> automakers are only interested in their own profits.
That's called "fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders." It's a good thing.
And how well are they performing that function?
I really think that any car maker (even a new one) should be able to produce a turbine/electric hybrid that lasts forever, is a simple design, and can be mass produced like the Civic. I don't want leather seats and plastic cupholders -- I need a commuting charriot, like most of us.
Yes, there are some challenges. I can imagine that since parts = loss (in terms of friction), that just having one rotating thing, or a minimum of on-fire rotating things, would be able to produce enough power to drive a reasonable car. There were a few articles regarding microturbines, which were thoerized to work for powering laptops.
As for waste heat -- just vent it out the back. no more tailgating assholes. Either that, or reclaim it. Imagine your car continuing to charge just because it is cooling down. I would also expect that the power produced, would be far more than humans could bear, doing zero to sixty, and that safeguards would have to be put into place.
They use turbines with generators, and locomotive engines, it doesn't make any sense to me that we've got these rube goldberg contraptions under our hoods.
Yah, that's great and all, but after reading the specs on a Prius, or even a generic Honda, it is clear that automakers are only interested in their own profits.
Where are the turbine/electric hybrids? Why are we still dealing with pistons?
You can do geolocation with WiFi, if you have a large enough database. We have one, and there are others. Here is a good example of this kind of action. There aren't many applications that deal with location, but as you can imagine, there is a point to location-based blogging, and apparently a need for it. I wasn't successful in building a killer location-based app, but I like to see the other valiant attempts by others.
In a similar vein, I once cooked a microwave burrito on one of those 4G Seagate barracudas (the ones with the big metal flange with holes on the front). It was plugged into my workstation, an (even at the time) old Sun Sparc 5. I had the cover off the external housing, and I noticed that it was getting *really* hot, so I stuck the burrito in the front for an hour or two. After an hour, I flipped it around to cook the other side. Steam came out of the package when I opened it -- that sucker was HOT!
Am I the only one that has had a good experience with Paypal? I mean, yah normal banks can handle a deposited check, but they also charge a monthly fee. Paypal OTOH cuts me a check for *interest*, and that is ontop of the 1.5% cash back they offer. I can sell junk on EBay, and take my PayPal card right to the liquor store. That's the best banking scenario I can imagine!
I've used a ton of editing packages. I started with Premiere in the early nineties. I sure hope Cinelerra works better than most of them out there, and that I can get it to compile someday. Otherwise, I'm not about to edit video at the command-line.
The only hiccup I've run into running Linux or OS X (on non-mac hardware no less) is getting wifi working. A few internet searches later (other computer obviously) and voilà, they work.
Yah, because you can't download a driver for an ethernet adaptor without its drivers. Otherwise, we're resorted to floppies, CDs, USB fobs, or some combinations of each!
I bought one of those MSI-branded RT2500-based miniPCI cards for my Dell C640. It works quite well with Centos -- but only after compiling the driver myself, and I haven't been able to get it to work with a newer kernel quite yet. Otherwise, for stock Centos, this card worked great for me. I do wish I could figure out how to get the bluetooth working on it, but for $30 I was happy enough to drop the PCMCIA card.
Then again, I haven't been able to figure out encryption, and all that fancy stuff yet. Works instantly with Kismet, which is really the important part.
The fact is that I'm not going to pay $50 a month for cable or satellite for something that's, frankly, not worth that much to me.
I agree, and this is why Free-to-Air satellite, and the dismal excuse for basic cable that Comcast gives me are okay options. I record those things of interest with my MythTVKnoppix distro. While there aren't that many science fiction shows, I am quite satisfied to watch whatever comes across the airwaves, like ST:TNG, and the weekly episode of Farscape. I can't justify spending an additional $40-$80 per month for expanded cable -- I just don't watch that much TV, and I generally don't care to have the latest and greatest shows.
That being said, there are a few movies that I haven't seen yet, which I record and watch at my leisure. We do have a Netflix account, which satisfies any other desire to watch anything else. Besides, I spend my days in front of a monitor, I'm not so interested in sitting in front of a TV when I get home.
I know that Google analyzes the searches of its users -- for good purposes. I am sure they analyze how their search works, how users use it, and other things about those users. This helps them make a better tool. What I'm worried about is when this information is used to profile users, and identify potential 'terrorists'.
I manually block spammers. I use several RBLs, Spamassassin, and I also get my anti-spam list from a good friend at a major university who hates spam even more than I do. Still, I've seen a big jump in spam. I'm seriously paying attention to this discussion -- something's got to work.
I use the buy-it-now button when I am picking up something cheap, like wifi pigtails and such. It is far easier than fighting for a couple of days over a few cents on a $5 item. I didn't hear about this expres function. Isn't that a duplication of function?
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We keep hearing rumors, and opinions, but when *are* we going to have an Apple-branded phone? I can't imagine it is this difficult to build (but I can imagine Verizon being an asshole about it).
While we're at it, I'm still waiting for my flying car.
The 'net is big, it is great and most of all, it's international. And it doesn't matter jack whether the server I blog on is in the US or in Uzbekistan.
This is true, and I thank you for pointing that out. An ISP can be anywhere on the planet. However, I doubt the nice ISPs in Uzbekistan have the kinds of infrastructure required to handle a slashdotting of your blog. I think I can safely say that without looking it up.
I think it would be fun to setup ISPs in other countries. Sysadmin for hire, inquire within!
Cry me a river, how often do you actually need to restart?
Hi. The battery in my laptop only lasts so long. I live out of my freaking laptop, and restart all the time. It's annoying with GNU/Linux, and I'd love a hibernation feature.
There are several methods of doing the same thing. Usually you have to have a special partition on the disk, which is the size of your memory plus some overhead. Usually these require the use of obtuse tools, writen by committies of idiot managers. I so do wish there were a hibernation method that I could use with Centos on my old Dell C640.
I have a laptop, not a desktop, and yes I don't turn it off. Mostly this is because I have Centos installed, and I haven't figured out how to configure either a hibernation method (via Dell's BIOS), low power modes, or a functioning suspend. So, I leave it on all the time. This is very annoying. I do get much better battery life with Windows.
Hibernation with Windows seems to work okay. I actually use it most often, rather than shutting down the machine.
That being said, I totally enjoy using Centos on my old Dell C640. One thing I don't get, is either a functioning suspend, ultra-low-power modes, or hibernation. I do realize I should try using the BIOS-supported suspend to disk, but I don't want to repartition at this point. It is annoying to setup, with Dell's DOS-based utilities.
Why is this modded 0? I've been interested in Zoneminder for a while, but I haven't installed it yet. Apparently, the wife thinks that a working bathroom is more important than webcam fun.
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> automakers are only interested in their own profits.
That's called "fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders." It's a good thing.
And how well are they performing that function?
I really think that any car maker (even a new one) should be able to produce a turbine/electric hybrid that lasts forever, is a simple design, and can be mass produced like the Civic. I don't want leather seats and plastic cupholders -- I need a commuting charriot, like most of us.
Yes, there are some challenges. I can imagine that since parts = loss (in terms of friction), that just having one rotating thing, or a minimum of on-fire rotating things, would be able to produce enough power to drive a reasonable car. There were a few articles regarding microturbines, which were thoerized to work for powering laptops.
As for waste heat -- just vent it out the back. no more tailgating assholes. Either that, or reclaim it. Imagine your car continuing to charge just because it is cooling down. I would also expect that the power produced, would be far more than humans could bear, doing zero to sixty, and that safeguards would have to be put into place.
They use turbines with generators, and locomotive engines, it doesn't make any sense to me that we've got these rube goldberg contraptions under our hoods.
Yah, that's great and all, but after reading the specs on a Prius, or even a generic Honda, it is clear that automakers are only interested in their own profits.
Where are the turbine/electric hybrids? Why are we still dealing with pistons?
You can do geolocation with WiFi, if you have a large enough database. We have one, and there are others. Here is a good example of this kind of action. There aren't many applications that deal with location, but as you can imagine, there is a point to location-based blogging, and apparently a need for it. I wasn't successful in building a killer location-based app, but I like to see the other valiant attempts by others.
Hay, I'm looking for a gig too, Apple and Google.
In a similar vein, I once cooked a microwave burrito on one of those 4G Seagate barracudas (the ones with the big metal flange with holes on the front). It was plugged into my workstation, an (even at the time) old Sun Sparc 5. I had the cover off the external housing, and I noticed that it was getting *really* hot, so I stuck the burrito in the front for an hour or two. After an hour, I flipped it around to cook the other side. Steam came out of the package when I opened it -- that sucker was HOT!
Am I the only one that has had a good experience with Paypal? I mean, yah normal banks can handle a deposited check, but they also charge a monthly fee. Paypal OTOH cuts me a check for *interest*, and that is ontop of the 1.5% cash back they offer. I can sell junk on EBay, and take my PayPal card right to the liquor store. That's the best banking scenario I can imagine!
I've used a ton of editing packages. I started with Premiere in the early nineties. I sure hope Cinelerra works better than most of them out there, and that I can get it to compile someday. Otherwise, I'm not about to edit video at the command-line.
it is not a UFO.
It is also not a truck.
Could this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
It certainly was for me. Again.
The only hiccup I've run into running Linux or OS X (on non-mac hardware no less) is getting wifi working. A few internet searches later (other computer obviously) and voilà, they work.
Yah, because you can't download a driver for an ethernet adaptor without its drivers. Otherwise, we're resorted to floppies, CDs, USB fobs, or some combinations of each!
I bought one of those MSI-branded RT2500-based miniPCI cards for my Dell C640. It works quite well with Centos -- but only after compiling the driver myself, and I haven't been able to get it to work with a newer kernel quite yet. Otherwise, for stock Centos, this card worked great for me. I do wish I could figure out how to get the bluetooth working on it, but for $30 I was happy enough to drop the PCMCIA card.
Then again, I haven't been able to figure out encryption, and all that fancy stuff yet. Works instantly with Kismet, which is really the important part.
The fact is that I'm not going to pay $50 a month for cable or satellite for something that's, frankly, not worth that much to me.
I agree, and this is why Free-to-Air satellite, and the dismal excuse for basic cable that Comcast gives me are okay options. I record those things of interest with my MythTV Knoppix distro. While there aren't that many science fiction shows, I am quite satisfied to watch whatever comes across the airwaves, like ST:TNG, and the weekly episode of Farscape. I can't justify spending an additional $40-$80 per month for expanded cable -- I just don't watch that much TV, and I generally don't care to have the latest and greatest shows.
That being said, there are a few movies that I haven't seen yet, which I record and watch at my leisure. We do have a Netflix account, which satisfies any other desire to watch anything else. Besides, I spend my days in front of a monitor, I'm not so interested in sitting in front of a TV when I get home.
I know that Google analyzes the searches of its users -- for good purposes. I am sure they analyze how their search works, how users use it, and other things about those users. This helps them make a better tool. What I'm worried about is when this information is used to profile users, and identify potential 'terrorists'.
I manually block spammers. I use several RBLs, Spamassassin, and I also get my anti-spam list from a good friend at a major university who hates spam even more than I do. Still, I've seen a big jump in spam. I'm seriously paying attention to this discussion -- something's got to work.
I use the buy-it-now button when I am picking up something cheap, like wifi pigtails and such. It is far easier than fighting for a couple of days over a few cents on a $5 item. I didn't hear about this expres function. Isn't that a duplication of function?
We keep hearing rumors, and opinions, but when *are* we going to have an Apple-branded phone? I can't imagine it is this difficult to build (but I can imagine Verizon being an asshole about it).
While we're at it, I'm still waiting for my flying car.
I get a ton of RF noise from these bulbs. Enough to interfere with my audio setups. I'm even using good cables.
The 'net is big, it is great and most of all, it's international. And it doesn't matter jack whether the server I blog on is in the US or in Uzbekistan.
This is true, and I thank you for pointing that out. An ISP can be anywhere on the planet. However, I doubt the nice ISPs in Uzbekistan have the kinds of infrastructure required to handle a slashdotting of your blog. I think I can safely say that without looking it up.
I think it would be fun to setup ISPs in other countries. Sysadmin for hire, inquire within!
Perfect for the workday. It's nice to see things like this stuck in the message boards. That's what makes the Internet great.
Cry me a river, how often do you actually need to restart? Hi. The battery in my laptop only lasts so long. I live out of my freaking laptop, and restart all the time. It's annoying with GNU/Linux, and I'd love a hibernation feature.
There are several methods of doing the same thing. Usually you have to have a special partition on the disk, which is the size of your memory plus some overhead. Usually these require the use of obtuse tools, writen by committies of idiot managers. I so do wish there were a hibernation method that I could use with Centos on my old Dell C640.
I have a laptop, not a desktop, and yes I don't turn it off. Mostly this is because I have Centos installed, and I haven't figured out how to configure either a hibernation method (via Dell's BIOS), low power modes, or a functioning suspend. So, I leave it on all the time. This is very annoying. I do get much better battery life with Windows.
Hibernation with Windows seems to work okay. I actually use it most often, rather than shutting down the machine.
That being said, I totally enjoy using Centos on my old Dell C640. One thing I don't get, is either a functioning suspend, ultra-low-power modes, or hibernation. I do realize I should try using the BIOS-supported suspend to disk, but I don't want to repartition at this point. It is annoying to setup, with Dell's DOS-based utilities.
Why is this modded 0? I've been interested in Zoneminder for a while, but I haven't installed it yet. Apparently, the wife thinks that a working bathroom is more important than webcam fun.