Electric cars do not save oil. They just move the use of oil from the car itself to the power plant that produces the electricity.
Same thing for hydrogen. Unless you can mine or drill for hydrogen, you've got to make it. How do you make it? With today's technology, you're still talking fossil fuels.
Of course, you *can* create electricity from renewable energy, but the vast majority of electricity is still based on fossil fuels. So hydrogen and electric cars are very much putting the cart before the horse. Figure out how to make clean electricity, *then* you can go make electric or hydrogen cars!:)
I bought a 4GB Micropolis SCSI hard drive. I had it running in a "file server" (just a second PC) in the basement. It kept crashing in the Adaptec SCSI driver. I thought I was having a problem with the SCSI controller. Turns out that the drive was dying, and causing the computer to crash.
Had the PC been nearby, I would have heard the mad clicking and eventually the grinding the drive would make, but I would just power cycle it, make sure the boot would start and go back upstairs. Until eventually, it wouldn't boot.
That drive stored all of my data on it. All of it. And no real backup. I was so desparate to get my data back that I sent my drive to a very reputable data recovery company: one that would use a special machine to read the platters, as opposed to companies that just put your platters into a sacrifical drive. However, there were some platters so badly chewed up that they would not risk their machine on them.
In the end, I lost all of my data, and the recovery people could get back zero of it. That was about the worst month of my professional career.
The moral of the story? 2 things: MAKE BACKUPS!!! (Duh!) and listening to your hardware is as important as any other diagnostic tool. I've used it a *number* of times...
There was a slightly happier ending to this story. About 2 months before I lost the drive I copied 90% of my business data to my notebook when I went to my brother's wedding. However, the notebook died while I was on that trip: it refused to boot. As it was an old notebook and I didn't use it much, I had forgotten about it. However, the data was stored on a separate partition from the OS. I booted off of a floppy and voila! There was my data! So, I only lost about 2 months of business data. My personal data was still toast, however...
I would take that farther: the ability to make people thinking your losing while you're taking a commanding lead is the single most important skill in multi-player games.
I have dominated many a Risk and SoC game with this...;)
Imagine a space heater plugged into the wall. It consumes, say, 100w. Now imagine two of these space heaters hooked up to a light switch in such a way that one is on when the switch is up, and one is on when the switch is down. You could use these space heaters to perform calculations (after all, they're now a binary switch just like a computer), and even send data "outside" to someone standing next to them.
What is the power consumption of the first, single space heater that is not "calculating"? 100w. What is the power consumption of the second setup? 100w plus the energy to flip the switch. Do you really think that the infinitesmal amount of energy that it takes to flip the switch is really going to make a measurable difference in the power output of the system as a whole? The same is true of your CPU.
Even if representing data in and of itself consumes energy (and I'm not certain that it does, but whatever), do you really think that representing data is, in and of itself, going to convert a great deal of the energy coming into a CPU into non-heat energy? Not really. And here's the other part. When you turn off the computer, the data goes away, right? But the energy just doesn't disappear: it has to go somewhere, right? You guessed it: into heat. So even if the presence of data allows the CPU to *temporarily* convert some electrical energy into "data" energy, that "data" energy will eventually turn into heat anyway.
Basically, *everything* converts into heat energy. Everything. Even mechanical energy eventually converts into heat energy through friction. If it didn't, perpetual motion would be possible. As I don't see any perpetual motion machines on my CPU, and others have already described how the amount of current leaving a CPU through various busses is minimal, the vast majority of energy entering a CPU is immediately and directly converted into heat, and the tiny bit of energy left over will very shortly be converted into heat, though, it is true, not necessarily within the CPU. It might actually travel a couple of inches away.
Unless you have unique processors with moving parts, 100% of power consumed by a processor is converted to heat. 100%. So, yes, that *is* an indicatin of heat.
The only small caveat is that those are, according to you, max power consumption. Typical power consumption may be different. However, the proportion of typical to maximum is most likely comparable between the AMD and Intel chips. Assuming that it is, then the numbers are *still* indicative of heat...:)
They basically admit that the material is in the public domain, but that seeing as they own the material, they don't have to give you a look at it. I guess that's true. If you own a copy of a book in the public domain, you can reproduce it all you want. But it doesn't give you the right to break into your neighbor's house to get a copy of a book *he* owns that is in the public domain!
So, they're not charging for the image because they own the image, they're charging for the *file* because they own the *file*. I guess that's no more unreasonable than selling a copy of a book of the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare is most definitely in the public domain, but it still costs money to print the books. People can and do both sell and buy them...
The interesting thing is this: while they can charge for the file, AFAIK they can't prevent *you* from both selling and giving away the file yourself. It's kind of like GPL software: you can charge as much as you want for it. You just can't prevent anyone *else* from giving it away themselves...
However, you cannot put restrictions on public domain material. The material is owned by the Public. As a member of the Public, you too own it; therefore, you can do whatever you want with it, including use it for commercial activities. Scanning in something doesn't give them rights to it any more than scanning a commercial, copyrighted book gives *you* rights to it.
Having said that, not all of the material may be in the public domain. Some of the material may be owned by them (as in the case of material that they purchased or was donated to them upon which copyright has not yet expired). In that case, yes, they have a right to license it in any way they see fit.
But they have zero rights to control the use of 16th century maps and pictures!:P)
No, it wouldn't. Google only caches the tiny thumbnail. If that does it for you, great, but if you actually want to see the *real* image, Google won't help you.
No, it's likely that the copyright for the vast majority, if not all, of these items has expired. If you notice, most of them are pre-20th-century, and what *is* post-20th century (such as architectural diagrams) is covered by different types of copyright than that attached to artistic works.
Having said that, some of the work may still be covered by copyright; however, if the copyright holder has given permission for their works to be reproduced, this would not be a problem. That's a possibility as well.
According to the summary of information, the vast majority of the infomration, if not all, is before 1935, the typical cutoff date for the expiration of copyright.
Until they extend it again, anyway.
In other words, it would be covered by that last sentence: "the library does not need permission to digitize it".
From a look over the summary info, it seems that these are all works for which their copyright has expired (e.g.: public domain). No license is needed.
That's true: however, Notes R7 Beta 3 does not support DB/2 on Linux. When R6 was released, iNotes for Web did not support Linux. Sametime did not support Linux, and Workplace is not feature complete on Linux.
The killer is that the vast majority of these *are* supported properly on AIX! You mean to tell me that they can make it for one UNIX but not the other?!?
I love it: IBM's putting $100 Million into Linux software, and their premier desktop groupware appliacation still doesn't have a Linux client. And the server still lags behind Windows and AIX for feature-completeness...
Maybe: but they could have said that it would *make* a lot of dough, too. That would have actually been correct, as well as a (lame) attempt at humor...
SBC offers DSL for $30 a month. So I can't see how Panera would pay more than $30/month for high-speed access. Do you know how many times I've eaten over-priced Panera sandwiches for lunch just for the WiFi?
It's easily $7-$8 for a half sandwich, cup of soup (You-pick-two) and a drink. If 10 people do that a *month*, I'm *sure* they've paid for the WiFi. I probably do it *myself* that many times a month. Just for the WiFi!
Given this formfactor, I'm really suprised they didn't create a Mini-ITX format board. Then they'd have a whole slew of ready-made periphials: cases, power supplies, etc.
Or better: use the correct string you're comparing the user input with, instead of using the user's string? Or do you want to *reward* a user for putting extra spaces in words?!?
So now I feel better: two people who have wasted many neurons wanting to hit that programmer with a clue-by-four...:)
My school used either the same or similar software (on an Apple II of some sort, IIRC). I have *no* idea how I found that, but I found exactly the same thing. A really fast score in seconds!
Now that I'm a computer programmer, I've often thought of what a horrible algorithm they must have been using for that. I've never been able to figure out a convincing reason for that error. You fill in some information.
I have like a dozen. When IBM started including cheap plastic keyboards with their computers, I would use them to swap with older (just a few months old at that point) keyboards. So I've got a pile of them.
And no: you can't have any. I've even used USB-PS/2 converters so that I can use them on new computers!
The day they replace USB and don't make PS/2-whatever converters will be a sad day!
I'll take a SWAG and say that you're talking about Vuescan from.... It is *fabulous* scanner software that also doubles as tremendous "mathematical darkroom" software. It allows you to do all of the bulk corrections (whitepoint, color balancing, brightness based on histograms, etc.), and then you can move to Photoshop for the artistic stuff.
No connection other than a very satisfied customer. Dirt cheap for what it does.
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Same thing for hydrogen. Unless you can mine or drill for hydrogen, you've got to make it. How do you make it? With today's technology, you're still talking fossil fuels.
Of course, you *can* create electricity from renewable energy, but the vast majority of electricity is still based on fossil fuels. So hydrogen and electric cars are very much putting the cart before the horse. Figure out how to make clean electricity, *then* you can go make electric or hydrogen cars! :)
I bought a 4GB Micropolis SCSI hard drive. I had it running in a "file server" (just a second PC) in the basement. It kept crashing in the Adaptec SCSI driver. I thought I was having a problem with the SCSI controller. Turns out that the drive was dying, and causing the computer to crash.
Had the PC been nearby, I would have heard the mad clicking and eventually the grinding the drive would make, but I would just power cycle it, make sure the boot would start and go back upstairs. Until eventually, it wouldn't boot.
That drive stored all of my data on it. All of it. And no real backup. I was so desparate to get my data back that I sent my drive to a very reputable data recovery company: one that would use a special machine to read the platters, as opposed to companies that just put your platters into a sacrifical drive. However, there were some platters so badly chewed up that they would not risk their machine on them.
In the end, I lost all of my data, and the recovery people could get back zero of it. That was about the worst month of my professional career.
The moral of the story? 2 things: MAKE BACKUPS!!! (Duh!) and listening to your hardware is as important as any other diagnostic tool. I've used it a *number* of times...
There was a slightly happier ending to this story. About 2 months before I lost the drive I copied 90% of my business data to my notebook when I went to my brother's wedding. However, the notebook died while I was on that trip: it refused to boot. As it was an old notebook and I didn't use it much, I had forgotten about it. However, the data was stored on a separate partition from the OS. I booted off of a floppy and voila! There was my data! So, I only lost about 2 months of business data. My personal data was still toast, however...
I have dominated many a Risk and SoC game with this... ;)
What is the power consumption of the first, single space heater that is not "calculating"? 100w. What is the power consumption of the second setup? 100w plus the energy to flip the switch. Do you really think that the infinitesmal amount of energy that it takes to flip the switch is really going to make a measurable difference in the power output of the system as a whole? The same is true of your CPU.
Even if representing data in and of itself consumes energy (and I'm not certain that it does, but whatever), do you really think that representing data is, in and of itself, going to convert a great deal of the energy coming into a CPU into non-heat energy? Not really. And here's the other part. When you turn off the computer, the data goes away, right? But the energy just doesn't disappear: it has to go somewhere, right? You guessed it: into heat. So even if the presence of data allows the CPU to *temporarily* convert some electrical energy into "data" energy, that "data" energy will eventually turn into heat anyway.
Basically, *everything* converts into heat energy. Everything. Even mechanical energy eventually converts into heat energy through friction. If it didn't, perpetual motion would be possible. As I don't see any perpetual motion machines on my CPU, and others have already described how the amount of current leaving a CPU through various busses is minimal, the vast majority of energy entering a CPU is immediately and directly converted into heat, and the tiny bit of energy left over will very shortly be converted into heat, though, it is true, not necessarily within the CPU. It might actually travel a couple of inches away.
Pedantic enough for you?
The only small caveat is that those are, according to you, max power consumption. Typical power consumption may be different. However, the proportion of typical to maximum is most likely comparable between the AMD and Intel chips. Assuming that it is, then the numbers are *still* indicative of heat... :)
They basically admit that the material is in the public domain, but that seeing as they own the material, they don't have to give you a look at it. I guess that's true. If you own a copy of a book in the public domain, you can reproduce it all you want. But it doesn't give you the right to break into your neighbor's house to get a copy of a book *he* owns that is in the public domain!
So, they're not charging for the image because they own the image, they're charging for the *file* because they own the *file*. I guess that's no more unreasonable than selling a copy of a book of the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare is most definitely in the public domain, but it still costs money to print the books. People can and do both sell and buy them...
The interesting thing is this: while they can charge for the file, AFAIK they can't prevent *you* from both selling and giving away the file yourself. It's kind of like GPL software: you can charge as much as you want for it. You just can't prevent anyone *else* from giving it away themselves...
However, you cannot put restrictions on public domain material. The material is owned by the Public. As a member of the Public, you too own it; therefore, you can do whatever you want with it, including use it for commercial activities. Scanning in something doesn't give them rights to it any more than scanning a commercial, copyrighted book gives *you* rights to it.
Having said that, not all of the material may be in the public domain. Some of the material may be owned by them (as in the case of material that they purchased or was donated to them upon which copyright has not yet expired). In that case, yes, they have a right to license it in any way they see fit.
But they have zero rights to control the use of 16th century maps and pictures! :P)
Again, IANAL, yadda, yadda...
Having said that, some of the work may still be covered by copyright; however, if the copyright holder has given permission for their works to be reproduced, this would not be a problem. That's a possibility as well.
Until they extend it again, anyway.
In other words, it would be covered by that last sentence: "the library does not need permission to digitize it".
The killer is that the vast majority of these *are* supported properly on AIX! You mean to tell me that they can make it for one UNIX but not the other?!?
Note to IBM: MAKE YOUR OWN SOFTWARE WORK FIRST!!!
SBC offers DSL for $30 a month. So I can't see how Panera would pay more than $30/month for high-speed access. Do you know how many times I've eaten over-priced Panera sandwiches for lunch just for the WiFi?
It's easily $7-$8 for a half sandwich, cup of soup (You-pick-two) and a drink. If 10 people do that a *month*, I'm *sure* they've paid for the WiFi. I probably do it *myself* that many times a month. Just for the WiFi!
So now I feel better: two people who have wasted many neurons wanting to hit that programmer with a clue-by-four... :)
My school used either the same or similar software (on an Apple II of some sort, IIRC). I have *no* idea how I found that, but I found exactly the same thing. A really fast score in seconds!
Now that I'm a computer programmer, I've often thought of what a horrible algorithm they must have been using for that. I've never been able to figure out a convincing reason for that error. You fill in some information.
It's still a horrible algorithm.
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Oh well... The "!" is certainly more expressive, but not accurate.
(0x2B | -0x2B) == 0xFFFFFFFF
Wouldn't this be better:
(Ox2B | !0x2B) == 0xFFFFFFFF
It better gives the idea of not... At least, IMHO.
As long as it works, I guess! :)
And no: you can't have any. I've even used USB-PS/2 converters so that I can use them on new computers!
The day they replace USB and don't make PS/2-whatever converters will be a sad day!
And yes, this was typed on a Model M! :)
No connection other than a very satisfied customer. Dirt cheap for what it does.