I feel like this just moving the goal posts. Sure I guess you could have some elaborate contraption to make Hydrogen only using solar or wind power, but it's more than likely it was made in a factory that burned lots of hydrocarbons. This is just a way of storing energy. We need to look at the whole picture of where the Hydrogen came from to do a true "full-cost accounting" of the benefits or lack thereof.
The time you go to work, or go home is just a number. I've been a pilot for years and it's very easy to switch to knowing I wake up at 1200 UTC and I usually get home from work about 0000 UTC. What's difficult is all this messing with the clock. If you call a company on the other side of the country, imagine how much easier it would be if they just could give you the UTC time you're use to thinking in terms of for their hours of operations? It really just works, everyone has to just let go of the idea that work starts at 9AM and ends at 5PM. The time your work starts and ends should be a function of where you live around the globe (and perhaps if you work night shift).
Am I missing something? Does this site require Java or Silverlight or something. The page is very stark and there's no ranking shown. What am I missing? Did it get slashdotted?
Does it annoy anyone else that I you can't view slashdot videos behind a firewall and you can NOT view them on a Android device. Unless Slashdot can use a friendly format for firewalls and Android devices can you please just use YouTube or at least cross-post it. It's really annoying.
The wavier they granted is to allow this aircraft to be consider "light-sport", which means you can fly it with out a third class medical. This is NOT that big a deal and the summary makes it sound like some sort of break-through and that the FAA has held everything up. This just not correct.
The flying car sucks because just like the moped, it doesn't excel at either it's missions. It can never be as good an airplane as one designed just for flying and it can never be a very nice, safe car either. I think goal is home garage to destination in one vehicle while flying above traffic. I think the best hope for that is the CarterCopter (http://www.cartercopters.com/). It's not a car, but it's an affordable, safe aircraft that can take-off and land vertically. The downside, it that these guys have been working for years....and making progress...but they probably have many years still to go, with little funding. The CarterCopter will never out run an airplane in it's same price range, but the vertical T.O. and landing makes up for that.
Why do this Apple fan boys always have to oversell their point. Exaggeration is the best way to destroy your credibility. I could have been fine with "free software movements haven't produced products as compelling as...". That would have been a fine strong statement and something most people could accept, but no. This person had to add "anything" and "remotely". So lame.
I found the kernel thread where the original author of the FS-Cache patches, David Howell, makes it clear that on a quiet network with a quite fast server metadata will take longer from the cache. However, at my work we have very busy large NFS servers connected over the building network which is very busy. When you try to read a large file repeatedly in the middle of the day the traditional NFS caching just doesn't work if the time between reads is more than about 5 minutes. I've resorted to manually copying my datasets to/usr/tmp on the local disk and seen huge performance improvements. (this has other serious issues, like getting confused about which copy you just modified and migrating any changes back to the official NFS copy.) I know this feature makes sense for me and others in similar environments. The problem of course is: (1) it will be years before it makes it into RHEL and (2) it won't be turned on by default, (3) my system admins are weary to trying anything kernel-related that's not stock RHEL. However, if I can show them an order of magnitude improvement in speed, which I think this will do, they might think twice.
I'm even more confused two of the GPS patents have my name on them. I didn't want to patent them (for the same reasons you state), but NASA management pushed me into doing it and now they're selling them, where does that leave me? What if I use some of the concepts in our GPL'd OpenSource GPS receiver? Would I have to pay for my own ideas back?
This is why I left NASA and told them so in my exit interview.
I just checked the FAQ and it says you only get one download. That's too bad. It would be nice if Amazon could keep track of which track you have a license for and allow you to download those songs anytime you like.
When you buy a song from Amazon do you only get to download it the one time? Or do they keep track of which songs you've purchased and allow you do download them again anytime?
I'm losing track of what each companies policy is currently. I believe EMI was the first to offer DRM free music and then I think was someone else and now Song BMG. I also know there's a the "big 5" music labels, but I can't name them off the top of my head. Can someone who knows the details make a Wikipedia page and link to it so we can keep "score" of who's given up on DRM and who's still to go? It would be helpful for everyone.
While IANAL, I've talked to a few about this and they all agree. If you pay your $129 for Apple's OSX 10.5 and then hack it to work on PC hardware there's no court that's going to side with Apple's EULA against you. You can not sell someone a product and tell them how they have to use it. I wish Apple would try to sue someone for running it on non-Apple hardware so they could lose and everyone would see they are free to run Apple's OS on any hardware they like. Of course, you still need to pay your $129.00.
Appendix: noun. "Supplementary information pertaining to, but not essential to, the completeness of a book such as a list of references, statistical tables, or explanatory matter."
Gosh, a simple Google search finds the definition, boy Slashdot has really dumbed down.:)
The Linux RAZR2 seems a bit overhyped, since the only major US carrier that will carry the Linux (V8) version will be T-mobile...and as of today that's still vaporware. It drives me crazy when all the Linux magazines talk about 5 years of Linux cell phone, since none of these have been available from a major US carrier. Yes, you could have ordered one from another country, got a sim card from AT&T or T-Mobile and gotten it to work, but that's quite different from being able to get it all set up, directly from the carrier.
Don't get me wrong, I'm the first one to be likely to drop my current carrier (Sprint) and go with T-Mobile just to run the RAZR2 V8, but it's painful to see the release date slip and slip. I called T-Mobile and the person I talked to wasn't sure if they were going to release it at all.
I would also be very interested in the OpenMoko phone, but it has to at least make basic phone calls reliably before I'm going to jump in. They say October...add some margin and I'm hoping to be able to get one (that will actually make phone calls) by early next year.
The combination of a big player like Motorola and completely open platform like OpenMoko is just great for Linux on cellphones, but neither is quite here....yet.
The app datbase at winehq says that this version of Far Cry does not work. I'm not sure about the others. Anyone else test them? The retail version of these game do work in Wine, but I'm not sure about getting this modified version to run.
I wanted to label this "old news" since this last quote sounds like a description of "Etch-a-Sketch":
The crystals could also be sandwiched between two plastic sheets to form rewritable paper with a magnetic field acting as the "pen", he adds.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ has been unreachable from at least my nameserver some time now. Does anyone have a mirror? It's really useful utility and I'm afraid maybe Microsoft shut it down. If someone has a tarball please post a mirror site for it. Perhaps, just the domain expired.
I've tried all the previous open source stuff and it was pretty much unusable. The accuracy was so bad that it was just easier to start typing. I got a few of the Windows programs kinda of working under WINE, but then I discovered Vividata and it worked really well and could be called from the command line. This meant I could write my own scripts that used it. I used it quite a bit for Project Gutenberg and was very impressed. It's not cheap, but if you want to do OCR under Linux and can afford it, I recommend it.
I would definitely prefer a Free Software solution so I'm excited about this development. Until this solution is really work-able (see the Google limitations, they're pretty serious), give Vividata a try.
No, this falls under feeling bad for the contractors that worked on the second Death Star in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Anyone one working at AOL should have seen this coming years ago and if they had any clue and any talent they moved on to somewhere with a future. It's not like they couldn't have seen this coming, years and years ago.
S3 market existance is questionable. NewEgg doesn't sell anything and I can't find anything at PriceWatch. Froggle had a few places, but I think this is just old stock.
SIS lists all their video chips as discontinued.
VIA's graphics are S3.
So it really is fair to say that the only external graphics chip makers are ATI and NVidia and Intel does chipset graphics. Don't make it seem like there's more competition that there really is currently.
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I feel like this just moving the goal posts. Sure I guess you could have some elaborate contraption to make Hydrogen only using solar or wind power, but it's more than likely it was made in a factory that burned lots of hydrocarbons. This is just a way of storing energy. We need to look at the whole picture of where the Hydrogen came from to do a true "full-cost accounting" of the benefits or lack thereof.
The time you go to work, or go home is just a number. I've been a pilot for years and it's very easy to switch to knowing I wake up at 1200 UTC and I usually get home from work about 0000 UTC. What's difficult is all this messing with the clock. If you call a company on the other side of the country, imagine how much easier it would be if they just could give you the UTC time you're use to thinking in terms of for their hours of operations? It really just works, everyone has to just let go of the idea that work starts at 9AM and ends at 5PM. The time your work starts and ends should be a function of where you live around the globe (and perhaps if you work night shift).
Am I missing something? Does this site require Java or Silverlight or something. The page is very stark and there's no ranking shown. What am I missing? Did it get slashdotted?
Does it annoy anyone else that I you can't view slashdot videos behind a firewall and you can NOT view them on a Android device. Unless Slashdot can use a friendly format for firewalls and Android devices can you please just use YouTube or at least cross-post it. It's really annoying.
Thanks!
The wavier they granted is to allow this aircraft to be consider "light-sport", which means you can fly it with out a third class medical. This is NOT that big a deal and the summary makes it sound like some sort of break-through and that the FAA has held everything up. This just not correct.
The flying car sucks because just like the moped, it doesn't excel at either it's missions. It can never be as good an airplane as one designed just for flying and it can never be a very nice, safe car either. I think goal is home garage to destination in one vehicle while flying above traffic. I think the best hope for that is the CarterCopter (http://www.cartercopters.com/). It's not a car, but it's an affordable, safe aircraft that can take-off and land vertically. The downside, it that these guys have been working for years....and making progress...but they probably have many years still to go, with little funding. The CarterCopter will never out run an airplane in it's same price range, but the vertical T.O. and landing makes up for that.
Why do this Apple fan boys always have to oversell their point. Exaggeration is the best way to destroy your credibility. I could have been fine with "free software movements haven't produced products as compelling as...". That would have been a fine strong statement and something most people could accept, but no. This person had to add "anything" and "remotely". So lame.
Wow, you're right!
FS-Cache: Loaded
FS-Cache: netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
Maybe they just don't have it configured for enough disk space or something?
I found the kernel thread where the original author of the FS-Cache patches, David Howell, makes it clear that on a quiet network with a quite fast server metadata will take longer from the cache. However, at my work we have very busy large NFS servers connected over the building network which is very busy. When you try to read a large file repeatedly in the middle of the day the traditional NFS caching just doesn't work if the time between reads is more than about 5 minutes. I've resorted to manually copying my datasets to /usr/tmp on the local disk and seen huge performance improvements. (this has other serious issues, like getting confused about which copy you just modified and migrating any changes back to the official NFS copy.) I know this feature makes sense for me and others in similar environments. The problem of course is: (1) it will be years before it makes it into RHEL and (2) it won't be turned on by default, (3) my system admins are weary to trying anything kernel-related that's not stock RHEL. However, if I can show them an order of magnitude improvement in speed, which I think this will do, they might think twice.
I'm even more confused two of the GPS patents have my name on them. I didn't want to patent them (for the same reasons you state), but NASA management pushed me into doing it and now they're selling them, where does that leave me? What if I use some of the concepts in our GPL'd OpenSource GPS receiver? Would I have to pay for my own ideas back? This is why I left NASA and told them so in my exit interview.
How anyone on Slashdot can seriously consider anyone that doesn't believe in Evolution is beyond me. It seems like a one question sanity test.
I just checked the FAQ and it says you only get one download. That's too bad. It would be nice if Amazon could keep track of which track you have a license for and allow you to download those songs anytime you like.
When you buy a song from Amazon do you only get to download it the one time? Or do they keep track of which songs you've purchased and allow you do download them again anytime?
The later would be very nice.
Thanks.
I'm losing track of what each companies policy is currently. I believe EMI was the first to offer DRM free music and then I think was someone else and now Song BMG. I also know there's a the "big 5" music labels, but I can't name them off the top of my head. Can someone who knows the details make a Wikipedia page and link to it so we can keep "score" of who's given up on DRM and who's still to go? It would be helpful for everyone.
Thanks!
While IANAL, I've talked to a few about this and they all agree. If you pay your $129 for Apple's OSX 10.5 and then hack it to work on PC hardware there's no court that's going to side with Apple's EULA against you. You can not sell someone a product and tell them how they have to use it. I wish Apple would try to sue someone for running it on non-Apple hardware so they could lose and everyone would see they are free to run Apple's OS on any hardware they like. Of course, you still need to pay your $129.00.
Appendix: noun. "Supplementary information pertaining to, but not essential to, the completeness of a book such as a list of references, statistical tables, or explanatory matter."
:)
Gosh, a simple Google search finds the definition, boy Slashdot has really dumbed down.
The Linux RAZR2 seems a bit overhyped, since the only major US carrier that will carry the Linux (V8) version will be T-mobile...and as of today that's still vaporware. It drives me crazy when all the Linux magazines talk about 5 years of Linux cell phone, since none of these have been available from a major US carrier. Yes, you could have ordered one from another country, got a sim card from AT&T or T-Mobile and gotten it to work, but that's quite different from being able to get it all set up, directly from the carrier.
Don't get me wrong, I'm the first one to be likely to drop my current carrier (Sprint) and go with T-Mobile just to run the RAZR2 V8, but it's painful to see the release date slip and slip. I called T-Mobile and the person I talked to wasn't sure if they were going to release it at all.
I would also be very interested in the OpenMoko phone, but it has to at least make basic phone calls reliably before I'm going to jump in. They say October...add some margin and I'm hoping to be able to get one (that will actually make phone calls) by early next year.
The combination of a big player like Motorola and completely open platform like OpenMoko is just great for Linux on cellphones, but neither is quite here....yet.
The app datbase at winehq says that this version of Far Cry does not work. I'm not sure about the others. Anyone else test them? The retail version of these game do work in Wine, but I'm not sure about getting this modified version to run.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ has been unreachable from at least my nameserver some time now. Does anyone have a mirror? It's really useful utility and I'm afraid maybe Microsoft shut it down. If someone has a tarball please post a mirror site for it. Perhaps, just the domain expired.
Thanks.
Since no one else here seems to actually give results of where to get this stuff, I figured I'd help out here.
2 60F8 74-52664117?sourceid=35 000
I got all this using Froogle, so you could probably to the same:
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Samsung+DTB-H
http://www.shop.com/op/~HDTV_Tuner_Box-prod-39505
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=grandtec+tun-
However, I completely agree, the selection sucks and you have to get mostly odd brands.
I got a http://pchdtv.com/ one and I love it for my computer (highly recommended), however, it's also nice to just have a set-top box.
LAAS was zero'd out in the FAA budget two years ago and is still zero. So it's unlikely LAAS will happen any time soon if at all.
Correction: The FAA admin has already issued a PR and the new LPV Order is out that says LPV is now down to 200' HAT.
Rick.
I've tried all the previous open source stuff and it was pretty much unusable. The accuracy was so bad that it was just easier to start typing. I got a few of the Windows programs kinda of working under WINE, but then I discovered Vividata and it worked really well and could be called from the command line. This meant I could write my own scripts that used it. I used it quite a bit for Project Gutenberg and was very impressed. It's not cheap, but if you want to do OCR under Linux and can afford it, I recommend it.
I would definitely prefer a Free Software solution so I'm excited about this development. Until this solution is really work-able (see the Google limitations, they're pretty serious), give Vividata a try.
No, this falls under feeling bad for the contractors that worked on the second Death Star in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Anyone one working at AOL should have seen this coming years ago and if they had any clue and any talent they moved on to somewhere with a future. It's not like they couldn't have seen this coming, years and years ago.
I think your information is dated. AFAIK,
AMD doesn't make chipsets currently.
S3 market existance is questionable. NewEgg doesn't sell anything and I can't find anything at PriceWatch. Froggle had a few places, but I think this is just old stock.
SIS lists all their video chips as discontinued.
VIA's graphics are S3.
So it really is fair to say that the only external graphics chip makers are ATI and NVidia and Intel does chipset graphics. Don't make it seem like there's more competition that there really is currently.