Well the main reason it's being built is that construction labour in Western Australia is expensive enough to make this thing worth while. Instead of having thousands of people on FIFO contracts for $x-hundred-k a year each, for the 5+ years it takes to get a large LNG terminal up on land, you build it in Korea and just float it there.
The answer to that is: extremely expensive. And that's probably why they didn't present any of the figures. The compression, material and heating costs to remove all the CO2 from the gas would likely make the total cycle efficiency terrible.
but what is the deal with you Palm Pre fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Pal Pre (a stock standard model I paid a hobo to wait in line and get for me) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to send a 17 Meg file from one email address to another. 20 minutes. At home, on my old Treo running Windows Mobile 2003, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Palm Pre, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this email send, the mp3 player will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the GUI is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Palm hardware, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Palm product that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Palm machines faster chip architecture. My "portable computer" from 1982 runs faster than this Palm machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Palm Pre is a "superior" machine.
Palm addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Palm over other faster, cheaper, more stable cellular technology.
It adds a "security center" which badgers people into running Windows Firewall, having antivirus software and letting security updates be downloaded and installed automatically. But that's not all!
There are some neat updates to the wireless networking stuff, adding pretty boxes to make the whole thing somewhat more comprehensible to your average computer user, complete with a huge "this is an open network, anyone can connect to it!" type message.
The update also adds the "information bar" to IE, a little bar that slides down when it blocks a pop-up or activex control. You have to click the bar and then click the right option on the menu to get either things to display. Dialog boxes make more sense: yes/no in activex prompts has been replaced with "install/don't install" and a "never install from [whoever]" option added. "Open/Save" becomes "Run/Save" in the dialog box for download executables. Little shields pop up all over the place to alert you if you're about to do something insecure.
Compare this to SELinux, which -- quite apart from screwing things up whenever I try to install it -- has all sorts of insecure services that no-one would use enabled by default. If you sign up to something like the Mandrake security mailing list, you get a ludicruous number of emails -- and I don't think SELinux has any real equivalent to this completely-hands-off automatic update functionality.
So which OS is more secure? Windows gives you the tools you need, while SELinux gives you just enough rope to hang yourself with.
Actually, that's almost what Rusty Foster from kuro5hin has been doing. He runs the site on old donated computers (some positively ancient) using some very specialised code. You can read a little about it here (you may need to be logged into k5 to see that properly, scoop gets some weird issues with anonymous users).
How can utterly, utterly useless stuff like this get millions of dollars thrown at it when adequate solutions already exist? We live in a world where millions of people are affected by natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis and terrorism every year, and nary a dollar is thrown their way. I believe in USoAia they are still quibbling over paying slavery reparations! Sometimes the niggardly attitude of people in this world disgusts me.
It is similar to watching the original Star Wars movies -- the ones that no longer represent Lucas' artistic vision. By watching them you are breaking a social contract and are probably violating the DMCA. Google is doing the same thing by archiving outdated pages which can still be shown as the result of a search.
Read the summary for this proposed bill. Future seems a little shaky now doesn't it -- How does "Darth Bush" sound to you? (Amendment 22 is concerned with that little thing about only having two terms as president, for those non USoAians)
PS (OT) -- is anyone else having trouble with IP bans on slashdot? I get 2 downmods on apost and suddenly I'm IP banned! I only got this posted through Tor, but that's not that much better as slashdot blocks most of the nodes there too. Any help?
Perhaps you misunderstand. I used the word "unwittingly" in parenthicals to indicate that I had no knowledge of the town King of Prussia before choosing it as my online name. I am also unaware of any locations near to my physical location that begin with Narb.
If by interesting stance you mean total disregard, the summary is correct. While this may appeal to slashdot hivemind thinking where intellectual property is only valid when under the GPL or similar licences, it simply cannot gel with first world business practices.
This may seem good in the short term, but when your beloved GPL application turns up in a Brazilian program designed to create and share child pornography you won't exactly be laughing.
I realise I will be moderated down for this, but I have karma to spare and I believe the message is one that needs to be spread. Do not support Brazils wholesale disregard for intellectual property rights -- your idea may very well be next.
So you're saying that having no crapfloods or troll posts (which can be filtered out with the moderation system anyway) is more important than some oppressed chinese guy getting his opinion out on a part of the web banned in China?
The editors have gone beyond a simple lack of faith in the moderation system, they are actively undermining it with broad account* and IP bans. For a website that makes such noise about being anti-censorship these are pretty funny actions.
*fun fact: if you log out and request the password for an account named "sllort", you will never post to slashdot again with that IP. Ever. Is this the same slashdot that has an entire section called "Your Rights Online"?
How does slashdot get away with publicly lauding Tor as the great application that it is, while simultaneously blocking over 90% of the nodes from posting to slashdot? Try it now, it took me thirty tries to post a comment to slashdot using Tor the other day.
Do you really think that most tetraplegic people are that way because their muscles just stopped working? It's because the electrical signals aren't getting there in the first place, not selective muscle death.
When will the blatant adverts masquerading as stories on slashdot come to an end?
Come on, the story is submitted by the user "kingofalsaka". I'm sure that could be explained by coincidence. It is coincidence too that within the summary exists a link to a "blog" named "Alaskas King"? I think not.
More likely is this king of alaska has seen a quick way to make a buck for his country by blogging about some fictional or statistically normal climate change and having the gutless slashdot editors post it to the front page. For shame slashdot. I used to read this site for the technical articles by impartial experts, not sob-stories from cash-strapped monarchs. The whole damn thing reads like a nigerian 419 scam.
I propose a new section called "slashvertisements" into which the editors post all paid for articles, giving users the opportunity to filter them out. Perhaps they fear users leaving in droves once they see how few would escape this section?
If this were a windows article there would have been an almost unanimous uproar about microsoft's ability to release a stable piece of software without major bugs. Look at the nature of the bug too -- how long until somebody blames this on windows being too "monopolistic" and deliberately making it hard for tiger to share or authenticate?
I've said it before, and I guess I'll have to say it once again -- zealotry should have no place on slashdot. If Microsoft turned around and released a perfect, bug free operating system that interfaced perfectly with all the competitions' offerings, there would be a 1000 comment shitstorm of complaint as the flock of rabid posters decried them for not releasing the source, or for charging for the software. Compare that to this, where a major operating system has been released with a large and quite frankly obvious bug present, and along come the apple fanboys. GET OVER IT. Base your opinion on the product, not the company, or the shiny form factor, or the how overpriced it is.
Don't get me wrong, as I sit here I am listening to a 40 gig iPOS, and I use a powerbook when I need mobility, so I don't have any bias against apple themselves, just their little army of braindead followers who would buy and defend a box of Steve Jobs' shit if it had a pretty shape and the apple logo.
Hah, and it seems after previewing the parent comment is already rated insightful. Funny how that works, isn't it?
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It does however mention distillation, which also fixes that problem.
Well the main reason it's being built is that construction labour in Western Australia is expensive enough to make this thing worth while. Instead of having thousands of people on FIFO contracts for $x-hundred-k a year each, for the 5+ years it takes to get a large LNG terminal up on land, you build it in Korea and just float it there.
There's still a concentration gradient, which will likely be stronger than any pressure gradient caused by leakage.
vic park new world? or have other nz supermarkets become better since i left?
The answer to that is: extremely expensive. And that's probably why they didn't present any of the figures. The compression, material and heating costs to remove all the CO2 from the gas would likely make the total cycle efficiency terrible.
In addition, during this email send, the mp3 player will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the GUI is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Palm hardware, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Palm product that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Palm machines faster chip architecture. My "portable computer" from 1982 runs faster than this Palm machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Palm Pre is a "superior" machine.
Palm addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Palm over other faster, cheaper, more stable cellular technology.
too many nigs
There are some neat updates to the wireless networking stuff, adding pretty boxes to make the whole thing somewhat more comprehensible to your average computer user, complete with a huge "this is an open network, anyone can connect to it!" type message.
The update also adds the "information bar" to IE, a little bar that slides down when it blocks a pop-up or activex control. You have to click the bar and then click the right option on the menu to get either things to display. Dialog boxes make more sense: yes/no in activex prompts has been replaced with "install/don't install" and a "never install from [whoever]" option added. "Open/Save" becomes "Run/Save" in the dialog box for download executables. Little shields pop up all over the place to alert you if you're about to do something insecure.
Compare this to SELinux, which -- quite apart from screwing things up whenever I try to install it -- has all sorts of insecure services that no-one would use enabled by default. If you sign up to something like the Mandrake security mailing list, you get a ludicruous number of emails -- and I don't think SELinux has any real equivalent to this completely-hands-off automatic update functionality.
So which OS is more secure? Windows gives you the tools you need, while SELinux gives you just enough rope to hang yourself with.
Incidentally, Snape dies so Harry can kill Voldemort and survive
Actually, that's almost what Rusty Foster from kuro5hin has been doing. He runs the site on old donated computers (some positively ancient) using some very specialised code. You can read a little about it here (you may need to be logged into k5 to see that properly, scoop gets some weird issues with anonymous users).
How can utterly, utterly useless stuff like this get millions of dollars thrown at it when adequate solutions already exist? We live in a world where millions of people are affected by natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis and terrorism every year, and nary a dollar is thrown their way. I believe in USoAia they are still quibbling over paying slavery reparations! Sometimes the niggardly attitude of people in this world disgusts me.
This place is about six months away from being a tech site aimed at kindergarten children.
Michael Jackson is that you?
It is similar to watching the original Star Wars movies -- the ones that no longer represent Lucas' artistic vision. By watching them you are breaking a social contract and are probably violating the DMCA. Google is doing the same thing by archiving outdated pages which can still be shown as the result of a search.
PS (OT) -- is anyone else having trouble with IP bans on slashdot? I get 2 downmods on apost and suddenly I'm IP banned! I only got this posted through Tor, but that's not that much better as slashdot blocks most of the nodes there too. Any help?
This may seem good in the short term, but when your beloved GPL application turns up in a Brazilian program designed to create and share child pornography you won't exactly be laughing.
I realise I will be moderated down for this, but I have karma to spare and I believe the message is one that needs to be spread. Do not support Brazils wholesale disregard for intellectual property rights -- your idea may very well be next.
Bins that sing and chuckle are going to be safer from theft? In what alternate universe does the article writer live in?
Do I know you sir? Or are you an inhabitant of the USian town I (unwittingly) named myself after?
The editors have gone beyond a simple lack of faith in the moderation system, they are actively undermining it with broad account* and IP bans. For a website that makes such noise about being anti-censorship these are pretty funny actions.
*fun fact: if you log out and request the password for an account named "sllort", you will never post to slashdot again with that IP. Ever. Is this the same slashdot that has an entire section called "Your Rights Online"?
How does slashdot get away with publicly lauding Tor as the great application that it is, while simultaneously blocking over 90% of the nodes from posting to slashdot? Try it now, it took me thirty tries to post a comment to slashdot using Tor the other day.
Do you really think that most tetraplegic people are that way because their muscles just stopped working? It's because the electrical signals aren't getting there in the first place, not selective muscle death.
Come on, the story is submitted by the user "kingofalsaka". I'm sure that could be explained by coincidence. It is coincidence too that within the summary exists a link to a "blog" named "Alaskas King"? I think not.
More likely is this king of alaska has seen a quick way to make a buck for his country by blogging about some fictional or statistically normal climate change and having the gutless slashdot editors post it to the front page. For shame slashdot. I used to read this site for the technical articles by impartial experts, not sob-stories from cash-strapped monarchs. The whole damn thing reads like a nigerian 419 scam.
I propose a new section called "slashvertisements" into which the editors post all paid for articles, giving users the opportunity to filter them out. Perhaps they fear users leaving in droves once they see how few would escape this section?
the corrent pronounciation of Asberger's is "Ass-burgers".
I've said it before, and I guess I'll have to say it once again -- zealotry should have no place on slashdot. If Microsoft turned around and released a perfect, bug free operating system that interfaced perfectly with all the competitions' offerings, there would be a 1000 comment shitstorm of complaint as the flock of rabid posters decried them for not releasing the source, or for charging for the software. Compare that to this, where a major operating system has been released with a large and quite frankly obvious bug present, and along come the apple fanboys. GET OVER IT. Base your opinion on the product, not the company, or the shiny form factor, or the how overpriced it is.
Don't get me wrong, as I sit here I am listening to a 40 gig iPOS, and I use a powerbook when I need mobility, so I don't have any bias against apple themselves, just their little army of braindead followers who would buy and defend a box of Steve Jobs' shit if it had a pretty shape and the apple logo.
Hah, and it seems after previewing the parent comment is already rated insightful. Funny how that works, isn't it?
The next time somebody waxes on about the virtues of the Atkin's Diet I can tell them that even the dinosaurs got sick of it.