Ethanol is not the answer.... The true answer is... solar...
I hope I'm not the first one to point out that Ethanol is nothing more than stored solar energy. CO2 and H2 are combined with the help of photosynthesis into O2 and hydrocarbons (aka bio-mass). That reaction requires solar energy. When you extract energy from bio-mass by, for instance, creating Ethanol out of it, you're extracting what was once solar energy.
Now, of course, there are a few more conversions in that route than going directly from solar energy to kinetic energy or electricity, but some means of bottling solar energy will always be needed; the sun doesn't shine 24/7.
The biggest problem in turning grain crops into fuel; there are just so many uses for grain crops in everyday products that a slight increase in their pricing because of competition with fuels could force consumer prices up, masking the true cost of these new forms of power creation.
There are several ways to manipulate this. The subsidy can be adjusted to change the backstop price. Or we could establish a different subsidy rate for edible grains vs. excess stover. Plus, as energy becomes more readily available, the market cost of energy products will drop, vastly affecting the backstop price.
The big question is, as the price of energy drops down to the equivalent of $1/gal of gasoline, will this model still be sustainable? The prices he's quoting are for current prices such as $.05/kWh and $3/gal of ethanol. With all the energy this method produces, those prices are sure to drop.
If we drop electric rates to $.02/kWh and ethanol and bio-oil to $1/gal and recalculate, his example of excess stover value drops from $483 to $193, and grain drops from $721 to around $250. That gives a backstop price of $1.67/bu, down from his utopian quote of $4.80/bu, and much less than the $3/bu as quoted for foodstock. So farmers still make more selling corn as food. The price of your box of Corn Pops will not be "the biggest problem."
So, as energy costs drop, will it still be worthwhile, or will only the early adopters who have a system in place while energy costs are still high benefit? Still, it helps make the case for being that early adopter and getting the infrastructure in place...
Have you ever used Delphi or C++Builder? The.NET API and the Borland Visual Component Library (VCL) were built by the same guy..NET has the advantage of being his 2nd iteration, and C# the second iteration of Java, so his team had a chance to work the kinks out... Still, C++Builder/Delphi were vastly superior IDEs to VB6, not to mention that they didn't require programming in VB... (gag)
Borland has even released a free (as in beer) version called Turbo C++ Explorer. Not expandable like the original C++Builder from a few years ago, but still very nice for writing simple Win32 apps. Installation can be a pain, but if you make it through that, you'll notice many similarities between its VCL and the.NET APIs.
To avoid asking something that's already been answered, here's a synopsis of some of his more recent interviews.
In Guy Kawasaki's Blog, he's asked:
1. How do you make money with an Open Source product?
2. What changes in the Open Source community's attitude have you encountered since you decided "to build a company" around MySQL?
3. Do you compete head to head with Oracle or do you have different customers?
4. What's the biggest MySQL DB?
5. What's the weirdest use of MySQL?
6. What's the most "mission critical" use of MySQL?
7. How does a company controls what's happening to its product when the Open Source community is doing the programming and testing?
8. Is Open Source hindering innovation because it's one thing to debug an existing product but it's another to design a new one?
9. Who fixes the most bugs?
10. If MySQL ceased to exist as an organization, would MySQL the product continue?
In InfoWorld, he's asked:
1. Recently, a number of open-source developers have expressed their unhappiness with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the second draft of GPLv3. Are you concerned about a potential forking of the license as some people stick with GPLv2 and others move to GPLv3?
2. How do you decide when MySQL needs to develop new features for the database and when to rely on the open-source community for those innovations?
3. So, is open source then a more forgiving environment than the proprietary software world?
4. What's ahead in 2007 for MySQL?
5. What's the latest news on Falcon, the transactional database engine being developed by database architect Jim Starkey who joined MySQL in February?
6. Is MySQL's current dominance of the open-source database market ever a cause for concern?
In Forbes, he's asked:
1. How is open source software influencing what the bigger tech giants like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft will do in the next year?
2. Do open source firms that sell to large, proprietary software companies risk being dubbed sellouts by the community that's helped them develop their software?
3. How do Oracle's recent open source acquisitions affect MySQL?
4. Is Oracle more of a threat now?
5. What is MySQL's workforce like?
6. MySQL recently took funding from Red Hat, Intel and SAP. What's the strategy here?
7. Is there an IPO for MySQL in the future?
In LXer, he's asked:
1. What are your short and long term goals do you have for the MySQL database system?
2. Realistically where do you think you will pick up quick conversions to enhance your immediate market share from your competitors? Later, how much market share must MySQL commercial versions have to pick up to have long-term viability?
3. If you see your main opportunity is in the replacement of Oracle installations does MySQL match or exceed the forte of Oracle in the transaction per second processing? Are you now aimed at the lower end of the Oracle market installations? What will it take to be really competitive with Oracle at the upper end of the scale?
4. If you see your natural market as the range SQL Server is now aimed at, small medium business and departmental installations, can you match their ease of administration? If not what is the salient argument for such companies to install MySQL over the competition? Since you are primarily aimed at the market willing to pay for your enhancements and support, do you see any advantage in offering a MySQL product that will undercut MySQL server from below?
5. What trade offs have had to be made to make MySQL 5.0 commercial version more feature rich and robust?
6. Where do you see competition arising from for pursuing the paths to th
Apparently AMD is staking a good part of their future on the high end server market, where Intel has never been a huge player.
Its worth pointing out that Intel's not being a huge player in that space is not for lack of trying. I seem to recall a multi-billion dollar Intel blunder affectionately known as the Itanic. How x86-64 subsequently vanquished IA64 is well known history.
I forgot to mention that the only safe place anywhere near a horizontal ring is in its center. Imagine a mishap that results in a mass of something skipping across the ground at mach 23... If somethng goes wrong with a ring inside a mountain, at least there's a bunch of rock protecting the local populace.
... you could probably design the loop on an incline, say up the side of a mountain...
Brilliant! Stand the whole thing up vertically inside a mountain. Dig it out of nice, solid granite. The mass of a mountain would surely withstand the large g-forces such a thing would generate. Plus, you could have multiple launch tunnels for when the projectile leaves the ring; to the East and West, for instance. Keeping the launch ramp on the same plane as the ring would also avoid any issues with a change in the centrifugal force vector as a projectile transitions from the ring to the launch ramp as depicted in the artist's conceptual drawing.
Now why would someone use a word like mnemonic to help remenber the letter M in an anagram? That's like saying P as in Ptarmigan.
Or H as in Heir.
Or S as in See.
Or T as in Tsunami.
What amazes me is the 1.7 _billion_ transistor count!
I'm sure the majority of that is the cache. I don't have figures, but if you want an example, check out the transister count of a large DRAM chip. Sounds impressive, 'til you realize that very little of it is logic.
If I remember correctly, Wind River has been moving towards Linux for the last few years...
"Moving towards" is perhaps a bit of an exageration. They've been dragged kicking and screaming by consumer demand. If they didn't support Linux, many customers would simply pass them by. By "supporting" Linux, they can get a toe in the door and start doing everything they can to convince their potential customer that Linux isn't a stable choice, and they should buy VxWorks instead.
Not that I can blame them, entirely. VxWorks is a different class of O/S, as Linux has a much larger footprint, and isn't hard real time unless you add to that footprint with the real-time extensions (which could be described as a mini-O/S embedded within the Linux kernel).
Not better or worse; just different. Pick the right tool for the right job, and all...
You're missing the point.... If you do want to run windows, why not just get a regular PC, which is gonna be cheaper and which will (generally) have less compatibility issues?
And you, sir, are also missing the point. If I want to run OSX, but am required to run Windows as well, but (and this is the point you're missing) only want to lug around a single laptop, this effort is what I need to realize that dream.
I can't (legally) run OSX on that Windows laptop you're so quick to suggest; Apple doesn't sell OSX by itself. MS, on the other hand, sells Windows as a retail package, and they don't care what hardware you run it on.
So... if you want to run OSX and Windows on a single platform, your only option is Apple hardware. Do you get it now, or am I just feeding a troll?
If you have to choose between a solid platform that costs $300 (and already has a stable of games available) and a brand-new system that is two hundred bucks more with far fewer games, which one do you think most people will buy?
The one with Linux on it, obviously!
In all seriousness, that was a big factor in my personal decision to buy the
- WRT54G wireless router
- NSLU2 storage server
- TiVo - XBox (original)
"Still, the switch to Intel is a necessary one from an engineering standpoint, he said, because Apple needed a way to improve performance per watt. Mr. Wozniak would have liked Apple to continue using Motorola processors, but "Intel just did a very good logic design.""
Sounds like sound logic to me. No questioning there at all.
Read on a little further.. like the next paragraph.
Engineering related considerations aside, he still seems reluctant about joining the Intel camp. "If it wasn't needed, I would say we shouldn't do it. And I still have some questions as to how much it's needed."
Hmmm... selective quotations. Do you live in Redmond?
That might well make you wonder what happens when someone like Sony or Toshiba eventually accidentally release a device with a flaw... Would Hollywood have the balls to make a million TVs go black with one stoke of their magic red pen?
The HDCP Speicification (PDF warning), available from Digital Content Protection, LLC describes the copy protection mechanism in detail, including the key revocation mechanism. They don't turn keys off per brand-name, as many here assume. Each piece of electronics equipment has its own key.
To summarize, the key vector is a 40-bit word that contains 20 zeros and 20 ones. That means there are [40:20] ("40 choose 20") combinations, or roughly 137 billion unique keys, enough for each CE equipment. Sender and receiver exchange key vectors and, using secret tables, compute a common 56-bit secret. To verify that they have the same sacret, the receiver sends a hash back to the sender, then waits for a stream. That effectively makes the time required to verify a valid key vector cost prohibitive for a brute force attempt, at least on the receiver side. Now, if someone wanted to brute-force a sender, it may be easier, but hackers want to be able to decode, not encode.
The key tables, electrical traces, timeouts, and several other tangible things that could be used to hack a link or transceiver are mandated and audited by DCP before they grant a license for the real keys. In all, it looked pretty air tight in my review. The media controllers seem to have learned from past mistakes and are employing smart people now to develop their content protection schemes. Strong encryption is becoming the norm...
Why do so many people think they have a right to dictate the terms of other people's businesses?
That's easy. Those people have the checkbooks!
Seriously, why do so many businesses think they can cram whatever garbage they want down our throats? I'm not saying Macs are garbage; I personally like them better than Windows boxen. However, many businesses, MS and Apple included, assume they know what's best for me. I disagree. And, since they don't have my checkbook, I get to take it elsewhere.
You forgot to mention the unexpected dust-devil cleaning action on the solar cells. They were originally expecting that the cells would be so coated with dust after a few months that they wouldn't produce enough power for the unit to move. One erroneous assumption that worked out in their favor!
My sentiments exactly. I haven't done as much *nix GUI development as it sounds like you have, but for my Win32 apps, I found BCB to be oodles above any VS environment. I wish they had a light-weight, personal edition of the new BCB, but alas, only standard, professional and enterprise.
BCB was even my segue into Delphi. There was a list control that did almost everything I wanted. So, I took the source (that came for free), modified it to my needs, and presto, a new control that did everything I wanted!
Ever seen snowmaking systems at ski resorts? All you really need to do is blow a fine mist of water into frigid air, and you get ice crystals. Effectively, you're increasing the surface area of a given volume of water which enables it to lose heat to the atmosphere more readily.
What you're forgetting is, in a ski resort, the air compressor is at the bottom of the slope. That compressor generates waste heat, especially if its gas or deisel powered. But more than that, its pumping heat into the compressed air through the work of compressing it. That hot, compressed air cools in the tank, or the line leading up to the snow-making nozzles before it has to cool the water mist.
If their goal is to cool the ocean's surface, they can't exactly use the ocean to cool the engine, compressor, and compressed air, can they?
Pixie's got it right, Karma. Mike touted this new "protected admin" feature as something better than Unix when in fact I've personally been using sudo for over a decade. Its old hat for *nix.
Perhaps its an innocent mistake, since I assume it would be safe to say Mike Nash is not a highly qualified Unix admin. However, noting the historical level of FUD coming from that campus, I'm a little more inclined to think it could possibly be intentional. A mistake, to be sure, to try to slip something of that order past the/. crowd.
My other thought, that I left out the original post, was that its probably not even possible to run the session in elevated privilege in Vista. Not that you would want to, but another case of removing choice from the consumer (aka. protecting idiots from themselves).
For those catching the tail end of this thread and filtering out comments moderated as troll, Karma is upset because I pointed out that Vista's "protected admin" feature is nothing more than sudo for Windows, a technology that's over 25 years old.
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Ethanol is not the answer. ... The true answer is ... solar ...
I hope I'm not the first one to point out that Ethanol is nothing more than stored solar energy. CO2 and H2 are combined with the help of photosynthesis into O2 and hydrocarbons (aka bio-mass). That reaction requires solar energy. When you extract energy from bio-mass by, for instance, creating Ethanol out of it, you're extracting what was once solar energy.
Now, of course, there are a few more conversions in that route than going directly from solar energy to kinetic energy or electricity, but some means of bottling solar energy will always be needed; the sun doesn't shine 24/7.
The biggest problem in turning grain crops into fuel; there are just so many uses for grain crops in everyday products that a slight increase in their pricing because of competition with fuels could force consumer prices up, masking the true cost of these new forms of power creation.
There are several ways to manipulate this. The subsidy can be adjusted to change the backstop price. Or we could establish a different subsidy rate for edible grains vs. excess stover. Plus, as energy becomes more readily available, the market cost of energy products will drop, vastly affecting the backstop price.
The big question is, as the price of energy drops down to the equivalent of $1/gal of gasoline, will this model still be sustainable? The prices he's quoting are for current prices such as $.05/kWh and $3/gal of ethanol. With all the energy this method produces, those prices are sure to drop.
If we drop electric rates to $.02/kWh and ethanol and bio-oil to $1/gal and recalculate, his example of excess stover value drops from $483 to $193, and grain drops from $721 to around $250. That gives a backstop price of $1.67/bu, down from his utopian quote of $4.80/bu, and much less than the $3/bu as quoted for foodstock. So farmers still make more selling corn as food. The price of your box of Corn Pops will not be "the biggest problem."
So, as energy costs drop, will it still be worthwhile, or will only the early adopters who have a system in place while energy costs are still high benefit? Still, it helps make the case for being that early adopter and getting the infrastructure in place...
Have you ever used Delphi or C++Builder? The .NET API and the Borland Visual Component Library (VCL) were built by the same guy. .NET has the advantage of being his 2nd iteration, and C# the second iteration of Java, so his team had a chance to work the kinks out... Still, C++Builder/Delphi were vastly superior IDEs to VB6, not to mention that they didn't require programming in VB... (gag)
.NET APIs.
Borland has even released a free (as in beer) version called Turbo C++ Explorer. Not expandable like the original C++Builder from a few years ago, but still very nice for writing simple Win32 apps. Installation can be a pain, but if you make it through that, you'll notice many similarities between its VCL and the
p.s. Yes, I'm a Borland fanboy.. 8-)
But whoever are they going to get to be the Information Minister?
More or less answered as the first question here.
Already been asked and answered...
To avoid asking something that's already been answered, here's a synopsis of some of his more recent interviews.
In Guy Kawasaki's Blog, he's asked:
1. How do you make money with an Open Source product?
2. What changes in the Open Source community's attitude have you encountered since you decided "to build a company" around MySQL?
3. Do you compete head to head with Oracle or do you have different customers?
4. What's the biggest MySQL DB?
5. What's the weirdest use of MySQL?
6. What's the most "mission critical" use of MySQL?
7. How does a company controls what's happening to its product when the Open Source community is doing the programming and testing?
8. Is Open Source hindering innovation because it's one thing to debug an existing product but it's another to design a new one?
9. Who fixes the most bugs?
10. If MySQL ceased to exist as an organization, would MySQL the product continue?
In InfoWorld, he's asked:
1. Recently, a number of open-source developers have expressed their unhappiness with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the second draft of GPLv3. Are you concerned about a potential forking of the license as some people stick with GPLv2 and others move to GPLv3?
2. How do you decide when MySQL needs to develop new features for the database and when to rely on the open-source community for those innovations?
3. So, is open source then a more forgiving environment than the proprietary software world?
4. What's ahead in 2007 for MySQL?
5. What's the latest news on Falcon, the transactional database engine being developed by database architect Jim Starkey who joined MySQL in February?
6. Is MySQL's current dominance of the open-source database market ever a cause for concern?
In Forbes, he's asked:
1. How is open source software influencing what the bigger tech giants like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft will do in the next year?
2. Do open source firms that sell to large, proprietary software companies risk being dubbed sellouts by the community that's helped them develop their software?
3. How do Oracle's recent open source acquisitions affect MySQL?
4. Is Oracle more of a threat now?
5. What is MySQL's workforce like?
6. MySQL recently took funding from Red Hat, Intel and SAP. What's the strategy here?
7. Is there an IPO for MySQL in the future?
In LXer, he's asked:
1. What are your short and long term goals do you have for the MySQL database system?
2. Realistically where do you think you will pick up quick conversions to enhance your immediate market share from your competitors? Later, how much market share must MySQL commercial versions have to pick up to have long-term viability?
3. If you see your main opportunity is in the replacement of Oracle installations does MySQL match or exceed the forte of Oracle in the transaction per second processing? Are you now aimed at the lower end of the Oracle market installations? What will it take to be really competitive with Oracle at the upper end of the scale?
4. If you see your natural market as the range SQL Server is now aimed at, small medium business and departmental installations, can you match their ease of administration? If not what is the salient argument for such companies to install MySQL over the competition? Since you are primarily aimed at the market willing to pay for your enhancements and support, do you see any advantage in offering a MySQL product that will undercut MySQL server from below?
5. What trade offs have had to be made to make MySQL 5.0 commercial version more feature rich and robust?
6. Where do you see competition arising from for pursuing the paths to th
Apparently AMD is staking a good part of their future on the high end server market, where Intel has never been a huge player.
Its worth pointing out that Intel's not being a huge player in that space is not for lack of trying. I seem to recall a multi-billion dollar Intel blunder affectionately known as the Itanic. How x86-64 subsequently vanquished IA64 is well known history.
I forgot to mention that the only safe place anywhere near a horizontal ring is in its center. Imagine a mishap that results in a mass of something skipping across the ground at mach 23... If somethng goes wrong with a ring inside a mountain, at least there's a bunch of rock protecting the local populace.
Brilliant! Stand the whole thing up vertically inside a mountain. Dig it out of nice, solid granite. The mass of a mountain would surely withstand the large g-forces such a thing would generate. Plus, you could have multiple launch tunnels for when the projectile leaves the ring; to the East and West, for instance. Keeping the launch ramp on the same plane as the ring would also avoid any issues with a change in the centrifugal force vector as a projectile transitions from the ring to the launch ramp as depicted in the artist's conceptual drawing.
What? Its not like the government doesn't have any experience digging tunnels in mountains...
Now why would someone use a word like mnemonic to help remenber the letter M in an anagram? That's like saying P as in Ptarmigan.
Or H as in Heir.
Or S as in See.
Or T as in Tsunami.
Shall I go on?
What amazes me is the 1.7 _billion_ transistor count!
I'm sure the majority of that is the cache. I don't have figures, but if you want an example, check out the transister count of a large DRAM chip. Sounds impressive, 'til you realize that very little of it is logic.
If I remember correctly, Wind River has been moving towards Linux for the last few years...
"Moving towards" is perhaps a bit of an exageration. They've been dragged kicking and screaming by consumer demand. If they didn't support Linux, many customers would simply pass them by. By "supporting" Linux, they can get a toe in the door and start doing everything they can to convince their potential customer that Linux isn't a stable choice, and they should buy VxWorks instead.
Not that I can blame them, entirely. VxWorks is a different class of O/S, as Linux has a much larger footprint, and isn't hard real time unless you add to that footprint with the real-time extensions (which could be described as a mini-O/S embedded within the Linux kernel).
Not better or worse; just different. Pick the right tool for the right job, and all...
You're missing the point. ... If you do want to run windows, why not just get a regular PC, which is gonna be cheaper and which will (generally) have less compatibility issues?
And you, sir, are also missing the point. If I want to run OSX, but am required to run Windows as well, but (and this is the point you're missing) only want to lug around a single laptop, this effort is what I need to realize that dream.
I can't (legally) run OSX on that Windows laptop you're so quick to suggest; Apple doesn't sell OSX by itself. MS, on the other hand, sells Windows as a retail package, and they don't care what hardware you run it on.
So... if you want to run OSX and Windows on a single platform, your only option is Apple hardware. Do you get it now, or am I just feeding a troll?
hey deliberately decided, that Xbox DVD can't play DVD-R/+R etc. Not just DVD media ID, but really DVD recorded discs.
There are tutorials on how to turn up the gain on the DVD laser. They claim to fix this. I can't confirm yet, but plan on trying it soon.
If you have to choose between a solid platform that costs $300 (and already has a stable of games available) and a brand-new system that is two hundred bucks more with far fewer games, which one do you think most people will buy?
The one with Linux on it, obviously!
In all seriousness, that was a big factor in my personal decision to buy the - WRT54G wireless router
- NSLU2 storage server
- TiVo
- XBox (original)
It's thirty days hath september, april, june, and november.
No, no. Its, "Thirty days hath September. All the rest I can't remember."
Its about time to put Fair Use into law I think, now if only I could find legislators I trust to do that well...
You totally misspelled "buy" there, Axe. You wrote it so that it looks alot like "find".
"Still, the switch to Intel is a necessary one from an engineering standpoint, he said, because Apple needed a way to improve performance per watt. Mr. Wozniak would have liked Apple to continue using Motorola processors, but "Intel just did a very good logic design.""
Sounds like sound logic to me. No questioning there at all.
Read on a little further.. like the next paragraph.
Engineering related considerations aside, he still seems reluctant about joining the Intel camp. "If it wasn't needed, I would say we shouldn't do it. And I still have some questions as to how much it's needed."
Hmmm... selective quotations. Do you live in Redmond?
That might well make you wonder what happens when someone like Sony or Toshiba eventually accidentally release a device with a flaw... Would Hollywood have the balls to make a million TVs go black with one stoke of their magic red pen?
The HDCP Speicification (PDF warning), available from Digital Content Protection, LLC describes the copy protection mechanism in detail, including the key revocation mechanism. They don't turn keys off per brand-name, as many here assume. Each piece of electronics equipment has its own key.
To summarize, the key vector is a 40-bit word that contains 20 zeros and 20 ones. That means there are [40:20] ("40 choose 20") combinations, or roughly 137 billion unique keys, enough for each CE equipment. Sender and receiver exchange key vectors and, using secret tables, compute a common 56-bit secret. To verify that they have the same sacret, the receiver sends a hash back to the sender, then waits for a stream. That effectively makes the time required to verify a valid key vector cost prohibitive for a brute force attempt, at least on the receiver side. Now, if someone wanted to brute-force a sender, it may be easier, but hackers want to be able to decode, not encode.
The key tables, electrical traces, timeouts, and several other tangible things that could be used to hack a link or transceiver are mandated and audited by DCP before they grant a license for the real keys. In all, it looked pretty air tight in my review. The media controllers seem to have learned from past mistakes and are employing smart people now to develop their content protection schemes. Strong encryption is becoming the norm...
Why do so many people think they have a right to dictate the terms of other people's businesses?
That's easy. Those people have the checkbooks!
Seriously, why do so many businesses think they can cram whatever garbage they want down our throats? I'm not saying Macs are garbage; I personally like them better than Windows boxen. However, many businesses, MS and Apple included, assume they know what's best for me. I disagree. And, since they don't have my checkbook, I get to take it elsewhere.
You forgot to mention the unexpected dust-devil cleaning action on the solar cells. They were originally expecting that the cells would be so coated with dust after a few months that they wouldn't produce enough power for the unit to move. One erroneous assumption that worked out in their favor!
My sentiments exactly. I haven't done as much *nix GUI development as it sounds like you have, but for my Win32 apps, I found BCB to be oodles above any VS environment. I wish they had a light-weight, personal edition of the new BCB, but alas, only standard, professional and enterprise.
BCB was even my segue into Delphi. There was a list control that did almost everything I wanted. So, I took the source (that came for free), modified it to my needs, and presto, a new control that did everything I wanted!
Ever seen snowmaking systems at ski resorts? All you really need to do is blow a fine mist of water into frigid air, and you get ice crystals. Effectively, you're increasing the surface area of a given volume of water which enables it to lose heat to the atmosphere more readily.
What you're forgetting is, in a ski resort, the air compressor is at the bottom of the slope. That compressor generates waste heat, especially if its gas or deisel powered. But more than that, its pumping heat into the compressed air through the work of compressing it. That hot, compressed air cools in the tank, or the line leading up to the snow-making nozzles before it has to cool the water mist.
If their goal is to cool the ocean's surface, they can't exactly use the ocean to cool the engine, compressor, and compressed air, can they?
Pixie's got it right, Karma. Mike touted this new "protected admin" feature as something better than Unix when in fact I've personally been using sudo for over a decade. Its old hat for *nix.
/. crowd.
Perhaps its an innocent mistake, since I assume it would be safe to say Mike Nash is not a highly qualified Unix admin. However, noting the historical level of FUD coming from that campus, I'm a little more inclined to think it could possibly be intentional. A mistake, to be sure, to try to slip something of that order past the
My other thought, that I left out the original post, was that its probably not even possible to run the session in elevated privilege in Vista. Not that you would want to, but another case of removing choice from the consumer (aka. protecting idiots from themselves).
For those catching the tail end of this thread and filtering out comments moderated as troll, Karma is upset because I pointed out that Vista's "protected admin" feature is nothing more than sudo for Windows, a technology that's over 25 years old.