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Imagine The data capacity and economics (as far as tape costs go) that would be possible with a VHS data backup drive. Right now it's cheaper to buy a new computer and build a RAID-server than to buy a tape drive & rotation tapes for a small-medium business. $1/Tape is a lot better than the $1/GB you pay for tapes now. If the digital tape format & (USB/FireWire?) interface were standardized, there could be some major competition for the drives (instead of the $1200 drives now on the market).
People might actually start making regular backups again.
Why do you want more than 30fps? At 30 fps the motion is smooth, and there is no interference with the light flicker (on North American 60Hz AC, Incandescent & CF Lights). Any extra GPU cycles can go to improving the quality of those 30 frames.
Why not just have custom zoning types where you can check off uses (retail, office, restaurant, residential, etc) and set use ratios and maximum heights. Set 4 story height, 75% residential, and 25% commercial, and let the free market dictate (almost noone wants to live on the ground floor).
It'd also be neat to be able to designate streets with HOV lanes, pedestrian/cyclist avenues, or bus-only routes ala Curibita.
SMBFS is for mounting SMB shares on a Linux machine. Samba is for sharing files on a Linux/Unix/BSD machine with windows machines (or Linux machines with SMBFS, but NFS is better suited to that).
SELinux -- Forked, but later re-joined the main development tree
RTLinux -- Hard real-time Linux
usermode Linux
Linux 1.0
Linux 1.2
Linux 2.0
Linux 2.2
Linux 2.4
Linux 2.6
AA-patchset
WOLK patchset
KJ patchset
MM patchset
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Linux is forked quite frequently. It's not a traumatic thing; people do it to better solve their own problems. Because of the nature of the GPL, if there are changes that are of interest to the general community, they can be encorporated into the main development tree.
But if Linus finally picks a GUI and starts up a desktop linux fork...
??? First of all, why should Linus pick a GUI? He's the head of the kernel development, not a distribution vendor.
And as for a desktop linux fork, that also makes no sense. There are lots of desktop distributions (SUSE, Knoppix, etc). There are no reasons to fork the kernel for desktop use. If the distribution vendor doesn't want RAID, SCSI, etc, they can just configure them out.
... innovate, simplify and give desktop users a reason to use it.
You mean like stability, security, efficiency, etc? Using a recent distribution is no more difficult for home and office users than using windows or MacOSX. Installing it may be annoying, but few home users do that with windows anyways. Most get it with their computer or use the restore disk that came with the computer.
IANAL too, but what you've described is a restriction on use of the software (ie, you must not use it unless you share the source), so it would not be compatible with the GPL. Under the GPL, output of the program is not GPL'd.
Currently, you can not statically link to a GPLed library...
That's why we have the LGPL.
This of course means that you can put a GPLed application on your webserver and you never have to give the source to anybody if you so choose...
Good. Most of the local modifications to GPL'd web-apps would only be needed by people building a website competeing with the author's. Any that are not only of interest to the author should be shared with the community, and that's how the existing system works.
So what does 'distribute' mean in this interconnected world? If I can ssh into a box and run a binary, has it been distributed to me? What if I can run it via a web server? Or a caching proxy?
Better questions would be: What if I lease a computer with GPL'd software to someone? What if I lease a computer to someone with a service level agreement? Do they have the right to make local modifications? Can the SLA be worded so they may make local modifications, but I no longer am required to maintain a certain service level? What if one crown corporation is charged with modifying a product for other crown corporations or government departments? Does this count as distribution or internal use?
The electricity used to charge the batteries
might have come from a coal burning power plant.
Sure, it might have come from a coal burning plant. It definitely will have partly come from the energy recovered when stoping. The rest might have come from hydroelectricity, natural gas, nuclear, geothermal, or heat/power co-generation.
I'll take 30% less energy, 50% of which comes from well tuned hydrocarbon plants running at peak efficiency over 100% energy coming from a who knows how out of tune hydrocarbon engine running out of peak efficiency 90% of the time.
This is just a matter of shifting the pollution from the inner city out to the country side where the power plants sit.
Not quite. This (electric cars in general) is about using less energy, not all of which comes from CO2 emitters, reducing global polution levels, as well as reducing local polution levels where people live.
Actually, given the absurdity of this specific electric car, I suspect it's about generating press in preparation for an electric car company's stock offer.
Additionally, every summer we hear about power blackouts because the U.S.A. is near or at our power generating capacity.
This car is made in Japan, for the asian market.
This gets back to my first question, where is the electricity going to come from if a significant number of the population suddenly decides to buy electric cars?
BC and Quebec.
Running the power plants when energy is needed, rather than shutting them down to artificially inflate the price of electricity.
Domestic and industrial conservation
There is not enough production capacity of electric cars to cause a sudden surge of electric consumption. We'll have time to build more powerplants if they start to get popular.
Why can't we just bite the bullet and develop a real public transportation system in this country?
The US is not the only country with this problem. Many Canadian cities are having real trouble with transit.
Transit costs government money that cannot be easily shown on the books to have come from lower environmental impact, road maintenance, etc.
US and Canadian attitudes emphasize independence and self-reliance and transit use is seen as dependence.
Expanding transit ridership costs government lost gasoline tax revenue and income tax from mechanics, gas station attendants, personal injury lawyers, etc.
The private automobile is a status symbol.
All that said, I believe it's imperative that both the US and Canada come up with their own plans to transition all of their urban areas to transportation systems not based on personal automobiles.
Given the state of electric and hybrid vehicles on the market today, the incompetence of the local transit system, the electric grid where I live, and my driving habits, I'd love to have a hybrid that can be plugged in over night. Most of my driving could easily be done on grid power only (90% hydroelectric here), but I'd have the option of taking longer trips on gasoline power. As far as I know the hybrids on the market now cannot be charged from grid power.
The 138Hp engine powers the generator almost all the time, probably mostly at peak efficiency. The 4 50KW (67HP) electric motors drive the wheels when needed, with the amount of power needed (up to 268HP when accelerating, a handfull of HP when cruising, down to -268HP when braking). Given that it's got an all-aluminum frame and body, it could be a do (almost) anything vehicle.
You probably don't need a long range, silent, fast, low radar & thermal signature vehicle for towing artillery anyways as artillery needs to be near the supply lines.
Up in north-eastern BC many of the light trucks and cars are run on LNG or LPG alone. It has the distinct advantages that it's a byproduct of the oil industry (and therefore cheap in the oil field), and doesn't stop working below -40C.
Actually... I put quotes around "POWER OF THE COUNTY" because it's the english translation of the latin name of one of the right-wing white-supremacist militia groups, and around "public way" because I was quoting magna carta.
That THIRD WORLD TERRORIST is a member of the BILDERBERGER group, planning MIND CONTROL by bouncing the HAARP signals off of CHEMTRAILS, Manipulating the FEDERAL RESERVE and denying you STATUS as a LEGAL PERSON (and your BIRTH CERTIFICATE is a receipt for this payment). INCOME TAX is illegal under the CONSTITUTION of the US and the BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, and only the "POWER OF THE COUNTY" can enforce the true constitution. You don't actually need a DRIVERS LICENSE because MAGNA CARTA guarantees the right to use the "public way". The KYOTO PROTOCOL is a branch of the ELDERS OF ZION, and by reducing greenhouse gasses, safeguards the performance of CHEMTRAILS in reflecting HAARP signals so they can continue using MIND CONTROL along with their friends in the PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION.
I'm sure there's even more crazy conspiracy theories out there...
After every level of Government, Health Insurance, Prescriptions, etc are accounted for, how much of your income do you get to take home? What if you lost your job because of an illness? Would your medical coverage continue?
Curibita's system is really neat. Scientific American did an article on it in the 1990's.
Unfortunately, that only works in places with the political will to set asside streets for transit use. Also, the city may have to expropriate land to make other routes available for cars.
Nanaimo, for instance has only 1 route that could be used for an express bus of this type, and making it Transit-only would make it really hard to get around town.
An elevated system could be put over-top of existing roads. Once you have an elevated guideway, you might as well go with LRT or PRT.
One of the drawbacks of the PRT is that in order to be useful, it has to be an extensive system. Nanaimo has just this problem with it's express bus. The express route (#9) was introduced on a trial basis. It connects the major transit points, which also happen to be near the major employers of low-income employed people. This would be ideal except that because of budget constraints, the first run of the day is too late to get to work, and the last run is too early to get home from work.
Also, generally the neighbourhoods where low-income employed people live tend to be the worst served by the feeder busses.
So lots of people drive, rather than taking transit, and we have traffic jams, which slow down the busses, so less people take the bus, so more people drive...
Putting 2 more runs at each end of the day on that one route might do wonders for the traffic situation here.
On TV and movies investigators frequently take a photograph or video image, scan it in, then blow it up and sharpen it several times to get perfect pictures of the suspect's face. If the data's not there, the data's not there. Computers are not magic.
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Imagine The data capacity and economics (as far as tape costs go) that would be possible with a VHS data backup drive. Right now it's cheaper to buy a new computer and build a RAID-server than to buy a tape drive & rotation tapes for a small-medium business. $1/Tape is a lot better than the $1/GB you pay for tapes now. If the digital tape format & (USB/FireWire?) interface were standardized, there could be some major competition for the drives (instead of the $1200 drives now on the market).
People might actually start making regular backups again.
Why do you want more than 30fps? At 30 fps the motion is smooth, and there is no interference with the light flicker (on North American 60Hz AC, Incandescent & CF Lights). Any extra GPU cycles can go to improving the quality of those 30 frames.
Because that's what city planners do.
That wouldn't be much fun, would it? In a game with no points, there's no point in doing something that's not fun.
Why not just have custom zoning types where you can check off uses (retail, office, restaurant, residential, etc) and set use ratios and maximum heights. Set 4 story height, 75% residential, and 25% commercial, and let the free market dictate (almost noone wants to live on the ground floor).
It'd also be neat to be able to designate streets with HOV lanes, pedestrian/cyclist avenues, or bus-only routes ala Curibita.
Sounds like Counterstrike.
SMBFS is for mounting SMB shares on a Linux machine. Samba is for sharing files on a Linux/Unix/BSD machine with windows machines (or Linux machines with SMBFS, but NFS is better suited to that).
I guess printing a background of faint yellow dots might work.
Linux is forked quite frequently. It's not a traumatic thing; people do it to better solve their own problems. Because of the nature of the GPL, if there are changes that are of interest to the general community, they can be encorporated into the main development tree.
Not all desktop users are filthy rich. Do not assume just because a situation is true for you that it is true for everyone.
??? First of all, why should Linus pick a GUI? He's the head of the kernel development, not a distribution vendor.
And as for a desktop linux fork, that also makes no sense. There are lots of desktop distributions (SUSE, Knoppix, etc). There are no reasons to fork the kernel for desktop use. If the distribution vendor doesn't want RAID, SCSI, etc, they can just configure them out.
You mean like stability, security, efficiency, etc? Using a recent distribution is no more difficult for home and office users than using windows or MacOSX. Installing it may be annoying, but few home users do that with windows anyways. Most get it with their computer or use the restore disk that came with the computer.
IANAL too, but what you've described is a restriction on use of the software (ie, you must not use it unless you share the source), so it would not be compatible with the GPL. Under the GPL, output of the program is not GPL'd.
It's a gnu (aka wildebeest).
That's why we have the LGPL.
Good. Most of the local modifications to GPL'd web-apps would only be needed by people building a website competeing with the author's. Any that are not only of interest to the author should be shared with the community, and that's how the existing system works.
Better questions would be: What if I lease a computer with GPL'd software to someone? What if I lease a computer to someone with a service level agreement? Do they have the right to make local modifications? Can the SLA be worded so they may make local modifications, but I no longer am required to maintain a certain service level? What if one crown corporation is charged with modifying a product for other crown corporations or government departments? Does this count as distribution or internal use?
You've partly answered this yourself:
Sure, it might have come from a coal burning plant. It definitely will have partly come from the energy recovered when stoping. The rest might have come from hydroelectricity, natural gas, nuclear, geothermal, or heat/power co-generation.
I'll take 30% less energy, 50% of which comes from well tuned hydrocarbon plants running at peak efficiency over 100% energy coming from a who knows how out of tune hydrocarbon engine running out of peak efficiency 90% of the time.
Not quite. This (electric cars in general) is about using less energy, not all of which comes from CO2 emitters, reducing global polution levels, as well as reducing local polution levels where people live.
Actually, given the absurdity of this specific electric car, I suspect it's about generating press in preparation for an electric car company's stock offer.
This car is made in Japan, for the asian market.
- The US is not the only country with this problem. Many Canadian cities are having real trouble with transit.
- Transit costs government money that cannot be easily shown on the books to have come from lower environmental impact, road maintenance, etc.
- US and Canadian attitudes emphasize independence and self-reliance and transit use is seen as dependence.
- Expanding transit ridership costs government lost gasoline tax revenue and income tax from mechanics, gas station attendants, personal injury lawyers, etc.
- The private automobile is a status symbol.
All that said, I believe it's imperative that both the US and Canada come up with their own plans to transition all of their urban areas to transportation systems not based on personal automobiles.Given the state of electric and hybrid vehicles on the market today, the incompetence of the local transit system, the electric grid where I live, and my driving habits, I'd love to have a hybrid that can be plugged in over night. Most of my driving could easily be done on grid power only (90% hydroelectric here), but I'd have the option of taking longer trips on gasoline power. As far as I know the hybrids on the market now cannot be charged from grid power.
The 138Hp engine powers the generator almost all the time, probably mostly at peak efficiency. The 4 50KW (67HP) electric motors drive the wheels when needed, with the amount of power needed (up to 268HP when accelerating, a handfull of HP when cruising, down to -268HP when braking). Given that it's got an all-aluminum frame and body, it could be a do (almost) anything vehicle.
You probably don't need a long range, silent, fast, low radar & thermal signature vehicle for towing artillery anyways as artillery needs to be near the supply lines.
Up in north-eastern BC many of the light trucks and cars are run on LNG or LPG alone. It has the distinct advantages that it's a byproduct of the oil industry (and therefore cheap in the oil field), and doesn't stop working below -40C.
Actually... I put quotes around "POWER OF THE COUNTY" because it's the english translation of the latin name of one of the right-wing white-supremacist militia groups, and around "public way" because I was quoting magna carta.
Considering that the brita filters use activated charcoal, which removes organic chemicals, one of the things it'd be filtering out is the alcohol.
That THIRD WORLD TERRORIST is a member of the BILDERBERGER group, planning MIND CONTROL by bouncing the HAARP signals off of CHEMTRAILS, Manipulating the FEDERAL RESERVE and denying you STATUS as a LEGAL PERSON (and your BIRTH CERTIFICATE is a receipt for this payment). INCOME TAX is illegal under the CONSTITUTION of the US and the BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, and only the "POWER OF THE COUNTY" can enforce the true constitution. You don't actually need a DRIVERS LICENSE because MAGNA CARTA guarantees the right to use the "public way". The KYOTO PROTOCOL is a branch of the ELDERS OF ZION, and by reducing greenhouse gasses, safeguards the performance of CHEMTRAILS in reflecting HAARP signals so they can continue using MIND CONTROL along with their friends in the PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION.
I'm sure there's even more crazy conspiracy theories out there...
After every level of Government, Health Insurance, Prescriptions, etc are accounted for, how much of your income do you get to take home? What if you lost your job because of an illness? Would your medical coverage continue?
All the article links are Flash... preventing an "Open in New Tab". This is certainly a weird way to do rollovers on links.
Curibita's system is really neat. Scientific American did an article on it in the 1990's.
Unfortunately, that only works in places with the political will to set asside streets for transit use. Also, the city may have to expropriate land to make other routes available for cars.
Nanaimo, for instance has only 1 route that could be used for an express bus of this type, and making it Transit-only would make it really hard to get around town.
An elevated system could be put over-top of existing roads. Once you have an elevated guideway, you might as well go with LRT or PRT.
One of the drawbacks of the PRT is that in order to be useful, it has to be an extensive system. Nanaimo has just this problem with it's express bus. The express route (#9) was introduced on a trial basis. It connects the major transit points, which also happen to be near the major employers of low-income employed people. This would be ideal except that because of budget constraints, the first run of the day is too late to get to work, and the last run is too early to get home from work.
Also, generally the neighbourhoods where low-income employed people live tend to be the worst served by the feeder busses.
So lots of people drive, rather than taking transit, and we have traffic jams, which slow down the busses, so less people take the bus, so more people drive...
Putting 2 more runs at each end of the day on that one route might do wonders for the traffic situation here.
On TV and movies investigators frequently take a photograph or video image, scan it in, then blow it up and sharpen it several times to get perfect pictures of the suspect's face. If the data's not there, the data's not there. Computers are not magic.
That's not the question. The question was:
Which is what I (and others) answered. It called for no value judgement.