Apparently certified and using more energy is more environmentally friendly than not certified and using less energy.
It certainly sounds so:-)
That being said, I'm pretty sure Everex skipped the certification just in order to keep their prices down. Certification of such a product is not cheap, and would certainly have added to the price.
One interesting tradeoff has nothing to do with fuel economy, but rather with the IRS's treatment of vehicle expenses allowed for 'cars' (and other light vehicles) vs those allowed for heavy trucks. People who use vehicles for business purposes, even if these do not involve the hauling of goods or equipment, realize such a tax savings by purchasing a vehicle that qualifies as a large truck, that fuel costs just vanish in the economic equation. Until the IRS removes the penalties for using smaller vehicles, I anticipate that this trend will only continue.
As a European, I kept wondering what the point was in buying oversized gas-guzzlers, and I could not believe that the simple security feeling of the soccer mom justified buying an SUV with the current oil prices. That IRS hack sheds a different light on the situation...
Why is it OK for thousands of people to have their computers be rendered inoperable just because they run an operating system that you don't like?
Whoa, wait a minute. Did you ever ask that question before when destructive worms, specifically targeted at Windows, were released in the wild ? Ever heard of Klez.E ? Or W32/Magistr ?. The latter wiped out my data a few years ago, I promise you I had the thrill of my life... [/sarcasm]
As one of the posters said below, malware writers don't care about your data or your life. They only ask themselves how efficient their next virus or worm will be to reach their goals, whether it be using the resources of thousands of zombie-PCs, or threatening a large corporation with a massive breakdown of their IT infrastructure. Happened in a Orange/France Telecom R&D center 4 years ago : all PCs down for a whole monday morning. 1200 people suddenly locked out of their PCs. Fortunately the coffee machine stood up and running that day...;-)
Well, lemme see, it's dressed as a civilian, it behaves like a (panicked) civilian, it lives where civilians usually live, but... it's an enemy combatant. Says who ?
BTW, since you seem to have a Yahoo! mais account, am I the only one to have experienced serial crashes with Firefox 2.0.0.x on the latest Yahoo! Mail javascript applets ? Don't know for Windows, but it happens to me all the time in various flavours of Linux:-(
Well, the text-rendering issues will be mostly cured in Koffice 2.0 due to the migration to Qt4.x. And honestly, when these issues are cured, you will have no more reason to compare Abiword+Gnumeric to the whole Koffice suite and its 14 apps...
Check your facts. It used to be that in *some* state-owned corporations, after a few days at the ol' bargaining table, the union workers would get *part* of the pay they would have earned if they had not been on strike. This has not happened for at least 5 years now.
What about those of us who have pointy-haired bosses or BOFHs that try to enforce security policies on all workstations -- both Windows and Linux -- and make the installation of commercial AVs mandatory on Linux workstations ?
Well guess what : those guys are more likely to be heard when they complain about availability of AV programs under Linux, than your average fanboi has when demanding the port of Macromedia or Adobe tools.
Isn't the widespread lack of ethics one of the main reasons why we have laws?
Yes, but passing international laws or agreeing on international ethical practices is quite another matter. One civilization's set of ethics may be quite different from another's, hence different laws. In the Chinese view, according to their set of ethics, they are not doing anything wrong.
And this is why the current trend towards more IP laws in the Western World is so wrongheaded in the first place, as if the 5 billion people in the rest of the world was going to agree with their views...
looks like it is pretty easy to install a serial modem on vista though, if you go into the add hardware menu and select the automatic option and it fails to find anything it automatically takes you to a list of device types.
Thanks for the tip, I had forgotten how to handle this under Windows. A few years ago I would have thought of it at once, but the more time I spend under Linux, the less I need those procedures.... not that it takes more time to do it under Windows, as grandson says, it's just that as a newbie to Vista I wouldn't have known how to do it.
I seem to remember however that previous versions of Windows used to have a Connection Manager which enabled you to set up a connection and a dialup modem quite easily, but Vista (with broadband getting more and more popular) did not offer the dialup option when I tried the new Connection Manager.
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That being said, I'm pretty sure Everex skipped the certification just in order to keep their prices down. Certification of such a product is not cheap, and would certainly have added to the price.
[shameless plug] Besides, they just released version 7.0, check it out.[/shameless plug]
Dear moderator(s), quit smoking your crack. Parent post does not qualify for "-1, Troll" in any way.
0) Use low-consumption electric appliances, enhance energy efficiency in every aspect of modern life and industrial development.
The rise of energy prices will probably drive us towards that trend anyway.
... and a "vi vs. Emacs" to rule them all, in the land of Slashdot where geekiness lies.
Gotta love that British humour of yours... ;-)
As one of the posters said below, malware writers don't care about your data or your life. They only ask themselves how efficient their next virus or worm will be to reach their goals, whether it be using the resources of thousands of zombie-PCs, or threatening a large corporation with a massive breakdown of their IT infrastructure. Happened in a Orange/France Telecom R&D center 4 years ago : all PCs down for a whole monday morning. 1200 people suddenly locked out of their PCs. Fortunately the coffee machine stood up and running that day... ;-)
3 out of 4 of the people you rounded up and sent to Gitmo are not enemy combatants at all.
And all the rest are, hmmm, spies ? Enemy combatants ?Or maybe just people that happened to be at the wrong time in the wrong place ?
Slashdotted already ? Or maybe the Novell boycotter also boycotted the invoices from the webhost ?
BTW, since you seem to have a Yahoo! mais account, am I the only one to have experienced serial crashes with Firefox 2.0.0.x on the latest Yahoo! Mail javascript applets ? Don't know for Windows, but it happens to me all the time in various flavours of Linux :-(
Well, the text-rendering issues will be mostly cured in Koffice 2.0 due to the migration to Qt4.x. And honestly, when these issues are cured, you will have no more reason to compare Abiword+Gnumeric to the whole Koffice suite and its 14 apps...
We too have elected a neocon.. (although I don't include myself in that "we", having campaigned for years against that guy and his policies.)
I see the MS/SCO parrots are not quite dead yet... Pining for the salt lakes, maybe ?
Check your facts. It used to be that in *some* state-owned corporations, after a few days at the ol' bargaining table, the union workers would get *part* of the pay they would have earned if they had not been on strike. This has not happened for at least 5 years now.
Well guess what : those guys are more likely to be heard when they complain about availability of AV programs under Linux, than your average fanboi has when demanding the port of Macromedia or Adobe tools.
kthx ! :-)
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And this is why the current trend towards more IP laws in the Western World is so wrongheaded in the first place, as if the 5 billion people in the rest of the world was going to agree with their views...
I seem to remember however that previous versions of Windows used to have a Connection Manager which enabled you to set up a connection and a dialup modem quite easily, but Vista (with broadband getting more and more popular) did not offer the dialup option when I tried the new Connection Manager.