually help rather than screaming, "Stay with me!" and pounding on the victim's chest with a fist.
I have my First Aid, CPR/Professional Rescuer, and Lifeguard certifications. More people should.
I know this because this is slashdot, people rarely actually RTFA, but come on and RTF post at least.
"...suits brought against disabled people who have never engaged in file sharing..."
and then RTFA, the guy in this case is half paralyzed, do you think he is spending a lot of time sitting at his computer downloading Christina Aguilera or something? There needs to be a preponderance of evidence in order to proceed with a case. So far you have a guy who probably can't use the bathroom himself who didn't live in the state in which he is accused of committing infringement. Where's that preponderance of incriminating evidence?
"Evidence of innocence" is pure idiocy, and contrary to the tenets of the judicial system. It is NOT this man's burden to prove his innocence, it is the RIAA's burden to prove him guilty.
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- Sun SparcStation IPC, 25MHz, 24MB RAM, 270MB HD, cgthree fb, Redhat 5.3
- Sun SparcStation 10MP, 4x55MHz Ross Hypersparc, 128MB RAM, 9.1GB HD, Solaris 9
- Sun 3/80, 25MHz 68030 (I think), 68882, can't remember the ram, no HD at the moment
- Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, 200MHz Ultrasparc I, 192MB RAM, 4.3GB HD, Aurora Linux
- Sun Ultra 10 Creator, 333MHz Ultrasparc IIi, 576MB RAM, 6.4GB HD, Solaris 10
- SGI Iris Indigo, 33MHz MIPS R3000, 16MB RAM, 420MB and 1.2GB HD, 8-bit graphics, Irix 5.3
- HP Apollo DN300 (can't remember the specs, sitting in the garage), Domain/OS 10.3 I think
- IBM AS/400 9406-500, 1 RS64 CPU, 3 DASD, 8mm drive, OS/400 V4R3
- IBM AS/400 9402-400, 1 RS64 CPU, 2 DASD, big tape drive, OS/400 V4R4
- Compaq Portable III, 16MHz 286, 1MB RAM, 40MB HD, 5.25" floppy, 2400bps modem, orange plasma screen, windows 3.0
- Panasonic Sr. Partner, 4.77 MHz 8086, 512K RAM, 20MB HD, 5.25" floppy, green screen, internal thermal printer, DOS 3.3
- Packard Bell Legend 300CD, 60MHz Pentium (I have a 66MHz spare), 32MB RAM, 430MB and 1.2GB HD, Windows 98
- Apple IIc, RF modulator box, nuff said
- Tandy TRS-80 with assembly editor cartridge
There's been more, but my parents had a tendency to throw out stuff I left at their house. Pretty much if I know the specs for the machines above, I use them. All of the above work, and when they act up, I fix them. The SGI does some CAD work, the Ultra10 does computational fluid dynamics, the Ultra1 does finite element model postprocessing and visualization, the IPC has to have its NVRAM programmed every time I boot it (I've got the commands down by heart), I'm still learning the AS/400s, the IIc gets used at 80's night parties for games, and some intrepid programmer managed to get some entertaining movies (yes, real, honest to goodness video) to play at a decent framerate on the Panasonic Sr. Partner.
I miss the old Sound Blaster 16s. They were pretty decent cards. I still have a couple of them around, but the lack of ISA slots in most machines is keeping them out of service. My mp3 playback computer uses an old Diamond Monster Sound MX300 (Vortex2) card, and its pretty awesome. Old, but awesome.
The iPhone is nothing innovative.
I guess you've never used a UTStarcom (Sprint\Verizon PPC\XV) 6700. Everything the iPhone can do (except the retarded accelerometers to rotate the screen) and a real keyboard. Sure, it comes with Windows Mobile, but I can partition a miniSD card, change some settings in the device bootloader, and actually run linux on it.
Quality hackable devices for enthusiasts are few and far apart, and the 6700 is definitely very high up in hackability for fun and productivity. And how well did this device do? Well, I've seen about six of them total "in the wild." But everyone and their dog has a Treo. So tell us all again how the iPhone is going to do well...
Whew, I was scared. The first time I read this post I saw "Lower the cost as they don't have to spend as much in development (eventually) for their own OS/2."
the fortune up right now is "I am covered with pure vegetable oil and I am writing a best seller!"
Whoa there AC, these ain't PCs I'm talking about. People commonly forget that there's far more to computing than PCs.
What is it that computers do? Compute! Mathematics. I just have to deal with computers that aren't exactly meant for Joe Windows User, Bob Apple User, or AC Linux User, so if that makes me an "elitist troll" so be it. Computational fluid dynamics, finite element modeling with millions upon millions of nodes in a mesh, mechanical system modeling, and more are all computational tasks suited for a different class of computer than most people are familiar with. Sun, SGI, IBM, heck, even some Dells require memory that is easily twice the $80/GB price point that makes you sweat. The components of these machines must be of the best quality, the most robust design, and extremely trustworthy. ECC is icing on the cake. When I submit a compute job that is going to take five days, I want to be damn sure that the results I'm getting are correct. There is no room for a bit error. There have been two occassions in my year and a half tenure at the aircraft design and engineering firm I work for where this has been a factor. A computer detects an uncorrectable error in memory and halts. I submit the job again, if the error occurs in about the same place, I run a diagnostic, verify that the address is roughly the same again, then pull that memory module and replace it. Its not cheap, but how safe would you feel flying in airplanes that have been modeled and analyzed with unverified computation?
In case you aren't aware, most workstations won't even function with bargain basement memory installed. The workstation is supposed to be reliable, and that stuff can't guarantee reliability all the time. I just mention this for workstations, but the same goes for servers and minis. So what if you have checksums everywhere? They don't necessarily tell you where a problem occurred, or even if its in hardware or software. If you don't believe that the better grade memory makes a difference, I have some SparcStations, Iris Indigos, and AS/400s in perfect, original, working condition (that get regular use) that you should check out.
If you're complaining about ONLY $80 for 1GB of RAM, you have no concept of what non-shitty memory for real workstations can cost.
Ah, the days of ejecting 800K floppies on an SE...
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I'll set my cluebat down with my remaining hand out of respect for your four-digit ID. :)
I had to install the newer driver to fulfill my side of a software support contract. The software still worked, and I probably never would have had a problem with the "out of the box" installation, but if something did go wrong, they wouldn't help me. However, the only difference I noticed is that a few things rendered nicer. Functionally it was no different.
Its VERY high end software, with an acquisition cost near $100,000 per seat, and the support is in the thousands of dollars per year realm. Not something to play games with. I am a little disappointed that I don't have another one of those machines to do some long term testing with.
Also, please note this is the ONLY time I've had such good luck. I was honestly prepared for a horrendous battle with the machine likely lasting a week.
Can I have my hand back now?
*Hand raised*
Opensuse 10.1 on a Dell Precision 670. Worked flawlessly "out of the box." Compiled the nVidia graphics driver for the Quadro FX 540 card I have so I could use professional CAD software on it. No problems. Go ahead, come try to chop off my hand. I'm sitting here waiting with cluebat.
You either do not fully understand what you are talking about or missed several important points.
Inertia - You state a train is more efficient because we're good at making low friction moving parts, yet you completely neglect to mention the thousands of tons of weight that needs to be moved in a train. I'm pretty sure that pound for pound, a passenger train is much heavier than an aircraft with comparable passenger seating.
Fluid dynamics\aerodynamics - You clearly do not understand the concept of lift. Lift is generated by the aircraft due to its forward motion and the flow of air around the aircraft. Note that while wings are the primary source of lift, other surfaces (canards, horizontal tail, and even the fuselage) can generate lift. Another poster mentioned lift over drag (L/D) values for modern commercial passenger aircraft. It is not uncommon to have a cruise L/D of 23-25 for one of these aircraft. It is not particularly difficult to design or build aircraft with these efficiencies either. The physics, design, engineering, and manufacturing methods are well understood.
Performance - Max cruise speed of a Cessna CJ1 jet is 380kts, which translates to about 437mph. Given the average specific gravity of Jet-A at standard temperature, the burn rate of 700lbs/hr, you have a volumetric burn rate of about 100gal/hr. Therefore, your fuel economy is about 4.37mpg. Granted, that is for a CJ1, mileage varies on aircraft. A C172 four passenger piston single can get over 20mpg. I'm making no statement regarding how great these numbers are because I know nothing about fuel consumption rates for trains, and I'm into general aviation, and can't say what the fuel consumption of a 747 is. I just figured you could use some real numbers though.
Fuel types - "Aviation kerosene" (jet fuel) and diesel fuel are chemically almost identical. They are both in the general class of hydrocarbons known as kerosenes. Jet-A (the most common civilian jet fuel) is thinner and more pure than automotive diesel and does not have the same lubrication properties. Unmodified, a diesel car engine will happily and smoothly run on Jet-A, although with slightly less power, but the smoothness makes it practically unnoticeable. I've run my Mercedes on Jet-A hundreds of times. I'm almost positive that it would be interchangeable as a fuel in a locomotive.
There are different forces at work for vehicles that stay on the ground and vehicles that fly; it is too simplistic to say that "Anything that stays on the ground is going to have a huge advantage." There are dozens of UAVs that have unbelievably high loiter times. This is easily obtainable data. Additionally, what uses more energy, a medium size wild cat running at 40mph, or a hawk of the same size flying at constant altitude at the same speed?
You really used a lot of words but didn't say much. Hopefully this will help you make a believable point or let you disprove your statements.
I work as the sysadmin at a small engineering firm. We used to be completely a UNIX shop, with HP Apollos, HP 9000s, Sun Sparcstations, SGI Indigos, and IBM RS/6000s. A couple years ago the president decided that Windows was the way to go and he trashed all the workstations. This was shortly before they hired me. I discovered that they trashed all the workstations but kept all the old UNIX servers and added linux servers. However, there was now no way to safely test software because there were no workstations for development. There was also a lot of scientific software and expensive development tools that were now useless. I got so angry and flustered I dragged in a Sun Ultra1 that was sitting around at home and convinced the president to give me an SGI Iris Indigo that was collecting dust in his workstop. That helped a little. My craptastic Pentium 3 Windows XP workstation is the oldest, slowest, and least powerful box in the office and does maybe half of what I need, and when I say "I'm not performing effectively with this" I just get shrugged off. I think next week I'm just going to grab an Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 from my pile of machines at home and put it at my desk because I will be a hell of a lot more productive with the TOOLS I ACTUALLY NEED TO DO MY JOB. If I had an SGI Octane and a Sun Ultra 80 to supplement the Windows box, I'd be completely happy.
My Mercedes turbodiesel runs great on pure corn oil. :)
If you write anything that can be accessed publicly, you are potentially risking the entirety of the machine it is running on, or worse. A poorly written "Hello World" program written in PHP pulling the string "Hello World" from a MySQL database could be enough to get the server pwn3d. If you don't understand the fundamentals of security in programming, you shouldn't be programming in an environment where your ignorance and lack of education can cause damage to a company.
I agree that most CS programs in the US don't teach security methods, nor do they teach the concept of vulnerability. How is a box pwned? How do you feed a program the right data to execute arbitrary commands? How can you test that? I know the CS program at the local Big 12 university in the city I live in sure as hell doesn't teach any of that.
This is not new territory for Boeing. They've had a solid oxide fuel cell APU in the works for several years, and its doing rather well. I did some aircraft design work involving the integration of the Boeing SOFC APU. As of 2005, the best fuel efficiency is 75%, which when considering a 18,500 BTU/lb heat content of Jet-A, works out to about 0.246 lb/hr/kW. Much better than the 40-45% efficiency than the engine generator can deliver. The worst cruise fuel efficiency for the fuel cell APU was 59%. They want to obtain a 1kg/kW power density for the fuel cell stack and a 0.5kW/kg overall power density for the system by 2015. The stack weight looks achievable, but the system weight is still too high and the lightest weight designed system achieves 0.45 kW/kg.
I had a brand spankin' new Gateway Core 2 Duo laptop with 2GB RAM running Vista Home Premium. Thankfully, it wasn't mine. I connected to my office network (switched fast ethernet, nothing special) to download some files off a server (Windows Server 2003). I needed 1,167 files, with all the files being 1K or 2K in size. The copy dialog said at first it would take 7 hours to copy, and then dropped down to about 54 minutes after about one minute. Out of twisted curiosity, I let it go, and sure enough, it took an hour to download the files. The server was otherwise mostly idle, and none of our XP, 2000, Linux, or Unix workstations have these problems.
Thanks for making me enjoy my old computers so much more, Microsoft!
You neglected to mention temperature considerations. Batteries don't like to be really cold. Why do you think so many people have trouble starting their car in the winter?
No, Americans haven't abandoned Detroit for "Japanese quality." Spend some time in a large college town. Champaign, IL, Ann Arbor, MI, Lawrence, KS, College Station, TX. You'll see more 80's Japanese deathtraps held together with wire and tape belching horrible things out the exhaust than in any other place. Americans abandoned Detroit for Japanese low prices, and nothing more. You can't play the quality card unless you're going to start talking about Volvo and Mercedes. Before you decide to argue, look up the mileages, safety records, actual maintenance required and performed, and average age of these cars on the road. And yes, those same college towns have tons of Volvo 200\700\900s and 80's Mercedes rolling around happily in decent condition.
What have you had to do with your Toyotas and Nissans to keep them running for 200,000 miles? How much oil are they leaking or consuming? How much has engine compression decreased? How many different systems have you had to perform serious maintenance on? What are the environmental implications of that?
Its a funny thing that the two car companies that have the longest lasting cars on the road both offer extensive support services for even the oldest of their cars. Why? To keep owners happy and to help the environment by keeping the same cars on the road as long as possible.
Back to the Prius. Do you have any idea what the costs will be to perform electric motor service on the Prius? How about work on that proprietary transmission? What about the electrical distribution system? Look at how long laptop batteries last; the Prius batteries aren't that different, and they work in environments much worse than laptop batteries. The problem with the Prius is it is the only one of its kind, and that is going to make parts costs astronomical, and mechanics worth working on them few and far apart. Its not just the batteries that are going to nuke the life expectancy of these cars.
If you don't think that Japanese cars are a plague on the environment (in the US at least), visit your local junkyard. Count the number of Volvos you see there. Note that most of them will look like they've been hit by a train and deserve to be there. Same goes for Mercedes. Then look at the number of Hondas for example. Note how many don't have a scratch on them. Also note how much newer most of them are compared to their European counterparts. It never ceases to amaze me when I'm at my local Pick n' Pull.
Japanese quality and environmental friendliness in automobiles, my ass.
If only Jack would join forces with Fred Phelps, we'd have the ultimate legal team for all that is moral and right in this world.
In all seriousness, I think Jack should move to Topeka with Fred. With the two of them together, I think we can justify the use of nuclear weapons on American citizens. Just two of them. It would so be worth it.
I guess you are too young to really remember SCSI...
...in which case the Average Joe could do more harm then good if untrained in performing CPR. When someone starts performing "CPR" based on what they see on TV rather than what they could have learned in a class, they increase the risk to the victim. Average Joe has been known to further injure unresponsive people or contribute to their demise. This is the reason for easily accessible CPR/First Aid training, so that Average Joe knows what he is doing and can actually help rather than screaming, "Stay with me!" and pounding on the victim's chest with a fist.
I have my First Aid, CPR/Professional Rescuer, and Lifeguard certifications. More people should.
I know this because this is slashdot, people rarely actually RTFA, but come on and RTF post at least.
"...suits brought against disabled people who have never engaged in file sharing..."
and then RTFA, the guy in this case is half paralyzed, do you think he is spending a lot of time sitting at his computer downloading Christina Aguilera or something? There needs to be a preponderance of evidence in order to proceed with a case. So far you have a guy who probably can't use the bathroom himself who didn't live in the state in which he is accused of committing infringement. Where's that preponderance of incriminating evidence?
"Evidence of innocence" is pure idiocy, and contrary to the tenets of the judicial system. It is NOT this man's burden to prove his innocence, it is the RIAA's burden to prove him guilty.
Heh, and the captcha for this is "falsify."