Well the difference with biodiesel and your veggie oil is that biodiesel can be purchased from a pump if you know where to get it.
And before I purchased my VW TDI I specifically asked about their warranty conditions and fuels and that it was my intention to use BioDiesel on this car. The response: If it comes out of a pump, it's covered.
BioDiesel comes out of a pump.
And there is no engine modifications necessary. In fact the other advantage of BioDiesel that isn't mentioned here is that it's slightly oilier than regular DinoDiesel -- making it less wearing on your engine.
I saw the research papers from a project just like this that was done some 10+ years ago by a really huge automotive company in America. The problem is people.
The design was Engine to Generator to Batteries to Electric Motor. In a sense the batteries were not much more than really huge capacitors across the leads to balance out high demand use.
It also used regenerative braking to regain power.
If you drove like a typical driver who would jack rabbit the starts and slam the brakes then the massive amount of current you are pushing into and out of the batteries will create so much heat. The tests were abandoned shortly after they managed to explode a number of the batteries by doing this.
That's why they don't do this.
If there was a current limited control on the entire engine system then it would work very well. But you would have to risk selling vehicles that don't do 0-60 in
Until the society as a whole is willing to put up with less zoom-zoom performance and more economical and environmental considerations these concepts have no chance..
I dunno about that. Can you cite a resource on that. I have a VW TDI and I can get a reasonable cloud if I jack rabbit the start with my manual transmission. But then I guess there is no such thing as a perfect engine.
But the VW TDI is a really awesome vehicle for high fuel economy. At $3 a gallon with works out to about 6.8 pennies per mile based on my average 44mpg for the last 6000 miles.
Every time I've tried to use KDE it swaps out my 512MB workstation. And I run a basic workstation with nothing that should be considered out of the ordinary for some home development. But to use up that much RAM is just crap. I don't care who you are or how F/OSS you are or how fanatical your supporters are. That's crap.
When they come out with something that doesn't take minutes to load and wipe out all my RAM then I'll be interested in it. It sure does have a lot of eye-candy and twiddly features, but the cost in performance is prohibitive.
Sure hope they can actually improve this in KDE4. They sure haven't done that in the last 5 years. On the contrary, they have made it progressively worse.
I think this is a pretty goofy place to start working on a project like that. But having a requirement of 1 million users isn't the issue. I can do that with one sub optimum pc. How many email messages are you running every day?
Considering that email is a non-realtime process you could conceivably do this one one machine with a secondary MX server if you were willing to wait for a period of time, but how long is to long? Every minute will cost you a lot of money, especially as you approach zero.
It's easy to say the hardware should be SCSI Raid and use multi-processor CPU's. Clustering sounds like the better solution but I personally don't know anything about it.
99.9% uptime is more interesting: That's 8.76 hours per year of unavailable system or 43 minutes a month. That would allow you one systemic upgrade/reboot per month. I would consider this to be a bigger issue if you were also expected to manage security patches and other upgrades in a timely manner and yet only have 43 minutes a week to apply them. Given you have a million accounts it might be difficult to have the mail system restart itself in a short enough timeframe to allow you a patch a week.
And Scale Perfectly? What are you? Marketing or Management? Is there such a thing as "To Scale Perfectly"?
I have nary a machine in my house that runs Windows. I don't own any books or CD's on the same. I routinely deploy firewalls on all my machines, even in my home LAN, as a matter of practice.
Does this make me a terrorist?
I hope not. This is the kind of discussion, if turned into a political arena, is the kind of thing that enforces notions that the Government is not necessarily your friend. This is one of the more interesting points in American Society. Many have come to a point where the default is to not trust the government and the government behaviour continues to enforce that belief because of their interests are more focused on corporate interests than interests of individuals.
Having not read the article I can only hope that this is more a description of the problem than a call for political aide.
Rule Number One: for any software, hardware, computer, vehicle, anything -- never buy version.0 unless you are willing to suffer instabilities.
Rule Number Two: See Rule Number One
You said you suffered instabilities in the 2.6.0 release. No.. duh!
I thought you would be more concerned with their change in practice to do away with the odd/even stable/development model that they used up to kernel 2.4. As I understand it, now all the development problems are rolled into the kernel intended for public use. I think this will come back to bite them in the ass.
Many companies have dress codes that might make you rather sweaty in July and August if you biked to work (or any other human powered method).
Companies believe in an image. Even if that means aristocratic demonstrations of hierarchy.
Try going to work in 90% of the companies in America and you'll find the same thing true.
I'm in a horrible condition. I work in Detroit at one of the Big Three automotive companies. This means two things -- Detroit has effectively no public transportation that anyone would consider without a large hand gun and you are expected to drive into work in a shiny new clean 6,000 lb SUV because you're supporting the company.
I drive a VW Diesel to work and they hate me. But no one can meet my 600 miles per tank.
Sure, you could argue for a one size fits all connectivity solution, but you would probably regret it. I think there is an arguement for delineation of connection architecture.
If your USB drivers aren't stable, do you want that one your keyboard/mouse? Why invest in a multi-MB interface for user actions that run in the KB speeds?
Additionally, can firewire replace SCSI?
If everything is done via firewire and your firewire driver has a bug in it, you've converted your computer to a boat anchor. Not worth the risk.
To elaborate on my experiences with a 533MHz Epia system. The performance as a web/mail server is excellent. I can readily manage orders of magnitudes more activity than I really see. Just max out the RAM and let it go.
But as a graphical interface you will find it's performance lacking. But you can't expect great things from their onboard graphics chip. It's certainly useful and worthwhile, but it's no gaming console.
What has always surprised me about these boxes is they tend to stick with so much legacy stuff. It would be really interesting if they started shipping these with the only interfaces to the board being USB, firewire, PS/2, video, and SATA. I think we can start considering parallel deprecated and might able to do the same for serial as well. But it's only my opinion. Serial still has some potential uses in customized hardware applications.
But I use one of these for my mail/web server and another for my print server and test/development server. Runs great. And I've tested the power output: 27W is a typical value
I dunno.. If I was a greazy marketing type I would love to find someone who was a greasy as myself and this kind of Google information would be perfect. And you have a hard time using the word illegally on any of this since you would have to have proof. How many spammers have been convicted?
I'm glad our president it level headed enough not to start mixing up extreme religious ideologies with politics. But I guess that's what we're fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, right?
Or maybe it's OK to be a Chrisitian Extremist just so long as we aren't a Muslim Extremist.
Where's the proof to support Intelligent Design? And the bible ain't it. Try to be Scientific.
For that, Perl simply hits a bottleneck. You're better off using C/C++ if you really want to go the CGI route.
I never considered CGI as being scalable. I was thinking of tools like mod_perl or architecture frameworks like HTML::Mason.
I wouldn't consider C/C++ for a new product development. I think it would be better to get the initial release in a different language that is easier to code and then once you have proven the concept in terms of business and programming you can rewrite it in C/C++. But I believe that every application needs to be rewritten after you get it working initially. This may be at a level of a lab proof of concept or post market release, I don't know.
When it comes to software development where I work, we don't run them through HR. They go through purchasing. We outsource 100% of our software development to a bunch of H1B visa holders and these guys are truely frickin' idiots. Their code sucks ass, they can't scale worth shit, yet they all hold a Java Cert to grant them access to the repository.
As for Perl hitting a bottleneck, you might want to tell Amazon, TicketMaster, Yahoo that their applications can't scale. Meanwhile you might consider cleaning your own crackpipe and putting it back in the drawer.
With sufficient abuse will come sufficient pain that the USPTO position in business and science will be forced into a renegotiation as it becomes more and more obvious that you simply cannot do business in this country. While the patent farms are screaming for their right to innovate it will become more obvious that they are only trying to smother the competition. And the competition will go to other nations where US Patent enforcement is more lax. And we will be met with an overseas flood of not only our patented products being made overseas, but highly innovative products being sold from overseas nations.
The damage to the American Economy will be extensive. Between our brain-drain in Acedamia and our innovation-sewer in business, it's starting to look like someone is strip-mining the US rather than trying to keep it vital and alive.
My company is pushing the same thing, they want patents done every year so they can farm out their business space and push back the competitors as far away from their sandbox as possible. This isn't innovation, it's isolation.
Well, it's hard not to start a flamewar with all of this, but here's my opinion on the matter.
Perl
Definitely not Java
Why Perl? HTML::Mason and mod_perl provide a great means of integration to the Apache web server. It has an extensive history and development effort in web applications with a very large set of libraries available.
Why not Java? There's a lot of stuff that Java can do that Perl can do. But there are two points that I think are important to consider when looking at making a real website. First Java is a fundamental memory hog in comparison to Perl. The really nasty experience that I've been having with Java is that a majority of the developers who you can hire cheap are very poorly experienced developers who really don't know how to do any serious design.
And now for my segue into why I would really not recommend Java and I would recommend Perl. The entrance barrier to Java is much lower than the entrance barrier to Perl mainly as the result of Java being pushed as a Corporate Standard. It's much easier for me to get a certificate in Java than I can a certificate in Perl. Similar in concept to the MCSE certs I can get as well. What do they really mean in the real world? That's for the developer to sell and you to buy.
These languages are rather close in performance capabilities, but the quality of developers you would find in Java I would expect to be lower than the quality of developers you would find with Perl experience.
I've tried following the rule of The Means justify the End on dealing with spam but nothing seems to have any real effect.
Whatever it takes, no matter what methods are employed, are not entirely out of bounds.
I am not against the social practice of highlighting individuals as spam-kings in society and letting everyone near them know that they are the kind of spam. I see nothing wrong with someone following Alan Rolsky around for a month with a big sign over them that says, "This man sends you spam" when he tries to go out in public.
Usually I'm a pretty mellow guy and try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but the behavour of spammers is nothing less than pestilence and I have no issues with anyone taking any methods, real or virtual, to remove them.
I would even go so far as to create a spam-tax to the buyers. If you buy product that is advertised via spam, regardless of spam actually being how you heard of the product, you are subject to a 200% tax or 2 years in jail. Stop making spam financially effective and it won't be used anymore.
Who the fuck came up with the idea of commercializing the internet in the first place?
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- Amazon
For starters. Perl is better than most people give it credit for. It just lacks a S&M (Sales and Marketing) team.Well the difference with biodiesel and your veggie oil is that biodiesel can be purchased from a pump if you know where to get it.
And before I purchased my VW TDI I specifically asked about their warranty conditions and fuels and that it was my intention to use BioDiesel on this car. The response: If it comes out of a pump, it's covered.
BioDiesel comes out of a pump.
And there is no engine modifications necessary. In fact the other advantage of BioDiesel that isn't mentioned here is that it's slightly oilier than regular DinoDiesel -- making it less wearing on your engine.
TDI gets me 44mpg with dino-diesel. Biodiesel as about 4% lower energy density so I would expect a drop to 42mpg.
I saw the research papers from a project just like this that was done some 10+ years ago by a really huge automotive company in America. The problem is people.
The design was Engine to Generator to Batteries to Electric Motor. In a sense the batteries were not much more than really huge capacitors across the leads to balance out high demand use.
It also used regenerative braking to regain power.
If you drove like a typical driver who would jack rabbit the starts and slam the brakes then the massive amount of current you are pushing into and out of the batteries will create so much heat. The tests were abandoned shortly after they managed to explode a number of the batteries by doing this.
That's why they don't do this.
If there was a current limited control on the entire engine system then it would work very well. But you would have to risk selling vehicles that don't do 0-60 in
Until the society as a whole is willing to put up with less zoom-zoom performance and more economical and environmental considerations these concepts have no chance..
I dunno about that. Can you cite a resource on that. I have a VW TDI and I can get a reasonable cloud if I jack rabbit the start with my manual transmission. But then I guess there is no such thing as a perfect engine.
But the VW TDI is a really awesome vehicle for high fuel economy. At $3 a gallon with works out to about 6.8 pennies per mile based on my average 44mpg for the last 6000 miles.
That's Dino-Diesel. Check out Bio-Diesel. It's much cleaner then Diesel but not well supported by the Oil Industry.
I have a VW Diesel Golf.
It holds four adults such that a one hour drive is not uncomfortable but I wouldn't go cross-country.
I get 600 miles to a 13 gallon tank of gas.
It holds all my scuba gear without dropping the seats.
Now if I could get Bio-Diesel it would be damn near perfect! No sulfur, very clean, biodegradable fuel and the Oil Cronies don't get a friggin' dime.
Every time I've tried to use KDE it swaps out my 512MB workstation. And I run a basic workstation with nothing that should be considered out of the ordinary for some home development. But to use up that much RAM is just crap. I don't care who you are or how F/OSS you are or how fanatical your supporters are. That's crap.
When they come out with something that doesn't take minutes to load and wipe out all my RAM then I'll be interested in it. It sure does have a lot of eye-candy and twiddly features, but the cost in performance is prohibitive.
Sure hope they can actually improve this in KDE4. They sure haven't done that in the last 5 years. On the contrary, they have made it progressively worse.
Yup! Pretty cute.
I think this is a pretty goofy place to start working on a project like that. But having a requirement of 1 million users isn't the issue. I can do that with one sub optimum pc. How many email messages are you running every day?
Considering that email is a non-realtime process you could conceivably do this one one machine with a secondary MX server if you were willing to wait for a period of time, but how long is to long? Every minute will cost you a lot of money, especially as you approach zero.
It's easy to say the hardware should be SCSI Raid and use multi-processor CPU's. Clustering sounds like the better solution but I personally don't know anything about it.
99.9% uptime is more interesting: That's 8.76 hours per year of unavailable system or 43 minutes a month. That would allow you one systemic upgrade/reboot per month. I would consider this to be a bigger issue if you were also expected to manage security patches and other upgrades in a timely manner and yet only have 43 minutes a week to apply them. Given you have a million accounts it might be difficult to have the mail system restart itself in a short enough timeframe to allow you a patch a week.
And Scale Perfectly? What are you? Marketing or Management? Is there such a thing as "To Scale Perfectly"?
I don't need to read anything more. I have no desire to try and use something with 10 buttons on it on a daily basis.
I think they need to read the Design of Everyday Things.
Dude! You are so full of shit your eyes are brown.
I have nary a machine in my house that runs Windows. I don't own any books or CD's on the same. I routinely deploy firewalls on all my machines, even in my home LAN, as a matter of practice.
Does this make me a terrorist?
I hope not. This is the kind of discussion, if turned into a political arena, is the kind of thing that enforces notions that the Government is not necessarily your friend. This is one of the more interesting points in American Society. Many have come to a point where the default is to not trust the government and the government behaviour continues to enforce that belief because of their interests are more focused on corporate interests than interests of individuals.
Having not read the article I can only hope that this is more a description of the problem than a call for political aide.
Rule Number One: for any software, hardware, computer, vehicle, anything -- never buy version .0 unless you are willing to suffer instabilities.
Rule Number Two: See Rule Number One
You said you suffered instabilities in the 2.6.0 release. No .. duh!
I thought you would be more concerned with their change in practice to do away with the odd/even stable/development model that they used up to kernel 2.4. As I understand it, now all the development problems are rolled into the kernel intended for public use. I think this will come back to bite them in the ass.
I would think this is a major detraction from my libraries largest source of income, me and late fees.
Well, in a word, "yes".
Especially when you consider the following:
- Most people commute 30 miles or more.
- Many companies have dress codes that might make you rather sweaty in July and August if you biked to work (or any other human powered method).
- Companies believe in an image. Even if that means aristocratic demonstrations of hierarchy.
Try going to work in 90% of the companies in America and you'll find the same thing true.I'm in a horrible condition. I work in Detroit at one of the Big Three automotive companies. This means two things -- Detroit has effectively no public transportation that anyone would consider without a large hand gun and you are expected to drive into work in a shiny new clean 6,000 lb SUV because you're supporting the company.
I drive a VW Diesel to work and they hate me. But no one can meet my 600 miles per tank.
Sure, you could argue for a one size fits all connectivity solution, but you would probably regret it. I think there is an arguement for delineation of connection architecture.
If your USB drivers aren't stable, do you want that one your keyboard/mouse? Why invest in a multi-MB interface for user actions that run in the KB speeds?
Additionally, can firewire replace SCSI?
If everything is done via firewire and your firewire driver has a bug in it, you've converted your computer to a boat anchor. Not worth the risk.
To elaborate on my experiences with a 533MHz Epia system. The performance as a web/mail server is excellent. I can readily manage orders of magnitudes more activity than I really see. Just max out the RAM and let it go.
But as a graphical interface you will find it's performance lacking. But you can't expect great things from their onboard graphics chip. It's certainly useful and worthwhile, but it's no gaming console.
What has always surprised me about these boxes is they tend to stick with so much legacy stuff. It would be really interesting if they started shipping these with the only interfaces to the board being USB, firewire, PS/2, video, and SATA. I think we can start considering parallel deprecated and might able to do the same for serial as well. But it's only my opinion. Serial still has some potential uses in customized hardware applications.
But I use one of these for my mail/web server and another for my print server and test/development server. Runs great. And I've tested the power output: 27W is a typical value
I dunno.. If I was a greazy marketing type I would love to find someone who was a greasy as myself and this kind of Google information would be perfect. And you have a hard time using the word illegally on any of this since you would have to have proof. How many spammers have been convicted?
I'm glad our president it level headed enough not to start mixing up extreme religious ideologies with politics. But I guess that's what we're fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, right?
Or maybe it's OK to be a Chrisitian Extremist just so long as we aren't a Muslim Extremist.
Where's the proof to support Intelligent Design? And the bible ain't it. Try to be Scientific.
I never considered CGI as being scalable. I was thinking of tools like mod_perl or architecture frameworks like HTML::Mason.
I wouldn't consider C/C++ for a new product development. I think it would be better to get the initial release in a different language that is easier to code and then once you have proven the concept in terms of business and programming you can rewrite it in C/C++. But I believe that every application needs to be rewritten after you get it working initially. This may be at a level of a lab proof of concept or post market release, I don't know.
When it comes to software development where I work, we don't run them through HR. They go through purchasing. We outsource 100% of our software development to a bunch of H1B visa holders and these guys are truely frickin' idiots. Their code sucks ass, they can't scale worth shit, yet they all hold a Java Cert to grant them access to the repository.
As for Perl hitting a bottleneck, you might want to tell Amazon, TicketMaster, Yahoo that their applications can't scale. Meanwhile you might consider cleaning your own crackpipe and putting it back in the drawer.
Really. Keep it up Bill. Go for 12,000 next year.
With sufficient abuse will come sufficient pain that the USPTO position in business and science will be forced into a renegotiation as it becomes more and more obvious that you simply cannot do business in this country. While the patent farms are screaming for their right to innovate it will become more obvious that they are only trying to smother the competition. And the competition will go to other nations where US Patent enforcement is more lax. And we will be met with an overseas flood of not only our patented products being made overseas, but highly innovative products being sold from overseas nations.
The damage to the American Economy will be extensive. Between our brain-drain in Acedamia and our innovation-sewer in business, it's starting to look like someone is strip-mining the US rather than trying to keep it vital and alive.
My company is pushing the same thing, they want patents done every year so they can farm out their business space and push back the competitors as far away from their sandbox as possible. This isn't innovation, it's isolation.
Well, it's hard not to start a flamewar with all of this, but here's my opinion on the matter.
Perl
Definitely not Java
Why Perl? HTML::Mason and mod_perl provide a great means of integration to the Apache web server. It has an extensive history and development effort in web applications with a very large set of libraries available.
Why not Java? There's a lot of stuff that Java can do that Perl can do. But there are two points that I think are important to consider when looking at making a real website. First Java is a fundamental memory hog in comparison to Perl. The really nasty experience that I've been having with Java is that a majority of the developers who you can hire cheap are very poorly experienced developers who really don't know how to do any serious design.
And now for my segue into why I would really not recommend Java and I would recommend Perl. The entrance barrier to Java is much lower than the entrance barrier to Perl mainly as the result of Java being pushed as a Corporate Standard. It's much easier for me to get a certificate in Java than I can a certificate in Perl. Similar in concept to the MCSE certs I can get as well. What do they really mean in the real world? That's for the developer to sell and you to buy.
These languages are rather close in performance capabilities, but the quality of developers you would find in Java I would expect to be lower than the quality of developers you would find with Perl experience.
Was he murdered because of his Spam or for some other reason?
Good riddence to Bad Trash.
Good point. I forgot about my nose and your right fist.
I guess that means I don't have a right to reject your freedom to have an abortion if you are not of my religious belief system?
I think it does, but others would disagree.
I've tried following the rule of The Means justify the End on dealing with spam but nothing seems to have any real effect.
Whatever it takes, no matter what methods are employed, are not entirely out of bounds.
I am not against the social practice of highlighting individuals as spam-kings in society and letting everyone near them know that they are the kind of spam. I see nothing wrong with someone following Alan Rolsky around for a month with a big sign over them that says, "This man sends you spam" when he tries to go out in public.
Usually I'm a pretty mellow guy and try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but the behavour of spammers is nothing less than pestilence and I have no issues with anyone taking any methods, real or virtual, to remove them.
I would even go so far as to create a spam-tax to the buyers. If you buy product that is advertised via spam, regardless of spam actually being how you heard of the product, you are subject to a 200% tax or 2 years in jail. Stop making spam financially effective and it won't be used anymore.
Who the fuck came up with the idea of commercializing the internet in the first place?