While Im not the engineer that you seek, I do have a thought or two on this. I think the biggest problem would be the torque drivetrain issue. Those little turbines are great at producing torque once they are at their most efficient level, but horrible when spooling up. So, you would have to set the engine to it's most efficient setting and then make the drivetrain handle the acceleration and that means CVT. CVT's, while in a few cars from Honda and Audi, aren't mainstream at all, and as I remember, still have some drawbacks like rubber banding and not being able to handle a lot of power (chain snaps). So, as a guess, I would say the engine itself is a drawback when coupled to a strong drivetrain, and I don't think a drivetrain exists yet to handle these engines when they are used in a CVT setup.
Ya know, while the article was short, it was nice to see mozillaquest take great pains to ensure that they added no bias of their own, but instead simply acted as a scribe. Nice to see.
How about Roaches in an IBM
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When I was doing my time as a bench tech, a guy brought in his IBM desktop, complaining that it had turned itself on, smoked and will not work anymore. We figured lightening. When he brought it in, it had the yellow staines of a smoker, but nothing else to tip us off. I opened the box and dozens of roaches came pooring out. We had to bag it up and call the guy, telling him that we couldn't work on his PC under warranty because IBM refused to pay for bug bomb! The roaches had curled up in his power supply, nested there and started eating the cables. To this day my skin still crawls when I see one of those IBM desktops.
Most of us have meals that are, well lacking, due to the 10 minute cooking constrait that a lot of us find ourselves on. Any reccomendations for foods that can be cooked quickly and without a lot of mess, but that don't cause us to lose our girlish figure or our tastebuds due to lack of work? Bonus points for high reheatability.
First NT3, then NT4 (without DVD support). Next Win2k (NT5?, with some DVD support). In 2019, MS releases NT7 and it destroys all of North America, but still with out really good DVD support.
all I want is a real, honest to god DB9 serial port, an open OS, lots of RAM and at least 32 megs of ROM, an expansion slot and a flash reader. Leave the specs for the slot open so that anyone can design for it, or just make it PCMCIA. I really just want that DB9. It would be sweet to plug into a router or a console port and just work away on my 640x240 screen in a pinch.
It has been a long time since I have played with a MS OS, never mind packet forwarding on one, so I may be pulling all of this out of my ass.
Linux can ...
Forward internal IPSec traffic
support games and services that arent designed to operate behind a firewall, e.g. ICU
TOS baby TOS
Easy plugin interface makes for a nice road to add new services support
Run on hardware that you wouldnt use even as a doorstop
And last but not least
costs you nothing
Now the last time I tried to do this in windows you still had to buy 3rd party apps, so if Im wrong on any of these points, please someone correct me.
www.cyborgworkshop.com...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
You know, regardless of how you feel about Intel or Transmeta, this proves that competition is a great thing. When we just had AMD vs Intel, it was all about Mhz. Who would get to 1 gig first and then beyond. Now we have Transmeta and suddenly its not just about fast, but efficient also. This is really what the MS trial should be about. Agree to Disagree that Microsoft is a monopoly, but they really dont have the competition that Intel has in AMD/Transmeta. Good things come to the consumer from competition, and after playing with Windows ME, MS could definetly use a Good Thing.
Throw another in the pit here. My first firewall was 2.2 on a 486sx 33, no issues. I then went to the 2.3 and 2.4 test stuff, still no problems. It seems to me that the sweet spot for the kernel has always been a 486, but remember, its all in the compile. My current firewall is sitting on a K6-2 450, but that machine does a lot more then what my old 486 used to do.
I really dont feel that its that big of an issue. My take on the whole thing is a simple one. I dont care much for the current crop of MS OS's, they have proven themselves to be buggy, unreliable and MS has shown that it is incapable of altering this. I would like to see my users look at rebooting their PC as a last resort or a joyful event because it means new hardware is being added instead of a daily occurnce just to have some hint of productivity. If a Unix OS makes it to the desktop, be it BSD/X or Linux or whatever, we all win.
For our house, we ended spending the most amount of our cash on small speakers that could produce some nice highs and then using a relativly high cross over point on our subwoofer. Something about our living room just seemed to suck the highs out of pretty much any speaker we could find until we bought 4 infinity reference monitors and a sony center channel. Tied it all to a Velvodine (sp?) 10 inch powered sub, ran the optics out of the DVD and into the pioneer receiever, plummed the whole thing via SVideo into an RCA projection TV. Only regret is owning the projection TV, the colors just arent there like in a tube.
A few issues comes to mind here. While I do agree that we should really consider what killing the banners does to sites like slashdot that are powered by advertising revenue, I have never been one to follow the herd when forced into a single option. I would be more then happy to support banner powered sites that I visit with the actual cash that the banner would provide if I had the option to. As it stands, I dont. Im told 'this is our revenue stream. Like it or dont visit' instead of being given the option to support them myself. This is a great application for some neat technologies that few people have been willing to adopt because of lack of need. I think it was ebucks or something, that many months ago was pushing internet money. I dont think they are seeing much use though because very few shops are using ebucks but still rely on checks or credit cards or whatever.
So lets try this on for size
Ad supported sites give me an option, I can use the free-to-me site plugged with banner ads and doubleclicks digital peeping tom software. The site remains free to me, albeit a little more obtrusive depending on the type of ads, and slashdot can still pay their OH.
Or, I sign up for some digital cash site that I pay into every month. When I visit slashdot, Im treated to a bannerless page that debits my account the amount that would have been generated by the banner ads (BTW, those of you that are guessing at $.02 are being WAY optimistic, think tenths of pennies).
Of course the security implications are there, but these are the same concerns that we have had for every online transaction. This would be a huge thing for companys like ecash, not because they would see usage, but because they would create mindshare. Digital money will go nowhere until it gets its own killer app. This just might be it.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Oh well. I didnt like my Karma that much anyway. At some point Slashdot, and Im talking to you guys in charge of approving the content, needs to wake up and remember that they are in control of a lumbering internet beast. You can't just point hundreds of thousand of users to a small web site and not expect to kill it. Nevermind one in JAPAN for gods sake. The whole damn place is connected to the net with 4 AOL accounts, 2 deaf monks doing sign langauge and a very tiny guy in a suit that just got tired of the lag and decided to get out and push. Something really does need to be done here. Notify the admins before posting a story, mirror the site locally, have a mirror pool of users that will mirror sites before a story hits. Do Something! We wouldnt stand for it if CNN burned down the house of the person they just interviewed, why should/. be any different? Come on Rob, you have the bandwidth. Time to be one of the big kids and use it for something other then a DoS attack on unsuspecting Japanese lego maniacs.
Time to put the gorilla on a leash guys.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Hey man relax. This was just one of those late night what-ifs, as I pointed out. Lets see, the rope trick. Ok, but in the case of the brontosaur, what would be the rope? It seems to me that the way the beast is built its body would only serve as a fulcrum and its tail would have a similar, although lesser problem, as it's head. The rope trick worked great because the load was distributed across the rope and my shoulders (yes or no, this is conjecture on my part), the dinosaurs neck doesn't have such an advantage.
As far as musculature goes. I cant recall who stated that theory, I did read and hear it many times (maybe from the same source in a different medium, I don't recall). It wasn't that the arm was a good correlation, but rather that the build was. The density and what not as opposed to say an ants muscle build.
you're right, I don't have a background in mechanical engineering. But even so, I think your point would be much better taken with a trifle less arrogance, especially when I have clearly stated that this is NOT based on research. Just the ramblings of a wayward geek.
Oh yeah, why compare a cantilever bridge to a dinos neck? Isn't that apples and Volvos?
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
I have a little to add to that theory in challenge.
While I agree that the dinosaur couldn't hold it's neck up in today's conditions, I doubt the earth was much like it is today back then. Now this is based on no real research, just late night conjecture, so if Im way off base, feel free to smack me once or twice. Lets begin with where I agree.
For a dinosaur, like the Brontosaurus, to be able to hold it's head high like a giraffe, It's heart would have to be almost the size of a Buick and it's blood pressure would require veins of iron. It's pretty much agreed that in this world, the dinosaurs wouldn't survive simply because gravity would kill them.
Now, where I deviate. I don't think gravity was then what it is now. Try holding your arms out straight for as long as you can. You will fatigue, fast. Now lets say that a dinosaur, at best, has the musculature of a body builder (it is commonly believed to be comparable). Even a body builder can only hold their arms out for a few minutes, at best at hour. A dinosaur in today's gravity just couldn't survive period. Neck high or low.
I believe that gravity in the era of the dinosaurs was much weaker then it is now. That would explain the colossal size of most dinosaurs, and would also give a convenient explanation for the extinction. If gravity increased for whatever reason, the earth cooling and becoming more dense or whatever, the largest dinosaurs would not be able to survive. They would just mysteriously die out. Sounds familiar.
So what do you think? Again, this isn't based on research, just a late night think before bed.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
What are your feelings on presidential term limits?
**Please Omit the following if this question is used**
I feel that term limits are in direct opposition to the democratic process. We pick and choose the best qualified leader and if they do a good job the first time, we have the power to keep them in office. Likewise, if they sucked, we don't vote them back in. This has weighed most heavily on my mind this year with the less then stellar canidates that we have to choose from.
I think that a fair number of people would be happy to pay 4.95 a month to use napster, but that raises two issues. First, I dont think the RIAA would ever bite for that. Why take 500million in 2001, when they can eclipse that several times with normal record sales (assuming of course that you buy into RIAAs claims that napster is killing their profits and that with Napster gone they can regain said lost ground). The more pertinent question I think would be will I pay 4.95 a month to give you access to my harddrive and the bandwidth that I pay for? I think for napster to charge a monthly service fee, then they would need to provide some sort of return so that people wont feel like they are being charged to share out their own harddrive.
jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
That's like me saying 'well my truck has a 360, it had better be faster off the line and corner better then a 'Vette or Im just going to write it off as junk.'
kinda missing the point. If you remember, Transmeta said right off the bat that they are not aiming for an insane amount of MIPS. Transmeta wants to create a well performing computer that is POWER efficient. Adobe Premier wasn't intended to run on a laptop. It's unrealistic, with the current crop of laptops, to even consider it. Laptops are still not a complete replacement for a power users desktop. Transmeta wants to essentially offer a longer power cord for mobile users. That's what they profess, that's what they've done.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geeek shall inherit the earth...
This is not good. Napster has never been something that I cared about or cared to use, but the strong arm tactics that the Music industry has been using concern me greatly. When bands like Metallica go on a Jihad against 'grab-asstic pieces of meat' (gotta love that cartoon) and this is the eventual result, it really puts things into perspective. How much power do the labels really hold over their Artists? Their seems to be a very clear line drawn between the more independent signed artists (offspring, chuck d) and the New-Money type artists. You have to wonder how much snoop dogg really knows about a computer anyways.
www.cyborgworkshop.com ...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
While the internet is supposed to be a self healing creature, one good look at a map of the net will tell you where to strike the death blow. Few major trunks run across the puddle, few major lines are located in any place other then the US. While the net would survive, it would not be able to support the current user base. If say the US just vanished and took all its people with it, I doubt users would see much change other then the obvious ones such as sites being gone and a few extra hops. While the US may hold most of the net in its arms, we also provide the bulk of the traffic. So I would say that the net would survive as long as the user base dropped in proportion to the lines droped.
www.cyborgworkshop.com ...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
In my opinion, 90% of unix sysadmin is intentionally arcane for the job security of sysadmins
and the black helicopters came and swooped up Elvis and JFK just before the aliens landed in Area 51. But no one knows anything about that because its all been covered up by the Proctor and Gamble corporation because it jacks with their plans to turn the entire world over to a satanic cult. It doesnt matter though because the NSA controls most of the US population through subliminal messages and will put an end to all that mess as soon as the Chinese take over the world.
Slashdot Mirror
While Im not the engineer that you seek, I do have a thought or two on this. I think the biggest problem would be the torque drivetrain issue. Those little turbines are great at producing torque once they are at their most efficient level, but horrible when spooling up. So, you would have to set the engine to it's most efficient setting and then make the drivetrain handle the acceleration and that means CVT. CVT's, while in a few cars from Honda and Audi, aren't mainstream at all, and as I remember, still have some drawbacks like rubber banding and not being able to handle a lot of power (chain snaps). So, as a guess, I would say the engine itself is a drawback when coupled to a strong drivetrain, and I don't think a drivetrain exists yet to handle these engines when they are used in a CVT setup.
Ya know, while the article was short, it was nice to see mozillaquest take great pains to ensure that they added no bias of their own, but instead simply acted as a scribe. Nice to see.
When I was doing my time as a bench tech, a guy brought in his IBM desktop, complaining that it had turned itself on, smoked and will not work anymore. We figured lightening. When he brought it in, it had the yellow staines of a smoker, but nothing else to tip us off. I opened the box and dozens of roaches came pooring out. We had to bag it up and call the guy, telling him that we couldn't work on his PC under warranty because IBM refused to pay for bug bomb! The roaches had curled up in his power supply, nested there and started eating the cables. To this day my skin still crawls when I see one of those IBM desktops.
We have all heard of the strangeness that stars have to put up with from their fans. What have been some of your more interesting fan moments?
Most of us have meals that are, well lacking, due to the 10 minute cooking constrait that a lot of us find ourselves on. Any reccomendations for foods that can be cooked quickly and without a lot of mess, but that don't cause us to lose our girlish figure or our tastebuds due to lack of work? Bonus points for high reheatability.
First NT3, then NT4 (without DVD support). Next Win2k (NT5?, with some DVD support). In 2019, MS releases NT7 and it destroys all of North America, but still with out really good DVD support.
Rearden Metal anyone? Better, stronger, lighter, faster, slices, dices, washs the car but held down by The Man.
Yes. wireless data kits are offered for almost all of the PCS phones. You can use them now at 14.4k and will be able to use a similar kit in 3g.
all I want is a real, honest to god DB9 serial port, an open OS, lots of RAM and at least 32 megs of ROM, an expansion slot and a flash reader. Leave the specs for the slot open so that anyone can design for it, or just make it PCMCIA. I really just want that DB9. It would be sweet to plug into a router or a console port and just work away on my 640x240 screen in a pinch.
...
Forward internal IPSec traffic
support games and services that arent designed to operate behind a firewall, e.g. ICU
TOS baby TOS
Easy plugin interface makes for a nice road to add new services support
Run on hardware that you wouldnt use even as a doorstop And last but not least
costs you nothing ...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Now the last time I tried to do this in windows you still had to buy 3rd party apps, so if Im wrong on any of these points, please someone correct me. www.cyborgworkshop.com
You know, regardless of how you feel about Intel or Transmeta, this proves that competition is a great thing. When we just had AMD vs Intel, it was all about Mhz. Who would get to 1 gig first and then beyond. Now we have Transmeta and suddenly its not just about fast, but efficient also. This is really what the MS trial should be about. Agree to Disagree that Microsoft is a monopoly, but they really dont have the competition that Intel has in AMD/Transmeta. Good things come to the consumer from competition, and after playing with Windows ME, MS could definetly use a Good Thing.
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Throw another in the pit here. My first firewall was 2.2 on a 486sx 33, no issues. I then went to the 2.3 and 2.4 test stuff, still no problems. It seems to me that the sweet spot for the kernel has always been a 486, but remember, its all in the compile. My current firewall is sitting on a K6-2 450, but that machine does a lot more then what my old 486 used to do.
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
I really dont feel that its that big of an issue. My take on the whole thing is a simple one. I dont care much for the current crop of MS OS's, they have proven themselves to be buggy, unreliable and MS has shown that it is incapable of altering this. I would like to see my users look at rebooting their PC as a last resort or a joyful event because it means new hardware is being added instead of a daily occurnce just to have some hint of productivity. If a Unix OS makes it to the desktop, be it BSD/X or Linux or whatever, we all win.
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
For our house, we ended spending the most amount of our cash on small speakers that could produce some nice highs and then using a relativly high cross over point on our subwoofer. Something about our living room just seemed to suck the highs out of pretty much any speaker we could find until we bought 4 infinity reference monitors and a sony center channel. Tied it all to a Velvodine (sp?) 10 inch powered sub, ran the optics out of the DVD and into the pioneer receiever, plummed the whole thing via SVideo into an RCA projection TV. Only regret is owning the projection TV, the colors just arent there like in a tube.
So lets try this on for size
Ad supported sites give me an option, I can use the free-to-me site plugged with banner ads and doubleclicks digital peeping tom software. The site remains free to me, albeit a little more obtrusive depending on the type of ads, and slashdot can still pay their OH.
Or, I sign up for some digital cash site that I pay into every month. When I visit slashdot, Im treated to a bannerless page that debits my account the amount that would have been generated by the banner ads (BTW, those of you that are guessing at $.02 are being WAY optimistic, think tenths of pennies). Of course the security implications are there, but these are the same concerns that we have had for every online transaction. This would be a huge thing for companys like ecash, not because they would see usage, but because they would create mindshare. Digital money will go nowhere until it gets its own killer app. This just might be it. Jason www.cyborgworkshop.com ...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Oh well. I didnt like my Karma that much anyway. At some point Slashdot, and Im talking to you guys in charge of approving the content, needs to wake up and remember that they are in control of a lumbering internet beast. You can't just point hundreds of thousand of users to a small web site and not expect to kill it. Nevermind one in JAPAN for gods sake. The whole damn place is connected to the net with 4 AOL accounts, 2 deaf monks doing sign langauge and a very tiny guy in a suit that just got tired of the lag and decided to get out and push. Something really does need to be done here. Notify the admins before posting a story, mirror the site locally, have a mirror pool of users that will mirror sites before a story hits. Do Something! We wouldnt stand for it if CNN burned down the house of the person they just interviewed, why should /. be any different? Come on Rob, you have the bandwidth. Time to be one of the big kids and use it for something other then a DoS attack on unsuspecting Japanese lego maniacs.
Time to put the gorilla on a leash guys.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
Hey man relax. This was just one of those late night what-ifs, as I pointed out. Lets see, the rope trick. Ok, but in the case of the brontosaur, what would be the rope? It seems to me that the way the beast is built its body would only serve as a fulcrum and its tail would have a similar, although lesser problem, as it's head. The rope trick worked great because the load was distributed across the rope and my shoulders (yes or no, this is conjecture on my part), the dinosaurs neck doesn't have such an advantage.
As far as musculature goes. I cant recall who stated that theory, I did read and hear it many times (maybe from the same source in a different medium, I don't recall). It wasn't that the arm was a good correlation, but rather that the build was. The density and what not as opposed to say an ants muscle build.
you're right, I don't have a background in mechanical engineering. But even so, I think your point would be much better taken with a trifle less arrogance, especially when I have clearly stated that this is NOT based on research. Just the ramblings of a wayward geek.
Oh yeah, why compare a cantilever bridge to a dinos neck? Isn't that apples and Volvos?
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
I have a little to add to that theory in challenge.
While I agree that the dinosaur couldn't hold it's neck up in today's conditions, I doubt the earth was much like it is today back then. Now this is based on no real research, just late night conjecture, so if Im way off base, feel free to smack me once or twice. Lets begin with where I agree.
For a dinosaur, like the Brontosaurus, to be able to hold it's head high like a giraffe, It's heart would have to be almost the size of a Buick and it's blood pressure would require veins of iron. It's pretty much agreed that in this world, the dinosaurs wouldn't survive simply because gravity would kill them.
Now, where I deviate. I don't think gravity was then what it is now. Try holding your arms out straight for as long as you can. You will fatigue, fast. Now lets say that a dinosaur, at best, has the musculature of a body builder (it is commonly believed to be comparable). Even a body builder can only hold their arms out for a few minutes, at best at hour. A dinosaur in today's gravity just couldn't survive period. Neck high or low.
I believe that gravity in the era of the dinosaurs was much weaker then it is now. That would explain the colossal size of most dinosaurs, and would also give a convenient explanation for the extinction. If gravity increased for whatever reason, the earth cooling and becoming more dense or whatever, the largest dinosaurs would not be able to survive. They would just mysteriously die out. Sounds familiar.
So what do you think? Again, this isn't based on research, just a late night think before bed.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
I must thank /. for this feature. It has exposed me to issues on non-mainstream candidates that I care about, like encryption and IP.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
What are your feelings on presidential term limits?
**Please Omit the following if this question is used**
I feel that term limits are in direct opposition to the democratic process. We pick and choose the best qualified leader and if they do a good job the first time, we have the power to keep them in office. Likewise, if they sucked, we don't vote them back in. This has weighed most heavily on my mind this year with the less then stellar canidates that we have to choose from.
I think that a fair number of people would be happy to pay 4.95 a month to use napster, but that raises two issues. First, I dont think the RIAA would ever bite for that. Why take 500million in 2001, when they can eclipse that several times with normal record sales (assuming of course that you buy into RIAAs claims that napster is killing their profits and that with Napster gone they can regain said lost ground). The more pertinent question I think would be will I pay 4.95 a month to give you access to my harddrive and the bandwidth that I pay for? I think for napster to charge a monthly service fee, then they would need to provide some sort of return so that people wont feel like they are being charged to share out their own harddrive.
jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
That's like me saying 'well my truck has a 360, it had better be faster off the line and corner better then a 'Vette or Im just going to write it off as junk.'
kinda missing the point. If you remember, Transmeta said right off the bat that they are not aiming for an insane amount of MIPS. Transmeta wants to create a well performing computer that is POWER efficient. Adobe Premier wasn't intended to run on a laptop. It's unrealistic, with the current crop of laptops, to even consider it. Laptops are still not a complete replacement for a power users desktop. Transmeta wants to essentially offer a longer power cord for mobile users. That's what they profess, that's what they've done.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geeek shall inherit the earth...
This is not good. Napster has never been something that I cared about or cared to use, but the strong arm tactics that the Music industry has been using concern me greatly. When bands like Metallica go on a Jihad against 'grab-asstic pieces of meat' (gotta love that cartoon) and this is the eventual result, it really puts things into perspective. How much power do the labels really hold over their Artists? Their seems to be a very clear line drawn between the more independent signed artists (offspring, chuck d) and the New-Money type artists. You have to wonder how much snoop dogg really knows about a computer anyways.
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
While the internet is supposed to be a self healing creature, one good look at a map of the net will tell you where to strike the death blow. Few major trunks run across the puddle, few major lines are located in any place other then the US. While the net would survive, it would not be able to support the current user base. If say the US just vanished and took all its people with it, I doubt users would see much change other then the obvious ones such as sites being gone and a few extra hops. While the US may hold most of the net in its arms, we also provide the bulk of the traffic. So I would say that the net would survive as long as the user base dropped in proportion to the lines droped.
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
and the black helicopters came and swooped up Elvis and JFK just before the aliens landed in Area 51. But no one knows anything about that because its all been covered up by the Proctor and Gamble corporation because it jacks with their plans to turn the entire world over to a satanic cult. It doesnt matter though because the NSA controls most of the US population through subliminal messages and will put an end to all that mess as soon as the Chinese take over the world.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com