but then what do you call design features like windows networking telling you if you got the first letter of your password right, even without the rest of the password, and then letting you do that for the next letter, and so on and so on.
Seem to me that is still a defect. Not in the software itself, but in the software design.
And the same if not more to build a Linux box that draws the same amount of power as a Firebox or similar.
Yeah, if you have part laying around and don't care about power consumption and heat generation its cheaper.....but I've gotten to the point where I've given up on full on desktop machines (forget servers) running in my basement. I do just fine with a Pix 501 an an NSLU2 unslung. I can serve my files, I can run simple unix stuff including rtor, and it takes about 1/3 of the power as a full box.
Reading the letter, it really doesn't sound like anything Gates would say. He's not an end user. As you said, he certainly should know why rebooting would be necessary when updating part of the OS.
I've seen this a few times now. Sure, he certianly knows it's necessary. The point is WHY? Systems exist that don't need this. Why were such poor design decisions made with windows? Why did they decide to do so man other things rather than make it work in a way that is useful to how most people use it?
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Always asking why I gots a penguin air-brushed on my fuel tank. Pics or it didn't happen.
Any SUV owners reading this? Look forward to watching the second hand sale value of your vehicle plummet even while fuel costs rise to the point where you can no longer afford to drive your (now) useless vehicle.
Don't like it? Bad luck. You can't say you weren't warned.
I can't wait. I hope this goes for all of the nice big diesel pickups I see not doing any work other than hauling one driver around. Its about time to replace my pickup (which gets used only when I need to tow or haul something big). And I wouldn't mind replacing my wife's SUV with a newer one (which gets used for when it snows and we're hauling 2 kids around with us).
It used to be that trucks were bought for work. They were expensive, but did a good job. The last 10 or 15 years since trucks became a status symbol they have been far too overpriced for me to consider replacing the 2 I have. Can't wait to pick up some bargains. And not deal with so many idiot SUV drivers when I'm in my car.
Since I can't mod this up any more that it already is, I'll have to comment - jawtheshark: that was one of the best explanations I've ever seen of how SUVs aren't as safe.
I have a big red F150. It sits in my driveway unless I need it. I instead drive a hammered old Porsche 944, worth all of $3000, and have a much better time, KNOW for sure I'm safer because I can actively protect myself, and get 30MPG instead of the 14 that my pickup gets. People don't understand/dont think about this concept of active vs. passive safety, and the linked article in your post is a really good explanation.
The OS has had a full point release and there doesn't seem to be much for it.
Where's iChat or am I supposed to keep spending like $0.15 a text for SMS. Push services. They even demonstrated an IM client that backgrounds and will be pushed messages.
Speaking of SMS, where's the damn MMS? I'd like to know too.
How about spam filtering on the mail client. This is supposed to be "just like the desktop OS X" so how hard can it be to upgrade the mail client to more completely resemble the functionality of mail.app on the desktop? Welcome to 2008. Anyone with half a hunk of brain is using IMAP with server side rules and filtering.
No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location. No discussion would seem to indicate they will handle it the exact same way they currently do. What's so hard to understand about that?
Nice one month slip on the OS and app store. Is this your first time using technology? This is hardly a surprise.
So as a 1st generation owner, the only major upgrade in my day to day is the ability to get 3rd party apps. Hopefully 3rd party apps will fill in the gaping holes. Ummm....yeah...you seemed to miss the point. The 3rd party apps are supposed to do exactly that.
A little adblock would be super helpful too... See above.
Not if you don't ignore the several thousand dollar 2-year contract. If you already pay for similar service from another carrier, you're already paying that much per month. Who cares what carrier its with. Besides, you can get out of the contract with a little bit of creativity or for $200 at worst case.
I just don't see this as a valid argument. You don't see people going off on free phones, saying OMFG - it's not free! Its a trap! You have to pay at least $1000 over 2 years for that free phone.
No - you don't. Why not? Because the phone is a useless brick without service.
I dunno. I'm no MBA but I would imagine that the rating of any composite
security should be the lowest rating of the most risky component. I'm no MBA either, but that's not correct. The point of a composite security is to spread out the risk of the assets. If you had 2% of high risk assets, and 98% of assets considered to be stable, you wouldn't rate the entire composite based on the 2%. That's why these calculations are hard. And depend on so much data.
But I agree with you on the first part of your post. Something sounds rather unbelievable in this whole story.
NX was going to be my guess. There have been people spamming in NANOG on occasion trying to buy NX data from providers.....so there is obviously a market for it. Good call.
It's called a Logitech Harmony, costs just over $100 for the cheapest one, and has real buttons on it, not a touch screen, which is just maddening as a tv/av remote control for the reasons stated by several others already.
Exactly. I have a car that is doing this right now...the field wire has a problem (not worth discussing now - stupid old sports cars) and I have to get to 3k RPM to auto-excite the alternator. After that, it still produces power at idle with no problem.
I what would make more sense for an off-the-shelf unit would be an automatic transfer switch. Yeah..they're expensive, but you just leave the "generator" side open, feed your renewable power source inside your house PAST the ATS, and when the grid power goes down it will isolate your house.
Sure...that's what it CAN do. But its trivial to make a configuration that turns it into an indiscriminate P2P throttling machine. As a matter of fact, its EASIER to configure it that way than to take the time to check when and where to throttle.
I don't blame you for not making it through TFA - I'm surprised I did. But his response to that is that it's just "too hard" to update his status ("tell the computer what I'm doing") and he forgets to. Yeah...whatever.
I think you're confused about what direction the interference is prevented in. It tends to allow the cable to be shielded, protecting the signal on the cable itself, not to shield the cable from leaking/emitting signal.
And it really doesn't work all that well. If you've ever used a fox and hound on a bundle of cables to figure out which is which, you'll notice that it bleeds over to other cables pretty badly, and bleeds to other pairs in the same cable horribly.
Yes...from your link...please read it again:
"Drive-by-wire throttle systems are common on many new vehicles, but those systems still use an electric motor operated throttle to control engine speed. Engine speed on this new BMW engine design is also computer-controlled, but now the valves are controlled to change engine speed."
The first sentence describes other drive-by-wire systems as you are talking about. The second sentence describes the VANOS system being used on the high end BMW power plants, which is what I am referring to.
All EFI gasoline cars I know of, the only human interface to the engine system is controlling this air restriction.
....which has a throttle position sensor attached to it. At least it does on my Porsche. And we're not talking about a new one either.
I assume what your referring to is using a stepper motor for throttle control, and no hard linkage to the pedal.
Incorrect. There is no throttle body at all. This is trivial to research - check it out.
When exactly was that study done? The only reference to something similar I can find is Saab in 1980. Which explains things. Because I'm assuming most of us are driving cars with things like.....computers, mass air flow sensors, direct fuel injection, etc. Take these into account and things get pretty murky as far as fuel efficiency and acceleration under normal driving conditions. Its been a long time since a throttle plate what the only thing controlling your speed. Now the throttle plate typically controls only air flow, and the rest of things are done through the computer adjusting fuel flow, spark advance, and sometimes valve timing based on sensor values.....of course if you have a BMW 7 series, the game is different, which also may explain what you read. They have no throttle plate at all, and rely almost completely on variable valve timing.
Which brings up another point - variable valve timing. It really changes torque curves (makes them HUGE comparatively).
Of course you're correct about engines being most efficient at max torque. Anyone who knows anything about industrial motors for things like generators and water pumps know that....you tune them to work at that value. But I'm having a hard time swallowing that what you stated is still a universal rule.
(Not to mention most cars get better efficiency at full throttle) WHAT? Where did you get this idea from? Or are you talking about some other kind of "efficiency" other than fuel?
If this developer had any brains at all, he would have been using a compiler and development tool set for a "non-standard" software development language like Object Pascal, Smalltalk, or Lisp.
Woah there......"if this developer had any brains at all" is a bit harsh. I don't know that is was reasonable for him to expect being sued (probably without merit).
And I don't know what WoW was written in, but his software requires.NET 2.0.
Which is why I've always felt that the process should pick the second lowest bid. It's trivial to shoot for the bottom... it's impossible to shoot for second from the bottom.
Really?
Company A works with partner company B. Here's the phone conversation: "Hey CEO B, this is CEO A. You see the gubment contract they just put out the RFP on? You want to take low or realistic this time?"
I don't know which lamps you are specifically speaking of, but I can tell you the low pressure sodium lamps are very, very, very power efficient. A typical street lamp of this type might be 60-100 watts, but is very bright. They're more than that unless you're talking about very low to the ground ones. And they're typically high pressure sodium..... While they do kick the crap out of household style incandescents (typical 100 W bulb puts out 1400 or so lumens, where a high pressure sodium at the same wattage put out closer to 10,000) they look like ass because of their color temperature. TFA states full-spectrum, which would be pretty nice.
Good argument until you consider there are no streetlights on the interstate. Huh? What are those big sticks with the lights on them in this picture of I95 not too far away from where I live?
I'm not saying there aren't places that have interstates without street lights. I'm familiar with several sections of I 95 that don't, mostly once you get south of Washington DC and in the sticks of Northern Virginia, and then again after you pass Richmond until you reach what passes for civilization in North Carolina. But the most heavily trafficed places do have street lights.
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but then what do you call design features like windows networking telling you if you got the first letter of your password right, even without the rest of the password, and then letting you do that for the next letter, and so on and so on.
Seem to me that is still a defect. Not in the software itself, but in the software design.
BTW the AS costs $5000, last time I needed to know.
Try $500.
And the same if not more to build a Linux box that draws the same amount of power as a Firebox or similar. Yeah, if you have part laying around and don't care about power consumption and heat generation its cheaper.....but I've gotten to the point where I've given up on full on desktop machines (forget servers) running in my basement. I do just fine with a Pix 501 an an NSLU2 unslung. I can serve my files, I can run simple unix stuff including rtor, and it takes about 1/3 of the power as a full box.
Reading the letter, it really doesn't sound like anything Gates would say. He's not an end user. As you said, he certainly should know why rebooting would be necessary when updating part of the OS.
I've seen this a few times now. Sure, he certianly knows it's necessary. The point is WHY? Systems exist that don't need this. Why were such poor design decisions made with windows? Why did they decide to do so man other things rather than make it work in a way that is useful to how most people use it?I can't wait. I hope this goes for all of the nice big diesel pickups I see not doing any work other than hauling one driver around. Its about time to replace my pickup (which gets used only when I need to tow or haul something big). And I wouldn't mind replacing my wife's SUV with a newer one (which gets used for when it snows and we're hauling 2 kids around with us). It used to be that trucks were bought for work. They were expensive, but did a good job. The last 10 or 15 years since trucks became a status symbol they have been far too overpriced for me to consider replacing the 2 I have. Can't wait to pick up some bargains. And not deal with so many idiot SUV drivers when I'm in my car.
I urge anyone who owns an SUV and/or considers buying one to read "Big And Bad" by Malcolm Gladwel.
Since I can't mod this up any more that it already is, I'll have to comment - jawtheshark: that was one of the best explanations I've ever seen of how SUVs aren't as safe.
I have a big red F150. It sits in my driveway unless I need it. I instead drive a hammered old Porsche 944, worth all of $3000, and have a much better time, KNOW for sure I'm safer because I can actively protect myself, and get 30MPG instead of the 14 that my pickup gets. People don't understand/dont think about this concept of active vs. passive safety, and the linked article in your post is a really good explanation.
NX was going to be my guess. There have been people spamming in NANOG on occasion trying to buy NX data from providers.....so there is obviously a market for it. Good call.
It's called a Logitech Harmony, costs just over $100 for the cheapest one, and has real buttons on it, not a touch screen, which is just maddening as a tv/av remote control for the reasons stated by several others already.
Exactly. I have a car that is doing this right now...the field wire has a problem (not worth discussing now - stupid old sports cars) and I have to get to 3k RPM to auto-excite the alternator. After that, it still produces power at idle with no problem. I what would make more sense for an off-the-shelf unit would be an automatic transfer switch. Yeah..they're expensive, but you just leave the "generator" side open, feed your renewable power source inside your house PAST the ATS, and when the grid power goes down it will isolate your house.
Sure...that's what it CAN do. But its trivial to make a configuration that turns it into an indiscriminate P2P throttling machine. As a matter of fact, its EASIER to configure it that way than to take the time to check when and where to throttle.
I don't blame you for not making it through TFA - I'm surprised I did. But his response to that is that it's just "too hard" to update his status ("tell the computer what I'm doing") and he forgets to. Yeah...whatever.
I think you're confused about what direction the interference is prevented in. It tends to allow the cable to be shielded, protecting the signal on the cable itself, not to shield the cable from leaking/emitting signal. And it really doesn't work all that well. If you've ever used a fox and hound on a bundle of cables to figure out which is which, you'll notice that it bleeds over to other cables pretty badly, and bleeds to other pairs in the same cable horribly.
Yes...from your link...please read it again:
"Drive-by-wire throttle systems are common on many new vehicles, but those systems still use an electric motor operated throttle to control engine speed. Engine speed on this new BMW engine design is also computer-controlled, but now the valves are controlled to change engine speed."
The first sentence describes other drive-by-wire systems as you are talking about. The second sentence describes the VANOS system being used on the high end BMW power plants, which is what I am referring to.
Incorrect. There is no throttle body at all. This is trivial to research - check it out.
When exactly was that study done? The only reference to something similar I can find is Saab in 1980. Which explains things. Because I'm assuming most of us are driving cars with things like.....computers, mass air flow sensors, direct fuel injection, etc. Take these into account and things get pretty murky as far as fuel efficiency and acceleration under normal driving conditions. Its been a long time since a throttle plate what the only thing controlling your speed. Now the throttle plate typically controls only air flow, and the rest of things are done through the computer adjusting fuel flow, spark advance, and sometimes valve timing based on sensor values. ....of course if you have a BMW 7 series, the game is different, which also may explain what you read. They have no throttle plate at all, and rely almost completely on variable valve timing.
Which brings up another point - variable valve timing. It really changes torque curves (makes them HUGE comparatively).
Of course you're correct about engines being most efficient at max torque. Anyone who knows anything about industrial motors for things like generators and water pumps know that....you tune them to work at that value. But I'm having a hard time swallowing that what you stated is still a universal rule.
WHAT? Where did you get this idea from? Or are you talking about some other kind of "efficiency" other than fuel?
Woah there......"if this developer had any brains at all" is a bit harsh. I don't know that is was reasonable for him to expect being sued (probably without merit).
And I don't know what WoW was written in, but his software requires
1998 called and wants their verbiage back.
Really?
Company A works with partner company B. Here's the phone conversation: "Hey CEO B, this is CEO A. You see the gubment contract they just put out the RFP on? You want to take low or realistic this time?"
I'm not saying there aren't places that have interstates without street lights. I'm familiar with several sections of I 95 that don't, mostly once you get south of Washington DC and in the sticks of Northern Virginia, and then again after you pass Richmond until you reach what passes for civilization in North Carolina. But the most heavily trafficed places do have street lights.