I do not believe it is possible to be contactable and run a blacklist. It would require an army of support people, and most of the blacklists just do not get the kind of income necessary to pay for that.
Blacklists are a pain to deal with in general. Some simply hold you for ransom. Yet it is also a pain to run a mailserver without blacklists, so... Spamhaus has fewer false positives than most, in my experience, but it is stupid of them to claim that any list has zero of them.
As in, dropping their pursuit of nuclear material and potentially weapons? Seems like a pretty easy thing for them to give up in exchange for 'the West' to drop all the sanctions.
Yes, that worked so well for Saddam Hussein. Oh wait, he was hanged.
The problem is that you DO want all the same type of drive (at least for spinning rust), since for RAID other than RAID-0 write speed is limited by the slowest drive. Since different drives have different performance across the platters, you can easily lose a lot of performance. At least with RAID-1/RAID-10 you only write to two drives at once, so you can perhaps get away with it, but with RAID-5 you get entirely scuppered. Then again, people who care about performance avoid RAID-5 like the plague.
Sports, particularly anything on grassy pitches involving balls, seems to be torture for most compression algorithms. They don't know that the ball is more important to render correctly than some random spectator, and they seem to get rather lost with the subtle detail of the grass.
You get 50Mbps from OTA, for one channel? How do you fit any channels in at all? Around here you wouldn't get 50Mbps from an entire MUX, never mind a single channel.
Anyway, if OTA is 50Mbps per channel, I can certainly see why cable is doing worse than that.
BTW, OTA digital quality is better than cable, since the cable companies re-compress the datastream and thereby degrade it.
Surely no cable company could be that evil. OTA is fairly lousy quality because there just isn't enough bandwidth available for a decent amount of channels, so they all end up with a bit less than they should. Cable on the other hand is drowning in bandwidth, the cable companies should get almost-uncompressed streams from the providers and do their own much gentler compression, rather than even starting with the OTA signal.
There is absolutely no excuse for cable to be worse quality than OTA.
Yes right now massive money printing has fewer downsides and more upsides than usual. We are in a highly unusual situation right now though, even if it is exactly the same situation Japan has been stuck in for 20 years. Ben Bernanke did a really insightful paper on Japan's economy back in 1999, with emphasis on what the Japanese central bank was (and still is, sadly) doing wrong. So far the Western world seems eager to follow the same path.
There are plenty of ways to shield your wealth from money printing, assuming you have some wealth to shield. If you print money and give it to the poor and the young, you will achieve pretty much no redistribution of actual wealth. You may manage a little bit of redistribution if you do the printing as a great surprise to everybody, but that is difficult to achieve and even then, most of the time wealthy people don't hold most of their wealth in cash, bank accounts, or bonds in the currency of the country they live in.
AT keyboards could be hotplugged. I've never killed an AT keyboard controller. When you inserted an AT keyboard plug, the ground would connect before the data lines, and the pins were sturdy enough to not bend and short circuit. At worst you could send a bit of garbage data to the OS and crash it, but since the OS was often DOS or Windows it had probably crashed anyway.
PS/2 on the other hand was a truly lousy design which did not guarantee anything useful. I have killed the keyboard controller in several motherboards with PS/2 connectors.
Do you feel that the emissions on a higher-efficiency gas/diesel powered vehicle are lower than a vehicle charged by coal power plants
For one thing, an electric vehicle can just about run on the amount of electricity needed to refine the amount of petrol a petrol car uses to go the same distance... However you are unlikely to place a refinery where energy is expensive, so that is probably hydro power or similar.
But no, in most cases an electric car run on pure coal power loses out to a typical efficient less-than 100g CO2/km car. If you charge it at night you can win though, because it is likely that the power plants will still be idling, unable to shut down completely. That way you are using power which would otherwise have been thrown away, so your effective emissions are zero. The calculations can get very complicated.
Anyway, if you are in such an area, please lobby to have your grid connected somewhere with a better mix, preferably somewhere with hydro. It ought to be possible, unless you are in Australia. Most of the good coal (anthracite) is gone, the crap we burn nowadays makes a mess and just gets more and more expensive.
Why do we need to pay taxes then if the government can borrow or print money forever?
Because the distributive effects of borrowing or printing money forever are nasty. The poor and the young end up paying.
Neither debt, money-printing, nor taxation directly change the amount of actual goods available. They just change who gets how much of which goods. However, that distribution of goods can certainly influence the amount of goods which will be produced in the future. Generally, society at the same time wants to maximize future productions of goods and also make sure that few people get so little that they cannot live a decent life, for various definitions of a decent life. Right now the Western world is doing a relatively crappy job at both, which is a shame, especially because it was doing quite well until recently.
Wrong. Almost all of them are most efficient at full load, assuming RPM are kept down. The effect is much more pronounced for petrol cars, but diesel cars show it too to a lesser extent. Obviously keeping RPM's down means you have to limit your top speed and coast for a while until speed has fallen sufficiently to allow for a new burst of acceleration.
or at high speed.
High speed kills your mileage because of wind resistance. If you decide to get from point A to point B within a certain time, the most fuel efficient way to do so will almost invariably involve "coast-and-burn". The one major exception is if the time allotted allows you to run at precisely the slowest speed the car can handle in the highest gear. In most cars that speed is quite low, often less than 50km/h, so that is rarely practical.
Why can't large airplanes fly to a very high altitude, then turn off their engines and 'hang glide' down to some lower altitude over a long distance, then turn the engine back on and climb up again?
You can't usefully turn off the engine on an airplane. It will try to turn, causing drag. If you have a propeller you can feather it, but with jet engines you are completely out of luck.
I assumed it would be similar to how gunning it to 130 MPH in a car and then costing down to 55 will kill your fuel economy.
That doesn't kill your fuel economy. It will in fact be quite efficient. You will be using the engine at its most efficient point, full load. If you rev high while doing it, some cars will use various tricks to increase HP at the cost of fuel efficiency, but if you switch gears below 3000RPM or so, that should not kick in. Once you get to 130MPH you need to switch to neutral and ideally the engine should be stopped -- but most non-hybrids are not safe with the engine off.
Aerodynamic drag will be high for the brief time you are at 130MPH, so if you are trying this technique for fuel efficiency, you probably want to keep the speed variation a bit lower.
You can of course do as you please, but the state of the Linux desktop is better than it has ever been. Gnome and KDE are finally done with grand upheavals, and for the first time in the history of Gnome I am using it without any extensions or other third party tweaks.Networking finally Just Works (including Wifi hot spot) and the wifi drivers are much improved. Battery life is fantastic -- when I got this laptop 3 years ago, the fans were loud and annoying, today they are barely on. The Intel graphics driver in my laptop is just about perfect, and the nouveau driver is so good now that I really ought to finally switch my XBMC box over to it.
If you want to worry about Linux, worry about the server side. A web server in the init daemon...
Linux has had proprietary video drivers for more than 15 years. That has obviously not brought world domination. Yes, in the short term it will force a few more users to boot into Windows to play 3D games, but almost all Linux users who play 3D games do that anyway.
15 years of proprietary video drivers has not brought 3ds Max to Linux, even though it would have been an extremely straightforward port of the SGI version, way back when. Exactly the same applies to AutoCAD.
As soon as someone sells hardware along with the software, software patents turn into hardware patents and then you can sue even in Europe. It's magic!
Nvidia isn't going to GPL its drivers and it couldn't do so even if it wanted to.
Of course Nvidia could GPL its drivers. That "they can't do it" been said ever since the first proprietary Nvidia Linux driver, and back then it was blamed on non-specified technology licensed from SGI. SGI then stated publicly that they had absolutely no problem with their technology ending up in a GPL'd Linux driver.
It is just a pitiful excuse. Luckily, between "secure boot" and this, the excuse will not last much longer. Then it will be either GPL or nothing at all.
With the newest version of google maps, you can just download parts of the map that you need. Navigation still won't work, but you can navigate "by hand".
In my tests, I could download less than 100MB. If I'm going somewhere without coverage, such a tiny patch is unlikely to be useful.
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I do not believe it is possible to be contactable and run a blacklist. It would require an army of support people, and most of the blacklists just do not get the kind of income necessary to pay for that.
Blacklists are a pain to deal with in general. Some simply hold you for ransom. Yet it is also a pain to run a mailserver without blacklists, so... Spamhaus has fewer false positives than most, in my experience, but it is stupid of them to claim that any list has zero of them.
Freedom, from their own people.
Yes, Iran has by far the worst regime in the middle east.
Well, after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, but surely no one would never support one of THOSE countries.
As in, dropping their pursuit of nuclear material and potentially weapons? Seems like a pretty easy thing for them to give up in exchange for 'the West' to drop all the sanctions.
Yes, that worked so well for Saddam Hussein. Oh wait, he was hanged.
I have seen the exact same scenario. The lower 20GB or so of a 80GB X25-M were stuck at zero and unwritable. My home partition was above 20GB...
Well I did lose a Windows partition, but since I hadn't actually booted that one in at least a month, it probably wasn't all that important.
The problem is that you DO want all the same type of drive (at least for spinning rust), since for RAID other than RAID-0 write speed is limited by the slowest drive. Since different drives have different performance across the platters, you can easily lose a lot of performance. At least with RAID-1/RAID-10 you only write to two drives at once, so you can perhaps get away with it, but with RAID-5 you get entirely scuppered. Then again, people who care about performance avoid RAID-5 like the plague.
Before somebody thinks of blaming us.
Sports, particularly anything on grassy pitches involving balls, seems to be torture for most compression algorithms. They don't know that the ball is more important to render correctly than some random spectator, and they seem to get rather lost with the subtle detail of the grass.
You get 50Mbps from OTA, for one channel? How do you fit any channels in at all? Around here you wouldn't get 50Mbps from an entire MUX, never mind a single channel.
Anyway, if OTA is 50Mbps per channel, I can certainly see why cable is doing worse than that.
BTW, OTA digital quality is better than cable, since the cable companies re-compress the datastream and thereby degrade it.
Surely no cable company could be that evil. OTA is fairly lousy quality because there just isn't enough bandwidth available for a decent amount of channels, so they all end up with a bit less than they should. Cable on the other hand is drowning in bandwidth, the cable companies should get almost-uncompressed streams from the providers and do their own much gentler compression, rather than even starting with the OTA signal.
There is absolutely no excuse for cable to be worse quality than OTA.
Yes right now massive money printing has fewer downsides and more upsides than usual. We are in a highly unusual situation right now though, even if it is exactly the same situation Japan has been stuck in for 20 years. Ben Bernanke did a really insightful paper on Japan's economy back in 1999, with emphasis on what the Japanese central bank was (and still is, sadly) doing wrong. So far the Western world seems eager to follow the same path.
There are plenty of ways to shield your wealth from money printing, assuming you have some wealth to shield. If you print money and give it to the poor and the young, you will achieve pretty much no redistribution of actual wealth. You may manage a little bit of redistribution if you do the printing as a great surprise to everybody, but that is difficult to achieve and even then, most of the time wealthy people don't hold most of their wealth in cash, bank accounts, or bonds in the currency of the country they live in.
AT keyboards could be hotplugged. I've never killed an AT keyboard controller. When you inserted an AT keyboard plug, the ground would connect before the data lines, and the pins were sturdy enough to not bend and short circuit. At worst you could send a bit of garbage data to the OS and crash it, but since the OS was often DOS or Windows it had probably crashed anyway.
PS/2 on the other hand was a truly lousy design which did not guarantee anything useful. I have killed the keyboard controller in several motherboards with PS/2 connectors.
Do you feel that the emissions on a higher-efficiency gas/diesel powered vehicle are lower than a vehicle charged by coal power plants
For one thing, an electric vehicle can just about run on the amount of electricity needed to refine the amount of petrol a petrol car uses to go the same distance... However you are unlikely to place a refinery where energy is expensive, so that is probably hydro power or similar.
But no, in most cases an electric car run on pure coal power loses out to a typical efficient less-than 100g CO2/km car. If you charge it at night you can win though, because it is likely that the power plants will still be idling, unable to shut down completely. That way you are using power which would otherwise have been thrown away, so your effective emissions are zero. The calculations can get very complicated.
Anyway, if you are in such an area, please lobby to have your grid connected somewhere with a better mix, preferably somewhere with hydro. It ought to be possible, unless you are in Australia. Most of the good coal (anthracite) is gone, the crap we burn nowadays makes a mess and just gets more and more expensive.
Why do we need to pay taxes then if the government can borrow or print money forever?
Because the distributive effects of borrowing or printing money forever are nasty. The poor and the young end up paying.
Neither debt, money-printing, nor taxation directly change the amount of actual goods available. They just change who gets how much of which goods. However, that distribution of goods can certainly influence the amount of goods which will be produced in the future. Generally, society at the same time wants to maximize future productions of goods and also make sure that few people get so little that they cannot live a decent life, for various definitions of a decent life. Right now the Western world is doing a relatively crappy job at both, which is a shame, especially because it was doing quite well until recently.
Yes, I failed at quoting. Sorry.
Very few cars are most efficient at full load
Wrong. Almost all of them are most efficient at full load, assuming RPM are kept down. The effect is much more pronounced for petrol cars, but diesel cars show it too to a lesser extent. Obviously keeping RPM's down means you have to limit your top speed and coast for a while until speed has fallen sufficiently to allow for a new burst of acceleration.
or at high speed.
High speed kills your mileage because of wind resistance. If you decide to get from point A to point B within a certain time, the most fuel efficient way to do so will almost invariably involve "coast-and-burn". The one major exception is if the time allotted allows you to run at precisely the slowest speed the car can handle in the highest gear. In most cars that speed is quite low, often less than 50km/h, so that is rarely practical.
Why can't large airplanes fly to a very high altitude, then turn off their engines and 'hang glide' down to some lower altitude over a long distance, then turn the engine back on and climb up again?
You can't usefully turn off the engine on an airplane. It will try to turn, causing drag. If you have a propeller you can feather it, but with jet engines you are completely out of luck.
I assumed it would be similar to how gunning it to 130 MPH in a car and then costing down to 55 will kill your fuel economy.
That doesn't kill your fuel economy. It will in fact be quite efficient. You will be using the engine at its most efficient point, full load. If you rev high while doing it, some cars will use various tricks to increase HP at the cost of fuel efficiency, but if you switch gears below 3000RPM or so, that should not kick in. Once you get to 130MPH you need to switch to neutral and ideally the engine should be stopped -- but most non-hybrids are not safe with the engine off.
Aerodynamic drag will be high for the brief time you are at 130MPH, so if you are trying this technique for fuel efficiency, you probably want to keep the speed variation a bit lower.
ActiveSync is that silly thing which connects a PDA to a Windows PC using infrared, isn't it?
There are no PDA's anymore, and phones have perfectly good connections to the Internet all on their own. Why would you want to connect them to PC's?
You can of course do as you please, but the state of the Linux desktop is better than it has ever been. Gnome and KDE are finally done with grand upheavals, and for the first time in the history of Gnome I am using it without any extensions or other third party tweaks.Networking finally Just Works (including Wifi hot spot) and the wifi drivers are much improved. Battery life is fantastic -- when I got this laptop 3 years ago, the fans were loud and annoying, today they are barely on. The Intel graphics driver in my laptop is just about perfect, and the nouveau driver is so good now that I really ought to finally switch my XBMC box over to it.
If you want to worry about Linux, worry about the server side. A web server in the init daemon...
Linux has had proprietary video drivers for more than 15 years. That has obviously not brought world domination. Yes, in the short term it will force a few more users to boot into Windows to play 3D games, but almost all Linux users who play 3D games do that anyway.
15 years of proprietary video drivers has not brought 3ds Max to Linux, even though it would have been an extremely straightforward port of the SGI version, way back when. Exactly the same applies to AutoCAD.
As soon as someone sells hardware along with the software, software patents turn into hardware patents and then you can sue even in Europe. It's magic!
Nvidia isn't going to GPL its drivers and it couldn't do so even if it wanted to.
Of course Nvidia could GPL its drivers. That "they can't do it" been said ever since the first proprietary Nvidia Linux driver, and back then it was blamed on non-specified technology licensed from SGI. SGI then stated publicly that they had absolutely no problem with their technology ending up in a GPL'd Linux driver.
It is just a pitiful excuse. Luckily, between "secure boot" and this, the excuse will not last much longer. Then it will be either GPL or nothing at all.
Good luck reading encrypted mails through a web interface without the server seeing the plaintext.
With the newest version of google maps, you can just download parts of the map that you need. Navigation still won't work, but you can navigate "by hand".
In my tests, I could download less than 100MB. If I'm going somewhere without coverage, such a tiny patch is unlikely to be useful.