not even 2 1/2 years. according to their roadmap, 2 will be EOL'd 6 months after the release of 3, same as it was for the transition from 1.0 to 1.5 and 1.5 to 2.0.
no reason at all. just x/k/ubuntu have it already rigged for those 3, so if you want one of those, it's already there and saves you some time rigging it yourself.
1. yes, corn ethanol is a very bad idea and anyone with brains (i.e. not politicians) knows that.
2. switchgrass doesn't require food-growing-quality land. it'll grow just fine on marginal drought-prone land that is unsuitable for food growing, so no tradeoff needed. put your food crops on the good land and spread switchgrass all over the lousy land, which was likely covered with switchgrass a few hundred years ago anyway.
AFAIK, switchgrass will grow practically anywhere south of 55, is very drought resistant, and requires minimal soil nutrients, so put it on marginal land you can't grow anything else on rather than devoting your prime food growing land to making fuelstock.
2/3s the potential energy, but ethanol can come out even or even a little ahead in accessable energy. you get, what? 33% of the power out of gasoline in a typical engine and the rest is lost as heat. ethanol can get 50% or better using forced induction and higher compression, due to the far higher octane rating (116 (AKI) vs. 85-91 for normal gas).
an engine saab makes automaticly increases the turbo boost when it's using ethanol. gives a nice bump to torque and horsepower and matches fuel economy with the engine running on gas.
BUT... you know they have signed agreements from where they got the music, saying they can't DO that. i wonder, can the courts render those (parts of those) agreements void and force microsoft to strip the drm?
yes, good lawyers are very useful people to have (good accountants also fall in the undervalued category), but there are way too many bad (where bad="complete lack of ethics") ones around, hence the big-brushing of the profession.
yes, but with the prime directive, you just skip right to the 2nd last part (stay up in the ships and watch) and don't bother will all the talking and they don't think of us as assholes, as they don't know we exist.
why fat32? last time i checked, ntfs works just fine on ubuntu and ntfs is definetly more robust than fat32, in addition to doing away with that old annoying 4GB filesize limit.
not corners. edges. it must be something with the way they cut the metal, as it leaves a sharp edge (which they're too cheap to file down or roll or something.) which is quite capable of giving you an annoying slice across the finger.
1. for the drive, it's a fairly nice case design to work in. some of the cheap POS cases i've worked with make installing a new drive a pain, literally in many cases (sharp edges), though i've also seen nicer cases to work in.
2. i dunno what's he on about with the memory either, unless he's thinking of the cases with overly tight tolerances, resulting in the side panel being difficult to remove, but i keep a large flathead screwdriver in my toolkit for that very reason and it hasn't failed me yet.
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not even 2 1/2 years. according to their roadmap, 2 will be EOL'd 6 months after the release of 3, same as it was for the transition from 1.0 to 1.5 and 1.5 to 2.0.
no reason at all. just x/k/ubuntu have it already rigged for those 3, so if you want one of those, it's already there and saves you some time rigging it yourself.
1. yes, corn ethanol is a very bad idea and anyone with brains (i.e. not politicians) knows that.
2. switchgrass doesn't require food-growing-quality land. it'll grow just fine on marginal drought-prone land that is unsuitable for food growing, so no tradeoff needed. put your food crops on the good land and spread switchgrass all over the lousy land, which was likely covered with switchgrass a few hundred years ago anyway.
AFAIK, switchgrass will grow practically anywhere south of 55, is very drought resistant, and requires minimal soil nutrients, so put it on marginal land you can't grow anything else on rather than devoting your prime food growing land to making fuelstock.
2/3s the potential energy, but ethanol can come out even or even a little ahead in accessable energy. you get, what? 33% of the power out of gasoline in a typical engine and the rest is lost as heat. ethanol can get 50% or better using forced induction and higher compression, due to the far higher octane rating (116 (AKI) vs. 85-91 for normal gas).
an engine saab makes automaticly increases the turbo boost when it's using ethanol. gives a nice bump to torque and horsepower and matches fuel economy with the engine running on gas.
millions?
if ford came to your driveway and rendered it permanently undrivable when they stopped making it, no difference at all in that case.
yes, good lawyers are very useful people to have (good accountants also fall in the undervalued category), but there are way too many bad (where bad="complete lack of ethics") ones around, hence the big-brushing of the profession.
which isn't very feasible when the important information is large or if you're unlikely to have internet access where you're going.
yes, but with the prime directive, you just skip right to the 2nd last part (stay up in the ships and watch) and don't bother will all the talking and they don't think of us as assholes, as they don't know we exist.
why fat32? last time i checked, ntfs works just fine on ubuntu and ntfs is definetly more robust than fat32, in addition to doing away with that old annoying 4GB filesize limit.
IIRC, the xbox used a stripped down OS based on the win2k version of the NT kernel. no idea what the 360 uses.
they'll anger them all they like (in the name of profit) as :
a. most of them won't notice or won't care.
or
b. they have no other reasonable option for internet access.
or you happen to leave your fingerprints somewhere. typical biometric "security" systems are so easily broken it's hilarious.
not corners. edges. it must be something with the way they cut the metal, as it leaves a sharp edge (which they're too cheap to file down or roll or something.) which is quite capable of giving you an annoying slice across the finger.
i believe the original was "in america, you can always find a party. in soviet russia, the party can always find you."
1. for the drive, it's a fairly nice case design to work in. some of the cheap POS cases i've worked with make installing a new drive a pain, literally in many cases (sharp edges), though i've also seen nicer cases to work in.
2. i dunno what's he on about with the memory either, unless he's thinking of the cases with overly tight tolerances, resulting in the side panel being difficult to remove, but i keep a large flathead screwdriver in my toolkit for that very reason and it hasn't failed me yet.
racks are standard of a lot of other cases too.
i personally prefer the pseudo-screws on my cooler master case. just slide the drive in and twist 2 knobs to lock it in.
IMO, pay"pal" would be far better of as bankrupt.
no idea. i know that audio capchas exist, but i've never bothered to investigate further.
i wonder, how does the magnetic field needed scale with the mass to be levitated?
audio? lots of major sites with capchas have a "hear this" or similar link above the capcha.
you're certainly living up to your nick, though your sig kinda gives it away.