Well, really, the reason you'd switch is when it's obsoleted by Microsoft. Once that happens, you won't find much in the way of new drivers, application fixes, or windows updates. That day is coming.
Windows 2000 is in extended support mode. Want to use the latest iPods with it -- tough luck, the latest iTunes won't install on W2k. Want the latest software to interface to your Nokia phone -- tough luck, because the latest Nokia s/w wont install on W2k.
It's quite likely (depending on W7 uptake) that XP will become unusable for many because of 3rd party applications incompatibilty before MS obsoletes it.
but would you be able to generate electricity at the rate needed for driving? that would be a fairly large generator, would it not?
Not really. Think about how hard you normally press the accelerator while cruising-- the system only needs to be able to generate energy at a rate that is a little higher than the average amount of power needed for driving. That's way less than the power rating of modern engines -- my guess is that 50HP would be plenty for a mid-sized car.
Maybe a plug in hybrid would be that answer, but I believe the cost of a plug in hybrid is unlikely to ever be in my price range. The cost savings of dropping the gas engine *should* make a full on EV much more economical
Actually, I disagree that there will be a big price differential for several reasons:
1. Less batteries = cost savings
2. The engine can be smaller and much simpler than current engines. It is relatively easy to build an efficient engine if you only ever run the engine at one load and speed.
My concept of a plug-in hybrid is not a Prius with bigger batteries. I believe that the engine should never drive the wheels -- only power a generator, when required. When it is charging the batteries, it runs at wide-open throttle (reducing pumping losses). It doesn't need to have complex valve timing or other mechanisms for efficiency because of the single load/speed use. The engine can also be quite small -- since it doesn't have to put out the power required for full-throttle acceleration.
Wasn't there a discussion on/. of using a sterling engine for this purpose a few weeks ago?
so there is a minor inconvenience in choosing a vastly superior technology for cost/cleanliness and maintenance. Assuming of course, that those features are true;)
the point is, having a carpool is inconvenient too.
And what percentage of people actually ride in a carpool? Probably the same percentage that would find an all-electric car with a 200 mile range useful. Answer: not many.
On the other hand a plug-in hybrid provides 90% of the benefits of an all-electric car, with none of the disadvantages.
I might not be typical, but if I had an electric car that had a range of 220 miles
And you are comfortable that, if you drive a little more spirited than usual on a 200 mile journey, you might be left stranded by the side of the road, out of charge? That's part of the problem -- yes, it might do 200 miles, on the other hand, hills, stop-and-go traffic and all kinds of other issues may reduce this and unlike a gasolene powered car, the result is that you are stranded. You can't just look at range, you have to look at the consequences of exceeding the range. A plug-in hybrid solves all these problems.
I think that once you accept that the electric car is a second car, most people could accept a reliable range of 50 miles. Most people commute less than this.
Scenario: It's Sunday, the weather is good and I decide to go to the beach, which is about 120 miles away. Where do I rent a car? How long does it take to rent this car and return it? Yes, it's possible that rental car office may increase in number and have longer opening hours, but it still takes a long time to actually rent a car and I doubt the car rental companies deliberately make this a slow process today, so why should it improve?
That's great --- as a second car, unless you want to rent a car every time you need to drive over 100 miles. You don't want this car to be your first car, because the last thing you want for long drives is your old and unreliable (and gas-powered) second car.
I realy believe that plug-in hybrids are the solution. 40 mile battery-only range satisfies 95% of journeys and probably 90% of the miles and the gas/hydrogen/whatever energy source allows the car to be useful for longer journeys when needed. The backup power source (very small gas engine and generator) is probably lighter than the batteries needed to extend the battery-only range from 40 miles to 100 or 200 miles so the car ends up lighter.
It makes one wonder why Microsoft hasn't more fully embraced Office as a marketing vector in the same way that Apple has used the iPod to push sales of its hardware/OS.
I can't imagine why you say MS has not used Office as a marketing vector. Example: Outlook/Exchange. Proprietary protocol -- Office is used to leverage sales of Exchange (and with it, Windows Server).
NYCL: The motion claims that the defendant did not follow the rules by, amongst other things, submitting a motion to compel without issuing a "valid subpoena" or conferring with the Plaintiffs, etc..
Can you comment on the accuracy of these assertions (are they correct about the rules and are they accurate about the facts?
The law allows the collection of the content of communications of non-US Persons outside of the US, even when the collection happens within the US. In order to support this collection, the metadata, NOT the content of arbitrary traffic -- even including the traffic of US Persons inside of the US -- may be lawfully monitored.
I don't see where the FISA law makes a distinction between metadata and actual data, but, even if one assumes that other laws make the collection of metadata legal for US persons, the article suggests that collection of the contents of emails, not just metadata, was done for US organizations and people (US based or US citizens)-- which would clearly be illegal under FISA.
TweakUI is just a GUI frontend for registry settings. The TweakUI setting for AutoRun/AutoPlay is just setting the value for the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry key,
Which explains why CERT would not advise the use of TweakUI, however, for MS, it doesn't make much sense. Yes, TweakUI is technically not supported, but there are also so many warnings from MS about the dangers of editing the registry.
I guess "not supported" really just means "don't sue me if it goes wrong". Now for the rimshot: what about all those claims that people use MS software because there is someone to support it and ultimately to sue if it goes wrong? Those CIOs who are worried about lack of accountability with Linux should ban the use of TweakUI in their organization.
Title I, Sec. 101. Additional procedures regarding certain persons outside the United States
I don't know what part of "outside the United States" you don't understand. From the original article:
Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."
I'm a little confused as to how a non-US person could be regarded as "outside the United States" if they were in the middle of the country and never made foreign communications.
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, passed by a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress, allows for foreign intelligence collection on non-US Persons without a warrant, no matter where the collection occurs.
The Wikipedia page you cited does not support that claim (or, I can't find anything that supports your claim on the WP page).
Of course, the real question is whether any such provision will survive an appeal to the supreme court. So far, the governement has been stalling this by attemtpting to prevent people from showing that they have standing.
Back in the SP1 days, you could run XP acceptably on 256MB of RAM, and pretty decently on 512.
Perhaps on a desktop -- but on a laptop where the graphics took a chunk of memory, XP SP1 was a dog with 256MB. I know this because a colleague of mine had a laptop that ran XP SP1 with 256MB. This laptop took several minutes to boot. Some time after the laptop was bought, we installed more memory -- it then booted in a time that seemed to be almost instantaneous. In fact, it booted so fast, we did not realize the boot process had finished and were still waiting several minutes later for it to finish because we could not believe the change.
Yeah, that is sort of like flamebait, but damn, enough with the global warming crap already. It's like soooo last year!
Setting aside the truth or otherwise of global climate change, there is also the issue of the geopolitical effects of the West's dependence on foreign energy sources. The dependence can and should be addressed in two ways: reduction of energy use and developing domestic sources of energy.
Reducing the sleep-state power usage of devices addresses the first of these issues.
The guy posted to his blog about it. On the same day as the inauguration.
Did he? I would RTFA, but I've given up trying to read white-on-black web pages. Seriously, whoever thought that dense white text on a black background is easily readable?
I'll agree that it is a little more readable on LCD monitors than it was on slightly old CRT monitors, but it still isn't easily readable.
It reminds me of NFS timeouts. Years ago when I worked in an environment where everyone NFS mounted a shared filesystem, there would occasionally be outages on the server or in the network. My local system would lock up and hang for MINUTES while it timed out on requests to the NFS server. I could never understand why the thing didn't just time out in seconds rather than minutes
Let me suggest that you go and look up the options for NFS-mounted filesystems. You should also read up why it is normal to have the nfs-mounted systems NEVER time out, and just let the client sit there waiting for the server to come back on line.
Even with the prospect of Jobs having of an extended absence from the day-to-day at Apple I think we will see the company continue to do fine, or at least continue on their existing business path.
As long as there is not a cadre of MBA's ready to come in and cut costs. Really, how many companies who have sold a premium product have we seen destroyed by excessive cost cutting, resulting in the premium nature of the products being lost, further resulting in the premium price of the products (and hence profits) being lost?
The term is defined as: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing -- the act of taking something from someone unlawfully . A song copied unlawfully is certainly stolen.
I believe that your definition is faulty. Theft is better described as depriving someone of the object. In this case, the copyright owner has not been deprived of his song.
You mean "Why broken APIs is a bad idea." It'd be perfectly fine if the APIs were fixed.
Actually, I don't mean that. Perhaps what I do mean is: "until someone can write a provably perfect API (and pigs fly past my window), using an API for storage of configuration data is a bad idea".
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Windows 2000 is in extended support mode. Want to use the latest iPods with it -- tough luck, the latest iTunes won't install on W2k. Want the latest software to interface to your Nokia phone -- tough luck, because the latest Nokia s/w wont install on W2k.
It's quite likely (depending on W7 uptake) that XP will become unusable for many because of 3rd party applications incompatibilty before MS obsoletes it.
Not really. Think about how hard you normally press the accelerator while cruising-- the system only needs to be able to generate energy at a rate that is a little higher than the average amount of power needed for driving. That's way less than the power rating of modern engines -- my guess is that 50HP would be plenty for a mid-sized car.
Actually, I disagree that there will be a big price differential for several reasons:
/. of using a sterling engine for this purpose a few weeks ago?
1. Less batteries = cost savings
2. The engine can be smaller and much simpler than current engines. It is relatively easy to build an efficient engine if you only ever run the engine at one load and speed.
My concept of a plug-in hybrid is not a Prius with bigger batteries. I believe that the engine should never drive the wheels -- only power a generator, when required. When it is charging the batteries, it runs at wide-open throttle (reducing pumping losses). It doesn't need to have complex valve timing or other mechanisms for efficiency because of the single load/speed use. The engine can also be quite small -- since it doesn't have to put out the power required for full-throttle acceleration.
Wasn't there a discussion on
And what percentage of people actually ride in a carpool? Probably the same percentage that would find an all-electric car with a 200 mile range useful. Answer: not many.
On the other hand a plug-in hybrid provides 90% of the benefits of an all-electric car, with none of the disadvantages.
And you are comfortable that, if you drive a little more spirited than usual on a 200 mile journey, you might be left stranded by the side of the road, out of charge? That's part of the problem -- yes, it might do 200 miles, on the other hand, hills, stop-and-go traffic and all kinds of other issues may reduce this and unlike a gasolene powered car, the result is that you are stranded. You can't just look at range, you have to look at the consequences of exceeding the range. A plug-in hybrid solves all these problems.
I think that once you accept that the electric car is a second car, most people could accept a reliable range of 50 miles. Most people commute less than this.
It's inconvenient and expensive.
Scenario: It's Sunday, the weather is good and I decide to go to the beach, which is about 120 miles away. Where do I rent a car? How long does it take to rent this car and return it? Yes, it's possible that rental car office may increase in number and have longer opening hours, but it still takes a long time to actually rent a car and I doubt the car rental companies deliberately make this a slow process today, so why should it improve?
That's great --- as a second car, unless you want to rent a car every time you need to drive over 100 miles. You don't want this car to be your first car, because the last thing you want for long drives is your old and unreliable (and gas-powered) second car.
I realy believe that plug-in hybrids are the solution. 40 mile battery-only range satisfies 95% of journeys and probably 90% of the miles and the gas/hydrogen/whatever energy source allows the car to be useful for longer journeys when needed. The backup power source (very small gas engine and generator) is probably lighter than the batteries needed to extend the battery-only range from 40 miles to 100 or 200 miles so the car ends up lighter.
I can't imagine why you say MS has not used Office as a marketing vector. Example: Outlook/Exchange. Proprietary protocol -- Office is used to leverage sales of Exchange (and with it, Windows Server).
NYCL: The motion claims that the defendant did not follow the rules by, amongst other things, submitting a motion to compel without issuing a "valid subpoena" or conferring with the Plaintiffs, etc..
Can you comment on the accuracy of these assertions (are they correct about the rules and are they accurate about the facts?
What contract? What TOC? I don't recall signing a contract the last time I bought a movie.
Modifying a movie is just like buying a book and then writing in the margin, or tearing out pages -- do you think that is illegal too?
Corrected that for you!
I don't see where the FISA law makes a distinction between metadata and actual data, but, even if one assumes that other laws make the collection of metadata legal for US persons, the article suggests that collection of the contents of emails, not just metadata, was done for US organizations and people (US based or US citizens)-- which would clearly be illegal under FISA.
Which explains why CERT would not advise the use of TweakUI, however, for MS, it doesn't make much sense. Yes, TweakUI is technically not supported, but there are also so many warnings from MS about the dangers of editing the registry.
I guess "not supported" really just means "don't sue me if it goes wrong". Now for the rimshot: what about all those claims that people use MS software because there is someone to support it and ultimately to sue if it goes wrong? Those CIOs who are worried about lack of accountability with Linux should ban the use of TweakUI in their organization.
I don't know what part of "outside the United States" you don't understand. From the original article:
I'm a little confused as to how a non-US person could be regarded as "outside the United States" if they were in the middle of the country and never made foreign communications.
The Wikipedia page you cited does not support that claim (or, I can't find anything that supports your claim on the WP page).
Of course, the real question is whether any such provision will survive an appeal to the supreme court. So far, the governement has been stalling this by attemtpting to prevent people from showing that they have standing.
Why did neither MS or CERT suggest the use of TweakUI to turn off Autorun?
Perhaps on a desktop -- but on a laptop where the graphics took a chunk of memory, XP SP1 was a dog with 256MB. I know this because a colleague of mine had a laptop that ran XP SP1 with 256MB. This laptop took several minutes to boot. Some time after the laptop was bought, we installed more memory -- it then booted in a time that seemed to be almost instantaneous. In fact, it booted so fast, we did not realize the boot process had finished and were still waiting several minutes later for it to finish because we could not believe the change.
Setting aside the truth or otherwise of global climate change, there is also the issue of the geopolitical effects of the West's dependence on foreign energy sources. The dependence can and should be addressed in two ways: reduction of energy use and developing domestic sources of energy.
Reducing the sleep-state power usage of devices addresses the first of these issues.
Did he? I would RTFA, but I've given up trying to read white-on-black web pages. Seriously, whoever thought that dense white text on a black background is easily readable?
I'll agree that it is a little more readable on LCD monitors than it was on slightly old CRT monitors, but it still isn't easily readable.
bugzilla.kernel.org?
Let me suggest that you go and look up the options for NFS-mounted filesystems. You should also read up why it is normal to have the nfs-mounted systems NEVER time out, and just let the client sit there waiting for the server to come back on line.
As long as there is not a cadre of MBA's ready to come in and cut costs. Really, how many companies who have sold a premium product have we seen destroyed by excessive cost cutting, resulting in the premium nature of the products being lost, further resulting in the premium price of the products (and hence profits) being lost?
I believe that your definition is faulty. Theft is better described as depriving someone of the object. In this case, the copyright owner has not been deprived of his song.
While that is true...
The more API's you have and the greater the complexity of each API, the greater the chance of problems.
More lines of code == more bugs.
Actually, I don't mean that. Perhaps what I do mean is: "until someone can write a provably perfect API (and pigs fly past my window), using an API for storage of configuration data is a bad idea".