It looks as if the United States is turning into just another USSR. The irony of the USA becoming its own biggest enemy is stunning. Whatch out for that one party system, its obviously the next step.
Can you say Yes Master like a good totalitarian state citizen?
The biggest problem with this is that MS gets the score for every site you visit wich give developers of sites even smaller incentives to make their sites work with all browsers.
To transform solar energy into hot water in your boiler you would need solar panels of a size of five square meters to cover your needs to shower and bath and such from mars to november.
The cost of said panels is so small out of the total cost of the system that higher efficiency wouldnt make the whole system cheaper or much better. You cant store hot water from the summer until the colder months so there is no gain in having more heat generated than you can use. There have been many people trying to store the heat in mountains and insulated tanks etc. but the cost have always been much bigger than the energy generated.
I assumed that we were talking about heating solar panels and not electrical ones. To have better absorbtion doesnt help making electricity out of sunlight.Ofcourse you can store electrical power but not as efficiently as you would want.
Batteries is expensive and the price/performance ratio quickly makes the investment wasted (apart from the preserving of natural resources which most governments including USA seems to not giva a shit about).
I was refering to hot water from the taps. To generate heat you need more m2. 5m2 of solar panels will cover your need for tap water but not for your heating. Im sorry if my english is bad.
The problem with solar power today isnt about efficiency since modern panels have about 70-80% efficiency in heating water. The incoming power is about 1000W per m2. A better absorber wouldnt make the panel that much more efficient.Chromium Oxide have an efficiency of about 92%. Much of the problems lie in how you transport the heat from the panel to the energy storage.Insulation of the panel is something that you have to take into consideration. Cost is also of utter importance since you often have a roof capable of housing more than 30 m2 of panels which in most houses is overkill. To generate water you typically would need about 5 m2 from mars to november.
If this material can make the total cost smaller then its good but if it makes it more expensive it isnt of any use. Robustness and price is what we should look into and not efficiency. A cheap solar panel that lasts for as long as it have to be functional to return the investment is possible today.
The main problem with solar power is that when you need the power most (night/winter) there arent much sun around. Solar Power can never be anything but a valuable complement to something else. All trials of storin the energy longer times have failed miserably so far.
Im not just rambling here, i was a partner in a company manufacturing solar panels some years ago.
Hey, im from sweden so cut me some slack;D Im studying english right now and i think i do pretty good compared to many native americans and englishmen.
Microsoft is the worst enemy of any succesful OS once it gets big enough to threaten them. If FreeBSD would arise to linux level of installed userbase it would pop into their radar. Considering how willing MS is to pull off crazy stunts to twarth any competition i dont doubt that they would do anything in their power to embrace and extend. The BSD license allows this and since i really hate Microsoft i wouldnt want that to happen to an OS that i contributed to. In essense i would help someone i hate with my work and thats pretty abnoxious to me.
The GPL on the other hand is supposed to prevent this kind of behaviour and therefore i like it better. On a technical merit i have no doubts that FreeBSD have many strenghts but the license is probably whats holding it back.
I cant but agree with you by drawing from my own experiences of XP. Granted it have never touched any of my computers but i do have a certification on windows 2000 advanced server and have been using MS windows extensively throughout the years until a couple of years ago when Linux was ready for my home desktop (Mozilla was the last piece of the puzzle).
My mother inlaw has tremendous problems using it coming from windows 95 and she works on MS windows daily at her work. Thus she isnt a n00b in any way. When i receive calls to help her my main problem is that everything is unorganized and scattered all over. The registry is just unworkable and i pray that we will never ever have anything like it in linux.
Imagine if we would have had OS/2, GeOS, BeOS or why not some other os that never could get off the ground because of the applications barrier and MS hard fight to keep applications from being cross plattform? I think it in my case has to do with the fact that i have loathed their bad quiality since windows 95 wich really was annoying. They have had a bad habit of realeesing alpha versions as sharp and has dragged the quality of software down to the ground.
Office isnt the inventor of office applications. I have better apps that are simpler and easier to use for my Mac from 95 and there arent many things i cant do on those that i can do in MS Office.
Many of you youngsters are blinded because you havent seen the alternatives. Because of the monopoly the only alternatives visible today is the free ones but the arent by far the only ones in existence.
I cant agree with you more on that. While i hate them (obviously) i dont want them dead. What i do want is a nicer kinder Microsoft who could behave like a sincerer nicer company without world domination no1 on their agenda.
Sadly though this is probably going to make Microsoft starting to fight and stomp all over linux, my favourite thing in life (wife, bah! she doesnt vim!). If they start to mess with linux and tries to destroy it with the slightest shoddy practices instead of cooperation i will hate them furiously. Compete is ok but most of us oldies knows that MS has mixed up compete and nuking a competitor to the stoneage.
If we just ignore them and let them have their way while we code chances are we arent able to use the internet once they are finished up at Redmond. Some of us will have to fight the legal side of things to.
Altough it is nice and warming to see that MS may have to lower their insane prices i dont feel that happy. If this is true then Linux is really in the line of fire from Redmond. The ones who have proven time and time again that nothing is too evil or shoddy if it helps remove competition.
I think we linux users should brace for an attack like nothing before from MS. They will use any meens avaliable to sustain their high revenues. A slight fall of the revenues and MS stocks will likely fall like a ton of brick. Considering how much stocks is owned by staff in all levels i presume there is an enormous internal incentive to thwart linux in its cradle.
We should have a central site documenting every shoddy move and backdoor mudshot contest from Redmond HQ. I assume that would be some horrific reading on a site like that pretty soon now.
My main problem i have with BSD is the "rip-me-of-and-piss-on-me" license. How do the BSD license stop MS from taking code, alter it enough to almost work with the original and keep the changes secret? Under the DMCA they could even make it illegal for *BSD to reverse engineer their own code.
Its a bit to easy to screw *BSD for me to support it. Technically its a hit but i cant sign the license, its selfdestructing in a way IMHO.
Personally i dont have anything against X Windows System. It is backwards compatible into ancient times which i find very useful. Changing the windowing system is also going to fork it way away from other *nixes. I dont think everybody else wil follow like blind dogs on a leash. A pretty resource wasting flamewar would ensue. In the end im not that convinced that the product would be significantly better than X windows. X's problem is the drivers and with support from the vendors it could be excellent. Im pretty content with my Xwindows system and i dont have any real issues.
It works and is stable, if i want speed i use the cli. Nothing beats a good cli when it comes to do advanced things on a computer. Not voice, not mouse, not handsigns. Why is Microsoft making a cli after having spent millions and millions rying to make the GUI usefull for advanced tasks?
A gui is nice for starting apps and managing windows but very many advanced tasks isnt suited for a GUI.
Since Redhat doesnt make loads of money exactly from keeping out of date systems alive they havent go any incentive to keep those old systems running. Looking at statistics would probably show that very few run older versions of redhat. You can still use the PRO versions and get longer lifecycles if you run a business. For redhat to keep systems released every year up at no cost isnt good business and we dont want them to go titsup do we?
The incredibly fast development of linux right now is making older versions obsolete very fast. If you want to run something really old you should use debians stable version since it is rock solid and dont tread on the edge like most other distros right now.
Not that i like pirating at all. In fact its one of the biggest habit holding people back from adopting open source. If poeple had to pay the fantasy prices they would be alot swifter to use open source instead of pirating. Likewise pirating is bad for independant artists and cheap labels that nobody cares about. People dont pay so they dont care about lower proces.
Still, trying to stop pirating is totally fruitless. Next in line is shadow networks where no one is tracable. To stop one of those is next to impossible. A filter at each ISP can do the trick but it would be an enourmous task to get that implemented in every country. When its filtered just send your packets in some other protocol like vpn or ssh etc. even if they succeed stopping pirating alltogheter over the internet people still will exchange cds and dvds like back in the 90s but with new types of media.
The cost of stopping pirating is just to big and they should spend that money on relations and better products instead of fitghting the windmills.
Its not that hard at all. Not worse than any other major upgrade of the systems. Compare it to switching from Windows to Mac and it gets a whole other perspective.
Contrary to your belief i pay for things i like. I dont pirate like most home users who use Windows do even with things they love. I also help where i can thus working for myself while others can benefit from my efforts.
i know this may sound crazy to some capitalists but it works pretty nice. If you want my money you have to appeal to both my needs and my philosophys.
When there exists a way to get it working why should anyone try another way? If the only way was to crack the Retail version it would have been cracked by now no doubt. Instead they just use the Corporate that is already cracked. Why reinvent the wheel?
The fact that when one vendor does something that i dont agree with i can take my business somewhere else without the blink of an eye. I think this is linux biggest strength. You can choose whatever dist you like and still get the same thing but wrapped in another context. No vendor lockin keeps the vendors on their toes and the ones not collaborating dissapears into oblivion or change their ways fast.
This is just hilarious. To demand taxes on pirating is by in view to make it legit. I mean, if you pay then you should have the benefit of the payment too right? Fines i can understand but a broad tax that applies to everybody is just plain stupid. The tax you have paid gives you the right to pirate, or doesnt it? Else its a punishment on people who havent done anything, not everyone copies their music you know. Maybe the hospitals should start taxing the NRA and the police?
I cant even begin to understand how theese people think. They are like a ten headed hydra pulling in all different directions.
When you can go round the protection scheme, no matter how, its been cracked by definition. Even if you have to dance some voodoo dance and sacrifice a hen, its cracked when youve got past it. Ive cracked plenty of protection schemes in my days just by fooling them, not touching a single bit in their code.
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It looks as if the United States is turning into just another USSR. The irony of the USA becoming its own biggest enemy is stunning. Whatch out for that one party system, its obviously the next step.
Can you say Yes Master like a good totalitarian state citizen?
The biggest problem with this is that MS gets the score for every site you visit wich give developers of sites even smaller incentives to make their sites work with all browsers.
To transform solar energy into hot water in your boiler you would need solar panels of a size of five square meters to cover your needs to shower and bath and such from mars to november.
The cost of said panels is so small out of the total cost of the system that higher efficiency wouldnt make the whole system cheaper or much better. You cant store hot water from the summer until the colder months so there is no gain in having more heat generated than you can use. There have been many people trying to store the heat in mountains and insulated tanks etc. but the cost have always been much bigger than the energy generated.
I was unclear, sorry.
I assumed that we were talking about heating solar panels and not electrical ones. To have better absorbtion doesnt help making electricity out of sunlight.Ofcourse you can store electrical power but not as efficiently as you would want.
Batteries is expensive and the price/performance ratio quickly makes the investment wasted (apart from the preserving of natural resources which most governments including USA seems to not giva a shit about).
I was refering to hot water from the taps. To generate heat you need more m2. 5m2 of solar panels will cover your need for tap water but not for your heating. Im sorry if my english is bad.
The problem with solar power today isnt about efficiency since modern panels have about 70-80% efficiency in heating water. The incoming power is about 1000W per m2. A better absorber wouldnt make the panel that much more efficient.Chromium Oxide have an efficiency of about 92%. Much of the problems lie in how you transport the heat from the panel to the energy storage.Insulation of the panel is something that you have to take into consideration. Cost is also of utter importance since you often have a roof capable of housing more than 30 m2 of panels which in most houses is overkill. To generate water you typically would need about 5 m2 from mars to november.
If this material can make the total cost smaller then its good but if it makes it more expensive it isnt of any use. Robustness and price is what we should look into and not efficiency. A cheap solar panel that lasts for as long as it have to be functional to return the investment is possible today.
The main problem with solar power is that when you need the power most (night/winter) there arent much sun around. Solar Power can never be anything but a valuable complement to something else. All trials of storin the energy longer times have failed miserably so far.
Im not just rambling here, i was a partner in a company manufacturing solar panels some years ago.
Good thing my computer is from 97.
Hey, im from sweden so cut me some slack ;D
Im studying english right now and i think i do pretty good compared to many native americans and englishmen.
This is my view of things.
Microsoft is the worst enemy of any succesful OS once it gets big enough to threaten them. If FreeBSD would arise to linux level of installed userbase it would pop into their radar. Considering how willing MS is to pull off crazy stunts to twarth any competition i dont doubt that they would do anything in their power to embrace and extend. The BSD license allows this and since i really hate Microsoft i wouldnt want that to happen to an OS that i contributed to. In essense i would help someone i hate with my work and thats pretty abnoxious to me.
The GPL on the other hand is supposed to prevent this kind of behaviour and therefore i like it better. On a technical merit i have no doubts that FreeBSD have many strenghts but the license is probably whats holding it back.
I cant but agree with you by drawing from my own experiences of XP. Granted it have never touched any of my computers but i do have a certification on windows 2000 advanced server and have been using MS windows extensively throughout the years until a couple of years ago when Linux was ready for my home desktop (Mozilla was the last piece of the puzzle).
My mother inlaw has tremendous problems using it coming from windows 95 and she works on MS windows daily at her work. Thus she isnt a n00b in any way. When i receive calls to help her my main problem is that everything is unorganized and scattered all over. The registry is just unworkable and i pray that we will never ever have anything like it in linux.
Imagine if we would have had OS/2, GeOS, BeOS or why not some other os that never could get off the ground because of the applications barrier and MS hard fight to keep applications from being cross plattform? I think it in my case has to do with the fact that i have loathed their bad quiality since windows 95 wich really was annoying. They have had a bad habit of realeesing alpha versions as sharp and has dragged the quality of software down to the ground.
Office isnt the inventor of office applications. I have better apps that are simpler and easier to use for my Mac from 95 and there arent many things i cant do on those that i can do in MS Office.
Many of you youngsters are blinded because you havent seen the alternatives. Because of the monopoly the only alternatives visible today is the free ones but the arent by far the only ones in existence.
I cant agree with you more on that. While i hate them (obviously) i dont want them dead. What i do want is a nicer kinder Microsoft who could behave like a sincerer nicer company without world domination no1 on their agenda.
Sadly though this is probably going to make Microsoft starting to fight and stomp all over linux, my favourite thing in life (wife, bah! she doesnt vim!). If they start to mess with linux and tries to destroy it with the slightest shoddy practices instead of cooperation i will hate them furiously. Compete is ok but most of us oldies knows that MS has mixed up compete and nuking a competitor to the stoneage.
If we just ignore them and let them have their way while we code chances are we arent able to use the internet once they are finished up at Redmond. Some of us will have to fight the legal side of things to.
If stallman was a girl id be all over her. I want him to be Natalie Portman with RMS brain.
A girlfriend you could talk to and have intelligent conversations with, what a concept! Ill patent it right away!
Altough it is nice and warming to see that MS may have to lower their insane prices i dont feel that happy. If this is true then Linux is really in the line of fire from Redmond. The ones who have proven time and time again that nothing is too evil or shoddy if it helps remove competition.
I think we linux users should brace for an attack like nothing before from MS. They will use any meens avaliable to sustain their high revenues. A slight fall of the revenues and MS stocks will likely fall like a ton of brick. Considering how much stocks is owned by staff in all levels i presume there is an enormous internal incentive to thwart linux in its cradle.
We should have a central site documenting every shoddy move and backdoor mudshot contest from Redmond HQ. I assume that would be some horrific reading on a site like that pretty soon now.
You said:
"It does not matter if product GPLed or proprietary they could have better product just because they have enough money and people."
*ROFL*
*cough* security/stability *cough*
My main problem i have with BSD is the "rip-me-of-and-piss-on-me" license. How do the BSD license stop MS from taking code, alter it enough to almost work with the original and keep the changes secret? Under the DMCA they could even make it illegal for *BSD to reverse engineer their own code.
Its a bit to easy to screw *BSD for me to support it. Technically its a hit but i cant sign the license, its selfdestructing in a way IMHO.
Personally i dont have anything against X Windows System. It is backwards compatible into ancient times which i find very useful. Changing the windowing system is also going to fork it way away from other *nixes. I dont think everybody else wil follow like blind dogs on a leash. A pretty resource wasting flamewar would ensue. In the end im not that convinced that the product would be significantly better than X windows. X's problem is the drivers and with support from the vendors it could be excellent. Im pretty content with my Xwindows system and i dont have any real issues.
It works and is stable, if i want speed i use the cli. Nothing beats a good cli when it comes to do advanced things on a computer. Not voice, not mouse, not handsigns. Why is Microsoft making a cli after having spent millions and millions rying to make the GUI usefull for advanced tasks?
A gui is nice for starting apps and managing windows but very many advanced tasks isnt suited for a GUI.
Since Redhat doesnt make loads of money exactly from keeping out of date systems alive they havent go any incentive to keep those old systems running. Looking at statistics would probably show that very few run older versions of redhat. You can still use the PRO versions and get longer lifecycles if you run a business. For redhat to keep systems released every year up at no cost isnt good business and we dont want them to go titsup do we?
The incredibly fast development of linux right now is making older versions obsolete very fast. If you want to run something really old you should use debians stable version since it is rock solid and dont tread on the edge like most other distros right now.
Not that i like pirating at all. In fact its one of the biggest habit holding people back from adopting open source. If poeple had to pay the fantasy prices they would be alot swifter to use open source instead of pirating. Likewise pirating is bad for independant artists and cheap labels that nobody cares about. People dont pay so they dont care about lower proces.
Still, trying to stop pirating is totally fruitless. Next in line is shadow networks where no one is tracable. To stop one of those is next to impossible. A filter at each ISP can do the trick but it would be an enourmous task to get that implemented in every country. When its filtered just send your packets in some other protocol like vpn or ssh etc. even if they succeed stopping pirating alltogheter over the internet people still will exchange cds and dvds like back in the 90s but with new types of media.
The cost of stopping pirating is just to big and they should spend that money on relations and better products instead of fitghting the windmills.
Its not that hard at all. Not worse than any other major upgrade of the systems. Compare it to switching from Windows to Mac and it gets a whole other perspective.
Contrary to your belief i pay for things i like. I dont pirate like most home users who use Windows do even with things they love. I also help where i can thus working for myself while others can benefit from my efforts.
i know this may sound crazy to some capitalists but it works pretty nice. If you want my money you have to appeal to both my needs and my philosophys.
When there exists a way to get it working why should anyone try another way? If the only way was to crack the Retail version it would have been cracked by now no doubt. Instead they just use the Corporate that is already cracked. Why reinvent the wheel?
The fact that when one vendor does something that i dont agree with i can take my business somewhere else without the blink of an eye. I think this is linux biggest strength. You can choose whatever dist you like and still get the same thing but wrapped in another context. No vendor lockin keeps the vendors on their toes and the ones not collaborating dissapears into oblivion or change their ways fast.
This is just hilarious. To demand taxes on pirating is by in view to make it legit. I mean, if you pay then you should have the benefit of the payment too right? Fines i can understand but a broad tax that applies to everybody is just plain stupid. The tax you have paid gives you the right to pirate, or doesnt it? Else its a punishment on people who havent done anything, not everyone copies their music you know. Maybe the hospitals should start taxing the NRA and the police?
I cant even begin to understand how theese people think. They are like a ten headed hydra pulling in all different directions.
When you can go round the protection scheme, no matter how, its been cracked by definition. Even if you have to dance some voodoo dance and sacrifice a hen, its cracked when youve got past it. Ive cracked plenty of protection schemes in my days just by fooling them, not touching a single bit in their code.