"FOSDEM: The Mozilla Foundation's partnership with Google has kept it afloat for the past few months, and is now allowing it to hire more staff"
Seems to suggest that the google deal came through roughly at the same time. however that headline was misleading to suggest google was keeping Mozilla foundation afloat.
see
As long as google sticks to gathering information from me only when i use google I am happy enough, it's when you get into alexa type activitys i am not.
I like google but they are slipping wtf are all the landing sites doing high in the rankings. you know if google could derank hits based on how quickly someone went back to google after following a duff link it should progressively improve
"Anyone who uses windows for home mostly pirates it here"
Is that actually True?
I am just thinking that most Computer's are prebuilt by some vendor and have a legal pre-installed copy of windows on them.
I think mostly might be excessive not everyone runs XP Pro corporate edition (Slashdot is not a representative sample).
Why are Goverment Desktops running windows anyway? Sure you need to provide civil servants with the tools to carry out their jobs, but unless it's necessary to run a particular windows only application surely linux is a more cost effective solution. Especially when the o/s is just there to launch a terminal session.
I don't really go for religion, so without a god the storys absurd. havin a lot of stuff is just stuff so your material wealth cult doesn't hold up either. we're basically a social creature we understand a lot that we are finite we exist for a time and we die. The only thing which really matters is love. If you haven't got it your just a shell. I feel sorry for those that don't have it and especially sad for those that don't want it.
Try to maintain positive karma be loving and responsible for your actions.
I think we expect different things from our stereo's we want MP3 compatability and we want to play our itunes downloads.
there is no real competition to itunes and nothing but the ipod that can play Fairplay DRM.
The ipod hifi as is, isn't pretty but imagine a device which lets the ipod dock in properly with built in wifi connectivity that lets you use your ipod to directly order music over the net. built in credit-debit card reader so any music on itunes is a download away.
build in a dvd / audio cd player and a 5.1 decoder and you have the most desirable home entertainment system ever.
The only people that can make this is Apple because they control the DRM.
A hifi that always has the music your guest's request. To be honest the biggest market for this will be single guys, you'll always have her favourite track. no band too obscure you'll have it:)
Home networks are common now as is more than one PC in the house usually its the weaker of the two that becomes a candidate for a linux install.
Theres a lot that could be done to make Linux more attractive to windows users.
1)automate the joining of a linux box to a windows workgroup including network printing and a shared folder visable on the network.
2)Improve remote desktop access to windows standards, that is simple and with sound. both windows and linux desktops should be readily available from either PC.
3)Linux newbie help. basically a list of windows programs and the installed linux counterpart.
4)IRC help via a desktop short cut.
Every new user of linux needs to feel comfortable which means linux will be treated like an application accessed from a windows box and hopefully windows can become an application accessed from a linux box. As long as whats familiar is a click or two away linux will be stress free for newbies.
you missed my favourite feature of XP Pro concurrent multiuser access (well 3 max) this allows you to share the power of one good PC. one install needed and good performance from otherwise outdated PC's.
XP useable in 48 meg on a 170mhz processor it works !:)
good point slightly let down by the fact its a channel 4 series and hense nothing to do with the BBC.
File sharing isn't illegal inherently, neither is sharing a file called photoshop7.iso which is actually a gayporn avi file unless the copyright owners of the gayporn avi wish to assert thier copyrights but unless you know who produced said avi. your going to have to watch an lot of gay porn to identify who might be the copyright owner.
Changing the file extension from iso to avi might be seen as decryption. As an iso file it was unreadable it takes a skilled user to convert this file into a gayporn video.
At what point does this file become illegal and who committed the offence?
It's firmly in the hands of the users what they choose to do with a P2P application and its pretty much down to the downloader what to make of a block of encrypted data.
I was going to suggest that google might be in a different situation if they applied a logo to each thumbnail. This would allow people to view a thumbnail while still requiring someone to visit a site to get the picture.
Or a norobots text or something like the broadcast flag embedded in the header of the image file. Sure it's removable but then it's placing the blame squarely on the site modifying the image.
More worrying is the concept of Adsense being used to decide guilt upon the part of google. If a torrent search engiine site has google ads does that mean google gets hit with a lawsuit for illegal torrents?
Hmm do I smell Mod abuse, surely my parent comment is informative or inciteful refering to an earlier story on slashdot about the South Korean government mandating that a city in South Korea use Linux.
Isn't it pretty obvious that both storys indicate a determination on the part of the South Koreans to weaken the grip of microsoft on thier infrastructure. Either they are looking for a cheaper deal with Microsoft or they really do want an IT infrastructure which isn't dependant on paying Microsoft.
Companies such as Samsung are already big players in the hardware Market place. With countrys such as japan threatening to levy import tarrifs of 27.2% http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/ 2006/01/21/2003290105 Strengthening South Korea's posistion in the software market surely makes a lot of sense for South Korea.
If South Koreans can buy domestically produced hardware at a significantly lower price than the rest of the world then widespread use of a free alternative operating system increases the competitive advantage of low priced quality hardware.
It also makes sense that if your going to use windows then push for the lowest price you can surely?
Karma generally works on slashdot so hopefully whoever metamoderates my previous post will see it wasn't the work of a troll and score it fairly.
Funny as hell really you see adverts telling you not to download or pirated cd's video's ect. the low quality of pirated music and video is often cited. yet your legit download service serves up low bitrate and low resolution content - Lower than whats commonly available.
The restrictions on copy protected disks also ensures that your copy from disk is poor.
maybe this is just a continuation of the LP cassette situation home tapes never had the quality of an LP home taping never killed music because if you really liked an album you bought it, eventually.
you'd still tape it thou for party use.
If you want to become an itunes competitor you need to supply high quality nonDRM nonRIAA music give Independant artists a higher percentage of unit sales and low prices for consumers and multitrack discounts.
Promotional codes could allow your friends to buy the same music at a lower price and reward you with credit towards future purchases.
You should have at least mentioned the name of the game and maybe a link to a review of it. Is there any online options for it, multiplayer. If so tell us about them.
You know you could benefit from your game being on bit torrent. If you have to use a server you control to use it's multiplayer modes. Then restricting access to people with legal copies, If people want to play then they will pay simple as that.
You know you could provide a replacement key service at a price that covers the cost of a lost sale to you and your publisher to replace lost keys. Or to allow an expansion pack to be downloaded and used.
right now you have something very valuble publicity. This is going to do one of two things drive up sales or drive them through the floor. It all depends on the quality of the game.
I mean you could build a relationship with the gamers talk to them get feed back Any bugs in your game? can you fix them make the game better make a patch, fix the legit copies.
Right now you have got the exposure you could never get any other way. It's time to capitalise on that.
did you realise most torrent sites also have comments on individual torrents link to your website. word of mouth is good for you.
People try to avoid buying crap these days and things like bittorrent give them the opportunity. Everything gets hyped by the marketing companies good and bad people want the good and want to miss out on the bad. Bit torrent gives choice.
It is interesting times as a Mac OS hacker demonstrates the ability to get non mac hardware running OSX, apple shows a distain for his efforts that seems strange. he's not being stopped nothing Apples done actually impacts his efforts.
I think its obvious by now that OSX could run on PC hardware made by anyone but why isn't microsoft saying a single word about this.
Probably OSX will take a share of the market initially comparable to what they have now. Perhaps growing steadily as the OSX86 platform proves its better than Vista.
meanwhile envious windows users will be watching as hacked copys of OSX appear. Eventually at some point Apple will feel secure there is enough demand for OSX unbundled for certain supported hardware configurations.
The best OSX experience will be on Apple hardware but the barrier to entry is likely to be lowered to specific graphics hardware and a legal copy of OSX.
at which point Vista users will jump ship in droves.
Of course OSX might not be that good vista might be better than expected and Apple will remain a significant minority with enough sales to excuse microsofts share.
Personally I can't see why Apple couldn't decimate microsofts hold on the PC market. I am sure Steve Jobs hackles rise when he remembers someone saying they would Piss On Next.
The most recent large offshore farm is Nysted Offshore Wind Farm at Rødsand built in 2003. The wind farm is located app. 10 km south of the town of Nysted on Lolland and consists of 8 rows with 9 turbines each. The total power of the 72 wind turbines each of 2.3 MW thus reaches 165,5 MW. The annual electricity production of the wind farm is 600GWh, enough to supply 145,000 (Danish) households. The wind turbine towers are about 70 m tall, and the rotor blades 41 m long.
What do you propose Iran should use for energy since you agree that letting them have nuclear reactors isn't a good idea?
Cancer is a possible from doses delivered by xray machines this is why operators get behind lead shielding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 very famous case of patients getting killed by short high level doses. Lower levels of radiation over longer time periods can also kill and cause cancers.
I don't doubt that its possible to operate a reactor safely and store the waste safely in some parts of the world. Other parts well lets say an alternative is required.
Do you think the united states should depend entirely on nuclear energy and for how long 100 years a 1000, 2000?
Problem is you can't use nuclear to solve the worlds energy crisis. best you can hope for is to become fortress usa and live as free as your government see's fit. Since your always going to be the target of terrorist attacks.
My countrys going the same way we already have home grown suicide bombers who were born and brought up here.
Maybe the answer is less people in the world. China's addressing this now, birth rates are declining in western nations... if we can't generate the energy needed for our current population maybe it's not sustainable.
Yes I think Iran wants nukes, it also wants a reliable affordable energy source. An alternative is needed and really its going to be the west to show its viable
Actually I don't recycle my own poop the local water company does extracting methane initially and then passed over to farmers who spread it over thier fields.
California has a fair bit of coastline perhaps some turbines might be located offshore. maybe geothermal energy is a possibilty too. Biodediesil and sugar producing crops should grow well in california. I don't live in california but i would guess air conditioning is a fair proportion of energy use.
My electricity is generated by renewables. hybrid cars seem to be a combination of expensive and still not that fuel efficient.
cars like the renault megane claim over 60 miles to an imperial gallon (4.454 litres) US gallon is 3.785 litres runnning a 1.5 litre diesil engine. when your paying around 96p close to $1.75 a litre fuel efficiency becomes important.
most uk homes are not very energy efficient however I can tell you that this room is lit by a 15 watt energy saving bulb which equates to the same as a 60 watt bulb. I do have 20 watt bulbs which equate to 100 watt bulbs. They last longer too.
If you could reduce your own energy use then you could save yourself money and get better returns on your states windfarms.
reports on many projects including some in california.
I don't know if you have the equivilent of npower juice in california but if you have the choice of supplier choosing one which is prepared to use renewables to generate your electricity will help and you can be part of the solution.
There is a problem with nuclear reactors and that is radio active materials and governments that are prepared to use radioactive materials for weapons.
radioactive materials can be used to poison and cause slow death from cancer in lowish doses. Fancy a dirty bomb in your city?
nuclear is big boys toys, if you want to solve your countrys energy problems with nuclear than you have to accept the rest of the world wanting and doing the same.
who here is comfortable about irans nuclear program. Do you trust them?
you can't just allow certain countrys to develop nuclear energy and then try to deny this energy source to the rest of the world no matter how unstable you view them.
Do you honestly think your nuclear nirvana isn't going to be viewed with hatred from the eyes of citizens of other nations who have been kept out the nuclear club.
The imbalance of wealth is tearing this world apart as it is, as energy costs rise this is only going to deepen.
If iran was developing huge arrays of stirling engines would the world be worried, I doubt it.
Harnessing energy sources like wind tidal solar energy farming bio fuels. to create an energy solution safe for the whole world to have is what this planet needs.
As for costs I think you might find its not as expensive as we are led to believe.
national geographoic ran a documentary a few weeks back and in it they stated the time to recover the energy put into making one of the danish offshore wind turbines was 3 months.
If the first world cannot balance it's energy demands without needing nuclear power then it's not going to be possible for the rest of the world either.
So if we want our civilisation to be viable long term we have to develop an energy policy and technology that is sustainable and can be shared with the rest of the world.
not so far off what happens at certain windows retailers someone comes in with a corrupted install on a 6 month old pc that was sold with windows home preinstalled. you know the sort licience number on the side of the PC.
They then inform them that they now have to buy another copy of XP home for that very same PC.
At which point i just cant help but tell the poor victim that they are being ripped off.
Microsoft is actually quite nice about it if you do a reinstall and ring them to reactivate it with the poor victims licience number.
Although this time your probably right, its going to be case of preinstalled with the most basic version possible (keeping the box price down and no disk of course) and then everything else will be a case of you need to upgrade to vista media centre edition if you want to play dvds hi definition content ect.
I am just glad linux is getting easier rpm's seem to work on a lot of versions simply as does apt-get install for others. Tar.GZ versions not easy for a novice but it's the 21st century and a quick search on google will generally turn up either an rpm installer version or instructions on how to use the tar version.
It's a learning curve still but then you do get the pleasure of success when you figure out how to do something new and going from firefox on XP to firefox on linux is no change at all.
I definately like kopete and amarok is great. I havent quite figured out how to get a remote desktop with sound on the windows pc's i am using yet but i think NxServer and client will do it for me.
Ultravnc is the nicest vnc client i have found so far for windows. I havent been on linux long as you can tell but each days getting better and better:) I think after Nxserver, Wine will get my attention just so i can use the windows programs i need for now.
I feel like i am breaking chains with every step I move forward with Linux.
Sat nav is ok but yes there can be a little too much information at times. only an idiot would try to enter data while driving its too fiddly for a start.
with voice instruction once you have got used to how far she means when she says left turn 50 yards. I find it isnt distracting at all. although got to admit there are times when we don't agree.
least she doesnt sulk when I choose a better route. to be honest sat nav isnt something you want or need everyday or for most of a journey its usually just getting to where you want to be in an unfamiliar town that it really becomes useful.
if your using a pda based satnav play some music instead. you can do both actually.
seem to remember AOL wouldn't accept registrations from a town called scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire England was a few years back now. theres still a few child safe message boards which want to protect innocents from the dangers of scunthorpe.
Sad thing is Yahoo is too brain dead to be able to make a decision that some substrings aren't offensive. Who is allowed to question the policy nobodys brave enough to say yes its stupid to ban this lets allow it.
Sensible solution would be to ban names on the basis of complaints recieved. although if someone goes on #nazisodomites and gets offended by the handle jewkiller it might not be quite so reasonable if jewkiller was on #newbieshelp it would be.
There is no point in blaming islam for yahoo's decisions do you think they were asked by muslims to ban user names with allah in them.
always remember the pen is mightier than the sword, perhaps enough mail directed in yahoo's direction might stir things enough to reach the ears of someone who can make a sensible decision.
You have the right to choose an offensive name for yourself and I have the right to assume your an arsehole and prejudge your statements. seems fair to me
while gaining greater than 100% efficiency is probably impossible there are sometimes things which can gather free energy such as heat exchangers gathering heat energy from outside concentrating it and releasing it inside.
solar sails, picking up energy by flying past planets.
Does the big bang theory of the universe make any sense the universe just appeared and there was a sudden out rush of mass and energy... if the universe has a start point then the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed needs an except when starting a universe appended to it.
can anyone give an explanation how magnetic energy transfer works. for example you can pick up a steel ball bearing with a magnet. gravity is pulling the ball bearing downwards but the magnetic field holds the ball in place.
Is energy being expended for this to occur, given a long enough time will the ball bearing fall from the magnet or is something renewing the energy expended by the magnet to hold the ball in place.
Anyone care to try and explain, is a god of some sort necessary to make sense of this.
380,000 people downloaded his first podcast from guardian unlimited, later shows where less successful and more people prefered to download an individual episode than decided to subscribe.
looks like the first series is available as a torrent in the usual places.
each show is about 15meg in size.
However you might try the BBC's website for some alternative shows to download for free. Radio2 and Radio4 have some pretty good shows available.
Plenty of radio stations stream shows from station websites.
I'm pretty sure slashdot readers can list thier favourite shows and where they are available legal and free.
how many subscribers does he need to make this subscription viable 2000? is $14,000 a month enough... I'm hoping his subscription based show fails just because if it doesnt we will see more of this.
I guess if your an idiot with more money than sense you might subscribe and get the 5 minute advert free, I just wonder how many idiots are signing up right now.
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"FOSDEM: The Mozilla Foundation's partnership with Google has kept it afloat for the past few months, and is now allowing it to hire more staff"
Seems to suggest that the google deal came through roughly at the same time. however that headline was misleading to suggest google was keeping Mozilla foundation afloat. see
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/00765As long as google sticks to gathering information from me only when i use google I am happy enough, it's when you get into alexa type activitys i am not.
http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?Although Alexa does go hand in hand with the internet archive. (damn conflicts with something I do like)
If your interested in Datamining in general http://www.kdnuggets.com/dmcourse/other_lectures/i ntro-to-data-mining-notes.html
or "knowledge discovery" then that link looks interesting
I like google but they are slipping wtf are all the landing sites doing high in the rankings. you know if google could derank hits based on how quickly someone went back to google after following a duff link it should progressively improve
"Anyone who uses windows for home mostly pirates it here"
:)
Is that actually True?
I am just thinking that most Computer's are prebuilt by some vendor and have a legal pre-installed copy of windows on them.
I think mostly might be excessive not everyone runs XP Pro corporate edition (Slashdot is not a representative sample).
Why are Goverment Desktops running windows anyway? Sure you need to provide civil servants with the tools to carry out their jobs, but unless it's necessary to run a particular windows only application surely linux is a more cost effective solution. Especially when the o/s is just there to launch a terminal session.
So yes go the EU
I don't really go for religion, so without a god the storys absurd.
havin a lot of stuff is just stuff so your material wealth cult doesn't hold up either.
we're basically a social creature we understand a lot that we are finite we exist for a time and we die.
The only thing which really matters is love.
If you haven't got it your just a shell. I feel sorry for those that don't have it and especially sad for those that don't want it.
Try to maintain positive karma be loving and responsible for your actions.
thats a real alternative to religion which works.
I think we expect different things from our stereo's
:)
we want MP3 compatability and we want to play our itunes
downloads.
there is no real competition to itunes and nothing but the ipod that can play Fairplay DRM.
The ipod hifi as is, isn't pretty but imagine a device which lets the ipod dock in properly with built in wifi connectivity that lets you use your ipod to directly order music over the net. built in credit-debit card reader so any music on itunes is a download away.
build in a dvd / audio cd player and a 5.1 decoder and you have the most desirable home entertainment system ever.
The only people that can make this is Apple because they control the DRM.
A hifi that always has the music your guest's request.
To be honest the biggest market for this will be single guys, you'll always have her favourite track.
no band too obscure you'll have it
now how can Sony build an answer to that.
Why complain about Apples DRM, I hate Drm but my bitchin will not change anything.
Apples Drm might because Fairplay locks everyone else out of most of the Drm'd downloadable music industry.
Who's it hurting the very same companys that are forcing DRM upon us.
nobody can make hardware that works with fairplay but Apple no one can supply a drm'd format that works with the ipod.
There's an alternative of course and thats to release music in a non drm format then everyone gets to play.
Apples not hurting the enduser here.
The other players in this game will have to come to the realisation that DRM is costing them and distorting the market.
Home networks are common now as is more than one PC in the house usually its the weaker of the two that becomes a candidate for a linux install.
Theres a lot that could be done to make Linux more attractive to windows users.
1)automate the joining of a linux box to a windows workgroup including network printing and a shared folder visable on the network.
2)Improve remote desktop access to windows standards, that is simple and with sound. both windows and linux desktops should be readily available from either PC.
3)Linux newbie help.
basically a list of windows programs and the installed linux counterpart.
4)IRC help via a desktop short cut.
Every new user of linux needs to feel comfortable which means linux will be treated like an application accessed from a windows box and hopefully windows can become an application accessed from a linux box.
As long as whats familiar is a click or two away linux will be stress free for newbies.
you missed my favourite feature of XP Pro
:)
concurrent multiuser access (well 3 max)
this allows you to share the power of one good PC.
one install needed and good performance from otherwise outdated PC's.
XP useable in 48 meg on a 170mhz processor it works !
good point
slightly let down by the fact its a channel 4 series and hense nothing to do with the BBC.
File sharing isn't illegal inherently, neither is sharing a file called photoshop7.iso which is actually a gayporn avi file unless the copyright owners of the gayporn avi wish to assert thier copyrights but unless you know who produced said avi. your going to have to watch an lot of gay porn to identify who might be the copyright owner.
Changing the file extension from iso to avi might be seen as decryption. As an iso file it was unreadable it takes a skilled user to convert this file into a gayporn video.
At what point does this file become illegal and who committed the offence?
It's firmly in the hands of the users what they choose to do with a P2P application and its pretty much down to the downloader what to make of a block of encrypted data.
I was going to suggest that google might be in a different situation if they applied a logo to each thumbnail.
This would allow people to view a thumbnail while still requiring someone to visit a site to get the picture.
Or a norobots text or something like the broadcast flag embedded in the header of the image file.
Sure it's removable but then it's placing the blame squarely on the site modifying the image.
More worrying is the concept of Adsense being used to decide guilt upon the part of google. If a torrent search engiine site has google ads does that mean google gets hit with a lawsuit for illegal torrents?
Thanks you made me laugh, sad thou its the sweetest thing you have said this year.
why thou...
Placze do pustych scian, co za wstyd
Bylam z kims jakis czas, niewazne juz
Czuje, ze wokól mnie nie kocha nikt
Czuje, ze zawsze juz bedzie tak.
Hmm do I smell Mod abuse, surely my parent comment is informative or inciteful refering to an earlier story on slashdot about the South Korean government mandating that a city in South Korea use Linux.
/ 2006/01/21/2003290105
Isn't it pretty obvious that both storys indicate a determination on the part of the South Koreans to weaken the grip of microsoft on thier infrastructure. Either they are looking for a cheaper deal with Microsoft or they really do want an IT infrastructure which isn't dependant on paying Microsoft.
Companies such as Samsung are already big players in the hardware Market place. With countrys such as japan threatening to levy import tarrifs of 27.2%
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives
Strengthening South Korea's posistion in the software market surely makes a lot of sense for South Korea.
If South Koreans can buy domestically produced hardware at a significantly lower price than the rest of the world then widespread use of a free alternative operating system increases the competitive advantage of low priced quality hardware.
It also makes sense that if your going to use windows then push for the lowest price you can surely?
Karma generally works on slashdot so hopefully whoever metamoderates my previous post will see it wasn't the work of a troll and score it fairly.
and which perhaps korea would prefer to run Linux
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/17
couldn't buy a replacement stylus...
you did ask
Bitrate thats the only problem with itunes.
Funny as hell really you see adverts telling you not to download or pirated cd's video's ect.
the low quality of pirated music and video is often cited.
yet your legit download service serves up low bitrate and low resolution content - Lower than whats commonly available.
The restrictions on copy protected disks also ensures that your copy from disk is poor.
maybe this is just a continuation of the LP cassette situation home tapes never had the quality of an LP home taping never killed music because if you really liked an album you bought it, eventually.
you'd still tape it thou for party use.
If you want to become an itunes competitor you need to supply high quality nonDRM nonRIAA music give Independant artists a higher percentage of unit sales and low prices for consumers and multitrack discounts.
Promotional codes could allow your friends to buy the same music at a lower price and reward you with credit towards future purchases.
till then heres some free music for your ipod
http://www.the-hotels.org.uk/music.htm
You should have at least mentioned the name of the game and maybe a link to a review of it.
Is there any online options for it, multiplayer.
If so tell us about them.
You know you could benefit from your game being on bit torrent. If you have to use a server you control to use it's multiplayer modes. Then restricting access to people with legal copies, If people want to play then they will pay simple as that.
You know you could provide a replacement key service at a price that covers the cost of a lost sale to you and your publisher to replace lost keys. Or to allow an expansion pack to be downloaded and used.
right now you have something very valuble publicity.
This is going to do one of two things drive up sales or drive them through the floor. It all depends on the quality of the game.
I mean you could build a relationship with the gamers talk to them get feed back
Any bugs in your game? can you fix them make the game better make a patch, fix the legit copies.
Right now you have got the exposure you could never get any other way. It's time to capitalise on that.
did you realise most torrent sites also have comments on individual torrents link to your website. word of mouth is good for you.
People try to avoid buying crap these days and things like bittorrent give them the opportunity. Everything gets hyped by the marketing companies good and bad people want the good and want to miss out on the bad.
Bit torrent gives choice.
here's a nice example try this site
http://www.the-hotels.org.uk/music.htm
I think they are pretty good.
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strange or bizarre.
http://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au/litnumsit
maybe I Should just turn off the computer and go for a walk
It is interesting times
as a Mac OS hacker demonstrates the ability to get non mac hardware running OSX, apple shows a distain for his efforts that seems strange. he's not being stopped nothing Apples done actually impacts his efforts.
I think its obvious by now that OSX could run on PC hardware made by anyone but why isn't microsoft saying a single word about this.
Probably OSX will take a share of the market initially comparable to what they have now. Perhaps growing steadily as the OSX86 platform proves its better than Vista.
meanwhile envious windows users will be watching as hacked copys of OSX appear. Eventually at some point Apple will feel secure there is enough demand for OSX unbundled for certain supported hardware configurations.
The best OSX experience will be on Apple hardware but the barrier to entry is likely to be lowered to specific graphics hardware and a legal copy of OSX.
at which point Vista users will jump ship in droves.
Of course OSX might not be that good vista might be better than expected and Apple will remain a significant minority with enough sales to excuse microsofts share.
Personally I can't see why Apple couldn't decimate microsofts hold on the PC market. I am sure Steve Jobs hackles rise when he remembers someone saying they would Piss On Next.
I think payback is coming.
Ok the claim on the national geographic channel was energy costs for manufacturing a turbine were met in 3 months.
this website gives quite a lot of information regarding Danish windfarms
http://www.windpower.org/en/core.htm
It's not easy to get figures from that site on costs on individual projects.
http://www.windpower.org/en/pictures/offshore.htm
Nysted Offshore Wind Farm
The most recent large offshore farm is Nysted Offshore Wind Farm at Rødsand built in 2003. The wind farm is located app. 10 km south of the town of Nysted on Lolland and consists of 8 rows with 9 turbines each. The total power of the 72 wind turbines each of 2.3 MW thus reaches 165,5 MW. The annual electricity production of the wind farm is 600GWh, enough to supply 145,000 (Danish) households. The wind turbine towers are about 70 m tall, and the rotor blades 41 m long.
What do you propose Iran should use for energy since you agree that letting them have nuclear reactors isn't a good idea?
Cancer is a possible from doses delivered by xray machines this is why operators get behind lead shielding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
very famous case of patients getting killed by short high level doses. Lower levels of radiation over longer time periods can also kill and cause cancers.
I don't doubt that its possible to operate a reactor safely and store the waste safely in some parts of the world. Other parts well lets say an alternative is required.
Do you think the united states should depend entirely on nuclear energy and for how long 100 years a 1000, 2000?
Problem is you can't use nuclear to solve the worlds energy crisis. best you can hope for is to become fortress usa and live as free as your government see's fit. Since your always going to be the target of terrorist attacks.
My countrys going the same way we already have home grown suicide bombers who were born and brought up here.
Maybe the answer is less people in the world. China's addressing this now, birth rates are declining in western nations... if we can't generate the energy needed for our current population maybe it's not sustainable.
Yes I think Iran wants nukes, it also wants a reliable affordable energy source. An alternative is needed and really its going to be the west to show its viable
Actually I don't recycle my own poop the local water company does extracting methane initially and then passed over to farmers who spread it over thier fields.
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California has a fair bit of coastline perhaps some turbines might be located offshore. maybe geothermal energy is a possibilty too. Biodediesil and sugar producing crops should grow well in california. I don't live in california but i would guess air conditioning is a fair proportion of energy use.
http://www.oksolar.com/solar_home_systems/
might be of interest to you.
Myself I went for the easier option
http://www.npower.com/At_home/Juice-clean_and_gre
My electricity is generated by renewables.
hybrid cars seem to be a combination of expensive and still not that fuel efficient.
cars like the renault megane claim over 60 miles to an imperial gallon (4.454 litres) US gallon is 3.785 litres
runnning a 1.5 litre diesil engine. when your paying around 96p close to $1.75 a litre fuel efficiency becomes important.
As for energy use
http://www.calvert-henderson.com/energy.htm
shows that american energy use per person is twice that for western european nations such as the UK.
however this page shows california to be quite energy efficient for an american state
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/energ
most uk homes are not very energy efficient however I can tell you that this room is lit by a 15 watt energy saving bulb which equates to the same as a 60 watt bulb. I do have 20 watt bulbs which equate to 100 watt bulbs. They last longer too.
If you could reduce your own energy use then you could save yourself money and get better returns on your states windfarms.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/4
reports on many projects including some in california.
I don't know if you have the equivilent of npower juice in california but if you have the choice of supplier choosing one which is prepared to use renewables to generate your electricity will help and you can be part of the solution.
There is a problem with nuclear reactors and that is radio active materials and governments that are prepared to use radioactive materials for weapons.
radioactive materials can be used to poison and cause slow death from cancer in lowish doses. Fancy a dirty bomb in your city?
nuclear is big boys toys, if you want to solve your countrys energy problems with nuclear than you have to accept the rest of the world wanting and doing the same.
who here is comfortable about irans nuclear program. Do you trust them?
you can't just allow certain countrys to develop nuclear energy and then try to deny this energy source to the rest of the world no matter how unstable you view them.
Do you honestly think your nuclear nirvana isn't going to be viewed with hatred from the eyes of citizens of other nations who have been kept out the nuclear club.
The imbalance of wealth is tearing this world apart as it is, as energy costs rise this is only going to deepen.
If iran was developing huge arrays of stirling engines would the world be worried, I doubt it.
Harnessing energy sources like wind tidal solar energy farming bio fuels. to create an energy solution safe for the whole world to have is what this planet needs.
As for costs I think you might find its not as expensive as we are led to believe.
http://www.windpower.org/en/pictures/offshore.htm
Shows a number of wind farm projects.
national geographoic ran a documentary a few weeks back and in it they stated the time to recover the energy put into making one of the danish offshore wind turbines was 3 months.
If the first world cannot balance it's energy demands without needing nuclear power then it's not going to be possible for the rest of the world either.
So if we want our civilisation to be viable long term we have to develop an energy policy and technology that is sustainable and can be shared with the rest of the world.
not so far off what happens at certain windows retailers
someone comes in with a corrupted install on a 6 month old pc that was sold with windows home preinstalled. you know the sort licience number on the side of the PC.
They then inform them that they now have to buy another copy of XP home for that very same PC.
At which point i just cant help but tell the poor victim that they are being ripped off.
Microsoft is actually quite nice about it if you do a reinstall and ring them to reactivate it with the poor victims licience number.
Although this time your probably right, its going to be case of preinstalled with the most basic version possible (keeping the box price down and no disk of course) and then everything else will be a case of you need to upgrade to vista media centre edition if you want to play dvds hi definition content ect.
I am just glad linux is getting easier rpm's seem to work on a lot of versions simply as does apt-get install for others. Tar.GZ versions not easy for a novice but it's the 21st century and a quick search on google will generally turn up either an rpm installer version or instructions on how to use the tar version.
It's a learning curve still but then you do get the pleasure of success when you figure out how to do something new and going from firefox on XP to firefox on linux is no change at all.
I definately like kopete and amarok is great.
I havent quite figured out how to get a remote desktop with sound on the windows pc's i am using yet but i think NxServer and client will do it for me.
Ultravnc is the nicest vnc client i have found so far for windows. I havent been on linux long as you can tell but each days getting better and better:)
I think after Nxserver, Wine will get my attention just so i can use the windows programs i need for now.
I feel like i am breaking chains with every step I move forward with Linux.
Sat nav is ok but yes there can be a little too much information at times.
only an idiot would try to enter data while driving its too fiddly for a start.
with voice instruction once you have got used to how far she means when she says left turn 50 yards. I find it isnt distracting at all. although got to admit there are times when we don't agree.
least she doesnt sulk when I choose a better route.
to be honest sat nav isnt something you want or need everyday or for most of a journey its usually just getting to where you want to be in an unfamiliar town that it really becomes useful.
if your using a pda based satnav play some music instead.
you can do both actually.
sometimes its not just usernames that get banned
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seem to remember AOL wouldn't accept registrations from a town called scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire England was a few years back now.
theres still a few child safe message boards which want to protect innocents from the dangers of scunthorpe.
Sad thing is Yahoo is too brain dead to be able to make a decision that some substrings aren't offensive. Who is allowed to question the policy nobodys brave enough to say yes its stupid to ban this lets allow it.
Sensible solution would be to ban names on the basis of complaints recieved. although if someone goes on #nazisodomites and gets offended by the handle jewkiller it might not be quite so reasonable if jewkiller was on #newbieshelp it would be.
There is no point in blaming islam for yahoo's decisions do you think they were asked by muslims to ban user names with allah in them.
always remember the pen is mightier than the sword, perhaps enough mail directed in yahoo's direction might stir things enough to reach the ears of someone who can make a sensible decision.
You have the right to choose an offensive name for yourself and I have the right to assume your an arsehole and prejudge your statements. seems fair to me
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fluffy bunny
while gaining greater than 100% efficiency is probably impossible there are sometimes things which can gather free energy such as heat exchangers gathering heat energy from outside concentrating it and releasing it inside.
solar sails, picking up energy by flying past planets.
Does the big bang theory of the universe make any sense the universe just appeared and there was a sudden out rush of mass and energy... if the universe has a start point then the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed needs an except when starting a universe appended to it.
can anyone give an explanation how magnetic energy transfer works. for example you can pick up a steel ball bearing with a magnet. gravity is pulling the ball bearing downwards but the magnetic field holds the ball in place.
Is energy being expended for this to occur, given a long enough time will the ball bearing fall from the magnet or is something renewing the energy expended by the magnet to hold the ball in place.
Anyone care to try and explain, is a god of some sort necessary to make sense of this.
Great isn't it. Maybe Rickys Ego has just got just that little bit too big.
I really hope this bombs big time, however it's likely to be a comfortable success.
According to
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1665.shtml
380,000 people downloaded his first podcast from guardian unlimited, later shows where less successful and more people prefered to download an individual episode than decided to subscribe.
looks like the first series is available as a torrent in the usual places.
each show is about 15meg in size.
However you might try the BBC's website for some alternative shows to download for free. Radio2 and Radio4 have some pretty good shows available.
Plenty of radio stations stream shows from station websites.
I'm pretty sure slashdot readers can list thier favourite
shows and where they are available legal and free.
how many subscribers does he need to make this subscription viable 2000? is $14,000 a month enough...
I'm hoping his subscription based show fails just because if it doesnt we will see more of this.
I guess if your an idiot with more money than sense you might subscribe and get the 5 minute advert free, I just wonder how many idiots are signing up right now.