Michael Sweet, who owns Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997. The first public betas appeared in 1999.[2] The original design of CUPS used the LPD protocol, but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux.[citation needed] In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[3] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[4]
Apple has not in fact "wrote and open sourced cups". Apple hired the guy that wrote it, and bought the code and are now claiming the whole history of cups. GNU/Linux distributions has been using cups much longer than Apple.
i'll take a 5 point harness and a helmet and HANS device, over your airbags any day. I'm completely ok with adding sensors, but taking control away from the driver is asking for problems. I don't even like automatic transmissions (DSG or hydraulic) for that reason, if i step down I want the car to react now. Also very few modern cars are really direct injection, most inject into the air stream going to the engine valves, not into the cylinder, making them at best a lower maintenance carb.
modern ABS... hmm so all of those late 90's early 2000's cars are probably not equipped to that. Also if the diver is driving correctly he/she shouldn't be close enough to another car to need ABS. Well maybe if another driver cuts them off, and then breaks hard, but if you are doing that you caused the accident and ABS won't help much. To this day I have yet to have ABS come on in dry conditions, but i find it sucks for slowly stopping at a stop sign in the snow/ice. in my '95 it fails to detect wheel movement at around 5mph, and thinks i've locked a wheel up, i haven't i've gotten out and looked before. no sliding at all.
which is not how ABS works, maybe if it applied the brakes little enough to keep the wheels rolling, but nope, it's full on then full off, then full on again. Thats the real problem, also a good driver can get the wheels unlocked and the car corrected faster than ABS works.
Personally i've slid 5-10 feet into intersections because of ABS when it is slick out. The ABS sensors in my older car do not work well at 5 MPH (this is by design it looks like, they can only detect movements of s certain angular distance, i think it was about 20 degrees), and so they come on, and i end up in the intersection, instead of stopped where I should have been.
how about we remove the air bags, and move to anchored 5 point harnesses, and helmets with HANS devices. I'll keep the wheels, and the steering wheel ideas though. Airbags are dumb, an attempt to keep the squishy meat bag from hitting something hard when they are being tossed around the car. It's much simpler to simply stop the meat bag flying around in the first place. My kids are in 5 point harnesses attached to the seat frames, why not me too?
The bus stop is 1/8 mile from my house. It's the work end thats the problem. It's in the manufacturing/warehouse north east part of town. No side walks(not a pedesterian area), has large trucks(hauling metal scraps to be recycled), and is 35mph 2 way with cars parked on the shoulder.
The wikipedia article is right, it is a nice place to live, as long as you have a car. The bus problem is also that I go through 3-4 cities to get to work, each has it's own bus system. The drive is ~20 minutes, the bus ride is 1:35:00, looks like they have added a bus stop since i last looked, it's down to a 1 mile walk, without sidewalks, such.
I see the bus/train problem like this, no one rides the bus/train because it doesn't work well, it doesn't work well because no one rides the bus/train.
nearest bus stop to my work was 3 miles, in the warehouse district with no sidewalks, in 4 feet of snow at -20F(~-29c) before windchill and I only live 11-12 miles from work. So yes, just about everyone here will need a car unless they live in the heart of downtown and don't mind walking when it's -20F to -40F(before windchill), or though downtown areas with no sidewalks, in a snow bank or down the road with the cars.
that was due to the slow rate of terminals at ~8 chars/second back in the day. copy would have taken you 2 times as long to type, and don't forget each char had to be sent to the computer and then sent back to your display. meaning typing copy took at minimum 1 second at 8 baud.
Think if enough force is used it could bash in your skull? how about anything like a sharp edge that could cut a major artery? or if it is corded, could that be used as a garrote?
how about a video camera to be stuck on your dash and plugged into the ODB2 port, and triggered externally, for 2 weeks, of which it will take 4 hours of video for review. do this to the driving population every 3 years(34% per year) and I'm willing to bet the roads would be safer, as you could even fine cars that were in the videos....
I would say that has to do with the transmission in the motorcycle as well. Most are manual sequential gear boxes, in that they have a clutch that has to be operated.
how DIY if a car are we talking? steel stock to car? how about a kit car? http://www.factoryfive.com/table/ffrkits/orderakit.html as an example. I'm willing to bet I could do a better DIY baby monitor than the $50 graco one I have, that makes no effort to filter background noise at all, can't monitor 2 channels at once(despite being a 2 room system) I'm willing to bet an AVR/PIC + fm transmitter/receiver would work better, or mybe a zigbee radio.
The pacemaker I do agree with you on, the rest of the list not so much.
but DENY lets the remote know you do exist, where as DROP makes you a black hole. I prefer TARPIT myself, but thats reserved for the throttling rules of things like my ssh blocker, and such.
some of us love 3d space puzzles. even something as simple as "fold paper like so, punch holes, now pick the correct unfolded paper" will entertain me for a while. It's better if the puzzles are harder, like that MC escher game on the ps3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome I have a feeling that once fold.it comes back online after the slashdotting I'll be able to waste hours folding things.
Applications like video encoding and offline 3D rendering show the real strengths of the Phenom II X6. And thanks to Turbo Core, you don't give up any performance in less threaded applications compared to a Phenom II X4. The 1090T can easily trump the Core i7 860 and the 1055T can do even better against the Core i5 750.
Yes the gaming benchmarks are in favor of Intel slightly, but how much of that is due to most games being 2-3 threads max, and them being optimized for Intel, or how much is the AMD chip really being slower. I'm willing to bet that the 1090T is about as good as and equivalent Intel when coupled with a 5670 or gtx260, and 8GB ram, but yet will crush that same Intel chip when I go to encode my dvd rip to h264... hmm looks like AMD wins in my book, along with the socket 1337 board being more expensive than AM3 AMD boards.
"take this exclusive deal or no intel CPUs for you" "take this deal or all you get is last model celerons and atoms." "Take this deal or we delay sending you the newest chips until launch, and you will be 3-6 months be hind your competition in getting something to market"
Take your pick of the above, all which would have destroyed Dell back in the day of P3s.
really? whats competative at the $300 point with AMD Phenom II X6 1090T from Intel? No really, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225 is probably the best at stock speeds and it's only a 2.8ghz quad core(yes yes hyper-threading, but it doesn't work as well as real cores last I heard) 130W, and uses more expensive motherboards than the AMD.
A $300 cpu isn't really "low end", more like upper mid range. Sure the i7-980X will beat the pants off the 1090T, but you can buy 3 1090T's for the same price as the 980X. You certainly can do 2(including ram and motherboard), for the $1000 the 980X commands.
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Michael Sweet, who owns Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997. The first public betas appeared in 1999.[2] The original design of CUPS used the LPD protocol, but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux.[citation needed] In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[3] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS#History
Apple has not in fact "wrote and open sourced cups". Apple hired the guy that wrote it, and bought the code and are now claiming the whole history of cups. GNU/Linux distributions has been using cups much longer than Apple.
make sure the screen isn't some 1024x600 either, how about 1280x768@9" or higher dpi.
i'll take a 5 point harness and a helmet and HANS device, over your airbags any day. I'm completely ok with adding sensors, but taking control away from the driver is asking for problems. I don't even like automatic transmissions (DSG or hydraulic) for that reason, if i step down I want the car to react now. Also very few modern cars are really direct injection, most inject into the air stream going to the engine valves, not into the cylinder, making them at best a lower maintenance carb.
modern ABS... hmm so all of those late 90's early 2000's cars are probably not equipped to that. Also if the diver is driving correctly he/she shouldn't be close enough to another car to need ABS. Well maybe if another driver cuts them off, and then breaks hard, but if you are doing that you caused the accident and ABS won't help much. To this day I have yet to have ABS come on in dry conditions, but i find it sucks for slowly stopping at a stop sign in the snow/ice. in my '95 it fails to detect wheel movement at around 5mph, and thinks i've locked a wheel up, i haven't i've gotten out and looked before. no sliding at all.
which is not how ABS works, maybe if it applied the brakes little enough to keep the wheels rolling, but nope, it's full on then full off, then full on again. Thats the real problem, also a good driver can get the wheels unlocked and the car corrected faster than ABS works.
Personally i've slid 5-10 feet into intersections because of ABS when it is slick out. The ABS sensors in my older car do not work well at 5 MPH (this is by design it looks like, they can only detect movements of s certain angular distance, i think it was about 20 degrees), and so they come on, and i end up in the intersection, instead of stopped where I should have been.
how about we remove the air bags, and move to anchored 5 point harnesses, and helmets with HANS devices. I'll keep the wheels, and the steering wheel ideas though. Airbags are dumb, an attempt to keep the squishy meat bag from hitting something hard when they are being tossed around the car. It's much simpler to simply stop the meat bag flying around in the first place. My kids are in 5 point harnesses attached to the seat frames, why not me too?
The bus stop is 1/8 mile from my house. It's the work end thats the problem. It's in the manufacturing/warehouse north east part of town. No side walks(not a pedesterian area), has large trucks(hauling metal scraps to be recycled), and is 35mph 2 way with cars parked on the shoulder.
The wikipedia article is right, it is a nice place to live, as long as you have a car. The bus problem is also that I go through 3-4 cities to get to work, each has it's own bus system. The drive is ~20 minutes, the bus ride is 1:35:00, looks like they have added a bus stop since i last looked, it's down to a 1 mile walk, without sidewalks, such.
I see the bus/train problem like this, no one rides the bus/train because it doesn't work well, it doesn't work well because no one rides the bus/train.
1 of 10, it really should have a min score above 1. Anyone logged in is likely to get a 1. Much like this post.
nearest bus stop to my work was 3 miles, in the warehouse district with no sidewalks, in 4 feet of snow at -20F(~-29c) before windchill and I only live 11-12 miles from work. So yes, just about everyone here will need a car unless they live in the heart of downtown and don't mind walking when it's -20F to -40F(before windchill), or though downtown areas with no sidewalks, in a snow bank or down the road with the cars.
Location: Minneapolis MN.
that was due to the slow rate of terminals at ~8 chars/second back in the day. copy would have taken you 2 times as long to type, and don't forget each char had to be sent to the computer and then sent back to your display. meaning typing copy took at minimum 1 second at 8 baud.
no the other volvo wouldn't exceed the 3-MPH that triggers the missiles.
IDK, the suspensions in newer cars(not that mcpherson strut shit) I hear are much better than those in 1968 and such.
Think if enough force is used it could bash in your skull? how about anything like a sharp edge that could cut a major artery? or if it is corded, could that be used as a garrote?
You just need to think about it harder.
no, you just need to replace all of the cars all at once with the autonomous ones, and add info to the roadway for them at the same time.
how about a video camera to be stuck on your dash and plugged into the ODB2 port, and triggered externally, for 2 weeks, of which it will take 4 hours of video for review. do this to the driving population every 3 years(34% per year) and I'm willing to bet the roads would be safer, as you could even fine cars that were in the videos....
Privacy on the open motorway be damned.
I would say that has to do with the transmission in the motorcycle as well. Most are manual sequential gear boxes, in that they have a clutch that has to be operated.
The helmet was a good idea. How about one of those MotoGP air bag suits?
so, is it multi-threaded? because it seems to use 1-4 cores max, from the benchmark numbers i see....
how DIY if a car are we talking? steel stock to car? how about a kit car? http://www.factoryfive.com/table/ffrkits/orderakit.html as an example. I'm willing to bet I could do a better DIY baby monitor than the $50 graco one I have, that makes no effort to filter background noise at all, can't monitor 2 channels at once(despite being a 2 room system) I'm willing to bet an AVR/PIC + fm transmitter/receiver would work better, or mybe a zigbee radio.
The pacemaker I do agree with you on, the rest of the list not so much.
but DENY lets the remote know you do exist, where as DROP makes you a black hole. I prefer TARPIT myself, but thats reserved for the throttling rules of things like my ssh blocker, and such.
some of us love 3d space puzzles. even something as simple as "fold paper like so, punch holes, now pick the correct unfolded paper" will entertain me for a while. It's better if the puzzles are harder, like that MC escher game on the ps3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome I have a feeling that once fold.it comes back online after the slashdotting I'll be able to waste hours folding things.
and even a few feet is into the few nanosecond region... about that of current ram, no fancy electrons -> laser -> electrons conversion.
Did you look at the anandtech benchmarks?
Applications like video encoding and offline 3D rendering show the real strengths of the Phenom II X6. And thanks to Turbo Core, you don't give up any performance in less threaded applications compared to a Phenom II X4. The 1090T can easily trump the Core i7 860 and the 1055T can do even better against the Core i5 750.
Yes the gaming benchmarks are in favor of Intel slightly, but how much of that is due to most games being 2-3 threads max, and them being optimized for Intel, or how much is the AMD chip really being slower. I'm willing to bet that the 1090T is about as good as and equivalent Intel when coupled with a 5670 or gtx260, and 8GB ram, but yet will crush that same Intel chip when I go to encode my dvd rip to h264... hmm looks like AMD wins in my book, along with the socket 1337 board being more expensive than AM3 AMD boards.
"take this exclusive deal or no intel CPUs for you"
"take this deal or all you get is last model celerons and atoms."
"Take this deal or we delay sending you the newest chips until launch, and you will be 3-6 months be hind your competition in getting something to market"
Take your pick of the above, all which would have destroyed Dell back in the day of P3s.
really? whats competative at the $300 point with AMD Phenom II X6 1090T from Intel? No really, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225 is probably the best at stock speeds and it's only a 2.8ghz quad core(yes yes hyper-threading, but it doesn't work as well as real cores last I heard) 130W, and uses more expensive motherboards than the AMD.
A $300 cpu isn't really "low end", more like upper mid range. Sure the i7-980X will beat the pants off the 1090T, but you can buy 3 1090T's for the same price as the 980X. You certainly can do 2(including ram and motherboard), for the $1000 the 980X commands.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed for some numbers.