May I offer a slight correction? As I understand it (doing mechanical repair for the last 25 years) methanol, propane, and natural gas actually have a nearly infinite octane rating compared to gas (petrol). However, as you correctly point out, they have lower energy density per unit volume. Historically this has been overcome by using much higher compression ratios, much like a diesel. Otherwise one could use a turbo. This brings the output power back up to gas (petrol) levels. Using high-compression pistons saves the fuel economy compared to the turbo, if you think about it. The turbo crams more air/fuel in at a higher pressure, whereas high-compression pistons use the ordinary amount of air/fuel and simply compress it harder. Certain classes of race cars do both, particularly Indy cars. Team Honda is getting over a thousand horsepower from one litre this way.
In contrast, I'm largely a visual artist nowdays -- traditional oil painting and drawing. For the last thousand years, the traditional way to teach and learn the craft, is to study and copy the Masters. As long as one gives credit to the master, everyone is happy. Usually this is done by saying something like "Study after [insert-master's name]" on the title. Such practice is encouraged, and one can even freely sell studies. But visual artists usually retain copyright under almost all conditions regardless. So if you do a study, then you have copyright on your study; the master still has copyright to his masterpiece. In the case of a master who died 500 years ago, one must still give credit to them regardless of copyright; or else it would end ones career, to be ignored or put down by other artists and peers.
I wonder about the chilling effect these guys would have on creativity especially where the Creative Commons is concerned. Do they want to stifle all creativity unless it's bought and paid for, brokered by them?
The world would be a lot poorer that way. Assholes.
These ASS-CAPS have been largely irrelevant for a long time, at least for me. The problem as I see it, is that copyright is all about money for them - it's not about art anymore. In order to be fair, they should re-publish their entire back-catalogs clear back to World War One, on CD's for $8 each. Basically if they're going to lock up copyright for that long, then they should be required to publish and sell for an equal lenghth of time, else they should STFU. I have *hundreds* of record albums recorded back in the 1950's and 1960's that you won't find anymore, and I wouldn't mind getting them on CD's from the original labels. If the labels cry that this would cost them too much, then I guess that shows a lot about them, and what they're really after. If they're not making anything off a recording anymore, then they should relinquish the copyright on it.
Interesting. Ever since my SMP box died, I'm using an old P4 e-Machine with 512 megs and linux. Flash playback, and video in general plays just fine. Graphics are onboard Intel i915. Though newer versions of FF *are* much better. I saved a bunch of CPU horsepower by using a decent hosts file so that AdBlock and NoScript don't have to work so much.
The UI *does* lag a bit with pages that have tons of comments, but not nearly as bad as it used to be. On the SMP box there wasn't any lag at all. By SMP I mean multi-sockets and large RAM; not just multi-cores.
As an artist, when I sell an oil painting or a drawing, I most certainly *do* retain copyrights. Reproduction rights (the right to photograph it) are a separate set of rights that I may or may not grant. If the photo of my work is for commercial purposes, then I have an interest in the proceeds. Personal and educational copies are usually OK in any medium. For the last say 1000 years, fine artists have operated under what amounts to a Creative Commons "attribution" license, with very few problems. Go to the museum and paint a copy of the Old Masters all you want; after all, that's how artists are trained in the first place!
Years ago, my employer had a CCTV camera in my work area.It watched the main entry and a hallway of offices. I used to stand under the camera at 6 AM every day and scratch my butt very vigorously. After 6 months of this, they removed the camera. Nobody ever said anything about it. See, there's more than one way to beat the system!
Yes, I had one - a DeskPro 4400 IIRC with a P120. It had 2 floppies for BIOS setup and ran linux just fine. I was using Slackware 3 and RH 5.2 at the time. Occasionally the Creative sound card and printer would get into an IRQ fight, but the early Gnome desktop with Enlightenment ran just fine otherwise. It had a 1.2 gig disk and 256 megs RAM, and I used Netscape, StarOffice on top of it all no problems. And no, it wasn't slow either.
I have an DEC Alpha box from the late 1980's that does just that. In 64-bits of course. The interesting thing is that the firmware includes a fairly complete OSF/1 UNIX implementation right there in the chip. This means that you can boot into a straight Sys V , complete with terminal and network, without even having anything on the disk. It actually works pretty good.
As the old saying goes, "Those who fail to understand UNIX are doomed to re-invent it -- poorly." Attributed to Ken Thomson.
And it seems to me that is exactly what MS has done over the last 15 years.
Because you know damn well that the moment Google Docs achieved true fidelity with MS Docs, then MS would turn around and change the specs again, thereby breaking fidelity...
Imagine using a BeagleBoard with SSD's. Is that enough to make you consider using the USB interface anyway? Granted, I would *love* to do this myself. Same as you. Although I insist on using Linux/FreeBSD on it.
My school simply handed out removable HDD caddys and drives. They were included in the tuition. At home, I could install the slot into my box. The school machines already had one. So it was just a question of doing a normal HDD install. No funky HW detection issues. At the end of class, you would slide your drive out of the school machine, and slide it back into your home box. Back then, we dual-booted Win NT and RH6.
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May I offer a slight correction? As I understand it (doing mechanical repair for the last 25 years) methanol, propane, and natural gas actually have a nearly infinite octane rating compared to gas (petrol). However, as you correctly point out, they have lower energy density per unit volume. Historically this has been overcome by using much higher compression ratios, much like a diesel. Otherwise one could use a turbo. This brings the output power back up to gas (petrol) levels. Using high-compression pistons saves the fuel economy compared to the turbo, if you think about it. The turbo crams more air/fuel in at a higher pressure, whereas high-compression pistons use the ordinary amount of air/fuel and simply compress it harder. Certain classes of race cars do both, particularly Indy cars. Team Honda is getting over a thousand horsepower from one litre this way.
Somebody MOD this guy up, plz. I already commented, so I can't.
In contrast, I'm largely a visual artist nowdays -- traditional oil painting and drawing. For the last thousand years, the traditional way to teach and learn the craft, is to study and copy the Masters. As long as one gives credit to the master, everyone is happy. Usually this is done by saying something like "Study after [insert-master's name]" on the title. Such practice is encouraged, and one can even freely sell studies. But visual artists usually retain copyright under almost all conditions regardless. So if you do a study, then you have copyright on your study; the master still has copyright to his masterpiece. In the case of a master who died 500 years ago, one must still give credit to them regardless of copyright; or else it would end ones career, to be ignored or put down by other artists and peers.
I wonder about the chilling effect these guys would have on creativity especially where the Creative Commons is concerned. Do they want to stifle all creativity unless it's bought and paid for, brokered by them? The world would be a lot poorer that way. Assholes.
These ASS-CAPS have been largely irrelevant for a long time, at least for me. The problem as I see it, is that copyright is all about money for them - it's not about art anymore. In order to be fair, they should re-publish their entire back-catalogs clear back to World War One, on CD's for $8 each. Basically if they're going to lock up copyright for that long, then they should be required to publish and sell for an equal lenghth of time, else they should STFU. I have *hundreds* of record albums recorded back in the 1950's and 1960's that you won't find anymore, and I wouldn't mind getting them on CD's from the original labels. If the labels cry that this would cost them too much, then I guess that shows a lot about them, and what they're really after. If they're not making anything off a recording anymore, then they should relinquish the copyright on it.
Did you get any on you?
Great for the cat, but as a slashdotter could you imagine having to masturbate with bionic hands?
Interesting. Ever since my SMP box died, I'm using an old P4 e-Machine with 512 megs and linux. Flash playback, and video in general plays just fine. Graphics are onboard Intel i915. Though newer versions of FF *are* much better. I saved a bunch of CPU horsepower by using a decent hosts file so that AdBlock and NoScript don't have to work so much.
The UI *does* lag a bit with pages that have tons of comments, but not nearly as bad as it used to be. On the SMP box there wasn't any lag at all. By SMP I mean multi-sockets and large RAM; not just multi-cores.
As an artist, when I sell an oil painting or a drawing, I most certainly *do* retain copyrights. Reproduction rights (the right to photograph it) are a separate set of rights that I may or may not grant. If the photo of my work is for commercial purposes, then I have an interest in the proceeds. Personal and educational copies are usually OK in any medium. For the last say 1000 years, fine artists have operated under what amounts to a Creative Commons "attribution" license, with very few problems. Go to the museum and paint a copy of the Old Masters all you want; after all, that's how artists are trained in the first place!
Years ago, my employer had a CCTV camera in my work area.It watched the main entry and a hallway of offices. I used to stand under the camera at 6 AM every day and scratch my butt very vigorously. After 6 months of this, they removed the camera. Nobody ever said anything about it. See, there's more than one way to beat the system!
I've long fantasized about renting a billboard along the I-90 and putting www.goatse.cx on it. No image or anything, just the URL.
Yes, I had one - a DeskPro 4400 IIRC with a P120. It had 2 floppies for BIOS setup and ran linux just fine. I was using Slackware 3 and RH 5.2 at the time. Occasionally the Creative sound card and printer would get into an IRQ fight, but the early Gnome desktop with Enlightenment ran just fine otherwise. It had a 1.2 gig disk and 256 megs RAM, and I used Netscape, StarOffice on top of it all no problems. And no, it wasn't slow either.
I have an DEC Alpha box from the late 1980's that does just that. In 64-bits of course. The interesting thing is that the firmware includes a fairly complete OSF/1 UNIX implementation right there in the chip. This means that you can boot into a straight Sys V , complete with terminal and network, without even having anything on the disk. It actually works pretty good.
We call it "Bung"
As the old saying goes, "Those who fail to understand UNIX are doomed to re-invent it -- poorly." Attributed to Ken Thomson. And it seems to me that is exactly what MS has done over the last 15 years.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Because you know damn well that the moment Google Docs achieved true fidelity with MS Docs, then MS would turn around and change the specs again, thereby breaking fidelity...
It's a fair bet that so did every other guy you've ever shook hands with.
Plain ASCII txt comes to mind. Works on anything as far as I know. I long since abandoned the format wars however, and went Linux/Ooo.
Imagine using a BeagleBoard with SSD's. Is that enough to make you consider using the USB interface anyway? Granted, I would *love* to do this myself. Same as you. Although I insist on using Linux/FreeBSD on it.
My school simply handed out removable HDD caddys and drives. They were included in the tuition. At home, I could install the slot into my box. The school machines already had one. So it was just a question of doing a normal HDD install. No funky HW detection issues. At the end of class, you would slide your drive out of the school machine, and slide it back into your home box. Back then, we dual-booted Win NT and RH6.
A small or entry-level mainframe could do it, consolidate every single one of the boxes into one. That or find something with say 32 cores.
Given the nym, I'm willing to bet he/she is closely connected with "snowshoes" after the sleigh ride.
Back in my day it was about the longest penis. Nowdays its about the longest tweet. 'Nuff said.
Buying ity won't necessarily get Microsoft any cred. However, they can *earn* it.