Looks to me more like the graphics system is overheading based on the graphical glitches being displayed when it freezes.
I'd troll and say that ATI has a tendency of not cooling their products enough, but I would expect that something like this should have been tested under extreme conditions.
Maybe it's just the people who keep the unit on carpet or put it under their TV with the door closed are having problems? Guess we'll have to wait and see
If he sues the should just stop selling the book. They can choose which products they want to sell and if they stop selling the book all of those related comments will disappear. Lawsuit settled.
CableCard requires strong DRM -- much stronger than is possible in XP.
Is that to license or to operate? Seems to me that the cable card is mostly just hardware and someone else could write software that allowed it to work without restrictions. If it lets the video into the PC for viewing one should be able to record it whether there's any soft or broadcast flag or not.
And now you have to setup a database and get everyone to register, and write software to make all the different GPS units compatible and hire people to administer the system and the consumer is still paying for all of this in the end... I really don't see the benefit.
Thanks for clarifying, Mooga. That seems like a weird way for AOL to code their app, but...
They definately just added the buddies to your remote buddylist they maintain on their servers, so unless your client doesn't pull it's buddylist from the servers (and most do now) you should get the list.
Trillian I know will pull the list from the servers the first time you make an account. After that, though, I'm not sure it does. This can be annoying if you sign on with aimexpress and add someone to your list and then come home to trillian only to find you have to add the friend again. I had some spats with that in the past.
Easier? How are you going to keep track of how much each trucks/truck company owes each state? That's going to cost a lot of overhead for administration and end up costing you more in the end.
Yes, costing you more. Either you pay it as a tax or you pay it in increased prices at the register. Lots of stuff got more expensive as gas prices went up. Do a tax on the companies/truckers and you'll get the same increases, plus you'll be paying a group to keep track of who owes which state how much money.
Obviously, or trucking company mentioned in the article wouldn't have "tested 4 trucks, noticed a substantial cost savings and decided to outfit the entire fleet"
But probably not really, because I don't think you need nearly as much hydrogen as your 383mL. I have a feeling the mixture is more like 10% of the fuel used, not the fuel-air mixture as a whole. The mix as a whole contains a substantial amount of air, especially for diesel. Since diesel injects fuel after the air is compressed, I'd assume they inject a hydrogen+diesel mixture or the hydrogen would ignite the compression cycle was completed (if you were injecting with the air).
But I don't think a large shipping company (Great Plains Trucking) would outfit their fleet after testing on 4 trucks if it didn't work on those 4 trucks.
Not on AIM you aren't. I thought if both of you are using the latest AIM clients you are. AFAIK, they started at v5, but I use GAIM on gentoo, so I guess what do I know?
AIMBots require such a low level integration with the game engine that they pretty much don't exist. (Occasionally the poppup, but they disappear quickly with game patches)
Quite complaining that you got sniped. You sound like this guy
The bots didn't add you, AOL added the bots for yo
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The true question is: why did my IM client forgot to ask me about those new contacts? I would have denied those bots in the click of my mouse...
If someone adds YOU to THEIR buddylist, then you are notified. If YOU add SOMEONE to your buddylist, you are not notified (since you added them).
Here AOL added these two buddies to everyone's buddylist. This is easy enough since AOL has stored a copy of your buddylist on it's server for years. Clients connect and then sysnchronize the buddylist. The buddies showed up in your client durring the sync. As far as your client knew, you logged in on a different computer and added these two names yourself (thus putting them in the server-side buddylist). The fact that AOL added the names on your behalf is transparent to the client.
Well, industry has been using "mythical" catalysyts for years then. You'll be hard pressed to find industrial applications where electrolosis is performed that are less than 70% efficient. Norsk Hydro, produces some nice ones Norsk Hydro Electrolysers (NHE) is today a leading producer of alkaline electrolysers. Some of NHE's electrolysers have an efficiency of over 80% (high heating value). (http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/hydrogen/report_6 -2002/22871.html)
There was also an article/news brief I found last time this was being discussed on http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/ describing using certain mildly radioactive elements to improve Water=>Hydrogen up to the 90%s
If your father noticed a change in the energy bill, you must have been producing a LOT of hydrogen really quickly (and probably put a lot of salt in it). I did the same thing as a kid with small batteries, and they tend to be limited to arround 1 A max output. Given that water is a poor conductor, I have a feeling it wasn't drawing the full 1000mA, esp since it lasted for several hours.
Disconecting the alternator (which many cars do right now to increase fuel efficiency) should save more gasoline than seperating the water to hydrogen/oxygen.
I tried this in my car once. But it turns out the radio, headlights, blinkers, breaklights, rear A/C & Heating, and, oh yes, spark plugs all run on electricity generated by the alternator. Needless to say my battery died pretty quickly.
Cars don't disconnected the alternator. The need it to keep the combustion cycle going.
You can turn off electronics to save fuel (less current = easier to turn alternator) but disconnecting the alternator won't work for more than a few hundred miles at best.
Yes, but the more current you draw, the more the alternator serves as a brake on the engine.
True, but the amount of current required for electrolosis is very low, probably low enough to have a negligable breaking effect (say, slowing the fly wheel by less than 0.1%). Water=>Hydrogen can be very efficient (80%+ quite easily) but you can't regain that energy by burning hydrogen and making water again.
However, if you can improve the efficiecy of the diesel burn by, say 5% while only requiring a few mA of current for electrolosis you can end up with a net increase in energy.
I was skeptical when I first saw this on slashdot, but it's hard to look away when a shipping company actually measured increased gas mileage.
The faster and farther we get away from oil the better IMHO. I think the bonus should be the extra MPG, and the environmental impact should be the reason. We can spare a few $$$ for environmentally friendlier vehicles.
I totally agree, but I don't think you'll get where you want to be with that attitude. If money doesn't come first, we'll likely spend lots of money on things that don't make a significantly larger impact than on potentially cheaper things that weren't invented because everyone was spending money on the expensive items.
Yes, a market needs to be developed by spending some money, but I'd much rather see a lot of less expensive methods (such as this one) start going into cars without price increase in the next 2 years than 1 Fuelcell car that hardly anyone can afford in 5 years, even if it delays that fuel cell car by an additional 2-5 years. Changing habbits and spending a few $ (not $$$) will help force the discovery of cheaper solutions in a way unlimited research budgets often don't.
Wha? I always thought the stereotypical trucker was pissed about how much gas prices were cutting into their income (or the corporation was if the trucker didn't own his rig).
In either case the diesel is cutting into someones proffits and someone is eager to cut costs. Maybe the ends isn't a decrease in pollution, but it's a natural by product in using less fuel, which is a major goal for any semi-truck owner.
To me, it seems that if your CD is really stolen, you can still use the back-up you have. That's part of fair use, isn't it? Backups in case of fire or theft or hurricanes, etc
I was about to modify you insightful, but I have to comment on this. The above quote is false. If you loose the origional, you loose all rights. If you are going to make backup copies, you should store the origionals in a safe location.
I used to have all my Backup CDs in the car. That way if they got stolen, no big deal. I can make more. Now if the origionals were in my car and were stolen, neither I nor the theif would techincally have rights to the songs (since I don't have the origional, and he stole them)
Replacement Insurnance is for fire, theft, flood, etc. Backups are so you don't have to put the origionals in situations where they can get damaged or stolen.
KOTOR isn't movie specific, though. It takes place well before the prequels. He wasn't talking about star wars games other than movie games. XWing, KOTOR, etc were good games, but I have to agree about the movie based titles, which pretty much all sucked...
Gentoo has significantly more vulnerabilites than Fedora, even if you add up all the vulnerabilities for all 4 cores (not that those raw numbers really matter in the end as long as they all get patched)
Well, first I'd like to irraterate what you already pointed out, that neither has unpatched vulnerabilities.
Second, you're comparing EVERY release of Gentoo ever to Fedora Core 4.0. Notice how Fedora Core 4.0 doesn't have any vulnerabilities before Feb 2005? That's because it didn't exist much before then.
You forgot the 186 patched vulerabilities in FC 3, the 132 patched vulnerabilities in FC 2, and the 74 patched vulnerabilities in FC 1.
No, that 448 patched vulerabilities is much less than the 746 vulnerabilities for Gentoo, but that's a stupid rubrik anyway. 746 vulerabilities covers the entire portage tree, where as 448 vulnerabilities only covers those packages distributed on the RedHat installation media.
Keep your meta distribution, it's no skin off my nose. But at least attempt to make like comparisons in your arguments.
No. RAM needs to be wiped to securely erase it. Forensics teams can retrieve data from RAM even after power-down.
You're obviosly thinking of a different type of solid state memory. RAM is a leaky bucket. If you don't provide a refresh, the high-voltage ones quickly degrade to low-voltage equating to 0s. This is "bad ram" occurs and this can happen even if the computer is on.
When you turn the computer off, you are not providing the nessicary refresh the many times per second required to keep the memory fed. Sure, if you got to the memory within a matter of minutes you might be able to discern enough difference in the now all low-voltage levels to say "that was probably a 1 and that was probably a 0" but that's not likely.
Their website is linked in the article brief.. They state right on the website that the purpose of the software is for spying on other people who use the computer.
This isn't your normal spyware (think adware). From what I gather reading their website, the software doesn't communicate back to the internet to store private information in some database. It also doesn't try to sneak itself into your computer. You have to pay to download it even.
Essentially it's a keylogger, and the antispyware company could easily have added its signature without actually installing the program. Read the website and you know how to classify it, extract the binaries from the installer, get a signature and add it to your database and you've never been presented with the EULA. Should be open and shut...
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Looks to me more like the graphics system is overheading based on the graphical glitches being displayed when it freezes.
I'd troll and say that ATI has a tendency of not cooling their products enough, but I would expect that something like this should have been tested under extreme conditions.
Maybe it's just the people who keep the unit on carpet or put it under their TV with the door closed are having problems? Guess we'll have to wait and see
If he sues the should just stop selling the book. They can choose which products they want to sell and if they stop selling the book all of those related comments will disappear. Lawsuit settled.
CableCard requires strong DRM -- much stronger than is possible in XP.
Is that to license or to operate? Seems to me that the cable card is mostly just hardware and someone else could write software that allowed it to work without restrictions. If it lets the video into the PC for viewing one should be able to record it whether there's any soft or broadcast flag or not.
And now you have to setup a database and get everyone to register, and write software to make all the different GPS units compatible and hire people to administer the system and the consumer is still paying for all of this in the end... I really don't see the benefit.
Thanks for clarifying, Mooga. That seems like a weird way for AOL to code their app, but...
They definately just added the buddies to your remote buddylist they maintain on their servers, so unless your client doesn't pull it's buddylist from the servers (and most do now) you should get the list.
Trillian I know will pull the list from the servers the first time you make an account. After that, though, I'm not sure it does. This can be annoying if you sign on with aimexpress and add someone to your list and then come home to trillian only to find you have to add the friend again. I had some spats with that in the past.
Easier? How are you going to keep track of how much each trucks/truck company owes each state? That's going to cost a lot of overhead for administration and end up costing you more in the end.
Yes, costing you more. Either you pay it as a tax or you pay it in increased prices at the register. Lots of stuff got more expensive as gas prices went up. Do a tax on the companies/truckers and you'll get the same increases, plus you'll be paying a group to keep track of who owes which state how much money.
Tax is cheaper.
Will one get better than 7 horsepower in return?
Obviously, or trucking company mentioned in the article wouldn't have "tested 4 trucks, noticed a substantial cost savings and decided to outfit the entire fleet"
But probably not really, because I don't think you need nearly as much hydrogen as your 383mL.
I have a feeling the mixture is more like 10% of the fuel used, not the fuel-air mixture as a whole. The mix as a whole contains a substantial amount of air, especially for diesel. Since diesel injects fuel after the air is compressed, I'd assume they inject a hydrogen+diesel mixture or the hydrogen would ignite the compression cycle was completed (if you were injecting with the air).
But I don't think a large shipping company (Great Plains Trucking) would outfit their fleet after testing on 4 trucks if it didn't work on those 4 trucks.
Not on AIM you aren't.
I thought if both of you are using the latest AIM clients you are. AFAIK, they started at v5, but I use GAIM on gentoo, so I guess what do I know?
Well, they pay those taxes to. I suppose you could make large trucks illegal and force rail transfer instead.
That would mean every department store would require at least 1 rail line running right up to it. That's a lot of train crossings to stop for...
AIMBots require such a low level integration with the game engine that they pretty much don't exist. (Occasionally the poppup, but they disappear quickly with game patches)
Quite complaining that you got sniped. You sound like this guy
The true question is: why did my IM client forgot to ask me about those new contacts? I would have denied those bots in the click of my mouse...
If someone adds YOU to THEIR buddylist, then you are notified. If YOU add SOMEONE to your buddylist, you are not notified (since you added them).
Here AOL added these two buddies to everyone's buddylist. This is easy enough since AOL has stored a copy of your buddylist on it's server for years. Clients connect and then sysnchronize the buddylist. The buddies showed up in your client durring the sync. As far as your client knew, you logged in on a different computer and added these two names yourself (thus putting them in the server-side buddylist). The fact that AOL added the names on your behalf is transparent to the client.
So that's why.
Well, industry has been using "mythical" catalysyts for years then. You'll be hard pressed to find industrial applications where electrolosis is performed that are less than 70% efficient. Norsk Hydro, produces some nice ones6 -2002/22871.html)
Norsk Hydro Electrolysers (NHE) is today a leading producer of alkaline electrolysers. Some of NHE's electrolysers have an efficiency of over 80% (high heating value). (http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/hydrogen/report_
There was also an article/news brief I found last time this was being discussed on http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/ describing using certain mildly radioactive elements to improve Water=>Hydrogen up to the 90%s
If your father noticed a change in the energy bill, you must have been producing a LOT of hydrogen really quickly (and probably put a lot of salt in it). I did the same thing as a kid with small batteries, and they tend to be limited to arround 1 A max output. Given that water is a poor conductor, I have a feeling it wasn't drawing the full 1000mA, esp since it lasted for several hours.
Yeah, I thought about that after I hit send...
Disconecting the alternator (which many cars do right now to increase fuel efficiency) should save more gasoline than seperating the water to hydrogen/oxygen.
I tried this in my car once. But it turns out the radio, headlights, blinkers, breaklights, rear A/C & Heating, and, oh yes, spark plugs all run on electricity generated by the alternator. Needless to say my battery died pretty quickly.
Cars don't disconnected the alternator. The need it to keep the combustion cycle going.
You can turn off electronics to save fuel (less current = easier to turn alternator) but disconnecting the alternator won't work for more than a few hundred miles at best.
Yes, but the more current you draw, the more the alternator serves as a brake on the engine.
True, but the amount of current required for electrolosis is very low, probably low enough to have a negligable breaking effect (say, slowing the fly wheel by less than 0.1%). Water=>Hydrogen can be very efficient (80%+ quite easily) but you can't regain that energy by burning hydrogen and making water again.
However, if you can improve the efficiecy of the diesel burn by, say 5% while only requiring a few mA of current for electrolosis you can end up with a net increase in energy.
I was skeptical when I first saw this on slashdot, but it's hard to look away when a shipping company actually measured increased gas mileage.
to make diesel burn cleaner and more efficiently. It may a useful device, but does nothing to reduce dependance on oil.
Cleaner + More Efficient burn = Less Diesel Used
Less Diesel Used = Less Oil Demanded + Lower Oil Prices
No, it's not a flat out alternative to oil, but it certainly reduces our dependence. Perhaps you meant "cut" instead of "reduce"?
The faster and farther we get away from oil the better IMHO. I think the bonus should be the extra MPG, and the environmental impact should be the reason. We can spare a few $$$ for environmentally friendlier vehicles.
I totally agree, but I don't think you'll get where you want to be with that attitude. If money doesn't come first, we'll likely spend lots of money on things that don't make a significantly larger impact than on potentially cheaper things that weren't invented because everyone was spending money on the expensive items.
Yes, a market needs to be developed by spending some money, but I'd much rather see a lot of less expensive methods (such as this one) start going into cars without price increase in the next 2 years than 1 Fuelcell car that hardly anyone can afford in 5 years, even if it delays that fuel cell car by an additional 2-5 years. Changing habbits and spending a few $ (not $$$) will help force the discovery of cheaper solutions in a way unlimited research budgets often don't.
Have a tissue???
Wha? I always thought the stereotypical trucker was pissed about how much gas prices were cutting into their income (or the corporation was if the trucker didn't own his rig).
In either case the diesel is cutting into someones proffits and someone is eager to cut costs. Maybe the ends isn't a decrease in pollution, but it's a natural by product in using less fuel, which is a major goal for any semi-truck owner.
To me, it seems that if your CD is really stolen, you can still use the back-up you have. That's part of fair use, isn't it? Backups in case of fire or theft or hurricanes, etc
I was about to modify you insightful, but I have to comment on this. The above quote is false. If you loose the origional, you loose all rights. If you are going to make backup copies, you should store the origionals in a safe location.
I used to have all my Backup CDs in the car. That way if they got stolen, no big deal. I can make more. Now if the origionals were in my car and were stolen, neither I nor the theif would techincally have rights to the songs (since I don't have the origional, and he stole them)
Replacement Insurnance is for fire, theft, flood, etc. Backups are so you don't have to put the origionals in situations where they can get damaged or stolen.
KOTOR isn't movie specific, though. It takes place well before the prequels. He wasn't talking about star wars games other than movie games. XWing, KOTOR, etc were good games, but I have to agree about the movie based titles, which pretty much all sucked...
Gentoo has significantly more vulnerabilites than Fedora, even if you add up all the vulnerabilities for all 4 cores (not that those raw numbers really matter in the end as long as they all get patched)
Well, first I'd like to irraterate what you already pointed out, that neither has unpatched vulnerabilities.
Second, you're comparing EVERY release of Gentoo ever to Fedora Core 4.0. Notice how Fedora Core 4.0 doesn't have any vulnerabilities before Feb 2005? That's because it didn't exist much before then.
You forgot the 186 patched vulerabilities in FC 3, the 132 patched vulnerabilities in FC 2, and the 74 patched vulnerabilities in FC 1.
No, that 448 patched vulerabilities is much less than the 746 vulnerabilities for Gentoo, but that's a stupid rubrik anyway. 746 vulerabilities covers the entire portage tree, where as 448 vulnerabilities only covers those packages distributed on the RedHat installation media.
Keep your meta distribution, it's no skin off my nose. But at least attempt to make like comparisons in your arguments.
No. RAM needs to be wiped to securely erase it. Forensics teams can retrieve data from RAM even after power-down.
You're obviosly thinking of a different type of solid state memory. RAM is a leaky bucket. If you don't provide a refresh, the high-voltage ones quickly degrade to low-voltage equating to 0s. This is "bad ram" occurs and this can happen even if the computer is on.
When you turn the computer off, you are not providing the nessicary refresh the many times per second required to keep the memory fed. Sure, if you got to the memory within a matter of minutes you might be able to discern enough difference in the now all low-voltage levels to say "that was probably a 1 and that was probably a 0" but that's not likely.
Modern Forensics companies seem to agree
Will you get time to wipe that machine's memory and powerdown cleanly if a squad of policemen break the door down?
Um... RAM is volitile. I think I can tap the powerbutton on the surgestrip with my foot, yes...
Their website is linked in the article brief.. They state right on the website that the purpose of the software is for spying on other people who use the computer.
This isn't your normal spyware (think adware). From what I gather reading their website, the software doesn't communicate back to the internet to store private information in some database. It also doesn't try to sneak itself into your computer. You have to pay to download it even.
Essentially it's a keylogger, and the antispyware company could easily have added its signature without actually installing the program. Read the website and you know how to classify it, extract the binaries from the installer, get a signature and add it to your database and you've never been presented with the EULA. Should be open and shut...