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A lot of these problems can be solved using Teflon, Inconel, ceramic, and stainless for the fuel systems. You can also coat the interior passages of new engines to prevent a lot of that corrosion.
High water content in biodiesel will, unfortunately, be a problem for the forseeable future. What it means, though, is that there will probably be the need for some kind of additive - viscosity index improvers, antifungals, and whatnot that are already added to regular diesel.
Yeah - we've got an empty Lucent factory sitting in the east end of Richmond. Tore hell out of the economy, too - it shut down in the mid-late 90s, and nobody has bought it since.
Ahhh... Apple Pascal... Memories of CompSci classes in high school (until we raided the library for a couple of IBMs:)
Yeah, it wasn't until MS-DOS 5.0 that PCs came with a decent editor - anyone who ever had to use edlin to fix their autoexec.bat file can attest to just how much better the DOS 5 editor was...
I recently went back and fired up an old copy of Borland Turbo Pascal - the version I used in high school for my science fair experiments. It's actually painful to use those old tools nowadays - modern IDEs with syntax highlighting and all the rest of the goodies make things a hell of a lot easier.
OTOH, the machines were so much simpler - even the (at the time) complicated 386 with its protected mode and 16-bit ISA or MCA cards is a toy nowadays.
I can - and a lot of the other people I know with Asperger's Syndrome have the same reaction.
It's to the point that I'll get out of my bedroom, walk down the hall, and turn off the TV in the living room to get to sleep...
Computer monitors don't bother me so much, but I can still catch them being on. Sometimes, I can do it with other electronics too - especially PCs that use switching power supplies.
Especially with driver support. I've seen a lot of machines that are completely unstable with ATI cards that behave properly with Nvidia cards, under Windows. The dual-head support on Nvidia is much more reliable in my experience, as well.
I would use Nforce 4 mobos for any new AMD system running Windows - and it would be my second choice (after Intel) for the Intel processor machines as well.
Driver stability is rather hard to acheive (as any Windows admin can tell you), so any company that has a good track record of stable drivers is on my short list of favored suppliers.
About 150 users right now, with more in the future - they're migrating from a truly hideous reseller-provided email service. The plan is to have a 2 GB limit, and have the spam folder auto-purge anything over 30 days. We do need the larger space - it's a radio station, so there needs to be room for audio files to be sent about. We will have an FTP upload site for the larger files, but e-mail is easier for a <50 MB file...
Fairly organized groups of people who support violent acts - check.
Leading to death - check.
Almost winked at - check.
Look, I've spent time with people who did abortion clinic defense. Let me tell you, our own radical religious minority is just as dangerous, and they operate with a lot of people saying "well, I don't agree with their tactics, but they're defending children, so I won't stand in their way".
How come we don't see news coverage of the preachers that condemn abortion clinic bombings? Because that's not news. Nutjobs on a high-caliber Mission from God - now that's great television.
Do you think there's some kind of "liberal" bias in those departments?
I dunno, but having "right-thinking" students running around enforcing idealogical correctness is not my idea of fair. It creates a feeling of fear - and stops the kind of free-wheeling debate that you need to break out of the provincial attitudes you can pick up in America these days.
Anyway - to hell with both of those labels. They don't mean anything anymore - they are buzzwords that are used to identify political opponents. I'd rather have some fuming crypto-Fascist idealogue as a professor than some limp know-nothing. At least the idealogue will force you to think - even if it's only to argue with him.
But the kids of the elite don't want to learn how to fight - and don't want to challenge authority directly. Instead, they want to run home and cry to Daddy, and have their parents fix it for them.
Unpopular opinions are absolutely critical in a college. And it's the students' responsibility to do something about it - organize a picket of the professor's class or something, for God's sakes. That would let people know that there is a real problem with this professor, and the media circus, if well managed, is just as effective. This program sounds like East Germany.
Oh, come on. I think the tachikoma voices may have been a little heavy-handed, but it's classic sci-fi. It brings home in a very obvious way that these characters are young, and curious.
It broke up what otherwise would have been a pretty grim series - and I kinda like the dissonance that anime like this creates. Trigun was the same way - goofy to deadly serious in 3.5 secods flat...
The louder the Left squeals, the better I like it.
Why?
I'm actually curious. I've never understood the visceral hatred that so many people have for the religious activists, volunteers, and peaceful human beings that constitute the left wing of the US.
Most of us do not hate you. We are sad that you are consumed by so much hate, and would like to see a country that would not treat its citizenry so badly that that kind of blind hatred is not engendered.
OTOH, you might just be a troll. I don't know, because I've met people whose hatred of the left is so bad that the police have to keep them from interrupting and attacking peaceful demonstrations. Peace be unto you.
No, he answered to the 1/4 of the populace that voted for him. Half of the voters in America decided not to vote for either the turd sandwitch or the giant douche.
Funny - an election does not make you Emperor for four years. And a populace badgered by fear and innuendo, with character assassination and a media machine spewing untruths and bias, does not make for fair and reasoned political debate.
Why do you think that they didn't want Ralph Nader at the debates? Or Badnarik for that matter? Because either of them would have blown those two upper-class shitheads right off the stage. Don't talk to me about choice until any reasonably-sized political group can put a candidate on the ballot in a fair and equitable way.
My aunt bought a new Gateway laptop - the sales demo. Tech tells me, "just wipe and re-install the OS - that's what we do with sales demos anyway". Okay.
Set up DBAN, and while it's chewing away, I go looking for the install disks. And find nothing but a couple of CD-R's.
Fortunately, the CompUSA store manager agreed it was his employee's fault for giving me bad advice, and they ate the $30 fee that Gateway charges for replacement system disks.
But if you use RFID and an inductive grid in the store shelf to give the box power, you wouldn't need to worry about that. It is also the likely way to have them controllable - have a central server dump commands to individual boxes.
That would be cool - imagine hacking the store server to have "You're the man!" appear on every box in the store when you walk by...:)
Ummm... The plot made sense - at least a hell of a lot better than the animated series did. Trying to make a coherent pop-sci-fi storyline out of that series took heroic effort - especially one that wouldn't get the director and screenwriters tarred and feathered by thirtysomethings that watched the series on Liquid Television.
I didn't expect a Lord Of The Rings-level theatric masterpiece, but a Hollywood sci-fi movie.
It delivered on that.
My personal favorite was the setwork - that carried the animated series' design better than anything else. There was an asthetic that I really liked - that of being futuristic without being cheezy (for the most part).
So why not build a giant series of buildings on the San Andreas fault? If this actually works, it would be the solution for Japan as well. And the fault off the coast of Seattle. And in Pakistan. There are a lot of areas in the world where people built on fault lines - wouldn't that be a cool application for arcologies?
I'd be worried about volcanoes, though. After all, if you're flexing the fault more often, couldn't it make a leak more likely?
Plus, a LTSP setup installed by default - getting a remote X environment set up can be a pain, even for an experienced admin, and having this thing auto-generate a system like that is very, very cool.
And what do these all these limpwristed psuedointellectuals have against football? The football stadiums are there because the people want the stadiums there. They get enjoyment from watching the games.
Um, do you honestly think the American people have anything to say whatsoever about the siting of stadiums? They are built by and for the elites of a region, normally with back-door deals with corrupt politicians.
All these leftists cry about not having a voice, but what kind of democracy would we live in if the majority of the population didn't control the country? I'm sure you'd rather ignore the majority and install a radical liberal candidate that only a tiny fraction of the population actually wants. Yeah, that would be a great democracy.
BWA-HAAAA-HAAAAAAA!! You actually think this country is run by a majority? Now that's rich.
This country has never been run by a majority - the Founding Fathers actually had a deep mistrust of democracy, and made sure that the landowners and elites would have their hands firmly on the reins of power. Originally, Senators were not even elected by the people - and the President still isn't!
I don't give a fuck about some idealogical "democracy" - I care if my fellow Americans are doing all right. Anything that makes the majority of Americans do better than they are right now (without looting/raping/pillaging/etc) is a good thing in my book. And if that involves another FDR running roughshod over the laws of this country, well I'll call that a damn good thing.
When the laws in a country are unjust, it is the duty of its citizenry to resist, and if necessary, overthrow that oppressive government.
And before you bark up the wrong tree, NO, I didn't vote for Bush.
True - there are things that take a huge investment to create the first copy - i. e. die-cast aluminum, injection-molded plastics, complex forgings, etc. That is the nature of mass production. And nobody seems to account for the non-trivial costs of the distribution infrastructure - fat Internet pipes, fast servers, maintaining the colo site or your own server facility.
I would agree that to create a government agency to regulate open-source programming would probably kill the open-source movement as it exists today - but an agency similar to Japan's MITI could probably do far better. Something that identifies priorities and funds companies and individuals to create and market things identified as in the country's best interest is a far better model for creating actually useful products.
I think that some government investment is necessary - and is already happening (seLinux being a prime example). We have private companies sinking a huge amount of resources into open-source - why shouldn't the government do the same? Anything that makes the federal government use my tax dollars more efficently is a good thing in my mind.
I think this is an excellent point. I work with a radio station doing their computer stuff, and the people who listen to any new CD's that come in do it from their computer.
If I have one of the machines I'm responsible for get hosed by Sony's dumbfuck copy protections, I am going to get pissed.
OTOH, this is standard Sony bullshit - as anyone who has ever ued the steaming pile of dog shit, Sonic Stage, can attest. When the software crashes randomly on 5 different computers in a row, with 3 different MD recoders, there is a problem.
Fuck Sony's consumer electronics and music divisions. They really do define corporate evil in the 21st century.
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A lot of these problems can be solved using Teflon, Inconel, ceramic, and stainless for the fuel systems. You can also coat the interior passages of new engines to prevent a lot of that corrosion.
High water content in biodiesel will, unfortunately, be a problem for the forseeable future. What it means, though, is that there will probably be the need for some kind of additive - viscosity index improvers, antifungals, and whatnot that are already added to regular diesel.
Umm.. Wouldn't that be our old AT&T overlords?
Or, our resurrected AT&T overlords.
Really - there are all these cool games, that are released *years* before they are available on Macs.
That's the only reason I have a Windows box - to play my games, b/c most of them don't run in WINE.
Yeah - we've got an empty Lucent factory sitting in the east end of Richmond. Tore hell out of the economy, too - it shut down in the mid-late 90s, and nobody has bought it since.
Bastards.
Ahhh... Apple Pascal... Memories of CompSci classes in high school (until we raided the library for a couple of IBMs :)
Yeah, it wasn't until MS-DOS 5.0 that PCs came with a decent editor - anyone who ever had to use edlin to fix their autoexec.bat file can attest to just how much better the DOS 5 editor was...
I recently went back and fired up an old copy of Borland Turbo Pascal - the version I used in high school for my science fair experiments. It's actually painful to use those old tools nowadays - modern IDEs with syntax highlighting and all the rest of the goodies make things a hell of a lot easier.
OTOH, the machines were so much simpler - even the (at the time) complicated 386 with its protected mode and 16-bit ISA or MCA cards is a toy nowadays.
I can - and a lot of the other people I know with Asperger's Syndrome have the same reaction.
It's to the point that I'll get out of my bedroom, walk down the hall, and turn off the TV in the living room to get to sleep...
Computer monitors don't bother me so much, but I can still catch them being on. Sometimes, I can do it with other electronics too - especially PCs that use switching power supplies.
Especially with driver support. I've seen a lot of machines that are completely unstable with ATI cards that behave properly with Nvidia cards, under Windows. The dual-head support on Nvidia is much more reliable in my experience, as well.
I would use Nforce 4 mobos for any new AMD system running Windows - and it would be my second choice (after Intel) for the Intel processor machines as well.
Driver stability is rather hard to acheive (as any Windows admin can tell you), so any company that has a good track record of stable drivers is on my short list of favored suppliers.
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Running sendmail/squirrelmail/mailman/spamassassin/clamav/ dovecot.
About 150 users right now, with more in the future - they're migrating from a truly hideous reseller-provided email service. The plan is to have a 2 GB limit, and have the spam folder auto-purge anything over 30 days. We do need the larger space - it's a radio station, so there needs to be room for audio files to be sent about. We will have an FTP upload site for the larger files, but e-mail is easier for a <50 MB file...
Fairly organized groups of people who support violent acts - check.
Leading to death - check.
Almost winked at - check.
Look, I've spent time with people who did abortion clinic defense. Let me tell you, our own radical religious minority is just as dangerous, and they operate with a lot of people saying "well, I don't agree with their tactics, but they're defending children, so I won't stand in their way".
How come we don't see news coverage of the preachers that condemn abortion clinic bombings? Because that's not news. Nutjobs on a high-caliber Mission from God - now that's great television.
I dunno, but having "right-thinking" students running around enforcing idealogical correctness is not my idea of fair. It creates a feeling of fear - and stops the kind of free-wheeling debate that you need to break out of the provincial attitudes you can pick up in America these days.
Anyway - to hell with both of those labels. They don't mean anything anymore - they are buzzwords that are used to identify political opponents. I'd rather have some fuming crypto-Fascist idealogue as a professor than some limp know-nothing. At least the idealogue will force you to think - even if it's only to argue with him.
But the kids of the elite don't want to learn how to fight - and don't want to challenge authority directly. Instead, they want to run home and cry to Daddy, and have their parents fix it for them.
Unpopular opinions are absolutely critical in a college. And it's the students' responsibility to do something about it - organize a picket of the professor's class or something, for God's sakes. That would let people know that there is a real problem with this professor, and the media circus, if well managed, is just as effective. This program sounds like East Germany.
Oh, come on. I think the tachikoma voices may have been a little heavy-handed, but it's classic sci-fi. It brings home in a very obvious way that these characters are young, and curious.
It broke up what otherwise would have been a pretty grim series - and I kinda like the dissonance that anime like this creates. Trigun was the same way - goofy to deadly serious in 3.5 secods flat...
Why?
I'm actually curious. I've never understood the visceral hatred that so many people have for the religious activists, volunteers, and peaceful human beings that constitute the left wing of the US.
Most of us do not hate you. We are sad that you are consumed by so much hate, and would like to see a country that would not treat its citizenry so badly that that kind of blind hatred is not engendered.
OTOH, you might just be a troll. I don't know, because I've met people whose hatred of the left is so bad that the police have to keep them from interrupting and attacking peaceful demonstrations. Peace be unto you.
No, he answered to the 1/4 of the populace that voted for him. Half of the voters in America decided not to vote for either the turd sandwitch or the giant douche.
Funny - an election does not make you Emperor for four years. And a populace badgered by fear and innuendo, with character assassination and a media machine spewing untruths and bias, does not make for fair and reasoned political debate.
Why do you think that they didn't want Ralph Nader at the debates? Or Badnarik for that matter? Because either of them would have blown those two upper-class shitheads right off the stage. Don't talk to me about choice until any reasonably-sized political group can put a candidate on the ballot in a fair and equitable way.
My aunt bought a new Gateway laptop - the sales demo. Tech tells me, "just wipe and re-install the OS - that's what we do with sales demos anyway". Okay.
Set up DBAN, and while it's chewing away, I go looking for the install disks. And find nothing but a couple of CD-R's.
Fortunately, the CompUSA store manager agreed it was his employee's fault for giving me bad advice, and they ate the $30 fee that Gateway charges for replacement system disks.
PITA.
Ummm - you are both right and wrong.
If you are using a framebuffer, then a lot of the basic drawing routines are handled in the kernel.
If not, then you use the userland X driver. That interfaces with the video card through a mapping of the card's address space.
That would be cool - imagine hacking the store server to have "You're the man!" appear on every box in the store when you walk by... :)
Ummm... The plot made sense - at least a hell of a lot better than the animated series did. Trying to make a coherent pop-sci-fi storyline out of that series took heroic effort - especially one that wouldn't get the director and screenwriters tarred and feathered by thirtysomethings that watched the series on Liquid Television.
I didn't expect a Lord Of The Rings-level theatric masterpiece, but a Hollywood sci-fi movie.
It delivered on that.
My personal favorite was the setwork - that carried the animated series' design better than anything else. There was an asthetic that I really liked - that of being futuristic without being cheezy (for the most part).
Tell that to my family members in Sweeden that died of leukemia.
I'd be worried about volcanoes, though. After all, if you're flexing the fault more often, couldn't it make a leak more likely?
Plus, a LTSP setup installed by default - getting a remote X environment set up can be a pain, even for an experienced admin, and having this thing auto-generate a system like that is very, very cool.
Um, do you honestly think the American people have anything to say whatsoever about the siting of stadiums? They are built by and for the elites of a region, normally with back-door deals with corrupt politicians.
All these leftists cry about not having a voice, but what kind of democracy would we live in if the majority of the population didn't control the country? I'm sure you'd rather ignore the majority and install a radical liberal candidate that only a tiny fraction of the population actually wants. Yeah, that would be a great democracy.
BWA-HAAAA-HAAAAAAA!! You actually think this country is run by a majority? Now that's rich.
This country has never been run by a majority - the Founding Fathers actually had a deep mistrust of democracy, and made sure that the landowners and elites would have their hands firmly on the reins of power. Originally, Senators were not even elected by the people - and the President still isn't!
I don't give a fuck about some idealogical "democracy" - I care if my fellow Americans are doing all right. Anything that makes the majority of Americans do better than they are right now (without looting/raping/pillaging/etc) is a good thing in my book. And if that involves another FDR running roughshod over the laws of this country, well I'll call that a damn good thing.
When the laws in a country are unjust, it is the duty of its citizenry to resist, and if necessary, overthrow that oppressive government.
And before you bark up the wrong tree, NO, I didn't vote for Bush.
Yep - you voted for Badnarik. Obviously.
42" waist, 27" inseam, 18 1/2" neck. Every pair of pants I buy has to be hemmed by at least 5-9", and they are still baggy.
:)
Long sleeve shirts look ridiculous - normally, the cuffs go beyond the tips of my fingers.
And I'm not particularly fat - just got that Scots build you normally see at the caber-toss...
So I sport a similar fashion plate - jeans and t-shirts. At least those look okay if they're ill-fitting.
They make damn sure of that - some operate in countries that tend to disappear troublemakers...
True - there are things that take a huge investment to create the first copy - i. e. die-cast aluminum, injection-molded plastics, complex forgings, etc. That is the nature of mass production. And nobody seems to account for the non-trivial costs of the distribution infrastructure - fat Internet pipes, fast servers, maintaining the colo site or your own server facility.
I would agree that to create a government agency to regulate open-source programming would probably kill the open-source movement as it exists today - but an agency similar to Japan's MITI could probably do far better. Something that identifies priorities and funds companies and individuals to create and market things identified as in the country's best interest is a far better model for creating actually useful products.
I think that some government investment is necessary - and is already happening (seLinux being a prime example). We have private companies sinking a huge amount of resources into open-source - why shouldn't the government do the same? Anything that makes the federal government use my tax dollars more efficently is a good thing in my mind.
If I have one of the machines I'm responsible for get hosed by Sony's dumbfuck copy protections, I am going to get pissed.
OTOH, this is standard Sony bullshit - as anyone who has ever ued the steaming pile of dog shit, Sonic Stage, can attest. When the software crashes randomly on 5 different computers in a row, with 3 different MD recoders, there is a problem.
Fuck Sony's consumer electronics and music divisions. They really do define corporate evil in the 21st century.