I'd be a little worried about flash memory data retention. Some of this stuff is only good for 10 years or so and that might mean you're left with a PC that does not boot.
A lot of scientific consensus held by mainstream scientists is often no longer supported by evidence and needs to be debunked. As Max Planck said:"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
These days all non-trivial chipsets and devices (mouse, monitor, graphics card, disk drives etc) have proprietary firmware built into them and are designed with some sort of HDL (essentially software). If you really want free computing then you should insist on those being free too.
Sure most geeks using Linux (me included) are using it on x86 desktops so that's the view they have. However the majority of Linux systems are phones, routers and the like, using ARM, MIPS, PowerPC etc. For every Linux PC there are probably 10 ARM-Linux based phones.
Is investigation without a warrant such a big deal? All it does is save some paperwork which is pretty much a rubber stamping exercise anyway. For the FBI to put manpower into investigating someone means they must suspect something and they'd pretty easily get a warrant anyway.
Have a look at some typical letters at http://www.nigerianscambuster.com/letters.html . Of those, most are asking people to help divert funds that were found in a deceased person's estate or by other means. Only one of these asks for help to keep their money because their assets are frozen (so you'd be involved in money laundering). Even that act looks pretty dodgy since they hint that the person might get killed, leaving Joe Sucker with all the money. Anyone falling for this is hardly acting in a charitable way.
There is a huge difference in helping out someone at payday and helping a suspected criminal bypass the law. If one of those check cashing operations was helping the Mob handle their transactions they'd get stung for money laundering.
Most are of the form "We found some person's money in a trust fund or something. Do you want to help shift it offshore and take a cut?". Taking something that is not yours is a crime. If you find a brown bag of cash on the side of the road, then keeping that is crime too.
People scammed by these scams are attempting to be criminals, even if they are not succeeding.
but adding focussed groups that go to help the OEMs get Vista working well.
MS has traditionally had a "fuck you, we're MS" attitude towards OEMs and charge OEMs a huge fee to have a technical account manager inside MS to handle problems. They then charge OEMs even more for any consulting work.
Perhaps they need to change this and instead spend money in helping integrators.
If Vista was just broken on Dell computers then people would be pointing the finger at Dell. The only way MS can dig Vista out of the current mess is to roll up their sleeves and help the OEMs fix the problems.
There are very few newbies who will outright need to bug Linus for answers. There are sufficient people that will give "good enough" answers for most newbies on the many newsgroups/lists. Most people will be starting in the shallow end of will start there.
I considered, and once tried, pushing a file system into Linux. Unfortunately the fs does not have the right coding style and a few other things which make it hard to put into mainstream. Instead it just sits independently as a big patch which is pretty easy to apply by running a simple script.
This suites everyone that uses it pretty fine, except for the purist "it's got to be in the mainline" folks. Realists just pull it from a public cvs and apply it with minimal effort.
Although I might consider mainlining it again, for the moment the effort just is not worth it. The current model is workable for those that use it.
It isn't the voltage that matters, but the electrical energy efficiency (ie electrical energy in vs fuel energy out).
If you had to apply a potential of 1.2V to catalyse the reaction then that is OK so long as the process is chomping very little current and is instead getting the bulk of the energy from the light.
Of course if it is using a lot of electrical energy and just a small amount of light energy then it isn't really much improvement over electrolysis.
If they have something that is viable then they will say so. But then again, they'd probably be doing the rounds trying to sell the technology rather than sitting around writing up the paper for a journal.
I once saw a very simple electronics box designed in ProE. Looked great. Everything fitted neatly. Only problem was that it was impossible to assemble because the positioning of a mounting boss made it impossible to slide a connector through a required hole.
Luckily the project manager was "old school" and had an SLA made which showed up the problem before the big-cost plastic injection molding dies were made.
Slashdot Mirror
so we're asking slashdot for a bunch of stupid answers.
Shit.
Perhaps just making some prints is the easiest.
A lot of scientific consensus held by mainstream scientists is often no longer supported by evidence and needs to be debunked. As Max Planck said:"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
If you're still going up the hill it might be a long way to the top.
What about their laundry service? Why should they provide that? What about the people who have their own washers at home?
What about the car servicing thing? What about the people that don't have cars?
What about the bus service with Wifi? What about people who live close and don't need the bus?
By your logic all these are discrimination against people who don't need these services.
Don't use a PC with a proprietary BIOS.
Try find anything that meets that at all.
These days all non-trivial chipsets and devices (mouse, monitor, graphics card, disk drives etc) have proprietary firmware built into them and are designed with some sort of HDL (essentially software). If you really want free computing then you should insist on those being free too.
Sure most geeks using Linux (me included) are using it on x86 desktops so that's the view they have. However the majority of Linux systems are phones, routers and the like, using ARM, MIPS, PowerPC etc. For every Linux PC there are probably 10 ARM-Linux based phones.
Is investigation without a warrant such a big deal? All it does is save some paperwork which is pretty much a rubber stamping exercise anyway. For the FBI to put manpower into investigating someone means they must suspect something and they'd pretty easily get a warrant anyway.
There is a huge difference in helping out someone at payday and helping a suspected criminal bypass the law. If one of those check cashing operations was helping the Mob handle their transactions they'd get stung for money laundering.
People scammed by these scams are attempting to be criminals, even if they are not succeeding.
MS has traditionally had a "fuck you, we're MS" attitude towards OEMs and charge OEMs a huge fee to have a technical account manager inside MS to handle problems. They then charge OEMs even more for any consulting work.
Perhaps they need to change this and instead spend money in helping integrators.
If Vista was just broken on Dell computers then people would be pointing the finger at Dell. The only way MS can dig Vista out of the current mess is to roll up their sleeves and help the OEMs fix the problems.
Burning bras to keep warm.
The cash part that is.
Wouldn't that generate better PR than using a deadbeat comedian?
Dual theme it as a bondage party.... could get interesting!
The kids were not hassled for making the chair but for operating it on a public road.
Analogy alert: If a man bought a knife and stabbed someone it would get reported as "Man arrested for buying knife" or "Man arrested for spending $5"
We're getting a lot of stupid articles these days.
Safety vs cost vs time to maket vs .....
So long as he's not making milk powder you're probably safe from being bombed.
It is well known that many serious Lego enthusiasts will take various stimulants and body building supplements to give them that edge.
There are very few newbies who will outright need to bug Linus for answers. There are sufficient people that will give "good enough" answers for most newbies on the many newsgroups/lists. Most people will be starting in the shallow end of will start there.
This suites everyone that uses it pretty fine, except for the purist "it's got to be in the mainline" folks. Realists just pull it from a public cvs and apply it with minimal effort.
Although I might consider mainlining it again, for the moment the effort just is not worth it. The current model is workable for those that use it.
If you had to apply a potential of 1.2V to catalyse the reaction then that is OK so long as the process is chomping very little current and is instead getting the bulk of the energy from the light.
Of course if it is using a lot of electrical energy and just a small amount of light energy then it isn't really much improvement over electrolysis.
If they have something that is viable then they will say so. But then again, they'd probably be doing the rounds trying to sell the technology rather than sitting around writing up the paper for a journal.
Luckily the project manager was "old school" and had an SLA made which showed up the problem before the big-cost plastic injection molding dies were made.