Re:Brazilian Ethanol [Re:Don't blame me]
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The Great Ethanol Scam
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Uh, haven't basically all US market cars for the last decade or more been designed for E85? I know even my 1998 Windstar had filters and seals that were E85 compatible, it's not like it adds much cost to make a car E85 compatible. Heck here is the midwest winter mixes probably go to 15% ethanol already to combat fuel line freezup.
I don't know, I don't think Linux has a huge marketshare on the desktop, it's probably a few percent in corporate desktops and less than one percent for home desktops. That being said Linux is probably has more total OS installs that WIndows, all the virtual hosts and ubiquitous embedded devices that have been moving over to Linux in droves add up to a ton of actual usage.
Actually negligent homicide and the corporate shield isn't all encompassing. If Verizon has a policy of cooperation with law enforcement and the employee acted against those policies then they may be singularly responsible.
PDF is an ISO standard, SWF is now completely open and much of the related technologies are in the process of being opened, see here. Postscipt has always been fully documented and third party interpreters have been available. I can't find any reference to Adobe threating to sue over Postscript so while it might not be a formal standard it's effectively open (see Ghostscript).
Hahaha, yeah ok whatever. There are plenty of Unix/Linux daemons that only work if setuid/setgid, if there weren't the feature wouldn't be there. Oh and here's a quick example of how setuid bit early Mac OSX, that particular problem might now be fixed but don't act like Unix is some magic security land.
Yeah but how many of those apps are SUDO or SUID? Oh and we run all but one of our apps on locked down Citrix servers where they users are just that users with fairly severe restrictions beyond even MS standard user rights, you just need an admin that knows what they are doing. (The one app isn't run on Citrix because of a graphics library problem not a permissions one, it doesn't run correctly on widescreen aspect systems either!)
Uh, any low speed device on a hub makes the entire thing slow down significantly so yeah, I am going to complain about 1 USB port. With 2 ethernet and wifi it would make a kick ass firewall appliance =)
Actually MS wrote one of the most stable and reliable database engines ever, JET Blue aka ESE. It's the multimaster replication database behind Active Directory and there are almost never problems with it. It also backs Exchange and when they worked out the application code problems (in Exchange 2007) it's really shined there as well.
Oh yeah and supposedly SQL Server 2005 was a ground up rewrite, I doubt there's much code left over from pre-SQL 7.
No, for emerging markets the target price point is probably more like $50-75 for the console with game titles in the $10-20 range. Basically a somewhat reduced price Gameboy.
Meh, I'm not a fan of anyone really all vendors suck, it's just a matter of degrees. For my personal preference I could put up with slightly slower framerate but the BSOD's I experienced and helped troubleshoot that were the result of bad ATI drivers just weren't acceptable to me.
Then you've lived through some really terrible drivers and I'm sure more than your share of BSOD's. ATI might make great hardware but they don't seem to be able to write a decent driver to save their life.
The S3 Virge GX ran faster than software rendering unless you had a top of the line Intel CPU, if you were running Cyrix or AMD with their weaker FPU's then the GX won out. I ultimately bought a Voodoo monster and then a Voodoo 3 3000 but that was because they were all but a requirement for Diablo 2 due to the fact that GLIDE was way faster AND better looking. Today I use a Glide->D3D wrapper to play and get better framerate then even a Voodoo 5 could have achieved =)
Re:Academic does not necessarily mean Computer Sci
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MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX
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rtf2latex2e, save DOC file as RTF then pump it through that, you should end up only needing to do about 10-20% formatting work.
The problem with revealing even a PAST CIA agent's identity is that every cover company they worked for and every other agent they had contact with is now exposed as well and some of THEM may be still active. It's seriously one of the few areas where 'but national security' is actually true, unlike stupid shit like taking a picture of a building which has been photographed millions of times before.
You seem to be under the impression that consumers buy the majority of computers, they don't.
Re:If it works . . .
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Phoenix BIOSOS?
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Not really, all decent systems have two separate BIOS flash areas and will only update the second one after a successful startup from the primary. Heck some systems have that AND a minimal BIOS in ROM so they can always recover even if the flash is scambled (HP workstations and servers do this, stick a floppy in and hit a special key during powerup or flip a DIP and they will read the flash file from the floppy and write it to BIOS flash).
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Uh, haven't basically all US market cars for the last decade or more been designed for E85? I know even my 1998 Windstar had filters and seals that were E85 compatible, it's not like it adds much cost to make a car E85 compatible. Heck here is the midwest winter mixes probably go to 15% ethanol already to combat fuel line freezup.
I don't know, I don't think Linux has a huge marketshare on the desktop, it's probably a few percent in corporate desktops and less than one percent for home desktops. That being said Linux is probably has more total OS installs that WIndows, all the virtual hosts and ubiquitous embedded devices that have been moving over to Linux in droves add up to a ton of actual usage.
Actually negligent homicide and the corporate shield isn't all encompassing. If Verizon has a policy of cooperation with law enforcement and the employee acted against those policies then they may be singularly responsible.
PDF is an ISO standard, SWF is now completely open and much of the related technologies are in the process of being opened, see here. Postscipt has always been fully documented and third party interpreters have been available. I can't find any reference to Adobe threating to sue over Postscript so while it might not be a formal standard it's effectively open (see Ghostscript).
Adobe gave us PostScipt, PDF, and SWF formats as open standards, that alone gives them the nice company seal from me =)
P910nd is what DD-WRT uses for printer support. It's supported by Windows, CUPS, LPRng, and OSX. Basically it emulates an HP JetDirect.
Don't forget the shredder =)
Hahaha, yeah ok whatever. There are plenty of Unix/Linux daemons that only work if setuid/setgid, if there weren't the feature wouldn't be there. Oh and here's a quick example of how setuid bit early Mac OSX, that particular problem might now be fixed but don't act like Unix is some magic security land.
For $.10/KWhr power it's roughly $1/year/watt of idle power usage when you consider transmission charges.
Yeah but how many of those apps are SUDO or SUID? Oh and we run all but one of our apps on locked down Citrix servers where they users are just that users with fairly severe restrictions beyond even MS standard user rights, you just need an admin that knows what they are doing. (The one app isn't run on Citrix because of a graphics library problem not a permissions one, it doesn't run correctly on widescreen aspect systems either!)
Uh, any low speed device on a hub makes the entire thing slow down significantly so yeah, I am going to complain about 1 USB port. With 2 ethernet and wifi it would make a kick ass firewall appliance =)
Actually MS wrote one of the most stable and reliable database engines ever, JET Blue aka ESE. It's the multimaster replication database behind Active Directory and there are almost never problems with it. It also backs Exchange and when they worked out the application code problems (in Exchange 2007) it's really shined there as well.
Oh yeah and supposedly SQL Server 2005 was a ground up rewrite, I doubt there's much code left over from pre-SQL 7.
I'm sure that was the way that Cisco repaid the lawyer fees while getting a tax deduction out of it.
No, for emerging markets the target price point is probably more like $50-75 for the console with game titles in the $10-20 range. Basically a somewhat reduced price Gameboy.
According to this post this wrapper works under WINE with Diablo2.
Nope, this one. It was written just for Diablo2 and works great with the newest LoD patch.
Meh, I'm not a fan of anyone really all vendors suck, it's just a matter of degrees. For my personal preference I could put up with slightly slower framerate but the BSOD's I experienced and helped troubleshoot that were the result of bad ATI drivers just weren't acceptable to me.
Then you've lived through some really terrible drivers and I'm sure more than your share of BSOD's. ATI might make great hardware but they don't seem to be able to write a decent driver to save their life.
The S3 Virge GX ran faster than software rendering unless you had a top of the line Intel CPU, if you were running Cyrix or AMD with their weaker FPU's then the GX won out. I ultimately bought a Voodoo monster and then a Voodoo 3 3000 but that was because they were all but a requirement for Diablo 2 due to the fact that GLIDE was way faster AND better looking. Today I use a Glide->D3D wrapper to play and get better framerate then even a Voodoo 5 could have achieved =)
rtf2latex2e, save DOC file as RTF then pump it through that, you should end up only needing to do about 10-20% formatting work.
The problem with revealing even a PAST CIA agent's identity is that every cover company they worked for and every other agent they had contact with is now exposed as well and some of THEM may be still active. It's seriously one of the few areas where 'but national security' is actually true, unlike stupid shit like taking a picture of a building which has been photographed millions of times before.
You seem to be under the impression that consumers buy the majority of computers, they don't.
Not really, all decent systems have two separate BIOS flash areas and will only update the second one after a successful startup from the primary. Heck some systems have that AND a minimal BIOS in ROM so they can always recover even if the flash is scambled (HP workstations and servers do this, stick a floppy in and hit a special key during powerup or flip a DIP and they will read the flash file from the floppy and write it to BIOS flash).
Should still get you in the right ballpark, few companies are going to waste huge amounts of money building empty datacenters =)
Uh, MS doesn't do HTTPS on their update site because they do PKI signing on the update package themselves so they don't need to.