The bloat level in OO.o 2.0 depends heavily on whether you have Java installed or not. If Java isn't installed, the suite will run fairly quickly. If the Java components are installed, the suite takes a good 15 to 20 seconds to load up on my 1.8 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM.
Microsoft Windows overtook Apple in far less than the ten or so years that Linux has been competing with Windows.
If you're making that comparison, I can ask, "If Linux is so much better than Windows, why hasn't Linux displaced Windows on the desktop market, like Windows displaced Apple?"
Going the DIY route, bands may actually create a new industry. The will need touring promoters and facilitators. I smell an opportunity.
How is this different from what the recording industry does today? Arguably, this is the only reason anyone joins up with the recording industry: help with concerts and promotion (e.g. marketing). With professional grade audio editing tools available on the market, one can record wherever he or she wants, so the main incentive of joining a label (studio access) has been removed.
When the industry sees that it can't maintain its monopoly on recording, it will have to switch to a more marketing service oriented business model.
Of course, we don't exactly know yet what makes it stable, so dropping something that takes significant energy out of the system may destabilize to the point of destruction.
I agree with all of your points and I can suggest one more: don't run in max. privileges mode. In Windows, this means run as a limited user, rather than Administrator. In Linux, this means use a non-root account. The vast majority of Windows problems stem from the fact that all programs have the ability to do anything they please by default, since the default account is at Admin. privileges.
In Slashdot, the dupe to original article ratio is so high, its the original articles that need finding, not the dupes. Funny, though, from what I've seen, it seems like this particular algorithm would be quite efficient in doing that (e.g. it specializes in finding the data that is different, versus categorizing existing data).
Computer companies already do this. For example, when I bought my laptop, HP added Intervideo WinDVD player, so that I could watch DVDs (functionality not available on the standard Windows Media Player). At the moment, there's nothing stopping me from bundling Windows with whatever other software I want to and selling it.
I find the current distribution channels are adequate for my media needs. Why should be forced to subsidize an internet distribution channel that I may well find inferior to current channels.
If a distribution channel or a business model is superior, it ought to succeed in the free market without any subsidies.
Also, what's to prevent the authority that distributes the funds from becoming a censor (e.g. we don't like your music/writing/video so we won't give you your cut of the internet tax)
Its got possibilities, but I'd like to see if this idea can be somehow made more decentralized. I'm uncomfortable with such a central agency acting as essentially an escrow service accountable to no one.
Ford and Chrysler are saddled with similar pension liabilities, and both of them are doing better than GM (esp. Chrysler). The reason for this is that both Ford and Chrysler have killed off nonperforming brands, and put serious design talent into enhancing the brands that are doing well. Simply put, GM is having so much trouble meeting its pension obligations because no one will buy their cars without a deep discount. If they switched to a more flat-rate pricing model, and made cars that appeal to the market, they wouldn't have as much trouble with pensions as they do now, because they'd have the revenue to cover their obligations.
Think how much better a situation we'd be in if we just had compulsory licensing for Internet trading. In effect you'd pay a small tax on your broadband connection, and share files without limits. A rights collection organisation would be responsible for periodically analysing the sharing traffic and working out how to apportion the revenues of the tax to the artists, in proportion to how many people are listening or sharing their music.
So why should I pay the tax then, when I'm not sharing any music? I don't think that we should tax every new medium for carrying music in an effort to prop up the recording industry's aging and outdated business model.
I suppose you didn't hear about the Sony DRM debacle did you? Ok, was being sarcastic there as you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about it.
While the Sony rootkit debacle has taken the tech-world by storm, it has penetrated very little into the general news. Its been mentioned on TV, but there hasn't been any real outrage among the general public. Up until yesterday my family didn't know about the rootkit, because I figured they would pick it up through the general media. However, I've found that the general media has done a great job hushing up the rootkit and covering Sony's ass. Now I'm telling everybody I know about the rootkit, and am finding that many people honestly, truly, hadn't heard.
This is just for TI's DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chips (i.e. the kind you'd find in sound systems, and TVs). TI calculators, ironically enough, use Motorola CPUs, with some kind of proprietary assembly language.
Besides, I don't think there's enough RAM to run Linux. NetBSD maybe, but not Linux.
I don't know about the existence of the universe. Maybe there is a god;-)
As far as tapping hurricane power goes, yes, its possible using the same principles. However, there is a huge difference in scale between tornadoes, which are a few hundred meters in diameter, and hurricanes, which are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Its this scaling that makes it impractical to harness hurricanes, though hurricanes would be glorious energy source indeed.
As a name, I don't think Ubuntu is any stranger than Red Hat, or Windows for that matter. I do take issue with their release titles (e.g. warty warthog, hoary hedgehog, etc.) but thats another story.
I agree that education is important in fighting these scams. And yes, I've done my part, telling everyone that I know that billing info/passwords should never be sent through e-mail, that applications should be examined before they are installed, etc. However, I often find that the increasing sophistication of spyware and phishing scams often overcomes whatever training I give (i.e.: "I know you told me not to send my billing information over e-mail but it was so convincing...). Heck, I've seen phishing scams that looked so authentic that I may very well have been taken, if I had a pre-existing business relationship with the organization that the scam was trying to impersonate.
My point is that, yes, education can prevent many from falling victim to the easy and simple scams. However, education that is not absolutely thorough may lead to overconfidence, allowing people to fall for the slightly more sophisticated scam with even greater ease.
You need compatibility with mainstream product in order to enter the market.
I don't think you need 2-way compatibility, though. As I recall, Microsoft Word could only open Wordperfect files, but not save them in the Wordperfect format. Why doesn't OO.o do the same?
Let me ask, what about the non so outright corrution?
First, "non-outright corruption is difficult to measure, seeing as how, by definition, its magnitude is hidden.
Second, the fact that the outright corruption here has a measure of stigma attached to it means that the US is resisting corruption better than most other areas of the world. Minor corruption is endemic everywhere, but there is still a sense of outrage at it here in the USA, while, in many other places (esp. India and other third-world countries) corruption is simply accepted as a fact of life that must dealt with. It is this stigma attached to corruption, coupled with the fact that the USA has good government as one of its tacit goals that separates the USA from most other areas.
Third, legalizing corruption exposes it to the public eye, and, through that process, takes away a measure of its virulence. If the public can see who is giving the politicians their vital contributions, we can at least try to account for all of the various interests that may be involved whenever that politician makes a statement. This is in contrast to other countries, where corruption is kept off the books, and one has no idea what interests are involved in any political decision.
The point that the parent poster is trying to make is that cars need a fairly compact source of energy to run. Present battery technology does not allow us to store electrical energy at the same (energy) density as the chemical energy in gasoline. Biodiesel, having a similar energy density to gasoline, is a much more viable technology in this regard. Also biodiesel, and its corn based relative, ethanol, have the advantage of requiring minimal modifications to current engines. Thus a switch to biodiesel/ethanol would create less waste than a switch to all-electric cars.
The advantage to switching to electric cars is that electricity is easy to generate in a centralized location and is easy to send long distances. Thus, with a switch to electric cars, one would only have to worry about the efficiency of a few thousand power stations, versus worrying about the efficiency of millions of cars.
Thank you. You answered what I was trying to get at with my question. So, in your opinion, the energy return would not make the energy input worthwhile? (i.e. the seed energy would be better used for other things)
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They're not bugs, they're "features". ;-)
The bloat level in OO.o 2.0 depends heavily on whether you have Java installed or not. If Java isn't installed, the suite will run fairly quickly. If the Java components are installed, the suite takes a good 15 to 20 seconds to load up on my 1.8 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM.
Microsoft Windows overtook Apple in far less than the ten or so years that Linux has been competing with Windows.
If you're making that comparison, I can ask, "If Linux is so much better than Windows, why hasn't Linux displaced Windows on the desktop market, like Windows displaced Apple?"
If the MS Office model is so flawed, then why does every open source office application look exactly like its Microsoft counterpart?
Going the DIY route, bands may actually create a new industry. The will need touring promoters and facilitators. I smell an opportunity.
How is this different from what the recording industry does today? Arguably, this is the only reason anyone joins up with the recording industry: help with concerts and promotion (e.g. marketing). With professional grade audio editing tools available on the market, one can record wherever he or she wants, so the main incentive of joining a label (studio access) has been removed.
When the industry sees that it can't maintain its monopoly on recording, it will have to switch to a more marketing service oriented business model.
Water is wet.
Do you really mean 40 gigs, or 4 gigs.
Of course, we don't exactly know yet what makes it stable, so dropping something that takes significant energy out of the system may destabilize to the point of destruction.
I agree with all of your points and I can suggest one more: don't run in max. privileges mode. In Windows, this means run as a limited user, rather than Administrator. In Linux, this means use a non-root account. The vast majority of Windows problems stem from the fact that all programs have the ability to do anything they please by default, since the default account is at Admin. privileges.
In Slashdot, the dupe to original article ratio is so high, its the original articles that need finding, not the dupes. Funny, though, from what I've seen, it seems like this particular algorithm would be quite efficient in doing that (e.g. it specializes in finding the data that is different, versus categorizing existing data).
Computer companies already do this. For example, when I bought my laptop, HP added Intervideo WinDVD player, so that I could watch DVDs (functionality not available on the standard Windows Media Player). At the moment, there's nothing stopping me from bundling Windows with whatever other software I want to and selling it.
I find the current distribution channels are adequate for my media needs. Why should be forced to subsidize an internet distribution channel that I may well find inferior to current channels.
If a distribution channel or a business model is superior, it ought to succeed in the free market without any subsidies.
Also, what's to prevent the authority that distributes the funds from becoming a censor (e.g. we don't like your music/writing/video so we won't give you your cut of the internet tax)
Its got possibilities, but I'd like to see if this idea can be somehow made more decentralized. I'm uncomfortable with such a central agency acting as essentially an escrow service accountable to no one.
It also doesn't help that Sony owns a lot of media (e.g. TV/Radio stations).
Its better to fight and win, rather than fight, lose, and set bad precedent, which is precisely what the EFF has been doing.
Ford and Chrysler are saddled with similar pension liabilities, and both of them are doing better than GM (esp. Chrysler). The reason for this is that both Ford and Chrysler have killed off nonperforming brands, and put serious design talent into enhancing the brands that are doing well. Simply put, GM is having so much trouble meeting its pension obligations because no one will buy their cars without a deep discount. If they switched to a more flat-rate pricing model, and made cars that appeal to the market, they wouldn't have as much trouble with pensions as they do now, because they'd have the revenue to cover their obligations.
Think how much better a situation we'd be in if we just had compulsory licensing for Internet trading. In effect you'd pay a small tax on your broadband connection, and share files without limits. A rights collection organisation would be responsible for periodically analysing the sharing traffic and working out how to apportion the revenues of the tax to the artists, in proportion to how many people are listening or sharing their music.
So why should I pay the tax then, when I'm not sharing any music? I don't think that we should tax every new medium for carrying music in an effort to prop up the recording industry's aging and outdated business model.
I suppose you didn't hear about the Sony DRM debacle did you? Ok, was being sarcastic there as you'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about it.
While the Sony rootkit debacle has taken the tech-world by storm, it has penetrated very little into the general news. Its been mentioned on TV, but there hasn't been any real outrage among the general public. Up until yesterday my family didn't know about the rootkit, because I figured they would pick it up through the general media. However, I've found that the general media has done a great job hushing up the rootkit and covering Sony's ass. Now I'm telling everybody I know about the rootkit, and am finding that many people honestly, truly, hadn't heard.
This is just for TI's DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chips (i.e. the kind you'd find in sound systems, and TVs). TI calculators, ironically enough, use Motorola CPUs, with some kind of proprietary assembly language.
Besides, I don't think there's enough RAM to run Linux. NetBSD maybe, but not Linux.
I don't know about the existence of the universe. Maybe there is a god ;-)
As far as tapping hurricane power goes, yes, its possible using the same principles. However, there is a huge difference in scale between tornadoes, which are a few hundred meters in diameter, and hurricanes, which are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Its this scaling that makes it impractical to harness hurricanes, though hurricanes would be glorious energy source indeed.
As a name, I don't think Ubuntu is any stranger than Red Hat, or Windows for that matter. I do take issue with their release titles (e.g. warty warthog, hoary hedgehog, etc.) but thats another story.
I agree that education is important in fighting these scams. And yes, I've done my part, telling everyone that I know that billing info/passwords should never be sent through e-mail, that applications should be examined before they are installed, etc. However, I often find that the increasing sophistication of spyware and phishing scams often overcomes whatever training I give (i.e.: "I know you told me not to send my billing information over e-mail but it was so convincing...). Heck, I've seen phishing scams that looked so authentic that I may very well have been taken, if I had a pre-existing business relationship with the organization that the scam was trying to impersonate.
My point is that, yes, education can prevent many from falling victim to the easy and simple scams. However, education that is not absolutely thorough may lead to overconfidence, allowing people to fall for the slightly more sophisticated scam with even greater ease.
You need compatibility with mainstream product in order to enter the market.
I don't think you need 2-way compatibility, though. As I recall, Microsoft Word could only open Wordperfect files, but not save them in the Wordperfect format. Why doesn't OO.o do the same?
Let me ask, what about the non so outright corrution?
First, "non-outright corruption is difficult to measure, seeing as how, by definition, its magnitude is hidden.
Second, the fact that the outright corruption here has a measure of stigma attached to it means that the US is resisting corruption better than most other areas of the world. Minor corruption is endemic everywhere, but there is still a sense of outrage at it here in the USA, while, in many other places (esp. India and other third-world countries) corruption is simply accepted as a fact of life that must dealt with. It is this stigma attached to corruption, coupled with the fact that the USA has good government as one of its tacit goals that separates the USA from most other areas.
Third, legalizing corruption exposes it to the public eye, and, through that process, takes away a measure of its virulence. If the public can see who is giving the politicians their vital contributions, we can at least try to account for all of the various interests that may be involved whenever that politician makes a statement. This is in contrast to other countries, where corruption is kept off the books, and one has no idea what interests are involved in any political decision.
The point that the parent poster is trying to make is that cars need a fairly compact source of energy to run. Present battery technology does not allow us to store electrical energy at the same (energy) density as the chemical energy in gasoline. Biodiesel, having a similar energy density to gasoline, is a much more viable technology in this regard. Also biodiesel, and its corn based relative, ethanol, have the advantage of requiring minimal modifications to current engines. Thus a switch to biodiesel/ethanol would create less waste than a switch to all-electric cars.
The advantage to switching to electric cars is that electricity is easy to generate in a centralized location and is easy to send long distances. Thus, with a switch to electric cars, one would only have to worry about the efficiency of a few thousand power stations, versus worrying about the efficiency of millions of cars.
Thank you. You answered what I was trying to get at with my question. So, in your opinion, the energy return would not make the energy input worthwhile? (i.e. the seed energy would be better used for other things)