Whoever modded me troll can't recognize sarcasm. The point I was making was a sudden rush to electric vehicles could have unintended consequences. From my perspective, we need to solve several technological / infrastructure/economic hurdles before electric can be a reality.
1) There needs to be a real change in battery/capacitor technology. Batteries are slow charging, and composed of hazardous materials. They are also heavy and inefficient. They also generate a lot of heat. Exploding laptops come to mind. Capacitors charge quickly but also discharge quickly which brings its own issues. They also are hazardous.
2) How do quickly charge a capacitor with the energy to power are car? The energy requirements are enormous.
I can't envision stopping in for a charge. A battery / Super Capacitor hybrid that can be easily swapped out is more likely.
3) How do cope with the increased need for electricity? All the things you are more environmentally friendly than coal. But twice a day the road to my house is closed due to a train that carries almost a hundred cars filled with coal. And I don't live anywhere near a coal mine. There is a nuclear power plant nearby. It will be closed in 2015 and nobody has voted for a new one. We would need a whole lot more of them and nobody wants one in their back yard.
4) Who is going to pay for the infrastructure needed? It won't be Bill Gates, IBM, General Motors et al. It will be people who struggle with day to days bills and health care.
5) The remark I made about illegal immigration is right on the money. That is the the only steadily increasing demographic here. The reason we outsource, hire illegal immigrants is to exploit them for lower wages. Who do you do you thing will be growing corn, building power plants etc?
What is needed is a real innovation something that radically changes the transfer and storage of energy. Much like oil replaced steam. Nothing is free, but we need to find real alternatives with more efficiency and less of the downsides.
When people start plugging in their cars we are going to need more coal miners. They have a nasty habit of getting trapped and dying. Well at least there are potential new ones crossing the southern border every day ready to be exploited.
The first 1 or 2 jobs out the door are only going to be a stepping stone. My first one out of college was with CSC they had me running unix commands from a checklist and called the position 'programmer/analyst'. I wrote a gui in TCL/TK that made my job obsolete and I was moved to doing java front ends to an informix database. Within 6 months I was the shift supervisor over 3 programmers. I then left CSC after one year and got a job as a Software Engineer for atmospheric remote sensing satellites. Been there 10 years. In that time I've done systems admin (Linux), Web development (php,perl, python,java & jscript) in addition to projects in IDL, fortran & C/C++. People skills along with ability and the willingness to do learn are what is most important. When I need information , I first use google then I get my employer to buy me a book. If you have solid programing skills, a solid foundation in writing secure apps and a good understanding of algorithms, it won't matter what language is used.
Since I work on the AIM project and know Dr. Russell here is my take. First Dr. Russell is the the atmospheric sciences department chair at Hampton University and does not work for nasa. His specialty is atmospheric physics not meteorology. These experiments are funded by nasa. But there is a whole team of scientists analyzing the data. Some of these people are in places like Grenada. We are not here to decide if man made CO2 is going to kill us all. What we are seeing we don't fully understand. That is why we look at it. We are discovering everyday how the atmosphere works. We really know very little about the mesosphere where these clouds form. Projects like AIM aim.hamptonu.edu and SABER saber.gats-inc.com are providing insights that we couldn't get from the ground. We are discovering new things all the time, like how no2 volume emission rate bloomed like crazy absorbing energy from solar storms in 2002 that were some of the most powerful ever recorded. Global Warming is for Al Gore and company. Has the earth gotten warmer recently? Yes. Is it due to man made CO2? I don't know, neither does Al.
Your confusing the record label and media. Streaming sites such as you and satellite radio are taking the place of conventional media. The public needs to be told 'what is hip' at least to a degree. Your filtering has been done by DJ's , your friends and TV for years. I think that is what the music industry will eventually be. The marketing filter. Notice how TV shows are telling you where to get the music heard on the show. What eventually morphs out of all this has the potential of being either the greatest thing to happen to musicians, or that the amount of choices gets so great that many artists offerings get never get noticed. Basically nothing new. That has always been a problem. Even with the thousands trying to get 'discovered' few actually do. Many painters and writers die before being proclaimed a genius and never see the millions generated by their inspiration and talent.
Then you, go to your boss. Come on, this is common sense. I had 115 people working for me before I retired from the Air Force. I have a lot experience here. Deal with issues at the lowest level first. You will find over 95% of any problems you perceive can be solved through direct and honest communication. If you can't do that, watch your back. People get violent when someone feels that they have been personally slighted and they're lively hood is at stake.
God I'm glad I don't work with you. Here is a novel idea. Why not discuss it with the guy who your trying to screw? Voice your concerns and maybe, just maybe, he will contact the original author and get permission. He might even be the original author. That way you don't have to worry the guy finds out who stabbed him and come to your house and get revenge. At least be man enough to let your boss know what kind of person you really are.
I just watched a show spouting the virtues of ethanol. Right afterwards the news said that Portsmouth turned down a proposal to build the country's largest Ethanol plant. There won't be real alternatives until gas becomes so expensive that the economy begins to free fall.
He is throwing numbers out doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. Linux visitors to the BBC site has to be a hell of a lot higher than that. 400 to 600 hundred linux users? I got more than that when I was was working for a local Virginia newspaper! We had over 100,000 visits per day, linux users were running steady at about 2%. The problem with linux users was you never knew which browser they were going to use, opera, firefox, konqueror even EI running under wine.
The parent troll conveniently ignored the fact that OO was a commercial product, sold to sun the subsequently open sourced. OpenOffice.org didn't write the original code, neither did Sun. Marco Börries at 16, dropped out of high school in Germany to establish 1984 to sell Star Office under the corporate name Star Division. The fact that it is still around today and competing with Microsoft is an amazing feat in itself.
Native to what? Gnome, KDE, Windows, Mac? Your OS of choice may not be others. In fact, there are a lot more windows users out there. Should they use MFC? I'm not so worried about the native widgets, I'll bet they would render fast if X11 weren't a monolithic memory whore. In linux, I have noticed more freezes and runaway CPU cycles due to X than any application. Except maybe flash.
As for your FTP issue, why do you have to restart FTP? Why not just change the firewall?
Because it takes longer for me to create a firewall rule than stop the servers. I have a script to do that remotely via vpn. The firewall I have to physically log in with a web browser via vpn. I also add the offender to iptables in each of the servers manually. I don't just use my firewall, I also use iptables, and tcp wrappers to keep people out. My biggest fear is one day my laptop will get stolen or hacked via wireless, it has the keys to everything! I do have the drive encrypted, but I still worry about wireless.
I've done that I just used an alias 'alias ssh=ssh -X -p 1234' in my.bashrc. But I've since found using a vpn much better. This allows me to shut off ssh access at the firewall.
What really annoys me is all the damn ftp attacks. I host atmospheric data for several satellite sensors. I can't just turn off my 3 ftp servers. What I do is as soon as I get an email from my loghost, I get about 100 per day without anything going on. The email will show all the attempts. I then log in and shut down the service, add the ip address to the firewall and restart ftp. I've found it helps to have no shell on user ftp accounts.
My greatest problems were the significant lack of gui configuration tools for all but the most simple things
Amen to that! A wiki should not replace a good configuration tool. I've used YAST in SuSe, Mandrivas tool are pretty good too. But for me the best little setup has got to be PcLinuxOS it has the same configuration tools as Mandriva , but uses Synaptic to download software. And there are a ton of packages available. You never need to install a new version, it is completely upgradeable via synaptic. And the packages are thoroughly tested and just work. Its a live CD so you know it will work before you install it. It really is impressive for a small distribution and it looks great too. It doesn't have a company behind but it does have a community of volunteers.
Its also a cultural thing. In Japan smaller is almost always considered better. Cars spring to mind. In the US most people want bigger cars and will only settle for smaller ones to save money. Maybe its the fact they are on an Island and space is limited. Personally, I dread using a cellphone for anything except calling. I have to go through several menus on a small screen and typing is even more painful. Every time I get a new phone I have to read the manual and learn how to do the simplest things over again. Also whoever decided buttons on the side that can be accessed in a pocket when you don't want them pressed should be shot. My last phone would go into 'manner mode' in my pocket. This would have me pulling the battery to fix it. Since 'manner mode' wasn't in the manual that came with my phone!
And since your biased against the press you disregard anything written. The fact she isn't dead tells me someone showed good judgment. She certainly didn't. Over reacting would have been her lying dead on the ground while the police continue to shoot at the bloody corpse.
Yes I think your right. It looked you were responding to someone else. I think as another poster said, the IP argument on the book numbers was used rationalize the fact that they were P/O about the website. College bookstores sell convenience. They definitely gouge students for it. I paid for books at the bookstores. But now my kids have Amazon and B&N.
Its was the same as the BX / PX in the military. They might safe you on sales tax but the stuff usually much cheaper even with tax elsewhere. Again they really only offered convenience.
Calm down, to me the poster was talking about disseminating the book numbers not being a big deal. This is what the student was kicked out for. He was on your side.
Use a laptop instead of a desktop and put it in a safe when your not around. Then when you say he can use it place it on a table in the room where you are at. While your at it lock up any telescopes and the child too. The neighbor girls father might thank you.
Seriously though if shes worried about it, she may have deeper trust issue with her child. Technology won't make your child more trustworthy, it will just make the child not trust you. Sounds like they need to talk more.
Wireless on windows isn't exactly flawless either. Sometimes you get windows wanting to control it over the manufacturers software and it doesn't work. Until SP-2 on XP doing 128bit WEP was a hit or miss proposition. And being a systems admin, I've seen a lot of people who are unable to connect to a wireless network using windows. I end up doing it for them. Also, windows can for some reason forget a network profile that it has previously had no problems with. OS X seems to be better at it but it too can suffer from dumb user syndrome. You also have a problem with windows blocking its own connections. And then there is the 3rd party pre-requisite anti-virus / network security suites that block outgoing traffic and want to examine every packet and then ask you if you want to allow.
And last but not least. When you buy network cards sometimes they conflict with other chipsets. I have had cards that conflicted with the sound system. Easily fixed by changing settings in device manager but windows will change everything back to the setting that doesn't work next reboot.
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Whoever modded me troll can't recognize sarcasm. The point I was making was a sudden rush to electric vehicles could have unintended consequences. From my perspective, we need to solve several technological / infrastructure /economic hurdles before electric can be a reality.
1) There needs to be a real change in battery/capacitor technology. Batteries are slow charging, and composed of hazardous materials. They are also heavy and inefficient. They also generate a lot of heat. Exploding laptops come to mind. Capacitors charge quickly but also discharge quickly which brings its own issues. They also are hazardous.
2) How do quickly charge a capacitor with the energy to power are car? The energy requirements are enormous. I can't envision stopping in for a charge. A battery / Super Capacitor hybrid that can be easily swapped out is more likely.
3) How do cope with the increased need for electricity? All the things you are more environmentally friendly than coal. But twice a day the road to my house is closed due to a train that carries almost a hundred cars filled with coal. And I don't live anywhere near a coal mine. There is a nuclear power plant nearby. It will be closed in 2015 and nobody has voted for a new one. We would need a whole lot more of them and nobody wants one in their back yard.
4) Who is going to pay for the infrastructure needed? It won't be Bill Gates, IBM, General Motors et al. It will be people who struggle with day to days bills and health care.
5) The remark I made about illegal immigration is right on the money. That is the the only steadily increasing demographic here. The reason we outsource, hire illegal immigrants is to exploit them for lower wages. Who do you do you thing will be growing corn, building power plants etc?
What is needed is a real innovation something that radically changes the transfer and storage of energy. Much like oil replaced steam. Nothing is free, but we need to find real alternatives with more efficiency and less of the downsides.
When people start plugging in their cars we are going to need more coal miners. They have a nasty habit of getting trapped and dying. Well at least there are potential new ones crossing the southern border every day ready to be exploited.
The first 1 or 2 jobs out the door are only going to be a stepping stone. My first one out of college was with CSC they had me running unix commands from a checklist and called the position 'programmer/analyst'. I wrote a gui in TCL/TK that made my job obsolete and I was moved to doing java front ends to an informix database. Within 6 months I was the shift supervisor over 3 programmers. I then left CSC after one year and got a job as a Software Engineer for atmospheric remote sensing satellites. Been there 10 years. In that time I've done systems admin (Linux), Web development (php,perl, python,java & jscript) in addition to projects in IDL, fortran & C/C++. People skills along with ability and the willingness to do learn are what is most important. When I need information , I first use google then I get my employer to buy me a book. If you have solid programing skills, a solid foundation in writing secure apps and a good understanding of algorithms, it won't matter what language is used.
This is where satire ends and defamation begins. I believe I will trust the courts decision over slashdot posts.
Since I work on the AIM project and know Dr. Russell here is my take. First Dr. Russell is the the atmospheric sciences department chair at Hampton University and does not work for nasa. His specialty is atmospheric physics not meteorology. These experiments are funded by nasa. But there is a whole team of scientists analyzing the data. Some of these people are in places like Grenada. We are not here to decide if man made CO2 is going to kill us all. What we are seeing we don't fully understand. That is why we look at it. We are discovering everyday how the atmosphere works. We really know very little about the mesosphere where these clouds form. Projects like AIM aim.hamptonu.edu and SABER saber.gats-inc.com are providing insights that we couldn't get from the ground. We are discovering new things all the time, like how no2 volume emission rate bloomed like crazy absorbing energy from solar storms in 2002 that were some of the most powerful ever recorded. Global Warming is for Al Gore and company. Has the earth gotten warmer recently? Yes. Is it due to man made CO2? I don't know, neither does Al.
Your confusing the record label and media. Streaming sites such as you and satellite radio are taking the place of conventional media. The public needs to be told 'what is hip' at least to a degree. Your filtering has been done by DJ's , your friends and TV for years. I think that is what the music industry will eventually be. The marketing filter. Notice how TV shows are telling you where to get the music heard on the show. What eventually morphs out of all this has the potential of being either the greatest thing to happen to musicians, or that the amount of choices gets so great that many artists offerings get never get noticed. Basically nothing new. That has always been a problem. Even with the thousands trying to get 'discovered' few actually do. Many painters and writers die before being proclaimed a genius and never see the millions generated by their inspiration and talent.
Then you, go to your boss. Come on, this is common sense. I had 115 people working for me before I retired from the Air Force. I have a lot experience here. Deal with issues at the lowest level first. You will find over 95% of any problems you perceive can be solved through direct and honest communication. If you can't do that, watch your back. People get violent when someone feels that they have been personally slighted and they're lively hood is at stake.
God I'm glad I don't work with you. Here is a novel idea. Why not discuss it with the guy who your trying to screw? Voice your concerns and maybe, just maybe, he will contact the original author and get permission. He might even be the original author. That way you don't have to worry the guy finds out who stabbed him and come to your house and get revenge. At least be man enough to let your boss know what kind of person you really are.
I just watched a show spouting the virtues of ethanol. Right afterwards the news said that Portsmouth turned down a proposal to build the country's largest Ethanol plant. There won't be real alternatives until gas becomes so expensive that the economy begins to free fall.
He is throwing numbers out doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. Linux visitors to the BBC site has to be a hell of a lot higher than that. 400 to 600 hundred linux users? I got more than that when I was was working for a local Virginia newspaper! We had over 100,000 visits per day, linux users were running steady at about 2%. The problem with linux users was you never knew which browser they were going to use, opera, firefox, konqueror even EI running under wine.
The parent troll conveniently ignored the fact that OO was a commercial product, sold to sun the subsequently open sourced. OpenOffice.org didn't write the original code, neither did Sun. Marco Börries at 16, dropped out of high school in Germany to establish 1984 to sell Star Office under the corporate name Star Division. The fact that it is still around today and competing with Microsoft is an amazing feat in itself.
Native to what? Gnome, KDE, Windows, Mac? Your OS of choice may not be others. In fact, there are a lot more windows users out there. Should they use MFC? I'm not so worried about the native widgets, I'll bet they would render fast if X11 weren't a monolithic memory whore. In linux, I have noticed more freezes and runaway CPU cycles due to X than any application. Except maybe flash.
Thats what your parents said after having a subsequent child.
Because it takes longer for me to create a firewall rule than stop the servers. I have a script to do that remotely via vpn. The firewall I have to physically log in with a web browser via vpn. I also add the offender to iptables in each of the servers manually. I don't just use my firewall, I also use iptables, and tcp wrappers to keep people out. My biggest fear is one day my laptop will get stolen or hacked via wireless, it has the keys to everything! I do have the drive encrypted, but I still worry about wireless.
I've done that I just used an alias 'alias ssh=ssh -X -p 1234' in my .bashrc. But I've since found using a vpn much better. This allows me to shut off ssh access at the firewall.
What really annoys me is all the damn ftp attacks. I host atmospheric data for several satellite sensors. I can't just turn off my 3 ftp servers. What I do is as soon as I get an email from my loghost, I get about 100 per day without anything going on. The email will show all the attempts. I then log in and shut down the service, add the ip address to the firewall and restart ftp. I've found it helps to have no shell on user ftp accounts.
I have a newt that is 22 years old. They can live to 60 in captivity.
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Amen to that! A wiki should not replace a good configuration tool. I've used YAST in SuSe, Mandrivas tool are pretty good too. But for me the best little setup has got to be PcLinuxOS it has the same configuration tools as Mandriva , but uses Synaptic to download software. And there are a ton of packages available. You never need to install a new version, it is completely upgradeable via synaptic. And the packages are thoroughly tested and just work. Its a live CD so you know it will work before you install it. It really is impressive for a small distribution and it looks great too. It doesn't have a company behind but it does have a community of volunteers.
Its also a cultural thing. In Japan smaller is almost always considered better. Cars spring to mind. In the US most people want bigger cars and will only settle for smaller ones to save money. Maybe its the fact they are on an Island and space is limited. Personally, I dread using a cellphone for anything except calling. I have to go through several menus on a small screen and typing is even more painful. Every time I get a new phone I have to read the manual and learn how to do the simplest things over again. Also whoever decided buttons on the side that can be accessed in a pocket when you don't want them pressed should be shot. My last phone would go into 'manner mode' in my pocket. This would have me pulling the battery to fix it. Since 'manner mode' wasn't in the manual that came with my phone!
And since your biased against the press you disregard anything written. The fact she isn't dead tells me someone showed good judgment. She certainly didn't. Over reacting would have been her lying dead on the ground while the police continue to shoot at the bloody corpse.
Yes I think your right. It looked you were responding to someone else. I think as another poster said, the IP argument on the book numbers was used rationalize the fact that they were P/O about the website. College bookstores sell convenience. They definitely gouge students for it. I paid for books at the bookstores. But now my kids have Amazon and B&N. Its was the same as the BX / PX in the military. They might safe you on sales tax but the stuff usually much cheaper even with tax elsewhere. Again they really only offered convenience.
Calm down, to me the poster was talking about disseminating the book numbers not being a big deal. This is what the student was kicked out for. He was on your side.
AT&T sold their UNIX to Novell not SCO
Seriously though if shes worried about it, she may have deeper trust issue with her child. Technology won't make your child more trustworthy, it will just make the child not trust you. Sounds like they need to talk more.
Wireless on windows isn't exactly flawless either. Sometimes you get windows wanting to control it over the manufacturers software and it doesn't work. Until SP-2 on XP doing 128bit WEP was a hit or miss proposition. And being a systems admin, I've seen a lot of people who are unable to connect to a wireless network using windows. I end up doing it for them. Also, windows can for some reason forget a network profile that it has previously had no problems with. OS X seems to be better at it but it too can suffer from dumb user syndrome. You also have a problem with windows blocking its own connections. And then there is the 3rd party pre-requisite anti-virus / network security suites that block outgoing traffic and want to examine every packet and then ask you if you want to allow. And last but not least. When you buy network cards sometimes they conflict with other chipsets. I have had cards that conflicted with the sound system. Easily fixed by changing settings in device manager but windows will change everything back to the setting that doesn't work next reboot.