The Eee PC 1000H is a great system. I say GO GET ONE! If the Dell is better than the Eee 1000H, I have yet to read about it...
I get about 7-8 hours of *actual* battery life with my 1000H in the field with the optional Asus AL24-1000 8800mAh battery for Eee PC 1000H (yes, I ebayed it straight from Taiwan/China). NOTE: The 1000H comes default with the Asus 6600mAh AL23-901 battery (about 5-6 hours *actual* runtime).
I yanked the OEM 1GB SODIMM and replaced it with a PC-5300 2GB Corsair Value Ram SODIMM. (After updating to the latest Asus 1000H BIOS, it detects the full 2GB SODIMM, whereas before the BIOS update it only detected as 1GB, but still worked fine at 1GB...) It appears the Atom chipset memory limit at 1GB is artificially crippled initially.
Also yanked the OEM Wi-Fi card and installed a much better Intel 4965AGN Wi-Fi card.
I am about to replace the OEM Seagate 5,400RPM SATA 80GB HDD with a 64GB SATA SSD, but the run times named above were with the factory HDD and the Asus WinXP performance profiles set to "Auto". (Note that the Asus Eee 1000H has an 80 GB HDD with two 32GB partitions, the OS is ont he first one and the second one is not used. (but present as a D drive. Ans yes, you can install any notebook SATA drive, including the 320GB Seagate model, according to my buddy). Not sure why the 32GB WinXP partition, but it can be modified by pulling the drive and using Partition Magic (or whatever) to delete the other partition and change the size of the primary 32GB partition to fill the drive...
As I understand it, Microsoft has deliberately restricted the systems that can be licensed with OEM WinXP by mandating that devices having screens smaller than something like 10" or 11", and no more than 1GB of RAM, a HDD no larger than 80GB, and a processor slower than 1.8GHz. (Someone feel free to correct me on the exact WinXP OEM Netbook licensing hardware restrictions, but I have read about there somewhere recently...)
It is probable that the *nix versions of Dell's teeny PC can have larger/better hardware installed because *nix does not cripple the Atom-based PC's hardware restrictions.
The REAL QUESTION is, will Dell do what Asus did and allow their BIOS to allow 2GB of RAM and different NICs and BT modules and HDD. (But I rather doubt that Dell will release a 8800mAh battery for their Atom-based Netbook...
I would like to publicly state to Microsoft that, "I think that a hardware *restriction* policy for OEM Netbook WinXP is just a bunch of CRAP!" Maybe Linux will eat their lunch because of it... Too bad I have to have windows for my work software...
So, does Sony RMA give "Advanced Replacements" of equivalent unaffected models or loaners to users of the Recalled units , Ya Right...
So what does one do when their laptop is recalled and they need one to work?
If someone purchased the on-site next-day service plan, do they still honor that because the product line is defective?
440,000+ unhappy users is a hell of a way to have "Sony Style"...
Not that Dell is the pinnacle of notebook perfection, but my older Dell laptop has been so reliable for me and it is fast enough (Inspiron 6400/E1505) that I bought one for my Dad and a spare one for myself on ebay recently... (And for the record, I NEVER use the MediaDirect button... deleted that useless partition a long time ago) Very easy to completely disassemble and swap components, screens, drives, CPUs, etc...
Sony should focus less on making think look pretty and "feature filled" more on making them reliable.
Short answer: Maybe... But if so, it is a small part of what let them survive...
Don't diseases and insects ALMOST ALWAYS follow other natural disasters where there are numerous dead and dying creatures on the land and in the water?
Besides, sharks have awesome immune systems (some scientists say they actually have the BEST immune systems) and many varieties of sharks also went extinct at the same extension period as well numerous species of plants...
Does the author mean to imply that plants also survived the insects and diseases because of their 'immune systems'? I did not realize that plants had immune systems??...
Guess I'll go RTFA...
I was talking about friends who brought over their ISO images/disks for the latest Vista beta he they had for testing (I *assumed* he was an official MS Beta tester, Ahem... ) So, in went a blank recordable disk and we burned the ISO and installed it onto a blank hard drive in a test system I had... They were the *actual* Microsoft ISO images (to my knowledge, and not pirated betas), and they were definitely not crapware-infested OEM Vista Beta Images.
I was just commenting that the betas for Vista (that I "tested") were just as bloated back then (and in a few cases Less Bloated) than the final release of Vista IMHO.
I am extrapolating that the release version of IE8 will be no different. BLOATED.
In any case, I love Firefox, and IF and WHEN Microsoft can equal (or beat) its performance and footprint (resources) I might use their browser too. Just saying...
While having several friends possessed the newest ISO images, some of the Beta versions of "Vista" ran faster and were noticeably less bloated than the released version of "Vista"...
I cannot imagine any company creating more of a Rube Goldberg software creation than Vista has become and now it seems IE8 (beta) is no different... If I had wanted a Swiss Army-Knife, I'd have bought one...
They should have named Vista: "Steve Vaught"... but then again, it cannot shed its pounds by walking across America as the 'The Fat Man Walking' has... (One must respect Vaught's efforts and success)...
-Perhaps the Microsoft Vista and IE8 Development teams should follow his example and walk across America (all of them) as part of their learning and understanding process of only having with you ONLY what you NEED...
To PC Makers: If your business model's bottom line *depends on* installing bloatware/crapware/trialware please realize that you are the next fatality on the highway of making products that people want. (I do not LOOK FOR devices with pre-installed crapware, I look for quality components (hardware I want to use) and a great and human-voiced service department to backup the fat warranty.
NOTE: After the "Geek Squad" spy camera in the bathroom scandal and bulk copying customer's MP3 and JPG content scandals, (both done by individuals at the "Geek Squad") I do believe my opinion of Best Buy's "Geek Squad" is starting to raise...
On another note, I require car dealers to remove their advertising logos from all locations on the cars I purchase unless they agree to pay me an annual fee of $250 for my mobile advertising space on my new car. It works for NASCAR, it works for me... Talk about something the salesman has never heard before... Consumers need to stand up and justify being right.
It's not so simple as that...
People file their SSN in Public Records all the time.
For example, I have seen numerous PUBLIC tax records on file in the County Clerk's Office (as well as the County and District Court Clerk's Offices in my state (Oklahoma).
The same is true for numerous Oil & Gas Leases filed publicly.
A better approach is the one Texas took a few years back, requiring anyone accessing the public documents to sign an sworn and notarized affidavit stating that any and all SSN that may be present in the course of their review of Texas public records will not be mis-used. This process was a temporary one where then entire body of records was reviewed for SSN content and numbers of living persons were "blacked out" from the public record documents. Also, if anyone file documents with SSN information they were asked to black it out before filing if the person was not deceased.
It is better to sat up a tax ID with the IRS and use that number for public records. (That way, people legitimately requiring the individual's SSN data must contact the IRS (or the individual) to gain access to said individual's SSN.
Making it a felony would would immediately shut down many county government record departments for years (not to mention the costs to purge the offending data from million sof pages of official public records in every county) and it would otherwise and make felons out of many people who freely file their SSN in the public record.
Also, Todd Davis better hope he does not live in Virginia when your law makes all of his commercials felonious...
Hummm...? A few marketing suggestions:
OMFG Speed, SuperSpeed GTX SE FTW, USB 3.11 FWG, Chubby Speed, Fat Pipe Speed, Sex Speed (means different things depending on the age of the male), and (of course) all the obligatory Rick Moranis Spaceballs quotes...
Yes, but the parent's point (I believe) is that Iran has *A LOT* of state-owned oil (as in free) and more Natural Gas than everyone at the Bush's Baked Beans company picnic!
For argument's sake, let's say one is Iran... So it's preferred to build a 5 Billion dollar highly scrutinized and controversial nuclear power plant that happens to be a breeder reactor design (that will be abruptly bombed by Israel once it is fueled and operating).... OR might one would be wiser and have a better result by instead building 10x the number of equivalently power-producing hydrocarbon (gas) powered electric power plants (for 10x the power output) using what Iran has plenty of and also dodging international "sanctions" and criticisms... hum, what does one think???... What is the Real Modus Operandi here?
And please don't give me that FUD about Iran being concerned about "Climate Change" and that this is the reason why they are interested in specifically *nuclear power*, I am sure the Iranians are NOT concerned over the climate issue... they live in a hot hot desert *already*... If anything, "Climate Change, (AKA "Global Warming"), might make that part of the world cooler and have more rainfall...
Anyone that is free thinking and has half a functioning brain that *really really truly* thinks that Iran is NOT after Nuclear Weapons (As in REAL WMD's) needs to go to Room 12A...
1) Buy laptop with smallest and cheapest HDD possible.
2) Remove said HDD and image it.
3) Put in static bag in Original Laptop box and store it.
4) Purchase superior drive: Quiet and Large 5400RPM drive, or Superior and Fast 7200RPM drive, or Uber Everything SSD.
5) Apply your original image and install the drive.
6) Modify to your heart's content (PC Decrapifier , etc... or better yet... cleanly install XP (or OS of choice) with no Toshiba crapware or 'utility partition', etc..)
7) When something "breaks" Install original drive... Volia!
NOTE: Some users just use the same drive and keep an image of the original partition.... but imaging the wanted partition first and then reimaging the drive to the original one is too much of a pain.... (especially when the lap is dead and it better protects your data, pics, MP3s, etc..) Just get a faster/better/more expensive superior HDD for your laptop and use that one.
Who modded this insightful?
I suppose you believed Bill Clinton when he said he did not inhale (right) and that other time when it all depended on what the meaning of is *IS*...
I needed a copy of Windows XP for my Dell, but in compliance with Ebay's policy, software could only be sold with hardware.
So, I ordered a metal blank case slot cover that said Dell on it, and what do you know? It came with a free copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 for Dell OEM PC's...
Does this mean that metal case bracket sales are up? NO decidedly not.
Even if Microsoft shipped a glazed canned ham and a 6-Pack of Bawlz with a downgrade disk copy of WinXP, they still sold a copy of XP (and some other crap people did not really want). This would not entitle the canned ham department over at Microsoft to claim superior sales versus XP at this point...
-Nobody pays the premium OEM charge for their "downgrade to XP rights and media disk" unless they intend on NOT using Vista and only using XP...
Exactly, try to imagine *this* lawsuit in CHINA.... (ROFL)
The same thing is happening to the American Auto Industry.... But SUV's don't fit into shipping containers so easily, so the industry settles for Mexico (rather than China) for cheap non-EEOC non-ADA non-EPA (etc...) production labor and closes as many of their (often union labor run) US plants as they can get away with.
Hooray NAFTA! (/sarcasm)
I agree, but there are some potential problems with that (and do you mean IPV4 or IPV6 addressing to replace the SSNs?)...
IP Addresses are *assigned* to network devices that each have quasi-unique Media Access Control (alpha-numeric) numberings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
It would be better to state that we will all need to have globally unique MAC address chips installed...
Also, wow to contend with the MAC number "spoofing"... and the fact that the MAC may not propagated through certain network layer transitions and proxies.
Would 'IP Address' or 'MAC Address' "spoofing" be covered under current fraud and identity theft laws at any point?
I think the blood/DNA identification methods as described in the movie "Gattica" may be better (though not applicable to the Internet and everyone would have sore fingertips)... It would be more difficult to spoof... but then again, there is *always* going to be a way to spoof another's alleged unique identity.
I did Read the article. I also read all of the links on the cquestrate.com web site.
My Chemistry degree tells me that although the chemistry as stated is possible, even likely, there are so many factors left egregiously unmentioned from both the article and the cquestrate.com web site.
Both fail to concretely account for *many essential requirements* and all of the needed logistics necessary to mine Limestone, cook it in kilns, create Lime (CaO), transport the Lime, and deliver Billions of pounds of that same Lime throughout our oceans...
My point is that these *unaccounted logistical and process details* will create, in fact, MORE CO2!
This in all likelihood will negate the net sequestering of existing CO2 from the atmosphere into the oceans.
People need to remember their chemistry and realize that the Reduction/Dehydration of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3 AKA 'Limestone') into Lime (CaO) + CO2 requires HUGE amounts of energy. This energy must come form somewhere and solar is nowhere close to these needed power levels. Lime manufacture is a very endothermic reaction (it absorbs heat energy) and releases vast amounts of CO2... This heat CANNOT come from any source that also creates CO2, or if it does, there is the additional cost of sequestering all that CO2 created in addition to the CO2 released in the reaction... The authors do not account for fact and they completely neglect the logistics of moving billions of pounds of mass around as well. I suppose they will have to invest a fleet of Nuclear ships and Electric excavators and to invent massive electric Dump Trucks to move the stuff around.
I would love for a Process Engineer and/or Chemical Engineer to weigh in on the actual energy energy requirements for processing a single Ton (2000lbs.) of Limestone into Lime.
Also, would someone send the link for the solar powered 2,700 degree 'calcination' Lime production Kiln facility that is scalable for the amounts of Lime needed?
All of the kilns I have visited use Hydrocarbons as fuel and some use old tires as a supplemental fuel source. Read away: http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200307/burningrubber.asp
(Also review the Dirty Jobs Episode 13, Season 2 where Mike Rowe shows how 'recycled' tires are used to help fuel the 2,700 Degree kiln needed to make Lime from Limestone. http://www.tv.com/dirty-jobs/shrimper/episode/573544/recap.html )
Not mentioning that I did study Engineering and Chemistry for my undergraduate should not make my points here any *less valid*.?
I do have an ugly do too, I bet your dog could probably beat my dog also.
I remember many PhD-holding professors (including some environmental scientists) who knew very very little about engineering and how real-world logistics work.
I agree that this Concept and Hypothesis of dumping Lime into the Ocean to increase oceanic CO2 absorption is theoretically possible and chemically sound.
My background and experience and education all tell me that the brains behind it have not fully accounted for *many* of the other factors I have posted here.
This will require MUCH more than the proposed solar power plants in energy requirements when the *actual* quantities of CaO to be produced to have any real actual reduction effects on CO2 levels are considered. We are talking Several Gigawatt-Class Nuclear power plants or large hydroelectric generation stations in the least.
Lime is one of the most energy-consumptive substances Mankind has yet learned to create from raw materials (considering how much we ALL consume yearly). This CO2-Reduction Concept and proposal is dead in the water (pun intended) without some very clean, non-CO2 releasing, method of CaO (Lime) production...
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The Eee PC 1000H is a great system. I say GO GET ONE! If the Dell is better than the Eee 1000H, I have yet to read about it...
I get about 7-8 hours of *actual* battery life with my 1000H in the field with the optional Asus AL24-1000 8800mAh battery for Eee PC 1000H (yes, I ebayed it straight from Taiwan/China). NOTE: The 1000H comes default with the Asus 6600mAh AL23-901 battery (about 5-6 hours *actual* runtime).
I yanked the OEM 1GB SODIMM and replaced it with a PC-5300 2GB Corsair Value Ram SODIMM. (After updating to the latest Asus 1000H BIOS, it detects the full 2GB SODIMM, whereas before the BIOS update it only detected as 1GB, but still worked fine at 1GB...) It appears the Atom chipset memory limit at 1GB is artificially crippled initially.
Also yanked the OEM Wi-Fi card and installed a much better Intel 4965AGN Wi-Fi card.
I am about to replace the OEM Seagate 5,400RPM SATA 80GB HDD with a 64GB SATA SSD, but the run times named above were with the factory HDD and the Asus WinXP performance profiles set to "Auto". (Note that the Asus Eee 1000H has an 80 GB HDD with two 32GB partitions, the OS is ont he first one and the second one is not used. (but present as a D drive. Ans yes, you can install any notebook SATA drive, including the 320GB Seagate model, according to my buddy). Not sure why the 32GB WinXP partition, but it can be modified by pulling the drive and using Partition Magic (or whatever) to delete the other partition and change the size of the primary 32GB partition to fill the drive...
As I understand it, Microsoft has deliberately restricted the systems that can be licensed with OEM WinXP by mandating that devices having screens smaller than something like 10" or 11", and no more than 1GB of RAM, a HDD no larger than 80GB, and a processor slower than 1.8GHz. (Someone feel free to correct me on the exact WinXP OEM Netbook licensing hardware restrictions, but I have read about there somewhere recently...)
It is probable that the *nix versions of Dell's teeny PC can have larger/better hardware installed because *nix does not cripple the Atom-based PC's hardware restrictions.
The REAL QUESTION is, will Dell do what Asus did and allow their BIOS to allow 2GB of RAM and different NICs and BT modules and HDD. (But I rather doubt that Dell will release a 8800mAh battery for their Atom-based Netbook... I would like to publicly state to Microsoft that, "I think that a hardware *restriction* policy for OEM Netbook WinXP is just a bunch of CRAP!" Maybe Linux will eat their lunch because of it... Too bad I have to have windows for my work software...
So, does Sony RMA give "Advanced Replacements" of equivalent unaffected models or loaners to users of the Recalled units , Ya Right...
So what does one do when their laptop is recalled and they need one to work?
If someone purchased the on-site next-day service plan, do they still honor that because the product line is defective?
440,000+ unhappy users is a hell of a way to have "Sony Style"...
Not that Dell is the pinnacle of notebook perfection, but my older Dell laptop has been so reliable for me and it is fast enough (Inspiron 6400/E1505) that I bought one for my Dad and a spare one for myself on ebay recently... (And for the record, I NEVER use the MediaDirect button... deleted that useless partition a long time ago) Very easy to completely disassemble and swap components, screens, drives, CPUs, etc...
Sony should focus less on making think look pretty and "feature filled" more on making them reliable.
Short answer: Maybe... But if so, it is a small part of what let them survive...
Don't diseases and insects ALMOST ALWAYS follow other natural disasters where there are numerous dead and dying creatures on the land and in the water?
Besides, sharks have awesome immune systems (some scientists say they actually have the BEST immune systems) and many varieties of sharks also went extinct at the same extension period as well numerous species of plants...
Does the author mean to imply that plants also survived the insects and diseases because of their 'immune systems'? I did not realize that plants had immune systems??...
Guess I'll go RTFA...
I was talking about friends who brought over their ISO images/disks for the latest Vista beta he they had for testing (I *assumed* he was an official MS Beta tester, Ahem... ) So, in went a blank recordable disk and we burned the ISO and installed it onto a blank hard drive in a test system I had... They were the *actual* Microsoft ISO images (to my knowledge, and not pirated betas), and they were definitely not crapware-infested OEM Vista Beta Images.
I was just commenting that the betas for Vista (that I "tested") were just as bloated back then (and in a few cases Less Bloated) than the final release of Vista IMHO.
I am extrapolating that the release version of IE8 will be no different. BLOATED.
In any case, I love Firefox, and IF and WHEN Microsoft can equal (or beat) its performance and footprint (resources) I might use their browser too. Just saying...
While having several friends possessed the newest ISO images, some of the Beta versions of "Vista" ran faster and were noticeably less bloated than the released version of "Vista"...
I cannot imagine any company creating more of a Rube Goldberg software creation than Vista has become and now it seems IE8 (beta) is no different... If I had wanted a Swiss Army-Knife, I'd have bought one...
They should have named Vista: "Steve Vaught"... but then again, it cannot shed its pounds by walking across America as the 'The Fat Man Walking' has... (One must respect Vaught's efforts and success)...
-Perhaps the Microsoft Vista and IE8 Development teams should follow his example and walk across America (all of them) as part of their learning and understanding process of only having with you ONLY what you NEED...
Ordinarily that might work, but as I recall: "She's gone from Suck to Blow!"
I have to um, you know,... kinda disagree with you on that one, Bob...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/29/clinton-congratulates-palin/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/29/ha_say_the_online_hillary_supp.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palin_courts_Hillary_backers.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oun4WWr3j3I
To PC Makers: If your business model's bottom line *depends on* installing bloatware/crapware/trialware please realize that you are the next fatality on the highway of making products that people want. (I do not LOOK FOR devices with pre-installed crapware, I look for quality components (hardware I want to use) and a great and human-voiced service department to backup the fat warranty.
NOTE: After the "Geek Squad" spy camera in the bathroom scandal and bulk copying customer's MP3 and JPG content scandals, (both done by individuals at the "Geek Squad") I do believe my opinion of Best Buy's "Geek Squad" is starting to raise...
On another note, I require car dealers to remove their advertising logos from all locations on the cars I purchase unless they agree to pay me an annual fee of $250 for my mobile advertising space on my new car. It works for NASCAR, it works for me... Talk about something the salesman has never heard before... Consumers need to stand up and justify being right.
It's not so simple as that...
People file their SSN in Public Records all the time.
For example, I have seen numerous PUBLIC tax records on file in the County Clerk's Office (as well as the County and District Court Clerk's Offices in my state (Oklahoma).
The same is true for numerous Oil & Gas Leases filed publicly.
A better approach is the one Texas took a few years back, requiring anyone accessing the public documents to sign an sworn and notarized affidavit stating that any and all SSN that may be present in the course of their review of Texas public records will not be mis-used. This process was a temporary one where then entire body of records was reviewed for SSN content and numbers of living persons were "blacked out" from the public record documents. Also, if anyone file documents with SSN information they were asked to black it out before filing if the person was not deceased.
It is better to sat up a tax ID with the IRS and use that number for public records. (That way, people legitimately requiring the individual's SSN data must contact the IRS (or the individual) to gain access to said individual's SSN.
Making it a felony would would immediately shut down many county government record departments for years (not to mention the costs to purge the offending data from million sof pages of official public records in every county) and it would otherwise and make felons out of many people who freely file their SSN in the public record.
Also, Todd Davis better hope he does not live in Virginia when your law makes all of his commercials felonious...
These two were my favorites:
http://www.mcescher.net/images/relativity.jpg (1953)
and
http://www.mcescher.net/images/houseofstairs.jpg (1951)
Hummm...? A few marketing suggestions:
OMFG Speed, SuperSpeed GTX SE FTW, USB 3.11 FWG, Chubby Speed, Fat Pipe Speed, Sex Speed (means different things depending on the age of the male), and (of course) all the obligatory Rick Moranis Spaceballs quotes...
I can just imagine it now... "Our new 3D Multi-Threading engine renders the Blackest Blacks ever!" -John Carmack. /sarcasm
Yes, but the parent's point (I believe) is that Iran has *A LOT* of state-owned oil (as in free) and more Natural Gas than everyone at the Bush's Baked Beans company picnic!
For argument's sake, let's say one is Iran... So it's preferred to build a 5 Billion dollar highly scrutinized and controversial nuclear power plant that happens to be a breeder reactor design (that will be abruptly bombed by Israel once it is fueled and operating).... OR might one would be wiser and have a better result by instead building 10x the number of equivalently power-producing hydrocarbon (gas) powered electric power plants (for 10x the power output) using what Iran has plenty of and also dodging international "sanctions" and criticisms... hum, what does one think???... What is the Real Modus Operandi here?
And please don't give me that FUD about Iran being concerned about "Climate Change" and that this is the reason why they are interested in specifically *nuclear power*, I am sure the Iranians are NOT concerned over the climate issue... they live in a hot hot desert *already*... If anything, "Climate Change, (AKA "Global Warming"), might make that part of the world cooler and have more rainfall...
Anyone that is free thinking and has half a functioning brain that *really really truly* thinks that Iran is NOT after Nuclear Weapons (As in REAL WMD's) needs to go to Room 12A...
I see you left out Windows 2000..... Hummmm?
That is not enforceable...
1) Buy laptop with smallest and cheapest HDD possible.
2) Remove said HDD and image it.
3) Put in static bag in Original Laptop box and store it.
4) Purchase superior drive: Quiet and Large 5400RPM drive, or Superior and Fast 7200RPM drive, or Uber Everything SSD.
5) Apply your original image and install the drive.
6) Modify to your heart's content (PC Decrapifier , etc... or better yet... cleanly install XP (or OS of choice) with no Toshiba crapware or 'utility partition', etc..)
7) When something "breaks" Install original drive... Volia!
NOTE: Some users just use the same drive and keep an image of the original partition.... but imaging the wanted partition first and then reimaging the drive to the original one is too much of a pain.... (especially when the lap is dead and it better protects your data, pics, MP3s, etc..)
Just get a faster/better/more expensive superior HDD for your laptop and use that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w
I just misread the headline as: "Mechanical Resonator" and then had mental images of dueling vibrators on the streets of Sydney...
Who modded this insightful?
I suppose you believed Bill Clinton when he said he did not inhale (right) and that other time when it all depended on what the meaning of is *IS*...
I needed a copy of Windows XP for my Dell, but in compliance with Ebay's policy, software could only be sold with hardware.
So, I ordered a metal blank case slot cover that said Dell on it, and what do you know? It came with a free copy of Windows XP Professional SP2 for Dell OEM PC's...
Does this mean that metal case bracket sales are up? NO decidedly not.
Even if Microsoft shipped a glazed canned ham and a 6-Pack of Bawlz with a downgrade disk copy of WinXP, they still sold a copy of XP (and some other crap people did not really want). This would not entitle the canned ham department over at Microsoft to claim superior sales versus XP at this point...
-Nobody pays the premium OEM charge for their "downgrade to XP rights and media disk" unless they intend on NOT using Vista and only using XP...
Exactly, try to imagine *this* lawsuit in CHINA.... (ROFL)
The same thing is happening to the American Auto Industry.... But SUV's don't fit into shipping containers so easily, so the industry settles for Mexico (rather than China) for cheap non-EEOC non-ADA non-EPA (etc...) production labor and closes as many of their (often union labor run) US plants as they can get away with.
Hooray NAFTA! (/sarcasm)
I agree, but there are some potential problems with that (and do you mean IPV4 or IPV6 addressing to replace the SSNs?)...
IP Addresses are *assigned* to network devices that each have quasi-unique Media Access Control (alpha-numeric) numberings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address It would be better to state that we will all need to have globally unique MAC address chips installed...
Also, wow to contend with the MAC number "spoofing"... and the fact that the MAC may not propagated through certain network layer transitions and proxies.
Would 'IP Address' or 'MAC Address' "spoofing" be covered under current fraud and identity theft laws at any point?
I think the blood/DNA identification methods as described in the movie "Gattica" may be better (though not applicable to the Internet and everyone would have sore fingertips)... It would be more difficult to spoof... but then again, there is *always* going to be a way to spoof another's alleged unique identity.
Maybe because both Glass and Aluminum are 100% recyclable??
Because Apples grow on trees?
I bet a fat box of PrOn one of the passwords is "12345"...
Couldn't quickly find Judge Dredd clips featuring the Lawgiver 2's "Double Whammy", "Armor Piercing", "Full Auto", or "Signal Flair" munition options...,
however, I did find the "Grenade" clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8O0KMzTYFk
More info on the Lawgiver 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawgiver
I did Read the article. I also read all of the links on the cquestrate.com web site.
My Chemistry degree tells me that although the chemistry as stated is possible, even likely, there are so many factors left egregiously unmentioned from both the article and the cquestrate.com web site. Both fail to concretely account for *many essential requirements* and all of the needed logistics necessary to mine Limestone, cook it in kilns, create Lime (CaO), transport the Lime, and deliver Billions of pounds of that same Lime throughout our oceans...
My point is that these *unaccounted logistical and process details* will create, in fact, MORE CO2!
This in all likelihood will negate the net sequestering of existing CO2 from the atmosphere into the oceans.
People need to remember their chemistry and realize that the Reduction/Dehydration of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3 AKA 'Limestone') into Lime (CaO) + CO2 requires HUGE amounts of energy. This energy must come form somewhere and solar is nowhere close to these needed power levels. Lime manufacture is a very endothermic reaction (it absorbs heat energy) and releases vast amounts of CO2... This heat CANNOT come from any source that also creates CO2, or if it does, there is the additional cost of sequestering all that CO2 created in addition to the CO2 released in the reaction... The authors do not account for fact and they completely neglect the logistics of moving billions of pounds of mass around as well. I suppose they will have to invest a fleet of Nuclear ships and Electric excavators and to invent massive electric Dump Trucks to move the stuff around.
I would love for a Process Engineer and/or Chemical Engineer to weigh in on the actual energy energy requirements for processing a single Ton (2000lbs.) of Limestone into Lime.
Also, would someone send the link for the solar powered 2,700 degree 'calcination' Lime production Kiln facility that is scalable for the amounts of Lime needed?
All of the kilns I have visited use Hydrocarbons as fuel and some use old tires as a supplemental fuel source. Read away: http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200307/burningrubber.asp
(Also review the Dirty Jobs Episode 13, Season 2 where Mike Rowe shows how 'recycled' tires are used to help fuel the 2,700 Degree kiln needed to make Lime from Limestone. http://www.tv.com/dirty-jobs/shrimper/episode/573544/recap.html )
Not mentioning that I did study Engineering and Chemistry for my undergraduate should not make my points here any *less valid*.?
I do have an ugly do too, I bet your dog could probably beat my dog also.
I remember many PhD-holding professors (including some environmental scientists) who knew very very little about engineering and how real-world logistics work.
I agree that this Concept and Hypothesis of dumping Lime into the Ocean to increase oceanic CO2 absorption is theoretically possible and chemically sound.
My background and experience and education all tell me that the brains behind it have not fully accounted for *many* of the other factors I have posted here.
This will require MUCH more than the proposed solar power plants in energy requirements when the *actual* quantities of CaO to be produced to have any real actual reduction effects on CO2 levels are considered. We are talking Several Gigawatt-Class Nuclear power plants or large hydroelectric generation stations in the least.
Lime is one of the most energy-consumptive substances Mankind has yet learned to create from raw materials (considering how much we ALL consume yearly). This CO2-Reduction Concept and proposal is dead in the water (pun intended) without some very clean, non-CO2 releasing, method of CaO (Lime) production...