I'm going to be a date nazi and inform you that, as there was no year 0, Jesus would have been 1 year old in year 2. Assuming that the years have been correctly calculated from his correct birthdate.
According to that web page, "The browser statistics below were adjusted in July 2005 to reflect page views instead of visits." Maybe that means that people browsing with IE view more pages in any one session than do those with Firefox.
Amen. I type sections of somem words so fast that I end up interleaving the letters in the wrong order, and have to slow down just to get it correct.
I do type somewhat faster in dvorak than I did in qwerty. Not a whole bunch, but enough to notice. (Actually the keyboard itself, rather than the layout, has more effect on my typing speed. I hate laptop keyboards. Give me my Microsoft Natural.) Aside from the problems associated with typing too fast, that is.;) But nevertheless, typing in dvorak sure does feel much more comfortable, and I would recommend it to anyone who has the time to switch.
Do you have some numbers for how much energy it takes to make a car? It seems like I saw 45-50 barrels of oil thrown around to make a typical car. More than that amount is used during the lifetime of a car.
Also, some first-gen (american-wise) priuses have reported going more than 200,000 miles on the batteries. And just as diesel engines are improving, so too are batteries and other electricicy storage technologies (like supercapacitors).
Though diesels do attract me, as it takes less energy to refine the oil, and you get more energy out of a gallon. It's a double improvement. And your engines last longer, because diesel is a better lubricant, especially bio-diesel.
95% of my driving is less than that. I know, for most driving it works just fine. But sometimes I would like to visit my parents and other family. 800 miles. For that 5% (or whatever) of driving that you need more range, a battery car right now just isn't cutting it. Maybe if they can use supercapacitors instead of, or in addition to, the batteries. Unfortunately, any car people buy must be prepared for 100% of the driving, not just 95%, or you need a second car just for the long distance.
I don't doubt that electric cars will improve, but just aren't a gas-replacement yet.
Yes, the energy to recharge the batteries would come from oil. But the oil that is no longer being used to power the car would be instead routed to the power generator and converted to electricity, and then moved to your car.
What I want to see, and haven't seen (nor really looked), is what kind of losses do you encounter using oil in your car (refinement, transportation, distribution, etc.) vs the losses in generating electricity and getting that into and out of your battery. Pulling information out of my butt, it seems to me that you are using significantly more energy to refine oil into gasoline and move it to your car, and then lose 70% of the energy to heat, than you are by transporting oil to the generator, generating electricity, moving it over high-voltage lines to your house, charging your batteries, and taking the energy back out of the batteries. Economies of scale kick in on the oil transportation; you can transport a bunch at a time, to more limited locations.
Of course we all know that it takes more energy to make a gallon of gasoline than it does to make a gallon of diesel. So why can't we compare? It gives you better mileage and it is cheaper energy-wise to make. Win-win.
As I understand it this is not true. In gasoline engines they run the engine rich at high throttle which lowers efficiency. From http://home.earthlink.net/~graham1/MyToyotaPrius/U nderstanding/InternalCombustion.htmConventional engines are biased towards a rich mixture when power demand is high. This makes sure every scrap of air drawn into the engine is used up to get the maximum possible torque. The unburned fuel can be oxidized, up to a point, by the catalytic converter, but its energy is wasted resulting in lower efficiency.
You need to make a distinction between Safari, KHTML and Konqueror. Safari may be moving faster than Konqueror, but is it true that Safari's version of KHTML is moving faster than Konq's KHTML? I don't know.
Ford still stopped supporting the car. Those who own a 1934 Ford coupe are also paying a bunch of money for custom stuff made by small companies. It is cheaper to buy a new Ford than to own that 1934 Ford. It seems to me to be a similar situation to operating systems: I assume it costs more to run an unsupported operating system (due to security vulnerabilities, lack of new features, etc.); but hey, nobody's forcing you to stay with it.
As the original poster was equating ceasing support for an opeating system with sabotage I was stating my opinion that this is a normal thing in the lifetime of every product, so sabotage is not an appropriate designation, nor is the action devious.
I find it interesting that you feel that not releasing more service packs, patches, and no longer supporting an operating system is sabotaging it. I'm afraid that the end-of-life of any product is something you'll have to get used to. There is an end to the support of everything. Operating systems, cars, computers, you name it.
When I saw the word "sabotage" I was assuming you were going to state that Microsoft was going to do something devious and illegal. But you just said that they will stop working on it. I am not sure, but it seems that Microsoft has been supporting their operating systems for longer periods than Red Hat has. I know, I know, you don't get the source, but that probably doesn't make a difference to most users. Unless we can expect them to learn the code and fix bugs for an entire distribution by themselves.
I was intending it to be funny, but I guess it wasn't obvious enough. Oh well, who cares about good karma anyway.;)
Personally, I think what is being done is despicable.
Of course if it is cold enough to need a block heater the car will be on for a significant portion of the time in a 15-mile commute. When the engine is cold it is on the whole time until the car warms up.
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Guilt free until someone gets hit in the eye. Paintballs are hard and fast.
I'm going to be a date nazi and inform you that, as there was no year 0, Jesus would have been 1 year old in year 2. Assuming that the years have been correctly calculated from his correct birthdate.
We need more date nazis around here.
According to that web page, "The browser statistics below were adjusted in July 2005 to reflect page views instead of visits." Maybe that means that people browsing with IE view more pages in any one session than do those with Firefox.
Queue the jokes about IE users needing more help.
Amen. I type sections of somem words so fast that I end up interleaving the letters in the wrong order, and have to slow down just to get it correct.
;) But nevertheless, typing in dvorak sure does feel much more comfortable, and I would recommend it to anyone who has the time to switch.
I do type somewhat faster in dvorak than I did in qwerty. Not a whole bunch, but enough to notice. (Actually the keyboard itself, rather than the layout, has more effect on my typing speed. I hate laptop keyboards. Give me my Microsoft Natural.) Aside from the problems associated with typing too fast, that is.
Who do you work for that has such deep pockets? Certainly not my company.
And sometimes there's not a clearly defined line, just a big gray area where one blends into another.
They'll name it Kwikipedia. And when you need to look something up on the internet, it will be known as "getting a kwiki".
Great. Another slashdotter thinking with his genitals instead of his brain.
Do you have some numbers for how much energy it takes to make a car? It seems like I saw 45-50 barrels of oil thrown around to make a typical car. More than that amount is used during the lifetime of a car. Also, some first-gen (american-wise) priuses have reported going more than 200,000 miles on the batteries. And just as diesel engines are improving, so too are batteries and other electricicy storage technologies (like supercapacitors). Though diesels do attract me, as it takes less energy to refine the oil, and you get more energy out of a gallon. It's a double improvement. And your engines last longer, because diesel is a better lubricant, especially bio-diesel.
95% of my driving is less than that. I know, for most driving it works just fine. But sometimes I would like to visit my parents and other family. 800 miles. For that 5% (or whatever) of driving that you need more range, a battery car right now just isn't cutting it. Maybe if they can use supercapacitors instead of, or in addition to, the batteries. Unfortunately, any car people buy must be prepared for 100% of the driving, not just 95%, or you need a second car just for the long distance.
I don't doubt that electric cars will improve, but just aren't a gas-replacement yet.
Yes, the energy to recharge the batteries would come from oil. But the oil that is no longer being used to power the car would be instead routed to the power generator and converted to electricity, and then moved to your car. What I want to see, and haven't seen (nor really looked), is what kind of losses do you encounter using oil in your car (refinement, transportation, distribution, etc.) vs the losses in generating electricity and getting that into and out of your battery. Pulling information out of my butt, it seems to me that you are using significantly more energy to refine oil into gasoline and move it to your car, and then lose 70% of the energy to heat, than you are by transporting oil to the generator, generating electricity, moving it over high-voltage lines to your house, charging your batteries, and taking the energy back out of the batteries. Economies of scale kick in on the oil transportation; you can transport a bunch at a time, to more limited locations.
Your car may get 240 miles to the tank, but it takes 5 minutes to "recharge". It takes significantly longer to recharge batteries.
I've noticed it on my Ford Taurus. Interesting.
Of course we all know that it takes more energy to make a gallon of gasoline than it does to make a gallon of diesel. So why can't we compare? It gives you better mileage and it is cheaper energy-wise to make. Win-win.
As I understand it this is not true. In gasoline engines they run the engine rich at high throttle which lowers efficiency. From http://home.earthlink.net/~graham1/MyToyotaPrius/U nderstanding/InternalCombustion.htm
Conventional engines are biased towards a rich mixture when power demand is high. This makes sure every scrap of air drawn into the engine is used up to get the maximum possible torque. The unburned fuel can be oxidized, up to a point, by the catalytic converter, but its energy is wasted resulting in lower efficiency.
You need to make a distinction between Safari, KHTML and Konqueror. Safari may be moving faster than Konqueror, but is it true that Safari's version of KHTML is moving faster than Konq's KHTML? I don't know.
That is the hardest I've laughed on Slashdot for quite a while. I tip my hat to you, sir.
http://mirrordot.org/ handled this one just fine, as it has with all other slashdot stories I've ever bothered checking.
Ford still stopped supporting the car. Those who own a 1934 Ford coupe are also paying a bunch of money for custom stuff made by small companies. It is cheaper to buy a new Ford than to own that 1934 Ford. It seems to me to be a similar situation to operating systems: I assume it costs more to run an unsupported operating system (due to security vulnerabilities, lack of new features, etc.); but hey, nobody's forcing you to stay with it.
As the original poster was equating ceasing support for an opeating system with sabotage I was stating my opinion that this is a normal thing in the lifetime of every product, so sabotage is not an appropriate designation, nor is the action devious.
I find it interesting that you feel that not releasing more service packs, patches, and no longer supporting an operating system is sabotaging it. I'm afraid that the end-of-life of any product is something you'll have to get used to. There is an end to the support of everything. Operating systems, cars, computers, you name it.
When I saw the word "sabotage" I was assuming you were going to state that Microsoft was going to do something devious and illegal. But you just said that they will stop working on it. I am not sure, but it seems that Microsoft has been supporting their operating systems for longer periods than Red Hat has. I know, I know, you don't get the source, but that probably doesn't make a difference to most users. Unless we can expect them to learn the code and fix bugs for an entire distribution by themselves.
I was intending it to be funny, but I guess it wasn't obvious enough. Oh well, who cares about good karma anyway. ;)
Personally, I think what is being done is despicable.
I'd moderate down anyone who donated money to the Kerry campaign.
Of course if it is cold enough to need a block heater the car will be on for a significant portion of the time in a 15-mile commute. When the engine is cold it is on the whole time until the car warms up.