Some taxi drivers actually do a limited version of this. They will accelerate at a level just below where the transmission will kick down, until they get about 5mph above their desired speed. Once at speed they will then coast, then accelerate again. You obviously can't do this in bumper-to-bumper traffic, but in light or moderate traffic, this can reduce the pumping losses and increase the mileage. I imagine it's fairly tough on the drivetrain, though.
I've long wanted to be able to give up my occasional mod points that expire in 3 days, and trade them in on a single "persistent" point, that I can hold onto until needed. I know that the focus should be on modding posts up, not down, but jeez, for this to be +3 for _any_ length of time is just awful.
Wouldn't having a single point every 3 months be better than hoping that the mods catch screwups like this before you click on disgusting links?
Wrong, dipshit. If you live in Texas, surface water is public property. If you live adjacent to flowing water, you can divert enough water to irrigate lawns and gardens, as well as a limited amount for livestock. Crop watering is not covered, and must be permitted by the TCEQ. The "right of capture" refers to groundwater.
"befire" you start spouting off about the laws where you live, you should understand what those laws are.
What if he doesn't live in a township and owns the river himself?
It dosen't matter. In the US (where the poster is talking about) if surface water either originates off your property, or it eventually leaves your property, it belongs to the state. In fact some states, like California, define all surface or groundwater as "Waters of the State." Your state regulators have the purview to issue permits regarding use of those waters.
I was a longtime user of Wordperfect, back to the 5.1 for DOS days. It always had better tools for collaboration, and MS Word still dosen't handle parent/daughter documents as well as Wordperfect.
My problem with Wordperfect in general is that they seem to try and actively want to prevent dissemination of their file format. If I recieve a file in.wpd, there are no good filters to open it, and Corel dosent release a free viewer to open it. Invariably, I have to call back to the person who sent me the document, and ask them to export it as.rtf or some other interchanageable format. Compare this to their competition:
MS Word: File format propritary, but generally well understood. MS provides a free Win32 viewer to open view, and print documents.
Lotus Smartsuite: File format less understood, but IBM provides a free Win32 viewer as well.
Openoffice/Staroffice: File format well documented. Anyone can download a complete version of openfoffice to open, view, and edit the documents on a variety of platforms.
If Corel wants to increase adoption of their software, they've _got_ to make their file formats more accessible, so that people will want to buy their software to interact with others.
I've been issued a Rino 120 at work, and I've been really happy with it's features. It has built-in mapping (not especially detailed, but it does have almost all cities, interstate, and primary highways. It is also gaining support from the freeware GPS software writers.
It includes WAAS support for ~10ft accuracy (or so it says), and even if you don't need the FRS radio now, you'll come up with uses for it.
Garmin's information page for it is here
It also comes with an RS-232 cable, and can stream data in both Garmin's format, as well as NEMA, so that it's easy to interface with just about any off-the-shelf GPS enabled hardware. I've hooked mine up to an iPaq running ArcPad, and it worked like a champ. It also states that it can recieve Garmin DGPS corrector vectors for ~10cm accuracy, but I've never tried that.
I mean, seriously. If there's all kinds of natural/unnatural disasters happening, let the Feds disconnect access until the crisis is stabilized.
Some people may complain about freedom of the press or censorship, or some other fool thing, but when a crisis is unfolding I'm much more interested in getting information from the radio, shortwave, or scanner than I am about reading/.
It's an obvious choice, but no discussion of hardware hardiness would be complete without mention of the venerable HP calculators.
I've been dragging a 42S around since college, and I've had it across the country on hazardous waste sites of every description. It's been dropped, used at extreme temperatures, and been exposed to solvents, PCBs, heavy metals, radioactive contamination, explosives, and asbestos, yet it keeps running like a champ. Truth be known, I suspect that it's continued functionality is due more to my ability to hide it from the decontamination Nazis and their scrub brushes and pressure washes.
I work for a DOD contractor that, in part, developes sofware, hardware and technologies. When a person or company developes software for the government, the government owns all rights to the software. It is up to them to determine how to release it. I've have had my stuff given to a competitor, and have had my competitor's stuff given to me. The justification from the government (my customer) was: "I paid for it, I can do what I want with it."
If you choose to develop a derivitave work on GPL tools, such that the government would be restricted on the re-release of the software, then your best bet would be to disclose that as early as possible in the project, preferably in the proposal phase. Most of time it won't be a problem, as the government is most interested in the quality/value of a product, rather than protecting their own IP rights.
The article focuses on why WOIP should not be held to conventional telephone's regulations because the technology involved is vastly different. However, to the end user, they just (or least should be able to) pick up the phone and dial a number. If VOIP is providing a functionally equivalent service, then they should be held to the same standards as conventional phone services. (Note: This is why Paypal gets to screw their customers regularly, since they are not regulated as a bank)
If Vonage et. all. succeed, it should be on the basis of providing a better product for less money, not by finding and exploiting loopholes in the regulations that are desinged to protect consumers.
I agree that the proposed spam legislation is inadequate to solve the problem, and I commend the FTC for standing up, rather than passing more useless laws and backing an inneffective solution just to be able to say "look what we've done"
However, my problem has lately has not been the tradition UCE spam (Spamassasin does a pretty good job taking care of that); my problem lately has been outright criminal messages reaching my inbox.
Recently, I've been getting more and more messages spoofed as being from Paypal, Citibank, my ISP, etc, saying that my account has been suspended, and I need to verify my password, credit card number, even my mother's maiden name(!) These messages are getting more sophisciated, and appear to have (for example) a paypal.com address for me to click on.
After getting a few of these in a week's time, I checked the headers, and all seemed to come from China. I'm not sophicicated enough to trace them back any farther, but since these are so blatently criminal, I dont think they'd be originating in the US, as the potential for prosecution is so high.
Unfortunately, these messages are the most dangerous, and the hardest to stop (if they truly originate overseas.) I'd like to see some sort of internation cooperation to track and prosecute these degenerates.
Our company borrowed one of those machines from the manufacturer to determine its effectiveness at measuring trace explosives in soil for environmental cleanup.
Because we wern't a paying customer, we were sent the company's test-mule where all the new developments were tried before going into production.
The machine used a lightly modified Windows 98 installation as it's OS. Security was non-existant, as any idiot (me) could go in and monkey with passwords, workgroup settings, and file locations. (I did this to get it to talk to our network for backup) I was concerned about this at first, until I realized that these devices
weren't used with mice or keyboards
and typically had armed guards nearby who took a dim view of people monkeying with the hardware
As far as the installation of windows, we used it for 3 months straight, with absolutely no crashes whatsoever. The only time it was rebooted was when it was shut down for the weekends.
Is this the final, last gasp of the Beos team that went to palm? By spinning the Palmsoft into their own company, they must fend for themselves as an independent profit center. It also means that others can develop their own OS for plams, and market them to palm-clones, and potentially to Pa1mOne themselves.
Interestingly, the remnants of Be have more than doubled in the past quarter; see the chart here
Just because Microsoft is chosing not to continue further developement of OE does not mean that they are abandoning it.
Microsoft hasen't done squat to notepad, paint, or solitare since Windows 3.0 (maybe earlier) but continues to ship them, because they work and are stable (although I admit that functionality may be low.)
I use OE every day, and I happen to really like it. I read all message as plain text, and have never recieved a virus through OE. I can't see any reason to think that I'll be changing e-mail clients anytime soon
It's really amazing how AIDS drugs have progresses.
It used to be that the doctors just pumped you full of antibiotics to keep infections away, then they created drugs to repress the virus, and now we can actuall repair the immune system.
This is a great example of how research and developement (or even the scientific method) needs to work. It may seem like things are progressing slowly, but compared to (say) the fight against malaria, thing are progressing much more rapidly.
The fact that Microsoft is not planning to update IE 6, and to not provide any more stand-alone installations is probably not because of any sinister motives on Microsoft's part, but rather because they feel that the code is mature enough to not require periodic revisions to add new features with dubious value. If this is the case, it's addressing one of/.'s favorite MS-bashing topics (feature creep.)
I mean, does anyone really need a new version of a.pdf viewer, or notepad, or any other user-level application that has reached a stable, relatively bug free condition that effectively does it's job?
In fact, this ties nicely with Microsoft's Liscensing V. 6 program, where they have a nice, stable revenue stream while not actually requiring any actual programming (I'll refrain from using the term 'innovation') on thier part.
This does also raise an interesting paradigm shift for the Gnu/Linux community. In essence, the programmers, in creating a sable, user friendly computing environment should be working themselves out of a job, since once they're done, there should be little to do, but periodic refinements (we may already be there in certain places.) Those programmers can then go out and focus on really improving (and innovating) the way we interact with our computers.
Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, TN seats over 100,000
Michigan Stadium seats over 100,000
Pontiac Stadium in Detriot seats over 80,000
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainville FL seats over 84,000
I'm glad the EFF is still around to care about issuses like these, beacuse I just don't anymore.
All these corporate entities are taking away our rights, and we (the community) come up with new and innovative ways to circumvent or go around them. When we do get a victory, then the damn suits just change the rules. (for example, HP doesn't sell me ink cartridges anymore, they license them to me)
This will be an undending circular pattern for the forseeable future. The only bright hope is that eventually, there will be another revolution, and the corporate bastards will be left hanging from the trees. Of course, the technology will be useless, but them we'll probably have another 200 years or so of freedom to rebuild before the cycle repeats again.
There don't seem to any on-topic posts for this yet, so I'll add my $0.02.
Microsoft Project Server 2002 and Exchange will do everything you require, and is availbale right now to get you working without a lot of scripting or project-specific configuration.
The use of Calendars (multiple users) and iCalendar Support Exchange is iCalendar compatible, has web access and does a great job of group scheduling.
File-Pool for projects (CVS-based or similar) Public Folders on the Exchange Server will work, as long as the requirements aren't too massive. They're also web-accessible.
Progress-bar for showing the current state of a project Microsoft Project Server will do this, is web-accessible, and integrates with exchange.
A public calendar where users can publish events from their private calendars Again, Exchange excels in this capacity.
I know solutions from Microsoft aren't too popular here on/., but the project manager's focus must be on maintaing a successful project. The choise of software platforms is irrevalent as long as it does what is required.
Why am I always the last to know about these things. I try and keep up to date about technology matters, but I've missed out on this. I wish that I could have seen this one coming.
Typically, piracy in the U.S. is done on a relatively small scale, for the financial gain of small-time people.
I dont know about the economics of international IP piracy, but I imagine that the piracy is more prevalent in areas where there is not enough money to pay for legitimate software. In this case, there still won't be enough money brought in to make a dent in the terrorists' pocketbooks.
To make big money, you have to sell things to people with money. This means the west (especially western Europe and the U.S.) The best way to get lots of money from the west is to sell them oil, drugs, or Pr0n.
"If 50 people need to use the app at the same time, you need 50 licenses."
This is where some creative scripting or programming can keep you out of a lot of trouble.
If you have 5 Windows licenses, then you must ensure that only 5 people can access those applications. As long as you have positive control and proper documentation, you should be able to sail through any audit.
At one of my previous jobs, we used a net-installed version of Wordperfect that had about 20 liscenses for 100 employees. Occassionally, when you went to start the program, you'd get a message saying something like "Sorry, no liscense is available. Currently, there are 4 people waiting. The program will start as soon as a liscense is available."
The GPL DOES say that the offer must be to any 3rd party that asks.
However, that same paragraph of the GPL also says: "...for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution"
Castle is actually being generous here. If this was my company, I'd be charging you for my actual costs incurred. What does this mean?
I'd charge you 2 hours of a mid-level engineer to grab all the source code, error check it, make sure all the libraries are present, everything you'd need to fully evaluate the source code. I'd also charge 15 minutes of an admin person to copy the information to the disk, put it into a envelope, and mail it out. I'd also send it insured, to make sure it got to you.
My actual cost for performing this service would be between $90 and $100. I'm a US Govt. contractor, so my rates are audited every year, and are reasonable and customary.
How would this requirement temper the slashdot communities' "Let's flood him with disks!" mentality?
Slashdot Mirror
That was certaintly informative for me!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this name.
Apparently, their parent company still is offering gmail.com addresses.
Some taxi drivers actually do a limited version of this. They will accelerate at a level just below where the transmission will kick down, until they get about 5mph above their desired speed. Once at speed they will then coast, then accelerate again. You obviously can't do this in bumper-to-bumper traffic, but in light or moderate traffic, this can reduce the pumping losses and increase the mileage. I imagine it's fairly tough on the drivetrain, though.
I've long wanted to be able to give up my occasional mod points that expire in 3 days, and trade them in on a single "persistent" point, that I can hold onto until needed. I know that the focus should be on modding posts up, not down, but jeez, for this to be +3 for _any_ length of time is just awful.
Wouldn't having a single point every 3 months be better than hoping that the mods catch screwups like this before you click on disgusting links?
Wrong, dipshit. If you live in Texas, surface water is public property. If you live adjacent to flowing water, you can divert enough water to irrigate lawns and gardens, as well as a limited amount for livestock. Crop watering is not covered, and must be permitted by the TCEQ. The "right of capture" refers to groundwater.
"befire" you start spouting off about the laws where you live, you should understand what those laws are.
What if he doesn't live in a township and owns the river himself?
It dosen't matter. In the US (where the poster is talking about) if surface water either originates off your property, or it eventually leaves your property, it belongs to the state. In fact some states, like California, define all surface or groundwater as "Waters of the State." Your state regulators have the purview to issue permits regarding use of those waters.
My problem with Wordperfect in general is that they seem to try and actively want to prevent dissemination of their file format. If I recieve a file in
MS Word: File format propritary, but generally well understood. MS provides a free Win32 viewer to open view, and print documents.
Lotus Smartsuite: File format less understood, but IBM provides a free Win32 viewer as well.
Openoffice/Staroffice: File format well documented. Anyone can download a complete version of openfoffice to open, view, and edit the documents on a variety of platforms.
If Corel wants to increase adoption of their software, they've _got_ to make their file formats more accessible, so that people will want to buy their software to interact with others.
I've been issued a Rino 120 at work, and I've been really happy with it's features. It has built-in mapping (not especially detailed, but it does have almost all cities, interstate, and primary highways. It is also gaining support from the freeware GPS software writers.
It includes WAAS support for ~10ft accuracy (or so it says), and even if you don't need the FRS radio now, you'll come up with uses for it.
Garmin's information page for it is here It also comes with an RS-232 cable, and can stream data in both Garmin's format, as well as NEMA, so that it's easy to interface with just about any off-the-shelf GPS enabled hardware. I've hooked mine up to an iPaq running ArcPad, and it worked like a champ. It also states that it can recieve Garmin DGPS corrector vectors for ~10cm accuracy, but I've never tried that.
Pull the plug
/.
I mean, seriously. If there's all kinds of natural/unnatural disasters happening, let the Feds disconnect access until the crisis is stabilized.
Some people may complain about freedom of the press or censorship, or some other fool thing, but when a crisis is unfolding I'm much more interested in getting information from the radio, shortwave, or scanner than I am about reading
It's an obvious choice, but no discussion of hardware hardiness would be complete without mention of the venerable HP calculators.
I've been dragging a 42S around since college, and I've had it across the country on hazardous waste sites of every description. It's been dropped, used at extreme temperatures, and been exposed to solvents, PCBs, heavy metals, radioactive contamination, explosives, and asbestos, yet it keeps running like a champ. Truth be known, I suspect that it's continued functionality is due more to my ability to hide it from the decontamination Nazis and their scrub brushes and pressure washes.
I work for a DOD contractor that, in part, developes sofware, hardware and technologies. When a person or company developes software for the government, the government owns all rights to the software. It is up to them to determine how to release it. I've have had my stuff given to a competitor, and have had my competitor's stuff given to me. The justification from the government (my customer) was: "I paid for it, I can do what I want with it."
If you choose to develop a derivitave work on GPL tools, such that the government would be restricted on the re-release of the software, then your best bet would be to disclose that as early as possible in the project, preferably in the proposal phase. Most of time it won't be a problem, as the government is most interested in the quality/value of a product, rather than protecting their own IP rights.
The article focuses on why WOIP should not be held to conventional telephone's regulations because the technology involved is vastly different. However, to the end user, they just (or least should be able to) pick up the phone and dial a number. If VOIP is providing a functionally equivalent service, then they should be held to the same standards as conventional phone services. (Note: This is why Paypal gets to screw their customers regularly, since they are not regulated as a bank)
If Vonage et. all. succeed, it should be on the basis of providing a better product for less money, not by finding and exploiting loopholes in the regulations that are desinged to protect consumers.
I agree that the proposed spam legislation is inadequate to solve the problem, and I commend the FTC for standing up, rather than passing more useless laws and backing an inneffective solution just to be able to say "look what we've done"
However, my problem has lately has not been the tradition UCE spam (Spamassasin does a pretty good job taking care of that); my problem lately has been outright criminal messages reaching my inbox.
Recently, I've been getting more and more messages spoofed as being from Paypal, Citibank, my ISP, etc, saying that my account has been suspended, and I need to verify my password, credit card number, even my mother's maiden name(!) These messages are getting more sophisciated, and appear to have (for example) a paypal.com address for me to click on.
After getting a few of these in a week's time, I checked the headers, and all seemed to come from China. I'm not sophicicated enough to trace them back any farther, but since these are so blatently criminal, I dont think they'd be originating in the US, as the potential for prosecution is so high.
Unfortunately, these messages are the most dangerous, and the hardest to stop (if they truly originate overseas.) I'd like to see some sort of internation cooperation to track and prosecute these degenerates.
Because we wern't a paying customer, we were sent the company's test-mule where all the new developments were tried before going into production.
The machine used a lightly modified Windows 98 installation as it's OS. Security was non-existant, as any idiot (me) could go in and monkey with passwords, workgroup settings, and file locations. (I did this to get it to talk to our network for backup) I was concerned about this at first, until I realized that these devices
weren't used with mice or keyboards
and typically had armed guards nearby who took a dim view of people monkeying with the hardware
As far as the installation of windows, we used it for 3 months straight, with absolutely no crashes whatsoever. The only time it was rebooted was when it was shut down for the weekends.
Is this the final, last gasp of the Beos team that went to palm? By spinning the Palmsoft into their own company, they must fend for themselves as an independent profit center. It also means that others can develop their own OS for plams, and market them to palm-clones, and potentially to Pa1mOne themselves.
Interestingly, the remnants of Be have more than doubled in the past quarter; see the chart here
Just because Microsoft is chosing not to continue further developement of OE does not mean that they are abandoning it.
Microsoft hasen't done squat to notepad, paint, or solitare since Windows 3.0 (maybe earlier) but continues to ship them, because they work and are stable (although I admit that functionality may be low.)
I use OE every day, and I happen to really like it. I read all message as plain text, and have never recieved a virus through OE. I can't see any reason to think that I'll be changing e-mail clients anytime soon
It's really amazing how AIDS drugs have progresses.
It used to be that the doctors just pumped you full of antibiotics to keep infections away, then they created drugs to repress the virus, and now we can actuall repair the immune system.
This is a great example of how research and developement (or even the scientific method) needs to work. It may seem like things are progressing slowly, but compared to (say) the fight against malaria, thing are progressing much more rapidly.
I mean, does anyone really need a new version of a .pdf viewer, or notepad, or any other user-level application that has reached a stable, relatively bug free condition that effectively does it's job?
In fact, this ties nicely with Microsoft's Liscensing V. 6 program, where they have a nice, stable revenue stream while not actually requiring any actual programming (I'll refrain from using the term 'innovation') on thier part.
This does also raise an interesting paradigm shift for the Gnu/Linux community. In essence, the programmers, in creating a sable, user friendly computing environment should be working themselves out of a job, since once they're done, there should be little to do, but periodic refinements (we may already be there in certain places.) Those programmers can then go out and focus on really improving (and innovating) the way we interact with our computers.
Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, TN seats over 100,000
Michigan Stadium seats over 100,000
Pontiac Stadium in Detriot seats over 80,000
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainville FL seats over 84,000
I'm glad the EFF is still around to care about issuses like these, beacuse I just don't anymore.
All these corporate entities are taking away our rights, and we (the community) come up with new and innovative ways to circumvent or go around them. When we do get a victory, then the damn suits just change the rules. (for example, HP doesn't sell me ink cartridges anymore, they license them to me)
This will be an undending circular pattern for the forseeable future. The only bright hope is that eventually, there will be another revolution, and the corporate bastards will be left hanging from the trees. Of course, the technology will be useless, but them we'll probably have another 200 years or so of freedom to rebuild before the cycle repeats again.
Microsoft Project Server 2002 and Exchange will do everything you require, and is availbale right now to get you working without a lot of scripting or project-specific configuration.
The use of Calendars (multiple users) and iCalendar Support Exchange is iCalendar compatible, has web access and does a great job of group scheduling.
File-Pool for projects (CVS-based or similar) Public Folders on the Exchange Server will work, as long as the requirements aren't too massive. They're also web-accessible.
Progress-bar for showing the current state of a project Microsoft Project Server will do this, is web-accessible, and integrates with exchange.
A public calendar where users can publish events from their private calendars Again, Exchange excels in this capacity.
/., but the project manager's focus must be on maintaing a successful project. The choise of software platforms is irrevalent as long as it does what is required.
I know solutions from Microsoft aren't too popular here on
Why am I always the last to know about these things. I try and keep up to date about technology matters, but I've missed out on this. I wish that I could have seen this one coming.
I dont know about the economics of international IP piracy, but I imagine that the piracy is more prevalent in areas where there is not enough money to pay for legitimate software. In this case, there still won't be enough money brought in to make a dent in the terrorists' pocketbooks.
To make big money, you have to sell things to people with money. This means the west (especially western Europe and the U.S.) The best way to get lots of money from the west is to sell them oil, drugs, or Pr0n.
This is where some creative scripting or programming can keep you out of a lot of trouble. If you have 5 Windows licenses, then you must ensure that only 5 people can access those applications. As long as you have positive control and proper documentation, you should be able to sail through any audit. At one of my previous jobs, we used a net-installed version of Wordperfect that had about 20 liscenses for 100 employees. Occassionally, when you went to start the program, you'd get a message saying something like "Sorry, no liscense is available. Currently, there are 4 people waiting. The program will start as soon as a liscense is available."
You're exactly right, A.C., I was wrong.
The GPL DOES say that the offer must be to any 3rd party that asks.
However, that same paragraph of the GPL also says: "...for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution"
Castle is actually being generous here. If this was my company, I'd be charging you for my actual costs incurred. What does this mean?
I'd charge you 2 hours of a mid-level engineer to grab all the source code, error check it, make sure all the libraries are present, everything you'd need to fully evaluate the source code. I'd also charge 15 minutes of an admin person to copy the information to the disk, put it into a envelope, and mail it out. I'd also send it insured, to make sure it got to you.
My actual cost for performing this service would be between $90 and $100. I'm a US Govt. contractor, so my rates are audited every year, and are reasonable and customary.
How would this requirement temper the slashdot communities' "Let's flood him with disks!" mentality?