I know it was a joke, but it was an incredibly stupid joke. This 6th sense of yours must be broke. Joking or not, the parent to the post I made originally was stupid and should have been withheld.
Just a slight warning: Many people had issues with dist-upgrading during the preview stage. For the most part it should work, but if you play a lot in universe/multiverse, be careful. Many packages can break (eclipse for one was somewhat problematic). apt-get remove eclipse-sdk, after the update, apt-get install eclipse-platform seemed to work for me.
Eh... I probably should have mentioned that the second part of the message was to address all flamers who will be like "zomg like m$ r3le4sed/l3aked v1sta".
Just attempting to prevent further leakage of the Vista topic into this one.
Leaked implies unintentional. This by all means is intentional.
Microsoft, whether or not they are releasing or leaking snapshots of Vista out, cannot say that they have released a copy of Vista out. That would imply that they would have to support the current operating system right now, even though it is in the development stage. If a business got ahold of a released version of Vista, and somehow were licencedly-entitled to do so, if they had a problem, microsoft would HAVE TO fix the problem, if that is part of their current support contract. However, since Microsoft has called it a leak, or at least will do so, businesses or other people who have support contracts with microsoft may receive support for the product until the product is actually released, but they are under no obligation to do so.
That would be Dapper Drake. Too bad Ubuntu's servers are taking a beating right now. Update manager is crying in pain because half of the repositories I had listed aren't responding anymore.
Since this got a bit out of hand, and someone actually posted a relevant link to this current thread, lets solve this problem once and for all.
Unlike the disk-based iPod, the Nano is outfitted with flash memory made either by Toshiba (PNK: TOSBF.BK) or by Samsung, depending on the model.
Not RAM. Not just one brand. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/200509 15/tc_nf/38199 as posted by DeafByBeheading (881815).
I'd just like to point that out. It's accuracy is certainly up to debate, and only Apple can truely end this debate.
Since "Annoying Emo" isn't a valid moderation, the modder had no choice but to choose their closest relative, the common Troll.
Both are annoying and unwanted, it is however uncommon for the average Annoying Emo to live under bridges and attack children as they try to cross the bridge.
Oh right. I forgot about that. It's been quite a long time since I've used quake3 so I forgot (woops).
Even still, I could add more steps if I specified that the videocard was a Voodoo2 or other things like that. The point I was getting at is with current distribution of operating systems, linux is pulling ahead with some, I repeat SOME, features, but I suppose windows is doing the exact same thing. An example would be default sound support in today's distributions of linux vs. Windows. Course, windows easily kills that statement with "you still oversample +20db when you set 100% to all channels...". Windows is pulling ahead of linux, still, with its ease of use, and is playing the catch up game with system stability (I suppose that when you hardly reconfigure repeatedly it would work fine, but I am a performance freak... I perhaps tweak too many services/settings and windows finally throws in the towel). That ease of use thing, clearly shown in gnome 2.10... Why the HELL does it have to open the parent folder when I type in the name of the app to associate an application with MIME in firefox? Typing in/usr/bin/xine should just be like "Hey! it's a +x file! Try to with that!" but nooooooo that stupid shit dialog has to parse my entire/use/bin directory (a good 45 seconds) and THEN select xine EVERYTIME I try to open a avi file where the server doesn't send a mimetype (since firefox in linux is a bit retarded about remembering mime/file association settings in 1.5/1.0.x).... err a bit offtopic, but a much needed rant anyhow.
Since you are using an antiquated version of redhat (It's Fedora Core 4 now you dork), lets compare with an antiquated version of windows!
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows 2000" Zealot: "Oh god, I installed it like it wanted to, but it wouldn't start cause directx was too old? Aww. Had to go to microsoft's directx site, and , omg it has to check to see if im using a pirated version of windows! But wait! I'm using windows 2000! Stupid microsoft let me download directx damn it! *downloads the checker thing since I don't use IE and enters the code to get to the download page* Install that. What? Still can't play? Oh I need new video drivers! Gotta go to that obscure video card manufacturer website! *download* *reboot* yay quake 3! Wait no sound..."
Seriously, Windows is just as fucked up as linux is when it comes down to it. It's just that linux doesn't like to sprinkle glitter over the configuration interfaces. Linux, once it gets the gaming industry and hardware vendors, to develop on its platform will not be substantially better than windows, if better at all. It's just that unlike windows, we get to completely change what's included, and change it to the way WE want it. Not how MICROSOFT wants it. I personally like how most things for linux is free (more or less) but with enough searching you can get free and clean windows tools as well.
I'm not a linux zealot, nor for windows or mac. I use each OS for their strengths. Windows for games, Linux for development, OSX for visual tools. Comparing an out of date distribution that is not configured with a fully configured updated windows copy makes a poor comparison. Do you by chance work in Microsoft's FUD department?
Oh right, priviledge escalation... Well, remote execution could be used in turn for PE attacks if they performed some other attack (there were PE attacks listed on eEye I believe, but they are unrelated to IE so I didn't mention them)
"Where do you think hydrogen comes from"
I said two comments before that we needed more hydrogen refineries, I did not mention the method of doing it, whether cracking water, extracting it from oil, or other compounds.
"What do you think it costs to seperate the hydrogen?"
Energy naturally. However, the specifications of this device, as noted in the article says that it is capable of being attached to the electrical system of the car and generate hydrogen which is then 'injected' into the intake manifold. Normally it takes more energy to crack water than you would get in return inside an engine, but come on thats just basic science. This inventor said he used a catalyst "potassium..." something or other. I am uncertain whether or not this is particularly useful as a catalyst for electrolysis but nonetheless, he did mention it which would reduce the energy required to crack the water. So in the end the higher efficency engine would be able to burn less fuel because it is a more complete burn if maintaining the same energy usage.
"Perhaps you should return to/. once you've pased highschool physics. Pay attention to the law of conservation of energy."
Did that and currently taking more physics courses are required by my engineering major. I never once violated locoe. Higher efficency engine = higher excess energy capacity per unit of fuel burned if you maintain the same amount of consumption. YOU take a physics course.
"You want H2. Water and electricity generate it as well as any other way. Why tank it at all untill your car needs it? (this of course assumes abundent electricy 'too cheap to meter')"
Automotive engines, whether petrolium-combustion, or hydrogen-fuel cell, today are too inefficent to crack water, power the electrical systems of your car, and actually do the job that they were designed to do in the first place, move your vehicle. Sure you can fit a bigger engine in, but that adds weight which places additional strain on the engine, forcing it to consume more fuel, as whatever it may be. You must tank the H2 gas today for the future hydrogen fuel cell cars because they are not going to be able to generate enough fuel for themselves (there is no such thing as a 100% efficency engine), if they are even capable of doing so without burning a higher energy source. I have no idea what the reference to "too cheap to meter" is, because I never said anything, so I have no idea who you are quoting.
"Untill we have a use for H2 that outstrips the current distribution network gas station owners don't NEED to do anything. An economics class would'nt hurt eather."
Ok class. Listen.
You have a new product that requires a fuel source that is not currently mainstream. Hell, most people don't want it anywhere near their backyards. This product you have is several margins better than the old product, but again, it is using a very uncommon fuel source. Now, you have Company BIG that sells fuel for the old product to Customers X,Y,Z who act as distributors. You convince Company BIG that when this product of yours becomes mainstream, if they supply the new fuel, they will make tons of cash and ensure that when the supply for their old fuel product dwindles beyond profitability, they will already have a good footing within the new fuel market that will hold for a long time unless a newer and better fuel source is created. Company BIG, knowing that their current product will eventually become prohibitably expensive within the next 50 years, signs on to the deal and invests in creating state-of-the-art refineries to cost-effectively produce this new fuel. Now because you are Company BIG and you have Customers X,Y,Z you convince them that you will eventually have to discontinue large shipments of your fuel to them and instead have a replacement product that they too can be profitable on. Some, not all, will sign on and will distribute the new fuel as
I am NOT telling what gas station operators what to sell you f'ing idiot. You have TWO choices to distribute hydrogen fuel if it is going to be sold in the non-cartridge form: New fueling stations, or retrofitted gas stations. It was not a demand, it is something that must be done before the technology will have a fully established base within the US. Would YOU like to give up more residential land to house more gas stations? Or would you like a big ole tank of cooled H2 in your neighborhood? Would YOU like the increase of traffic in your neighborhood because you have one of the only hydrogen fueling stations in your city?
Gas stations will become obsolete once hydrogen stations become mainstream. They have two choices: accept the new technology and add the fuel to their station's choices, or lose future sales as gas consumption dwindles (The EPA will jump all over taxing laws to increase gas prices to have people switch over to the more environmentally clean engine (much like how increasing taxes on cigs to make people quit).
Without a distribution system for the fuel, an engine cannot go mainstream. Take a look at the gas prices after Hurricane Katrina, that was a disruption of production AND distribution.
Hydrogen, as a fuel, IS like oil as in it is an energy source. Gas when you explode it creates an exothermic reaction and pushes the pistons in the engine. In the case of this article they are using hydrogen to create a higher effiency burn within the engine. That does NOT equate to battery life you idiot. It just means that instead of burning X units of fuel per mile, you are now burning y units of fuel per mile when y X.
Read the fucking article, learn some god damn chemistry and shut the fuck up. Batteries are METALLIC elements since they readily give up electrons when they have an overabundance of them.
H2/fuel cell engines exist, we dont need more R&D for that. Rather, we must create more Hydrogen refineries, redesign ALL gas stations to handle alternate fuels, develop a distribution system for the generated hydrogen fuel, as well as many other things.
This device, if it is real, is just another device to aid us on the transition between petrolium based fuels to hydrogen based fuels. There MUST be transitional changes between engines since you cannot force people to buy a completely new device.
What the hell was the 2nd to last line you said? You are making english teachers and professors cry over your complete absence of grammar.
But of course I don't think this device exists. The article claims that there are zero emissions, and that all you need is to refill the water. First there HAS to be emissions of some sort, you can't have H2 + O2 + gas = nothing. He also neglected to mention that there is a catalyst that is in the water "other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide" now I am not certain what the chemical properties of this chemical is when it exposed to electrolysis, but I figure there would eventually be some burn off.
We'll have to wait and see, but until then in my books it's just vaporware.
Gigabit ethernet is hardly ever gigabit. Most people can only achieve 300mbit maximum. Even with newer gigabit cards coming out, maintaining 1gbit (non-burst) is nearly impossible.
I know-- my gigabit only gets 240mbit and it was done right.... But for now I'll use 802.11g since more than one cable running off my desk annoys the piss out of me.
Apparently you haven't been on many irc servers / news groups. There are many stuck up assholes who linger within linux discussions, but I suppose it is because they aren't a legitimate help organization.
Legit help organizations will help you. irc and some newsgroups will not.
I know-- I asked them a question about the WINE registry format with respect to STRING_MULTI_SZ, and yes I had googled for hours beforehand and got bitched/flamed at. Bunch of unprofessional asses.
Ads are part of GMail's AdSense technology, not in this dispute. While GMail the service is free and under attack by this litigious corporation, AdSense is not. Not to mention, its not actually making any money but telling AdSense what to show ("related stuff") and potentially augmenting AdSense's databases.
Anyways, they aren't even entitled to any money generated by GMail, they are entitled to damages caused by GMail the trademark being used. But of course, they have to prove that the banks/investors are idiots and didn't realize "Hey this isn't IIR, it's google!".
The downgrade of bios was to satisfy windows, no other operating system presented a problem as I said repeatedly. You claim that the file system corruption was caused by ACPI shutting off the hdd at the wrong time? Well damn that really presents a real problem. I dual boot. Only the windows file system suffered corruption. Don't have acpi loaded? How fucking stupid are you? ACPI is almost never a module. Either ACPI or apm (or both) is built into the kernel. So please suck on my dmesg.
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) apm: overridden by ACPI.
"Overheating..." Duh overheating will cause issues, however it is not often THE issue. Most desktops will perform at standard temps (35-65c) for well over a year before they collect enough dust to raise their temperature to a near dangerous level. I know you'll be like "Omg! amd temps!" Don't bother, go read up on your intel p4 chips, they are not performing much better, if not worse. Good systems ship with an active heat sink on either the northbridge or south bridge further reducing the possibility of overheating.
"Incompetant administration" Human issue, not hardware issue. Computers weren't designed to run in excessively dirty environments. Read your computer's manual.
"Have you tried installing XP using a 'Standard PC' HAL and seen if the problem went away?" Yeah that suuuuuuuuuurely worked. Lets try to boot up... oh wait, windows can't allocate resources properly to even boot. Yeah I tried that dipshit.
"Faulty memory..." Strange, everytime I've had someone say "my memory must be bad" which is all-too-frequently, it turns out their system is plagued with a virus, or other malidity not related to hardware at all. Mistimed ram (different modules) generally results in slower access to the ram, not crashing.
"Ricer system" You sir are a fucking idiot. OF COURSE these machines are made in those countries. What you DID NOT understand is I was pointing out that they were RICERS, as in, people who are overclocking their systems, messing with timings, and trying to push every ounce of performance out of their hardware even if it means going out-of-spec.
"Buggy BIOS..." Sure I have a via based system. Sure the bios is buggy. But that is no excuse for an operating system that completely ignores BIOS (w/e to when probing for new hardware) after it has loaded.
"One(1) nonfunctional device? You tolerate one nonfunctional device?!? Nuff said there." I said on base install you stupid fuck. LEARN HOW TO READ. I never said that I never got the device to work. After about 10 minutes of googling, I found the correct driver and (omg) it worked better than the shitty windows driver that often freezes. This webcam isn't new, hell it's getting pretty old, and it works with the spca5xx driver. Base install of windows results in 12 devices nonfunctional. *** READ ***.
SATA Raid is supported at the kernel level, however I am not certain which distributions ship with dmmapper and the other userspace applications. ST-506 is able to be used on almost all distributions since it is handled by generic-ide or similar modules. AST RamPage is supported via a module, however it is unlikely that it is shipped with distributions because it is archaic. BT878 is supported by the BTTV module, some distributions have it on cd, others in their repositories. DVD burner is supported via scsi_ide module. Userspace handles whether or not it can record dl (try cdrecord dork).
Linux kernel support (it is not my business to find a specific distribution): SATA RAID [kernel 2.6.8+], ST-506 [kernel 2.2.x/2.4.x/2.6.x]. Out of my experience of installing linux on several hundred pcs, none of which having identical hardware, most have only 1 device that requires an additional module, others work out of the box (and I am not including the nvidia/ati cards because they do have drivers but cannot ship due to licensing conflicts). I have NEVER seen this with a windows machine. inkjet printer? check. Scanner? check.
The main goal behind TCPA/TPM is to make DRM actually work. Preventing virii/worms is just a sideeffect.
In the business world you don't make as much money protecting applications as you do making people pay repeatedly for the same content. Well... except for security and antiviral firms.
My laptop (Sager NP4750) has a nasty history with windows, from BSoDs related to ntfs.sys, acpi.sys, and other issues. Reason being? Not hardware.
NTFS: Windows happened to manage to fuckup its MFTs on its own and couldn't repair the problem. I had to transfer all my files to another computer and then reformat/restore the setup (using a WinPE) again because the shitty chkdsk couldn't/didn't work.
ACPI: Windows didn't like how long my ACPIEC was taking to respond so it would occationally BSoD. This was not a hardware issue, downgrading my bios version corrected this issue.
These two problems *** WERE NOT PROBLEMS IN ANY OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM ***, only microsoft.
I've done plenty of hardware probing on my system and all devices report that they are working properly.
Your bullshit comment about 99% of hardware instability caused by those reasons are NOT true. Only people who tweak their systems will get oc issues. Faulty memory sometimes is the cause, but is NOT the main problem. Overheating? Bullshit. Most systems aren't ricer systems. They often run well under max-specs for temp and yet they become problematic ONLY UNDER WINDOWS.
Please find me an official windows cd that can run most of anyone's hardware without any 3rd party drivers installed.
Don't even bother saying "Well, it's cause your distro of linux is newer than windows xp", maybe it is, but with all the patching that windows has, there is no excuse for the lack of default hardware support.
Take your bitching somewhere else. Just because you didn't have problems with windows doesn't mean that everyone else is in the same boat as you are.
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I know it was a joke, but it was an incredibly stupid joke.
This 6th sense of yours must be broke. Joking or not, the parent to the post I made originally was stupid and should have been withheld.
Just a slight warning:
Many people had issues with dist-upgrading during the preview stage.
For the most part it should work, but if you play a lot in universe/multiverse, be careful. Many packages can break (eclipse for one was somewhat problematic).
apt-get remove eclipse-sdk, after the update, apt-get install eclipse-platform seemed to work for me.
Eh... I probably should have mentioned that the second part of the message was to address all flamers who will be like "zomg like m$ r3le4sed/l3aked v1sta".
Just attempting to prevent further leakage of the Vista topic into this one.
Leaked implies unintentional. This by all means is intentional.
Microsoft, whether or not they are releasing or leaking snapshots of Vista out, cannot say that they have released a copy of Vista out. That would imply that they would have to support the current operating system right now, even though it is in the development stage. If a business got ahold of a released version of Vista, and somehow were licencedly-entitled to do so, if they had a problem, microsoft would HAVE TO fix the problem, if that is part of their current support contract. However, since Microsoft has called it a leak, or at least will do so, businesses or other people who have support contracts with microsoft may receive support for the product until the product is actually released, but they are under no obligation to do so.
That would be Dapper Drake.
Too bad Ubuntu's servers are taking a beating right now. Update manager is crying in pain because half of the repositories I had listed aren't responding anymore.
Hint: Sarcasm.
Since this got a bit out of hand, and someone actually posted a relevant link to this current thread, lets solve this problem once and for all.
9 15/tc_nf/38199 as posted by DeafByBeheading (881815).
Unlike the disk-based iPod, the Nano is outfitted with flash memory made either by Toshiba (PNK: TOSBF.BK) or by Samsung, depending on the model.
Not RAM. Not just one brand. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20050
I'd just like to point that out. It's accuracy is certainly up to debate, and only Apple can truely end this debate.
Let's let this thread die now.
Since "Annoying Emo" isn't a valid moderation, the modder had no choice but to choose their closest relative, the common Troll.
Both are annoying and unwanted, it is however uncommon for the average Annoying Emo to live under bridges and attack children as they try to cross the bridge.
Wow. So wrong. It's Rasberry.
Go watch Spaceballs again. Thanks.
Get that damn PDA off your mind!
Oh shush. These hacker folks are just a bunch of angry geeks. You know everyone who participated in the hack has no gf nor any chance of getting one.
:)
All the world needs is a little lovin
Oh right. I forgot about that. It's been quite a long time since I've used quake3 so I forgot (woops).
/usr/bin/xine should just be like "Hey! it's a +x file! Try to with that!" but nooooooo that stupid shit dialog has to parse my entire /use/bin directory (a good 45 seconds) and THEN select xine EVERYTIME I try to open a avi file where the server doesn't send a mimetype (since firefox in linux is a bit retarded about remembering mime/file association settings in 1.5/1.0.x). ... err a bit offtopic, but a much needed rant anyhow.
Even still, I could add more steps if I specified that the videocard was a Voodoo2 or other things like that. The point I was getting at is with current distribution of operating systems, linux is pulling ahead with some, I repeat SOME, features, but I suppose windows is doing the exact same thing. An example would be default sound support in today's distributions of linux vs. Windows. Course, windows easily kills that statement with "you still oversample +20db when you set 100% to all channels...". Windows is pulling ahead of linux, still, with its ease of use, and is playing the catch up game with system stability (I suppose that when you hardly reconfigure repeatedly it would work fine, but I am a performance freak... I perhaps tweak too many services/settings and windows finally throws in the towel). That ease of use thing, clearly shown in gnome 2.10... Why the HELL does it have to open the parent folder when I type in the name of the app to associate an application with MIME in firefox? Typing in
Since you are using an antiquated version of redhat (It's Fedora Core 4 now you dork), lets compare with an antiquated version of windows!
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows 2000"
Zealot: "Oh god, I installed it like it wanted to, but it wouldn't start cause directx was too old? Aww. Had to go to microsoft's directx site, and , omg it has to check to see if im using a pirated version of windows! But wait! I'm using windows 2000! Stupid microsoft let me download directx damn it! *downloads the checker thing since I don't use IE and enters the code to get to the download page* Install that. What? Still can't play? Oh I need new video drivers! Gotta go to that obscure video card manufacturer website! *download* *reboot* yay quake 3! Wait no sound..."
Seriously, Windows is just as fucked up as linux is when it comes down to it. It's just that linux doesn't like to sprinkle glitter over the configuration interfaces. Linux, once it gets the gaming industry and hardware vendors, to develop on its platform will not be substantially better than windows, if better at all. It's just that unlike windows, we get to completely change what's included, and change it to the way WE want it. Not how MICROSOFT wants it. I personally like how most things for linux is free (more or less) but with enough searching you can get free and clean windows tools as well.
I'm not a linux zealot, nor for windows or mac. I use each OS for their strengths. Windows for games, Linux for development, OSX for visual tools. Comparing an out of date distribution that is not configured with a fully configured updated windows copy makes a poor comparison. Do you by chance work in Microsoft's FUD department?
Oh right, priviledge escalation... Well, remote execution could be used in turn for PE attacks if they performed some other attack (there were PE attacks listed on eEye I believe, but they are unrelated to IE so I didn't mention them)
wmvdmod.dll + xine?
Wait what the hell are you talking about? Big ew for w(i)mp.
Ok.
1 5.html (SP2 specificially listed)2 9.html (possible, it did not specifically dismiss SP2)0 5.html (possible, it did not specifically dismiss SP2)
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/200509
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/200503
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/200505
Of course, more buffer overflow/SP1 bugs affect people who turn off NoExecute completely in SP2.
Ok time to tear apart another of your comments.
..." something or other. I am uncertain whether or not this is particularly useful as a catalyst for electrolysis but nonetheless, he did mention it which would reduce the energy required to crack the water. So in the end the higher efficency engine would be able to burn less fuel because it is a more complete burn if maintaining the same energy usage.
/. once you've pased highschool physics. Pay attention to the law of conservation of energy."
"Where do you think hydrogen comes from" I said two comments before that we needed more hydrogen refineries, I did not mention the method of doing it, whether cracking water, extracting it from oil, or other compounds.
"What do you think it costs to seperate the hydrogen?"
Energy naturally. However, the specifications of this device, as noted in the article says that it is capable of being attached to the electrical system of the car and generate hydrogen which is then 'injected' into the intake manifold. Normally it takes more energy to crack water than you would get in return inside an engine, but come on thats just basic science. This inventor said he used a catalyst "potassium
"Perhaps you should return to
Did that and currently taking more physics courses are required by my engineering major. I never once violated locoe. Higher efficency engine = higher excess energy capacity per unit of fuel burned if you maintain the same amount of consumption. YOU take a physics course.
"You want H2. Water and electricity generate it as well as any other way. Why tank it at all untill your car needs it? (this of course assumes abundent electricy 'too cheap to meter')"
Automotive engines, whether petrolium-combustion, or hydrogen-fuel cell, today are too inefficent to crack water, power the electrical systems of your car, and actually do the job that they were designed to do in the first place, move your vehicle. Sure you can fit a bigger engine in, but that adds weight which places additional strain on the engine, forcing it to consume more fuel, as whatever it may be. You must tank the H2 gas today for the future hydrogen fuel cell cars because they are not going to be able to generate enough fuel for themselves (there is no such thing as a 100% efficency engine), if they are even capable of doing so without burning a higher energy source. I have no idea what the reference to "too cheap to meter" is, because I never said anything, so I have no idea who you are quoting.
"Untill we have a use for H2 that outstrips the current distribution network gas station owners don't NEED to do anything. An economics class would'nt hurt eather."
Ok class. Listen.
You have a new product that requires a fuel source that is not currently mainstream. Hell, most people don't want it anywhere near their backyards. This product you have is several margins better than the old product, but again, it is using a very uncommon fuel source. Now, you have Company BIG that sells fuel for the old product to Customers X,Y,Z who act as distributors. You convince Company BIG that when this product of yours becomes mainstream, if they supply the new fuel, they will make tons of cash and ensure that when the supply for their old fuel product dwindles beyond profitability, they will already have a good footing within the new fuel market that will hold for a long time unless a newer and better fuel source is created. Company BIG, knowing that their current product will eventually become prohibitably expensive within the next 50 years, signs on to the deal and invests in creating state-of-the-art refineries to cost-effectively produce this new fuel. Now because you are Company BIG and you have Customers X,Y,Z you convince them that you will eventually have to discontinue large shipments of your fuel to them and instead have a replacement product that they too can be profitable on. Some, not all, will sign on and will distribute the new fuel as
that is y is less than X.
Jesus christ what kind of fucking moron are you?
I am NOT telling what gas station operators what to sell you f'ing idiot. You have TWO choices to distribute hydrogen fuel if it is going to be sold in the non-cartridge form: New fueling stations, or retrofitted gas stations. It was not a demand, it is something that must be done before the technology will have a fully established base within the US. Would YOU like to give up more residential land to house more gas stations? Or would you like a big ole tank of cooled H2 in your neighborhood? Would YOU like the increase of traffic in your neighborhood because you have one of the only hydrogen fueling stations in your city?
Gas stations will become obsolete once hydrogen stations become mainstream. They have two choices: accept the new technology and add the fuel to their station's choices, or lose future sales as gas consumption dwindles (The EPA will jump all over taxing laws to increase gas prices to have people switch over to the more environmentally clean engine (much like how increasing taxes on cigs to make people quit).
Without a distribution system for the fuel, an engine cannot go mainstream. Take a look at the gas prices after Hurricane Katrina, that was a disruption of production AND distribution.
Hydrogen, as a fuel, IS like oil as in it is an energy source. Gas when you explode it creates an exothermic reaction and pushes the pistons in the engine. In the case of this article they are using hydrogen to create a higher effiency burn within the engine. That does NOT equate to battery life you idiot. It just means that instead of burning X units of fuel per mile, you are now burning y units of fuel per mile when y X.
Read the fucking article, learn some god damn chemistry and shut the fuck up. Batteries are METALLIC elements since they readily give up electrons when they have an overabundance of them.
H2/fuel cell engines exist, we dont need more R&D for that. Rather, we must create more Hydrogen refineries, redesign ALL gas stations to handle alternate fuels, develop a distribution system for the generated hydrogen fuel, as well as many other things.
This device, if it is real, is just another device to aid us on the transition between petrolium based fuels to hydrogen based fuels. There MUST be transitional changes between engines since you cannot force people to buy a completely new device.
What the hell was the 2nd to last line you said? You are making english teachers and professors cry over your complete absence of grammar.
But of course I don't think this device exists. The article claims that there are zero emissions, and that all you need is to refill the water. First there HAS to be emissions of some sort, you can't have H2 + O2 + gas = nothing. He also neglected to mention that there is a catalyst that is in the water "other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide" now I am not certain what the chemical properties of this chemical is when it exposed to electrolysis, but I figure there would eventually be some burn off.
We'll have to wait and see, but until then in my books it's just vaporware.
Gigabit ethernet is hardly ever gigabit. Most people can only achieve 300mbit maximum. Even with newer gigabit cards coming out, maintaining 1gbit (non-burst) is nearly impossible.
... But for now I'll use 802.11g since more than one cable running off my desk annoys the piss out of me.
I know-- my gigabit only gets 240mbit and it was done right.
Apparently you haven't been on many irc servers / news groups. There are many stuck up assholes who linger within linux discussions, but I suppose it is because they aren't a legitimate help organization.
Legit help organizations will help you.
irc and some newsgroups will not.
I know-- I asked them a question about the WINE registry format with respect to STRING_MULTI_SZ, and yes I had googled for hours beforehand and got bitched/flamed at. Bunch of unprofessional asses.
Ads are part of GMail's AdSense technology, not in this dispute. While GMail the service is free and under attack by this litigious corporation, AdSense is not. Not to mention, its not actually making any money but telling AdSense what to show ("related stuff") and potentially augmenting AdSense's databases.
Anyways, they aren't even entitled to any money generated by GMail, they are entitled to damages caused by GMail the trademark being used. But of course, they have to prove that the banks/investors are idiots and didn't realize "Hey this isn't IIR, it's google!".
The downgrade of bios was to satisfy windows, no other operating system presented a problem as I said repeatedly. You claim that the file system corruption was caused by ACPI shutting off the hdd at the wrong time? Well damn that really presents a real problem. I dual boot. Only the windows file system suffered corruption. Don't have acpi loaded? How fucking stupid are you? ACPI is almost never a module. Either ACPI or apm (or both) is built into the kernel. So please suck on my dmesg.
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
"Overheating..." Duh overheating will cause issues, however it is not often THE issue. Most desktops will perform at standard temps (35-65c) for well over a year before they collect enough dust to raise their temperature to a near dangerous level. I know you'll be like "Omg! amd temps!" Don't bother, go read up on your intel p4 chips, they are not performing much better, if not worse. Good systems ship with an active heat sink on either the northbridge or south bridge further reducing the possibility of overheating.
"Incompetant administration" Human issue, not hardware issue. Computers weren't designed to run in excessively dirty environments. Read your computer's manual.
"Have you tried installing XP using a 'Standard PC' HAL and seen if the problem went away?"
Yeah that suuuuuuuuuurely worked. Lets try to boot up... oh wait, windows can't allocate resources properly to even boot. Yeah I tried that dipshit.
"Faulty memory..." Strange, everytime I've had someone say "my memory must be bad" which is all-too-frequently, it turns out their system is plagued with a virus, or other malidity not related to hardware at all. Mistimed ram (different modules) generally results in slower access to the ram, not crashing.
"Ricer system" You sir are a fucking idiot. OF COURSE these machines are made in those countries. What you DID NOT understand is I was pointing out that they were RICERS, as in, people who are overclocking their systems, messing with timings, and trying to push every ounce of performance out of their hardware even if it means going out-of-spec.
"Buggy BIOS..." Sure I have a via based system. Sure the bios is buggy. But that is no excuse for an operating system that completely ignores BIOS (w/e to when probing for new hardware) after it has loaded.
"One(1) nonfunctional device? You tolerate one nonfunctional device?!? Nuff said there." I said on base install you stupid fuck. LEARN HOW TO READ. I never said that I never got the device to work. After about 10 minutes of googling, I found the correct driver and (omg) it worked better than the shitty windows driver that often freezes. This webcam isn't new, hell it's getting pretty old, and it works with the spca5xx driver. Base install of windows results in 12 devices nonfunctional. *** READ ***.
SATA Raid is supported at the kernel level, however I am not certain which distributions ship with dmmapper and the other userspace applications. ST-506 is able to be used on almost all distributions since it is handled by generic-ide or similar modules. AST RamPage is supported via a module, however it is unlikely that it is shipped with distributions because it is archaic. BT878 is supported by the BTTV module, some distributions have it on cd, others in their repositories. DVD burner is supported via scsi_ide module. Userspace handles whether or not it can record dl (try cdrecord dork).
Linux kernel support (it is not my business to find a specific distribution):
SATA RAID [kernel 2.6.8+], ST-506 [kernel 2.2.x/2.4.x/2.6.x]. Out of my experience of installing linux on several hundred pcs, none of which having identical hardware, most have only 1 device that requires an additional module, others work out of the box (and I am not including the nvidia/ati cards because they do have drivers but cannot ship due to licensing conflicts). I have NEVER seen this with a windows machine. inkjet printer? check. Scanner? check.
Next time go bother someone else. *sigh* Flame +2
The main goal behind TCPA/TPM is to make DRM actually work. Preventing virii/worms is just a sideeffect.
In the business world you don't make as much money protecting applications as you do making people pay repeatedly for the same content. Well... except for security and antiviral firms.
My laptop (Sager NP4750) has a nasty history with windows, from BSoDs related to ntfs.sys, acpi.sys, and other issues. Reason being? Not hardware.
NTFS: Windows happened to manage to fuckup its MFTs on its own and couldn't repair the problem. I had to transfer all my files to another computer and then reformat/restore the setup (using a WinPE) again because the shitty chkdsk couldn't/didn't work.
ACPI: Windows didn't like how long my ACPIEC was taking to respond so it would occationally BSoD. This was not a hardware issue, downgrading my bios version corrected this issue.
These two problems *** WERE NOT PROBLEMS IN ANY OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM ***, only microsoft.
I've done plenty of hardware probing on my system and all devices report that they are working properly.
Your bullshit comment about 99% of hardware instability caused by those reasons are NOT true. Only people who tweak their systems will get oc issues. Faulty memory sometimes is the cause, but is NOT the main problem. Overheating? Bullshit. Most systems aren't ricer systems. They often run well under max-specs for temp and yet they become problematic ONLY UNDER WINDOWS.
Please find me an official windows cd that can run most of anyone's hardware without any 3rd party drivers installed.
With me:
Windows: 12 nonfunctional devices.
Linux: 1 nonfunctional device (webcam).
Don't even bother saying "Well, it's cause your distro of linux is newer than windows xp", maybe it is, but with all the patching that windows has, there is no excuse for the lack of default hardware support.
Take your bitching somewhere else. Just because you didn't have problems with windows doesn't mean that everyone else is in the same boat as you are.