Respondents who answer one question about behavior seen as unethical honestly were more likely to answer other questions about behavior seen as unethical honestly.
Pick your spin. As the great Banky Edwards said, "Everyone has an agenda. Everyone."
I think it's a bit disingenuous for the "left" to complain about Fox News. "Both" sides have favored news outlets that reinforce their prejudices since long before Fox News existed.
When the country was founded political hopefuls weren't taken seriously unless they owned a newspaper.
In the interest of providing context, I'm a "little 'L'" libertarian. I think that "both" political parties are equally nuts. (And, in fact, largely indistinguishable by their actions.)
As I understand it we're talking about a carbon fiber composite ribbon. You certainly couldn't run an entire circuit through it. If it were pure carbon fiber you could probably run half the circuit through it, but the polymers holding the fibers together would probably make this impractical.
The weight and resistance of a wire are proportional to it's length. The resistance of a wire is inversely proportional to its weight.
You understand this thing is going to be, perhaps 30,000 miles long, right? That's a 60,000 mile circuit when the lifting vehicle is at the far end (as for a moon or Mars mission).
You're being way to optimistic. You can only approach that 1.2kW number at noon. And you can only capture about 15% of that with contemporary PV cells.
Rerunning your calculation shows that you gain just under 3hp (we're conflating power and energy, but it doesn't much matter). But that's still assuming we're getting full sun from sunrise to sunset.
I'm all for clean energy, but we won't obtain it through self-delusion.
Absolute best case the sun delivers about 1.2 kW/m^2 to the surface of the Earth. That's about 1.6 horsepower. Unless the Earth gets much closer to the sun that will simply never be enough power to propel a practical vehicle.
That's not to take anything away from these engineers. To the contrary, it shows how little they have to work with. But solar cars are simply and provably not the future.
If you are going to ask people to pay for your software it would be in your best interest to provide them with native packages. I'm sure your other three options sound tempting but I think it's worth your while to avoid the "pain in the ass to install" or "broke when I upgraded" or "broke my upgrade" or "can't get it to work on the server running the other program we need that uses a non-native install" stigmas.
Have you considered contacting people who do 3rd party packages for the commercial* distros you want to target? (For example Dag Wieers** for Red Hat.) I imagine you could negotiate one-off contracts easily and, if your selling your software for real money, relatively inexpensively. This sort of guy would find this a simple task and could build you a high quality package that would probably pay for itself in reduced support costs.
-Peter
* Go with official packagers of non-commercial distros. They don't have the same conflict of interests.
** I know nothing of Dag except that I use his packages and they work great. I surmise that he knows more about Red Hat packages than anyone you're likely to hire.
The term StudlyCaps is similar - but not
necessarily identical - to CamelCase. It is sometimes used in reference to CamelCase but can also refer to random mixed capitalization
I got involved with SquirrelMail around the time I started using the Mailman mailing list manager. That page is the first place I saw the term "studly caps". I think that studly caps is largely used in place of camel case in at least a subset of the email world. I think that studly caps to mean random capitalization is more of a BBS/IRC thing (since no sensible person writes that way).
One of the cool things about being a geek is all the great jargon, and the pseudo-etymology that goes with it!
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Respondents who answer one question about behavior seen as unethical honestly were more likely to answer other questions about behavior seen as unethical honestly.
Neat.
-Peter
Pick your spin. As the great Banky Edwards said, "Everyone has an agenda. Everyone."
I think it's a bit disingenuous for the "left" to complain about Fox News. "Both" sides have favored news outlets that reinforce their prejudices since long before Fox News existed.
When the country was founded political hopefuls weren't taken seriously unless they owned a newspaper.
In the interest of providing context, I'm a "little 'L'" libertarian. I think that "both" political parties are equally nuts. (And, in fact, largely indistinguishable by their actions.)
-Peter
As I understand it we're talking about a carbon fiber composite ribbon. You certainly couldn't run an entire circuit through it. If it were pure carbon fiber you could probably run half the circuit through it, but the polymers holding the fibers together would probably make this impractical.
The weight and resistance of a wire are proportional to it's length. The resistance of a wire is inversely proportional to its weight.
You understand this thing is going to be, perhaps 30,000 miles long, right? That's a 60,000 mile circuit when the lifting vehicle is at the far end (as for a moon or Mars mission).
Weight and line loss would be two problems.
-Peter
But we need the roof of the garage to power the house. We have to park the car outside to soak up rays, and that'll give you, what, 3m^2?
-Peter
You're being way to optimistic. You can only approach that 1.2kW number at noon. And you can only capture about 15% of that with contemporary PV cells.
Rerunning your calculation shows that you gain just under 3hp (we're conflating power and energy, but it doesn't much matter). But that's still assuming we're getting full sun from sunrise to sunset.
I'm all for clean energy, but we won't obtain it through self-delusion.
-Peter
Absolute best case the sun delivers about 1.2 kW/m^2 to the surface of the Earth. That's about 1.6 horsepower. Unless the Earth gets much closer to the sun that will simply never be enough power to propel a practical vehicle.
That's not to take anything away from these engineers. To the contrary, it shows how little they have to work with. But solar cars are simply and provably not the future.
Heh. Kids.
I had a buddy who's dad told him, "You'll never fill up that 10MB hard drive." That is not a typo. Ten megabytes was a cavernous space at that time.
There are always more data.
-Peter
The policy is applicable to the contract, not the other way around. How about, "also subject to the new policy."?
The slashdot "editors" should really be called "guys who pick stories".
-Peter
Clearly pro wrestling is an athletic pursuit. On the other hand it most certainly isn't a sport.
-Peter
If you can't figure out how to the the stylesheet of the website you're looking at you might want to reconsider trying to modify it.
"I'm going to rebuild my carburetor . . . where is it?"
-Peter
That's great and all, but what the hell is that CSS smell?
-Peter
You want moot third usage (adjective) second definition (academic).
<teacher style="english">A spelling checker is no substitute for a dictionary!</teacher>
-Peter
Furthermore, they are not required to protect individuals, trite mottoes not withstanding.
-Peter
If you're charging your iPod you aren't having a fucking emergency.
A radio could be quite useful, but not nearly as useful as a couple of cases of bottled water.
-Peter
Is it legal to knowingly and willingly distribute a virus? If not, we have devolved to the whole "just one more law will solve the problem" argument.
-Peter
That does not make sense!
-Peter
Try "mplayer dvd://1" or "xine dvd:/1" from the console. Works every time.
Every time I find myself using a "real" DVD player I'm appalled at the amount of fucking around that is required to actually play the movie.
-Peter
Is a "Seppo's"? Is it a contraction?
-Peter
Let's see. You have a ceiling of 2.01GB worth of updates. You have disk I/O problems.
Your problem is either that you don't have enough RAM in the system, or you have an OS that doesn't do a rational job of caching disk.
Or both.
-Peter
You seem to have mistaken us for the airheads you meet at cocktail parties.
Maybe I'm just mad because I can never adequately explain what I do for a living to the airheads I meet at cocktail parties.
-Peter
If you are going to ask people to pay for your software it would be in your best interest to provide them with native packages. I'm sure your other three options sound tempting but I think it's worth your while to avoid the "pain in the ass to install" or "broke when I upgraded" or "broke my upgrade" or "can't get it to work on the server running the other program we need that uses a non-native install" stigmas.
Have you considered contacting people who do 3rd party packages for the commercial* distros you want to target? (For example Dag Wieers** for Red Hat.) I imagine you could negotiate one-off contracts easily and, if your selling your software for real money, relatively inexpensively. This sort of guy would find this a simple task and could build you a high quality package that would probably pay for itself in reduced support costs.
-Peter
* Go with official packagers of non-commercial distros. They don't have the same conflict of interests.
** I know nothing of Dag except that I use his packages and they work great. I surmise that he knows more about Red Hat packages than anyone you're likely to hire.
Yes.
-Peter
Hacking Paris Hilton's box would seem to be its own punishment. One is sure to contract a virus.
-Peter
I got involved with SquirrelMail around the time I started using the Mailman mailing list manager. That page is the first place I saw the term "studly caps". I think that studly caps is largely used in place of camel case in at least a subset of the email world. I think that studly caps to mean random capitalization is more of a BBS/IRC thing (since no sensible person writes that way).
One of the cool things about being a geek is all the great jargon, and the pseudo-etymology that goes with it!
-Peter
I love those meeces to pieces!
-Peter (AKA Starchild)