The Windows administrator has told me time and again it's not the hardware, that it has to be a driver.
This isn't rocket science. If a driver is causing the blue screen, try examining the blue screen output to see what module caused the fault and remove the associated driver. More likely, your administrator is simply lying, and the machine has some flaky component that he doesn't want to spend time trying to track down.
There are lots of reasons this wouldn't work. Off the top of my head:
- Insufficient technology to build a spherical structure of that size.
- Even at miles in size, the detonation of a hydrogen bomb would yield huge overpressure waves, and arch construction is good at being compressed inwards, not outwards.
- Hydrogen bombs requires a fission reaction to detonate - it would be more efficient to fission the fissionables in breeder reactors.
- What, exactly, are "energy collectors?"
Simple economics. Thermal depolymerization works, sort of, but not at anything like "high efficiency." The same is true of most "alternative" energy schemes: they simply don't scale.
No you don't need Linux to write to the card. I personally use the ActionRelay USB dongle, and the ActionRelay software handles writing the savegames to the memory card. There are other ways, but this one is simple and foolproof.
I'm surprised more Americans aren't upset about this
I'm not. Americans have been worrying so much about jobs moving overseas and gross trade imbalances. A weak dollar actually helps remedy these "problems."
He's not complaining or whining, he's refuting a claim that "everything works the same," and proving by counterexample that the claim is false. "Why" it's false or "whose fault it is" are irrelevant.
I think your analogy only works for "computers" to include any turing-complete integrated circuit. In that case, computers, just like motors, are already manufactured in a dizzying array of form factors, capabilities, and functions. Specialized computers are manufactured for practically every consumer product that uses electricity.
But a PC is intended and designed to be as general-use as possible. The very concept of software is to enable the device to perform functions that were not contemplated at the time of manufacturing. To the extent that the PC is modular, it fills that role better, because increasing the functionality beyond the design conception is cheaper and easier. Perhaps some people would be willing to give up the flexibility of a PC in favor of something like a game console: slicker, better at doing what it was intended to do, but limited to its designed functionality. But I think many people are attracted by the open-ended nature of possibilities created by a general-purpose PC.
If they can classify the stuff, shouldn't they be able to stop it?
I'm sure they hope so. I doubt they are trying to classify it simply as an academic exercise. I'm guessing - going way out on a limb here - that Microsoft is planning to try to stop the malware they identify. Probably, they'll use some kind of special anti-malware software. They could call it "Windows Defender" or something.
Why not just not have the user run as root all the time?
Is that rhetorical, or do you want a real answer? First, Windows has only had user-level permissions since NT. While these are present in XP, and limited users can be created, the default is to create admininstrators because so much legacy software requires it. Fortunately, as legacy software gets older and less common, this problem is decreasing. The upcoming Vista has further workarounds to help run legacy software in limited accounts, and will feature LUA as the default.
Second, LUA not a magic bullet for solving malware problem. Simply put, malware can still run in user space. While running as a limited user protects you against rootkits and comprimising the whole system, it doesn't stop the user from running adware, spyware, or any other code that is annoying or malicious but doesn't require write access to system resources.
Not true! The heavy elements are certainly stellar material, ejected in a nova or supernova. But since our sun, Sol, is still glowing happily, it could not have come from Sol. Therefore, it is not Solar energy/matter.
But refined gasoline is, as you pointed out, not an energy storage medium, it is an energy source. To realize efficiencies of production for other possible energy sources, we need an efficient energy storage medium, which refined gasoline is not. Hydrogen powered transportation is an advancement because hydrogen, if made workable, would make an ideal energy storage medium, regardless of the ultimate energy source. My previous point was that few or no other energy storage media that currently exist could plausibly replace gasoline.
Energy storage and transport mediums are easy and plentiful.
For a couple of watts hours, yes. For hundreds of watts hours, maybe. In the kilowatt-hour range? What flexible energy storage media do you propose are easy, plentiful, and match the energy density of refined gasoline? It sure isn't "duracels."
"Going Hydrogen" makes about as much sense from the energy saving standpoint as "Going Duracel."
It doesn't answer the question of where the energy must come from, true, but there is some sense to shifting to hydrogen anyways, and that is rather than having to rely on a precise grade of refined petroleum, we can obtain our transportation energy from any energy source. Even better, it is easy to change energy sources as alternatives become feasible/viable, unlike the current situation, where viable alternatives exist but the costs sunk into using a particular energy storage medium are enormous. Sever the tie between energy storage medium and energy production, and you have made real progress.
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Microsoft has in fact open-sourced its own work from time to time. See, e.g., WiX.
This isn't rocket science. If a driver is causing the blue screen, try examining the blue screen output to see what module caused the fault and remove the associated driver. More likely, your administrator is simply lying, and the machine has some flaky component that he doesn't want to spend time trying to track down.
I wasn't aware that you need to type a password on a Mac to access your own user files.
That's not the low-end 360, that's the premium bundle.
Nuh-uh!
There are lots of reasons this wouldn't work. Off the top of my head:
- Insufficient technology to build a spherical structure of that size.
- Even at miles in size, the detonation of a hydrogen bomb would yield huge overpressure waves, and arch construction is good at being compressed inwards, not outwards.
- Hydrogen bombs requires a fission reaction to detonate - it would be more efficient to fission the fissionables in breeder reactors. - What, exactly, are "energy collectors?"
Efficient. Reliable. Decentralized. Pick any two.
This is what passes for insightful on slashdot these days?
No you don't need Linux to write to the card. I personally use the ActionRelay USB dongle, and the ActionRelay software handles writing the savegames to the memory card. There are other ways, but this one is simple and foolproof.
Doesn't the UDE2 exploit work with 1.6? At least, I just did a brand new one in January that I'm pretty sure was a 1.6.
Sounds almost as good as a softmodded Xbox.
I'm not. Americans have been worrying so much about jobs moving overseas and gross trade imbalances. A weak dollar actually helps remedy these "problems."
No, you apparently need the PSeX if you want to get "laid."
He's not complaining or whining, he's refuting a claim that "everything works the same," and proving by counterexample that the claim is false. "Why" it's false or "whose fault it is" are irrelevant.
But a PC is intended and designed to be as general-use as possible. The very concept of software is to enable the device to perform functions that were not contemplated at the time of manufacturing. To the extent that the PC is modular, it fills that role better, because increasing the functionality beyond the design conception is cheaper and easier. Perhaps some people would be willing to give up the flexibility of a PC in favor of something like a game console: slicker, better at doing what it was intended to do, but limited to its designed functionality. But I think many people are attracted by the open-ended nature of possibilities created by a general-purpose PC.
I'm sure they hope so. I doubt they are trying to classify it simply as an academic exercise. I'm guessing - going way out on a limb here - that Microsoft is planning to try to stop the malware they identify. Probably, they'll use some kind of special anti-malware software. They could call it "Windows Defender" or something.
Is that rhetorical, or do you want a real answer? First, Windows has only had user-level permissions since NT. While these are present in XP, and limited users can be created, the default is to create admininstrators because so much legacy software requires it. Fortunately, as legacy software gets older and less common, this problem is decreasing. The upcoming Vista has further workarounds to help run legacy software in limited accounts, and will feature LUA as the default.
Second, LUA not a magic bullet for solving malware problem. Simply put, malware can still run in user space. While running as a limited user protects you against rootkits and comprimising the whole system, it doesn't stop the user from running adware, spyware, or any other code that is annoying or malicious but doesn't require write access to system resources.
Brown gold! Kiwi tea! Uh, oh, I think I've got a gusher...
Yes, curse those FOSS MediaWiki develeopers!
Not true! The heavy elements are certainly stellar material, ejected in a nova or supernova. But since our sun, Sol, is still glowing happily, it could not have come from Sol. Therefore, it is not Solar energy/matter.
But refined gasoline is, as you pointed out, not an energy storage medium, it is an energy source. To realize efficiencies of production for other possible energy sources, we need an efficient energy storage medium, which refined gasoline is not. Hydrogen powered transportation is an advancement because hydrogen, if made workable, would make an ideal energy storage medium, regardless of the ultimate energy source. My previous point was that few or no other energy storage media that currently exist could plausibly replace gasoline.
What the hell are you talking about? MSRP for the "Core" system is US$299, the "Premium" bundle is US$399.
For a couple of watts hours, yes. For hundreds of watts hours, maybe. In the kilowatt-hour range? What flexible energy storage media do you propose are easy, plentiful, and match the energy density of refined gasoline? It sure isn't "duracels."
It doesn't answer the question of where the energy must come from, true, but there is some sense to shifting to hydrogen anyways, and that is rather than having to rely on a precise grade of refined petroleum, we can obtain our transportation energy from any energy source. Even better, it is easy to change energy sources as alternatives become feasible/viable, unlike the current situation, where viable alternatives exist but the costs sunk into using a particular energy storage medium are enormous. Sever the tie between energy storage medium and energy production, and you have made real progress.
We also stiffed the British on the bill for that tea!