I feel that an OSS project making secret deals with a corp goes against the spirit of OSS, regardless how respected the two parties are. How do I know that my contributions are not going to fall victim to a change in the code that was known of ahead of time by the parties 'in the know'. How do I know if you've made a deal with a company I have ethical issues about? What if I contribute something great and it goes on to make a bundle for MS?
I understand that a buisness might need to keep secrets from the market. Maybe the MPL/GPL/etc could address this issue directly, and codify what's allowed/expected. As it is, it seems that an outside developer can't count on anything.
That said, I personally find the concept of Google and Firefox working together very exiting, and am looking forward to the result.
In TFA, it says that the Mozilla Foundation would not reveal the extent of the deal with Google. Now, I like Firefox, and I like Google, but WTF? It's an OpenSource project. Why would I contribute if the project isn't public about it's deals with corporations? How can they even do this?
I'm not against Mozilla making deals, but they should be transparent.
Due to the Hubbert peak, the oil economy is going to look very different. How different and how quickly can be argued, but it is going to happen.
My point being; We are not going to meet increasing world energy needs. We are not even going to be able to meet our present needs. The best case scenario involves massive cuts in production and consumption. Capital intensive generation methods will become so expensive as to be undoable. I think we are engaging in a mass self-delusion by pretending otherwise, and just digging our hole deeper.
I live in hippie-thick Nelson, BC. I know dozens of people who sell power to the grid. This is not some borderline idea, anyone can do it to varying degrees of effect, depending on how much $ you can outlay.
But the real benefit of solar is decenteralized generation, which cuts the cost of transmission. This, of course, means that solar will not replace everyones power needs. (I'm ignoring the fact that a persons power consumption is far more than they consume at home)
My girlfriend lives in a solar powered house here in BC (Canada). For 4 months she has to suplement power from the grid, but for the rest of the year, it's enough. That's big savings. Another friend lives in a passive solar house, and only had to fire up his heat for about 2 weeks this winter. And these are spacious houses with lots of windows and all the normal (power saving) appliances.
The thing about these techniques is; they're cost efective _now_, if you can aford the capital outlay. Your bills go down, and it pays for itself.
I'm familiar with 118 kmh, from driving a car, correct. In the general sense though, I can visualize 33 meters more easily than 118 klicks, and I can fit a second to it more easily than an hour.
Dr Roger Nelson is highly selective about what counts as 'data', ignores critisism, and is measuring something at the statistical borderline. Classic signs of junk science.
Oh. And the other sign is that it claims to PREDICT THE FUTURE. Still, get back to me if you would like to bet any real money.
That worked for a while, but the inaccuracies intoduced by getting exactly 1000 cm^3 water at exactly 289K (plus the correct air pressure) were limiting the measurments we could take.
You and the poster above seem to have missed the point of the article. The "You can click but you can't hide" page was posted by the owner of likitorrent, who was not sued, and did not 'settle'.
Of course it will be free. This is not a game, it's a piece of government funded propaganda, designed to instill a positive opinion of the US military in youth wordwide.
I played it, and was struck by how many times I died. This seemed highly instructive.
Opec oil fields are still increasing production, true. This is not included in the chart to show the curve more clearly. What happened to every other field will also happen to the opec fields. Several opec oil fields are projected to keep increasing for as long as 30 years. All this means is that middle eastern oil fields will become more and more essential to economic growth.
DOE figures for OPEC 1999 - 2004
1990 Average 22,461
1991 Average 22,506
1992 Average 23,558
1993 Average 24,304
1994 Average 24,594
1995 Average 25,094
1996 Average 25,541
1997 Average 26,804
1998 Average 27,858
1999 Average 26,686
2000 Average 28,335
2001 Average 27,405
2002 Average 25,403
2003 Average 27,072
2004 11-Month Average 29,054
lowest to highest is a gain of 26%. This number will decrease over time. Chinas oil needs will soon be growing faster. The nation that holds the middle east holds onto industrialization that much longer.
I'm not sure if it'll happen this year, or 20 years from now, but it will happen. The interesting question is, will the price of oil skyrocket, leaving our entire economy stuck? Or will we manage to shift enough of our energy needs to renewable resources by then? Supply demands of as little as 5% (opec oil crises, cali) have led to price jumps of %200+. It used to take one barrel of oil to get 30 barrels out of the ground. We now get ~5. Some sources say 2. When we get < 1, no more oil will come out of the ground.
This isn't Bush's plan, although he is a perfect figurehead to see it through. Many people in many positions know this is coming, and have been planning for it. This has been known about since the '50s, and although the numbers might shift the equation a bit, no one is arguing it's fundementaly wrong.
It is a war for oil; Read this. Take note of the "Time to Depletion Midpoint" graph. Now look at this graph from a DOE report.
The war is part of a longer-term need to ensure access to the only oil fields that will be producing in the (suprisingly near) future. It's not about oil prices this summer, but in the decade or two to come.
If that isn't depresing enough, this guy has the full doomsday scenario worked out.
Cable vs. DSL is largly dependent on where you are, and how many people have cable in your 'hood. In most places I've been in, cable _can_ be faster, but is often slower. With DSL, the speed promised is the speed you get.
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I feel that an OSS project making secret deals with a corp goes against the spirit of OSS, regardless how respected the two parties are. How do I know that my contributions are not going to fall victim to a change in the code that was known of ahead of time by the parties 'in the know'. How do I know if you've made a deal with a company I have ethical issues about? What if I contribute something great and it goes on to make a bundle for MS?
I understand that a buisness might need to keep secrets from the market. Maybe the MPL/GPL/etc could address this issue directly, and codify what's allowed/expected. As it is, it seems that an outside developer can't count on anything.
That said, I personally find the concept of Google and Firefox working together very exiting, and am looking forward to the result.
The OP contributed some usefull opinions of Solaris, from the POV of most of us dabblers without sparc boxes lying around.
I'm not against Mozilla making deals, but they should be transparent.
My point being; We are not going to meet increasing world energy needs. We are not even going to be able to meet our present needs. The best case scenario involves massive cuts in production and consumption. Capital intensive generation methods will become so expensive as to be undoable. I think we are engaging in a mass self-delusion by pretending otherwise, and just digging our hole deeper.
You, my fellow Canadian, are about to be modded to hell.
My girlfriend lives in a solar powered house here in BC (Canada). For 4 months she has to suplement power from the grid, but for the rest of the year, it's enough. That's big savings. Another friend lives in a passive solar house, and only had to fire up his heat for about 2 weeks this winter. And these are spacious houses with lots of windows and all the normal (power saving) appliances.
The thing about these techniques is; they're cost efective _now_, if you can aford the capital outlay. Your bills go down, and it pays for itself.
Oh. And the other sign is that it claims to PREDICT THE FUTURE. Still, get back to me if you would like to bet any real money.
Please. Bone is a classic.
For me, 33m/s is much easier to visualize than 118.8 km/h.
Still, the intuitiveness of it is nice.
If this thing is built, it'll show up in Hollywood movie real quick.
If even half of those features make it into the freely distributed UnrealEd, we're going to see some great mods....
I played it, and was struck by how many times I died. This seemed highly instructive.
1990 Average 22,461
1991 Average 22,506
1992 Average 23,558
1993 Average 24,304
1994 Average 24,594
1995 Average 25,094
1996 Average 25,541
1997 Average 26,804
1998 Average 27,858
1999 Average 26,686
2000 Average 28,335
2001 Average 27,405
2002 Average 25,403
2003 Average 27,072
2004 11-Month Average 29,054
lowest to highest is a gain of 26%. This number will decrease over time. Chinas oil needs will soon be growing faster. The nation that holds the middle east holds onto industrialization that much longer.
I'm not sure if it'll happen this year, or 20 years from now, but it will happen. The interesting question is, will the price of oil skyrocket, leaving our entire economy stuck? Or will we manage to shift enough of our energy needs to renewable resources by then? Supply demands of as little as 5% (opec oil crises, cali) have led to price jumps of %200+. It used to take one barrel of oil to get 30 barrels out of the ground. We now get ~5. Some sources say 2. When we get < 1, no more oil will come out of the ground.
This isn't Bush's plan, although he is a perfect figurehead to see it through. Many people in many positions know this is coming, and have been planning for it. This has been known about since the '50s, and although the numbers might shift the equation a bit, no one is arguing it's fundementaly wrong.
Read this. Take note of the "Time to Depletion Midpoint" graph. Now look at this graph from a DOE report.
The war is part of a longer-term need to ensure access to the only oil fields that will be producing in the (suprisingly near) future. It's not about oil prices this summer, but in the decade or two to come.
If that isn't depresing enough, this guy has the full doomsday scenario worked out.