It also highlights the difficulty that all green based solutions have, nature. Solar power has cloud problems, windmills will lack wind, and hydro-electric dams face droughts.
None of the green energy sources can provide the reliable energy that modern society demands. While this one will at least be very predictable, it will only be able to generate power when the tides are right, and that has no relation to peak power usage times. Sometimes the timing will be right, but the rest is wasted.
This will probably get me mod'd Troll, but nuclear power is the best available option, and since we cut research into making it better, we are now behind France (the horror) in nuclear technology.
Despite all the concerns, nuclear is the best choice we have until we can finally find a more efficient way to generate electricity without using steam.
I agree that there is some danger in this, but I often sit and read with them, and help them find books that they will enjoy. The both loved the Harry Potter movies, and so the books are something that they are enjoying.
They are also learning the very troublesome aspect that movies are shallow versions at best of the books they represent. My son stopped reading once and said "The snake didn't say that in the movie" and wanted to know why the movie would change something that he liked in the book.
So far so good, maybe there will be a similar post when they are teenagers, and I can vent my frustration then;-)
My children are required to read for 30 minutes every day. My son that just finished 1st grade is reading Harry Potter now. My daughter will be going into 1st grade and is reading Dr. Suess and equivalent.
Both of them enjoy reading and may whine a little initially when it is reading time, but then they oftern read longer because they get into it. At least once a week they end up going an hour. During the summer they have lots of time to read, so I have them make the most of it.
Learing to enjoy reading is an aquired enjoyment, and with all of the other forms of entertainment available people need to be encouraged to learn how to enjoy reading.
After finally finding the pictures I was really impressed. Someone noted that rendered images are easily detected by the human eye, but these look like pictures. Granted parts of it are fuzzy, but that is part of what makes it look so real. The actual glass images look very real.
Both of these show my point. 1st says that all of it is fact based on a Canadian report. The response to that is that it is from a biased source.
This shows my initial point that all responses to this will be controlled by the political bias that the person starts with, hence there can be no thoughtful discussion on this topic.
Entire posting is a flamebait. Anyone
who sees it will only like/dislike
it based on political views. Since people who hate Bush are more
likely to see it, reviews will continue to run positive, but all know
that it is nothing but propaganda created by a skilled movie
director. Anyone who says otherwise is letting their emotion cloud
their thought, or lack thereof.
How am I supposed to try it out when all of you are trying to do the same thing?
On a serious note, I have recently standardized all of my computers to SuSE 9.1, with the exception of one that duel boots to Win2K. If I can get Warcraft III to function at the same level on linux, as it does on windows, my family will allow the Win2K install to die, and I will finally be M$ free.
Say what you will, but games are critical to all of us, hence the absolute destruction that the transgaming webservers are suffering now. I have been a subscriber of Transgaming for more than a year now, and have never really tried it out yet since it was not yet there, if it works now, life will be good.
I know that as a poster over 1000 very few will read this, but I have to strongly say that this guy is FUD'ing things up here.
I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro on a 700Mhz laptop with 384 MB RAM. Granted that is a decent amount of RAM, but not extreme, but when it comes to loading programs to memory from a HD, it simply doesn't matter, and GUI apps are larger, so they take longer, blaming linux for this is stupid.
Once open, spawing new windows for mozilla is painless, even Open Office is fast once loaded, even under heavy load. Under heavy load I cannot notice a difference on a 700 MHz processor.
The big difference with Linux is if I open up everything until it does slow down, then close them, the system will speed up again. Try that on a windows box. The only solution is a reboot. Any system can use up its resources, it is what happens when the apps are closed that make a difference and lets face it, there is no comparison when it comes to memory management.
I also RUN SuSE 9.1 on my server, and it uses 128 MB of RAM. When installing and during the intial config I used graphical with no problem. Now that it is set up I run it level 3, and of course there is no problem there. The key is the flexibility of a "bloated" distro. Currently my server is using 30 MB of RAM and has been running a week ( I know only a week, but that is when I finally installed SuSE after switching from FC), and it is happily taking care of my home network.
In summary, I am running 3 systems on SuSE 9.1, none of them is newer than 3 years old, and all of them run as fast as new XP on new systems I use at work, and with less problems by 3 orders of magnitude. I loathe XP based on my experience with it at work. The only good thing is that SSH doesn't seem to crash XP.
You are correct about coal burning be the main source of acid rain.
More specifically though, any process that burns that contains sulfar will produce SO2 which reacts with Dihydrogen Monoxide to form H2SO4, otherwise known as sulfuric acid.
So really without the Dihydrogen Monoxide there would be no acid rain, so that is what we should be banning. Hurry, sign a petition.
I am at a crossroads for disto's now. I am currently using Fedora Core 1, and am not having any problems with it. I have used Mandrake in the past but had too many problems with configurations. Not unsolvable, but annoying to spend time on simple things like that.
I would try out all three I am interested in, but am not willing to pay $90 to try out the professional version which you need to use the SuSe server configuration, and that narrows it to Gentoo and Fedora Core 2, which will be available next week. I think I will try them both out, and which ever one has fewer problems, and is easier to set up as a server will be it. I am tired of trying out all the different disto's, and want to settle down with one for good.
I tried the liveCD, and I looked the look and feel, but it is hard to test server functionality with it. If anyone has tried out a few, and KNOW that SuSe is different enough to be worth it, let me know.
The same fab can produce DRAM or RDRAM at the same time. The only "process" difference is the number of steps. RDRAM requires more steps, hence less wafers can be produced in the same period of time.
This could be offset if the die were smaller, but in RDRAM's case the die are also larger. This means that total ouptut takes two hits, and much less memory is produced. The combination of less output, royatly payments would have meant a permanent increase in memory price because RDRAM could not ever be produced at a comparable cost to DDR.
The reason why manufacturers hate RDRAM is less parts produced, costs more to produce, and the razor thin margins go to Rambu$, and then all the OEM's like Dell already complain if the memory price swings a little. Shocking that only Rambu$ liked the idea.
Uhhh, I am pretty sure that the different in expense was converting to a new technology that required more process steps, and required larger die than DRAM.
The array between SDRAM, DDR, DDR2 is nothing, only the periphery changes. For rambus, everything changes, hence the size is larger, larger size mean less die per wafer, and higher cost. The only way Rambus could have worked was if there was no alternative. There was, they lost.
I hate wasting time fixing formatting in spreadsheets. I have ALWAYS had problems opening files in different software programs. I have never liked Excel, and have usually used Quattro Pro, but the format changes started to really bother me, and then I switched to Linux a few years ago and that option went away.
About six months ago I installed OO on my computers (all Linux), and the family/game MS system. Suddenly for the first time files opened seamlessly no matter which computer I was on. I was shocked, and I loved it. I will be opening a new business in the next few months, and it will use OO exclusively.
I cannot disagree with him on the end of the industry, and I am in the that original group of gamers, and I have three children from 5-15 (please no math). I think he is right, but for the wrong reason.
My 15 year old showed some interest in the PS2, but he would rather play games on the computer. My younger children are much more interested in the computer, and the console games are doing a terrible job making games for younger children. I will not let my 7 year old play Vice City anyway, and that is what the consoles are putting out.
That is the key problem now. All the games target teens, and college students, and most of those games can be played on the computer. The only thing that kept the N64 from being a disaster was Pokemon. The only chance they have is to make games that the younger kids can play, and are interested in playing. It can be done, but the focus is on making the games prettier, but not creating new, interesting content for the next generation, and that is why it will crash.
RAMBUS is another company that is dedicated to making its money now through lawyers. Intel thought that they could take more control of PC design my picking a patented memory structure, and RAMBUS was the perfect lackey ito accomplish this. Their contract with RAMBUS would have had RAMBUS paying Intel back once RDRAM sales exceeded a certain amount. It was a win-win for those two companies, and lose-lose for everyone else due to higher long term prices for all users, and manufacturers.
The reason for this is the RDRAM design. It takes more space on a wafer to produce, and that is why it costs more ( commission to to RAMBUS is another part, but the size difference is the key cost difference ). So memory prices would have been much higher, and Intel would have been able to squeeze AMD more due to the patented bus that RDRAM uses.
If you go back in time, it was exactly as Intel was about to force RDRAM down everyones throats, that AMD released the Athlon. Suddenly there was an alternative to Intel in performance, and by not using RDRAM, the price difference was extreme. This is the point that AMD surged ahead in market share, and while the inroads they made were overall not significant, they were enough to show that not everyone would be pushed around.
RAMBUS did come up with some interesting design innovations, but as soon as the writing on the wall was that RDRAM was dead due to lower prices with DDR, they turned into SCO by suing everyone that was making DDR, by use of info they had taken from JEDEC and adding it after the fact to pending patents from RDRAM. Another stellar example of USPTO excellence. RAMBUS is dead, but someone wants to make money from the rotting corpse. Just compare how similar the lawyers fees are for RAMBUS and SCO.
Prof. in the article stated that neutronium would have had to be in the planet Krypton for the gravity needed to explain Supermans strength.
Once that enters the mix, all kinds of strange things are possible. A "heavy" shuttle with Kal-El in it dragging debris along would not be out of the question.
Wonder what kind of grade the Comic Professor would give/. comments?
I appreciate the detail you put into the energy balance, but my point was only that the emissions benefit is the main reason that ethanol is preferential to gasoline. It is currently blended with gasoline precisely for that purpose, and its use in a fuel cell system would allow it to be used in an even more efficient, and lower emission system.
I am seeing a large number of posts stating the same thing that it takes more energy to produce the ethanol than you get back in stored chemical energy. I am sure that no one disputes that.
The point of all of this is to reduce emissions from the less efficient internal combustion engine. About 35% of the energy from burning fossil fuels in a car engine is available for mechanical energy. A full scale power plant is around 50-55% efficeint in converting fossil fuels into electricity, and the emissions are much, much less than for a car.
By using the more efficient energy on a large scale to produce ethanol, that is then used in vehicles may use a bit more energy, but it will greatly reduce emissions.
The laws of thermodynamics cannot be defeated (unfortunate as that is), but we can help limit emissions, and that is the goal of both fuel cells, and ethanol use for hydrogen.
As for use in homes, that is stupid except for people that live far from a power distribution network.
There are some interesting
ramifications if M$ did in fact use any GNU code. I would not be
surprised if they did since if there is one group that has heisted,
or at least imitated software that is better than what they have it
is M$.
Since the source for all GNU is
available, it is easy to see it end up
being used by M$ especially since they had no reason to ever suspect
that they would be caught for doing so, and they know the code
already works.
What would happen though is very
interesting. The GPL license issues with this would be like nothing
ever before seen in courts. The really interesting thing is if there
was enough found to prove that M$ was using stolen
code, then a court could conceivably force
a search for more infringed code.
Even more interesting would be how the
press would play this. Most press coverage of the SCO issue leave
the non-tech people ( ie. Stock traders that hear news without
understanding it ) with the idea that SCO is right about owning
Linux. I have heard this numerous times from day-traders. If it
came out that M$ was in fact stealing licensed
code, they would be fried by the media and the stock markets.
This is all supposition at this point,
but I wouldn't mind watching it play out.
I know that starting off nuts, and then calming down has helped me deal with incorrect bills before, I figure that by the time I am reasonable again, they are just more willing to just give in to my demands.
Hmmm, they might even be able to use such information to route the callers to particular employee's, i.e. Angry man gets routed to sexy southern drawl, man then calms down.
I am a Chemical Engineer that graduated in 1999. My graduating class averaged about what the national average was, and almost 5 years later I can complain about a few things, but I know that mostly it is not justified, especially considering how difficult the last few years have been for many professionals. I am working in a R&D Fab, and enjoy what I am doing. I am considering taking some CS on the side so I can contribute more to OSS.
If The MyDoom author had the same skill as the Mr. Evans does as a journalist. There would be no discussion about this, and www.sco.com would not be down.
The real unfortunate point is that Mr. Evans does not have the equivalent journalistic skill, so the Linux community must suffer stupid commentary as well.
Ahhh, to be a journalist for the BBC these days.
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It also highlights the difficulty that all green based solutions have, nature. Solar power has cloud problems, windmills will lack wind, and hydro-electric dams face droughts.
None of the green energy sources can provide the reliable energy that modern society demands. While this one will at least be very predictable, it will only be able to generate power when the tides are right, and that has no relation to peak power usage times. Sometimes the timing will be right, but the rest is wasted.
This will probably get me mod'd Troll, but nuclear power is the best available option, and since we cut research into making it better, we are now behind France (the horror) in nuclear technology.
Despite all the concerns, nuclear is the best choice we have until we can finally find a more efficient way to generate electricity without using steam.
I agree that there is some danger in this, but I often sit and read with them, and help them find books that they will enjoy. The both loved the Harry Potter movies, and so the books are something that they are enjoying.
;-)
They are also learning the very troublesome aspect that movies are shallow versions at best of the books they represent. My son stopped reading once and said "The snake didn't say that in the movie" and wanted to know why the movie would change something that he liked in the book.
So far so good, maybe there will be a similar post when they are teenagers, and I can vent my frustration then
My children are required to read for 30 minutes every day. My son that just finished 1st grade is reading Harry Potter now. My daughter will be going into 1st grade and is reading Dr. Suess and equivalent.
Both of them enjoy reading and may whine a little initially when it is reading time, but then they oftern read longer because they get into it. At least once a week they end up going an hour. During the summer they have lots of time to read, so I have them make the most of it.
Learing to enjoy reading is an aquired enjoyment, and with all of the other forms of entertainment available people need to be encouraged to learn how to enjoy reading.
In fact, it is reading time now. See ya.
After finally finding the pictures I was really impressed. Someone noted that rendered images are easily detected by the human eye, but these look like pictures. Granted parts of it are fuzzy, but that is part of what makes it look so real. The actual glass images look very real.
Great job.
Both of these show my point. 1st says that all of it is fact based on a Canadian report. The response to that is that it is from a biased source.
This shows my initial point that all responses to this will be controlled by the political bias that the person starts with, hence there can be no thoughtful discussion on this topic.
Entire posting is a flamebait. Anyone who sees it will only like/dislike it based on political views. Since people who hate Bush are more likely to see it, reviews will continue to run positive, but all know that it is nothing but propaganda created by a skilled movie director. Anyone who says otherwise is letting their emotion cloud their thought, or lack thereof.
How am I supposed to try it out when all of you are trying to do the same thing?
On a serious note, I have recently standardized all of my computers to SuSE 9.1, with the exception of one that duel boots to Win2K. If I can get Warcraft III to function at the same level on linux, as it does on windows, my family will allow the Win2K install to die, and I will finally be M$ free.
Say what you will, but games are critical to all of us, hence the absolute destruction that the transgaming webservers are suffering now. I have been a subscriber of Transgaming for more than a year now, and have never really tried it out yet since it was not yet there, if it works now, life will be good.
I know that as a poster over 1000 very few will read this, but I have to strongly say that this guy is FUD'ing things up here.
I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro on a 700Mhz laptop with 384 MB RAM. Granted that is a decent amount of RAM, but not extreme, but when it comes to loading programs to memory from a HD, it simply doesn't matter, and GUI apps are larger, so they take longer, blaming linux for this is stupid.
Once open, spawing new windows for mozilla is painless, even Open Office is fast once loaded, even under heavy load. Under heavy load I cannot notice a difference on a 700 MHz processor.
The big difference with Linux is if I open up everything until it does slow down, then close them, the system will speed up again. Try that on a windows box. The only solution is a reboot. Any system can use up its resources, it is what happens when the apps are closed that make a difference and lets face it, there is no comparison when it comes to memory management.
I also RUN SuSE 9.1 on my server, and it uses 128 MB of RAM. When installing and during the intial config I used graphical with no problem. Now that it is set up I run it level 3, and of course there is no problem there. The key is the flexibility of a "bloated" distro. Currently my server is using 30 MB of RAM and has been running a week ( I know only a week, but that is when I finally installed SuSE after switching from FC), and it is happily taking care of my home network.
In summary, I am running 3 systems on SuSE 9.1, none of them is newer than 3 years old, and all of them run as fast as new XP on new systems I use at work, and with less problems by 3 orders of magnitude. I loathe XP based on my experience with it at work. The only good thing is that SSH doesn't seem to crash XP.
You are correct about coal burning be the main source of acid rain.
More specifically though, any process that burns that contains sulfar will produce SO2 which reacts with Dihydrogen Monoxide to form H2SO4, otherwise known as sulfuric acid.
So really without the Dihydrogen Monoxide there would be no acid rain, so that is what we should be banning. Hurry, sign a petition.
I am at a crossroads for disto's now. I am currently using Fedora Core 1, and am not having any problems with it. I have used Mandrake in the past but had too many problems with configurations. Not unsolvable, but annoying to spend time on simple things like that.
I would try out all three I am interested in, but am not willing to pay $90 to try out the professional version which you need to use the SuSe server configuration, and that narrows it to Gentoo and Fedora Core 2, which will be available next week. I think I will try them both out, and which ever one has fewer problems, and is easier to set up as a server will be it. I am tired of trying out all the different disto's, and want to settle down with one for good.
I tried the liveCD, and I looked the look and feel, but it is hard to test server functionality with it. If anyone has tried out a few, and KNOW that SuSe is different enough to be worth it, let me know.
The same fab can produce DRAM or RDRAM at the same time. The only "process" difference is the number of steps. RDRAM requires more steps, hence less wafers can be produced in the same period of time.
This could be offset if the die were smaller, but in RDRAM's case the die are also larger. This means that total ouptut takes two hits, and much less memory is produced. The combination of less output, royatly payments would have meant a permanent increase in memory price because RDRAM could not ever be produced at a comparable cost to DDR.
The reason why manufacturers hate RDRAM is less parts produced, costs more to produce, and the razor thin margins go to Rambu$, and then all the OEM's like Dell already complain if the memory price swings a little. Shocking that only Rambu$ liked the idea.
Uhhh, I am pretty sure that the different in expense was converting to a new technology that required more process steps, and required larger die than DRAM.
The array between SDRAM, DDR, DDR2 is nothing, only the periphery changes. For rambus, everything changes, hence the size is larger, larger size mean less die per wafer, and higher cost. The only way Rambus could have worked was if there was no alternative. There was, they lost.
Last time I checked that only animal PETA allows to be kept as pets was men, and only if they were fixed, painfully if I recall correctly.
I hate wasting time fixing formatting in spreadsheets. I have ALWAYS had problems opening files in different software programs. I have never liked Excel, and have usually used Quattro Pro, but the format changes started to really bother me, and then I switched to Linux a few years ago and that option went away.
About six months ago I installed OO on my computers (all Linux), and the family/game MS system. Suddenly for the first time files opened seamlessly no matter which computer I was on. I was shocked, and I loved it. I will be opening a new business in the next few months, and it will use OO exclusively.
Spell check by OO.
I cannot disagree with him on the end of the industry, and I am in the that original group of gamers, and I have three children from 5-15 (please no math). I think he is right, but for the wrong reason.
My 15 year old showed some interest in the PS2, but he would rather play games on the computer. My younger children are much more interested in the computer, and the console games are doing a terrible job making games for younger children. I will not let my 7 year old play Vice City anyway, and that is what the consoles are putting out.
That is the key problem now. All the games target teens, and college students, and most of those games can be played on the computer. The only thing that kept the N64 from being a disaster was Pokemon. The only chance they have is to make games that the younger kids can play, and are interested in playing. It can be done, but the focus is on making the games prettier, but not creating new, interesting content for the next generation, and that is why it will crash.
RAMBUS is another company that is dedicated to making its money now through lawyers. Intel thought that they could take more control of PC design my picking a patented memory structure, and RAMBUS was the perfect lackey ito accomplish this. Their contract with RAMBUS would have had RAMBUS paying Intel back once RDRAM sales exceeded a certain amount. It was a win-win for those two companies, and lose-lose for everyone else due to higher long term prices for all users, and manufacturers.
The reason for this is the RDRAM design. It takes more space on a wafer to produce, and that is why it costs more ( commission to to RAMBUS is another part, but the size difference is the key cost difference ). So memory prices would have been much higher, and Intel would have been able to squeeze AMD more due to the patented bus that RDRAM uses.
If you go back in time, it was exactly as Intel was about to force RDRAM down everyones throats, that AMD released the Athlon. Suddenly there was an alternative to Intel in performance, and by not using RDRAM, the price difference was extreme. This is the point that AMD surged ahead in market share, and while the inroads they made were overall not significant, they were enough to show that not everyone would be pushed around.
RAMBUS did come up with some interesting design innovations, but as soon as the writing on the wall was that RDRAM was dead due to lower prices with DDR, they turned into SCO by suing everyone that was making DDR, by use of info they had taken from JEDEC and adding it after the fact to pending patents from RDRAM. Another stellar example of USPTO excellence. RAMBUS is dead, but someone wants to make money from the rotting corpse. Just compare how similar the lawyers fees are for RAMBUS and SCO.
Every time I download the .iso for the latest and greatest distro, I am quite glad I have my high speed access.
You can never have enough bandwidth, that would be like Bill Gates saying he had too much money.
Prof. in the article stated that neutronium would have had to be in the planet Krypton for the gravity needed to explain Supermans strength.
/. comments?
Once that enters the mix, all kinds of strange things are possible. A "heavy" shuttle with Kal-El in it dragging debris along would not be out of the question.
Wonder what kind of grade the Comic Professor would give
I appreciate the detail you put into the energy balance, but my point was only that the emissions benefit is the main reason that ethanol is preferential to gasoline. It is currently blended with gasoline precisely for that purpose, and its use in a fuel cell system would allow it to be used in an even more efficient, and lower emission system.
I am seeing a large number of posts stating the same thing that it takes more energy to produce the ethanol than you get back in stored chemical energy. I am sure that no one disputes that.
The point of all of this is to reduce emissions from the less efficient internal combustion engine. About 35% of the energy from burning fossil fuels in a car engine is available for mechanical energy. A full scale power plant is around 50-55% efficeint in converting fossil fuels into electricity, and the emissions are much, much less than for a car.
By using the more efficient energy on a large scale to produce ethanol, that is then used in vehicles may use a bit more energy, but it will greatly reduce emissions.
The laws of thermodynamics cannot be defeated (unfortunate as that is), but we can help limit emissions, and that is the goal of both fuel cells, and ethanol use for hydrogen.
As for use in homes, that is stupid except for people that live far from a power distribution network.
There are some interesting ramifications if M$ did in fact use any GNU code. I would not be surprised if they did since if there is one group that has heisted, or at least imitated software that is better than what they have it is M$.
Since the source for all GNU is available, it is easy to see it end up being used by M$ especially since they had no reason to ever suspect that they would be caught for doing so, and they know the code already works.
What would happen though is very interesting. The GPL license issues with this would be like nothing ever before seen in courts. The really interesting thing is if there was enough found to prove that M$ was using stolen code, then a court could conceivably force a search for more infringed code.
Even more interesting would be how the press would play this. Most press coverage of the SCO issue leave the non-tech people ( ie. Stock traders that hear news without understanding it ) with the idea that SCO is right about owning Linux. I have heard this numerous times from day-traders. If it came out that M$ was in fact stealing licensed code, they would be fried by the media and the stock markets.
This is all supposition at this point, but I wouldn't mind watching it play out.
I might just have to try this out.
I know that starting off nuts, and then calming down has helped me deal with incorrect bills before, I figure that by the time I am reasonable again, they are just more willing to just give in to my demands.
Hmmm, they might even be able to use such information to route the callers to particular employee's, i.e. Angry man gets routed to sexy southern drawl, man then calms down.
My class was 28 people, and 27 of us had ChemE jobs at graduation. The other one got a job as equipment support at a pharmacutical at 35K.
I am a Chemical Engineer that graduated in 1999. My graduating class averaged about what the national average was, and almost 5 years later I can complain about a few things, but I know that mostly it is not justified, especially considering how difficult the last few years have been for many professionals. I am working in a R&D Fab, and enjoy what I am doing. I am considering taking some CS on the side so I can contribute more to OSS.
If The MyDoom author had the same skill as the Mr. Evans does as a journalist. There would be no discussion about this, and www.sco.com would not be down. The real unfortunate point is that Mr. Evans does not have the equivalent journalistic skill, so the Linux community must suffer stupid commentary as well. Ahhh, to be a journalist for the BBC these days.