That still eliminates Stirling engines, steam engines, turbines, and fuel cells. (perhaps more?)
Stirling engines have archived 60% efficency. gas engines are doing good at 30%. Granted there are issues with Stirling engines, which is why we don't use them in cars. In a race like this though you would want the best you can get, and there the Stirling engine would be perfect.
TDI is nice, but a gallon of diesel fuel has about twice the energy as a gallon of gasoline. (Of course I'm not counting the energy used in refining, gasoline needs a lot of energy to create)
heh. I just love the way that site claims that 4 wheel drives have better brakes than normal cars... I didn't even get to the part about gas milage before giving up on them as idiots.
I check my gas milage every tank. My truck gets 3 more miles to the gallon towing the boat at 65mph over unloaded at 55mph! (I can't recall a trip at 65 without the boat to check the difference) I've checked this enough to consider it statisticly significant. More people should do this, if not every tank, at least often so they know.
Don't. There is a good reason that blackboards or whiteboards are in all classrooms. It is possible to do a good informative presentation with a computer, but I've never seen it done. Doesn't matter if you are using slides on the overhead, or a computer, the result is the same: a presentation that has no flexability and no interest.
My only question is why this wasn't done years ago? Back when the build up started. All those soldiers were training to fight in the desert. They could have taken an hour from the day and learned the local customs and language. The human body works better when it has rests from time to time anyway.
Varies from person to person. I know one person who have been speaking English only for the last 20 years (might have went home a couple times in there but nothing significant) and still has problems. His wife has a funny accent, but otherwise speaks perfectly. (They are from Korea). I know one other guy who can learn a new language in just a few weeks. (after 17 it is really easy to add a new one though).
Most people I know do just fine after a year of studying, or just a few months of studying it in an area where it is native. The soldiers are in a native area, give them a boost so they can use it, and at least some will catch on quick. Others will never catch on, but they will all know who is the expert and put that person in the communication positions. (and when required they can all muddle through)
Completely useless in the real world, but De Re Atari, published in 1982 is one of those rare examples of what a comptuer book should be like. In depth details on the atari computer, yet somehow still fun to read!
I know porn when I see it. Sure in theory this is no difference between a naked women used for antinomy demonstrations, and porn, but in practice the difference is usually big. For starters people tend to prefer unrealistic extremes in their porn. Second, the rest of the context enters in.
I don't have a problem with you enjoying pron in your own house, or even your own country. Most people in my country to have a problem with it, if not themselves, at least when sent to their kids. (perhaps they are hypocrites, but that is their right) I think it is reasonable to allow them to make those choices for their kids. If you don't like it, have your own kids, raise them how you want, then compare how they turn out. (good luck, it is rare for kids to turn out exactly was parents wish... and don't forget that your goals as a parent will be different so you have to factors those into the evaluation)
Careful doing that, it is a federal crime in the US to talk pricing with your competition. If this is a store in the same company you are fine, otherwise you are breaking the law. I don't think anything is ever done about it except in extreme cases.
Part of anti-trust acts. A lot of railroad trusts were several different companies that got together to raise prices. Everyone had to ride the rail, but you could choose which one - until they all set their prices to the same high price. (This might fit into the reason that the US has poor public transportation, but I don't know how the details work out)
Wrong answer: when something like an accident happens you need to slow down. In fact anytime you see flashing lights (cop car, tow truck whatever) you better slow down until you know what is going on and have figured out how/if it affects you.
Granted most people look at the wrong thing, but at least they are slowing down. You shouldn't be watching the emergency itself. You need to have a broader focus of how the operations might affect you!
Yep. At this point nearly all drive support both, and even in the cases where only one is supported, it often reads to the other.
So don't worry about it, buy a drive, and then buy compatable media. This should not be a surprise, as both formats were designed with the idea of allowing DVD players to play disks they record. There never was a reason to expect that one would win, it isn't like BETA vs. VHS where the formats were physically incompatible.
Microsoft would do the entire world a favor, and save themselves a lot of security issues if the next version of office would refuse to run if the user has admin access. They have been saying for a while now that admin isn't a good idea, it is time to take that to the next step, and refuse it.
Admin does not need to run Word. Install it yes, but not run it.
Linux users don't normally run as root because it is a bad idea. Windows users shouldn't run as admin for the same reason.
The problem with consumer reports is if you know anything at all about the subject at hand you know that a different product is better. Makes one wonder about the products you know nothing about.
For cars their bias against American manufactures is legendary.
Though I will admit that the better product might not be worth the cost, they seem to take low price too far.
My first thought is that UPS likely has IT guys around the country. Ship your laptop to the nearest one (in your state quite likely) and someone there will fix it and then fix a UPS owned machine. Seems like a perfect fit, a company with offices everywhere, many of which can do this work, and service goes up.
Cept that instead they ship it too a central location. sigh, so close to same day service everywhere, even middle of nowhere North Dakota.
There are plenty of router companies. Cisco is most popular, but that is the only thing you can easily see. Any other advantage needs to be tested in the real world (or in a lab).
Plenty of companies are as good or better, but until you define your requirements (to the point that few of us are qualified to comment) nobody can say which is really better.
IP is standard. There isn't much that someone can do different and still be correct. Firewalls, speed, and some max capacity. IPv6 would be nice too. Figure your needs and then ask who will meet them.
I've worked with and around several companies trying to knock Cisco off. It is hard because even when you have a technical advantage Cisco dominates. Sort of like how Microsoft dominates, but not as extreme, and Cisco has never been accused of being quite that evil.
Overall I prefer the AMD on a desktop, but why reccomend a AMD over the Intel Pentium-M? Sure the Centrino chipset doesn't have great linux support yet (or has that changed, rumor is it is coming soon and I've not kept up). Still the Pentium-M used much less power, and in a laptop that is worth the price. Mind the Pentium-M is not a budget processor.
At least in the US anyone can sue anyone for anything. Winning however is difficult. Still, if you think you have a case call a lawyer and present it. If you really do have one, lawyers are good at filling in the details. Details like perhaps lemons laws are not the right path in your state where some other law is better.
Warning: not anyone can win a lawsuit. And you can be counter sued. Still slashdot is not the place to ask, most of us (such as me) are not lawyers, so we aren't aware of everything.
Even if EULAs are valid (which as others have noted is not tested), nearly all states will not allow you to sign away some rights. Might help you in itself. (if nothing else why test the EULA if the clause they are using isn't valid in your state)
There is one more downside: you have to deal with lawyers. No matter how evil you call Microsoft, lawyers are worse! Only sue if it is really worth it.
My face is not important. Sure if I happen to be walking outside the police station just after they show my picture to all cops they will be suspicious. Otherwise there are millions of people in the US who look enough like me that you need to check them out. Sure nearly all are easy to clear, but shear numbers means you can't check all the pictures on file. You compare to known criminals (who are more likely to do something again) and then what? Mind it is a good idea to avoid giving them photos just in case they stumble on you, but that isn't always doable.
Pictures of my license plate (unless it is a rental under a false name, or stolen and I leave the car on the side of the road a few minutes latter) matter. Anything that can tell give the police just a hint of who I might be other than a white male between 25 and 32. (wigs or hair dye is easy to get, and contacts means that I won't always have glasses)
You can visit an ATM twice. You just have to visit enough ATMs at random enough times that they cannot place police officers at each one you use. If they can predict anything about where and when you withdraw cash, an officer will be across the street and waiting for you to swipe your card just in case they are right.
ATMs are suggested because they are everywhere, in particular poorly traveled places. $200/day 2 out of 3 days gives you $40,000/year tax free. I could live on that. Course you have to keep contacts in the underworld (to keep fake IDs up just in case you need one) and that costs some money. A bank branch leaves the possibility that there is a cop around the corner who can get to the parking lot before you can leave. Not worth the money.
Yes you have to travel a lot. Still I can visit an ATM in Minneapolis, and Fargo (4 hours apart), and still make it home in time for supper. I'm not sure what the right balance between hitting ATMs on the way, and passing them so they don't know your route is. Still that is a lot of ATMs.
There are thousands, perhaps millions of open source projects (over 100,000 on sourceforge alone). Some move, some don't. Linux isn't the only fast mover, in fact I'd have to say that KDE moves faster. Course KDE has about ten times as much code, in a lot more different areas, and that leaves more room. Remember the Mythical man-month applies, but when there is more modular code there is more room for more people.
Check the linux game of the month project. Just a couple months to take a game from almost nothing to great. Course the scope is much smaller than linux. Just one example of what motivates developers, and a good one because they are not a single project like KDE or the linux kernel.
When you define success you can eliminate all projects except linux if you want. However there are plenty of projects other than linux that are successful if you would give a definition that isn't so narrow.
Maybe that works for you, but I live in an area known as "the rust belt", a large part of the US and Canada also lives in this area. A 15 year old car (from 1989) has computers to control everything. If you took care of it the engine and transmission will still be fine (not good as new, but good enough that you wouldn't replace it yet), but not much will be left of the body because of rust.
Computers make maintenance easier once you know how to deal with them. Less to go wrong, so there is less to do overall. Most problems the computer tells you exactly what to do (replace the rear oxygen sensor or some such), do it and things work fine again. There are of course a few difficult problems, but the old cars had those difficult problems too.
I remember when 70,000 miles was a lot on a car, and 100,000 miles was something you brought all your friends along to see, never mind that you were at that point burning a quart of oil every few hundred miles. (the 1970s were particularly bad) A modern car (anything mid 80s or latter) the engine will last a long time, longer than the rest of the car in my experience. (again, I live in the rust belt)
Hubble isn't broke, 3 months or 3,000 miles since the last oil change is nearly up. They just need to get it into the nearest Jippy Lube for an oil change and it will be good as new for anouther 3 months/3,000 miles.
D-Link is to be avoided by linux guys. The ACX driver guys said so. (look it up if you don't belive me) Thats reason enough in my book to avoid everything they do. (Not just the products that don't work, but even the ones that do)
You are almost wrong. Perhaps the open source world has nothing to compare with exchange. The closed source world as several programs that go well beyond Exchange's ability to do meetings right. somehow Exchange just never seemed to work right (5 years ago when I last had to use it), I don't know if it was our admins or what, but we often had two meetings scheduled to the same room at one time. Other products didn't do that. Along with a better ability to choose your room. (I just need a meeting room with a overhead, I know there are 3, choose one for me) A lot of other details that just work. Finish off with something that has a better user interface. (until you try the others you don't realize how bad exchange is)
Well that used to be true. 7-UP has caffeine, at least in some incarnations. Most of the versions I've seen lately do have caffeine, but I don't know if they have gotten rid of the caffeine free versions, so just are promoting the version with caffeine.
Doesn't really matter, soda is bad for a lot of things health wise. Combine that with my inability to stand carbonated water and I don't drink much so I don't care. (though when I must I go for caffeine free pops)
Back before everyone had the internet Popular Electronics (or one such magazine) had a couple articles on this. Lookup it up in the library, you did get the skills of searching in school, didn't you? They operated on batteries, but you could do whatever so long as your managed to power your computer.
The idea was a bunch of sensors, made up of LED senders and receivers. Mow a path around the yard, plus around any trees, and then turn the mower on. It should attempt to keep 2 sensors out of grass, and the rest (~20) in the grass.
BTW, mini-itx boards now have 12 volt power inputs, so things should be easier in many respects.
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That still eliminates Stirling engines, steam engines, turbines, and fuel cells. (perhaps more?)
Stirling engines have archived 60% efficency. gas engines are doing good at 30%. Granted there are issues with Stirling engines, which is why we don't use them in cars. In a race like this though you would want the best you can get, and there the Stirling engine would be perfect.
TDI is nice, but a gallon of diesel fuel has about twice the energy as a gallon of gasoline. (Of course I'm not counting the energy used in refining, gasoline needs a lot of energy to create)
heh. I just love the way that site claims that 4 wheel drives have better brakes than normal cars... I didn't even get to the part about gas milage before giving up on them as idiots.
I check my gas milage every tank. My truck gets 3 more miles to the gallon towing the boat at 65mph over unloaded at 55mph! (I can't recall a trip at 65 without the boat to check the difference) I've checked this enough to consider it statisticly significant. More people should do this, if not every tank, at least often so they know.
Don't. There is a good reason that blackboards or whiteboards are in all classrooms. It is possible to do a good informative presentation with a computer, but I've never seen it done. Doesn't matter if you are using slides on the overhead, or a computer, the result is the same: a presentation that has no flexability and no interest.
My only question is why this wasn't done years ago? Back when the build up started. All those soldiers were training to fight in the desert. They could have taken an hour from the day and learned the local customs and language. The human body works better when it has rests from time to time anyway.
Varies from person to person. I know one person who have been speaking English only for the last 20 years (might have went home a couple times in there but nothing significant) and still has problems. His wife has a funny accent, but otherwise speaks perfectly. (They are from Korea). I know one other guy who can learn a new language in just a few weeks. (after 17 it is really easy to add a new one though).
Most people I know do just fine after a year of studying, or just a few months of studying it in an area where it is native. The soldiers are in a native area, give them a boost so they can use it, and at least some will catch on quick. Others will never catch on, but they will all know who is the expert and put that person in the communication positions. (and when required they can all muddle through)
Completely useless in the real world, but De Re Atari, published in 1982 is one of those rare examples of what a comptuer book should be like. In depth details on the atari computer, yet somehow still fun to read!
I'm sure you can find other classics.
I know porn when I see it. Sure in theory this is no difference between a naked women used for antinomy demonstrations, and porn, but in practice the difference is usually big. For starters people tend to prefer unrealistic extremes in their porn. Second, the rest of the context enters in.
I don't have a problem with you enjoying pron in your own house, or even your own country. Most people in my country to have a problem with it, if not themselves, at least when sent to their kids. (perhaps they are hypocrites, but that is their right) I think it is reasonable to allow them to make those choices for their kids. If you don't like it, have your own kids, raise them how you want, then compare how they turn out. (good luck, it is rare for kids to turn out exactly was parents wish... and don't forget that your goals as a parent will be different so you have to factors those into the evaluation)
Careful doing that, it is a federal crime in the US to talk pricing with your competition. If this is a store in the same company you are fine, otherwise you are breaking the law. I don't think anything is ever done about it except in extreme cases.
Part of anti-trust acts. A lot of railroad trusts were several different companies that got together to raise prices. Everyone had to ride the rail, but you could choose which one - until they all set their prices to the same high price. (This might fit into the reason that the US has poor public transportation, but I don't know how the details work out)
Wrong answer: when something like an accident happens you need to slow down. In fact anytime you see flashing lights (cop car, tow truck whatever) you better slow down until you know what is going on and have figured out how/if it affects you.
Granted most people look at the wrong thing, but at least they are slowing down. You shouldn't be watching the emergency itself. You need to have a broader focus of how the operations might affect you!
Yep. At this point nearly all drive support both, and even in the cases where only one is supported, it often reads to the other.
So don't worry about it, buy a drive, and then buy compatable media. This should not be a surprise, as both formats were designed with the idea of allowing DVD players to play disks they record. There never was a reason to expect that one would win, it isn't like BETA vs. VHS where the formats were physically incompatible.
Microsoft would do the entire world a favor, and save themselves a lot of security issues if the next version of office would refuse to run if the user has admin access. They have been saying for a while now that admin isn't a good idea, it is time to take that to the next step, and refuse it.
Admin does not need to run Word. Install it yes, but not run it.
Linux users don't normally run as root because it is a bad idea. Windows users shouldn't run as admin for the same reason.
The problem with consumer reports is if you know anything at all about the subject at hand you know that a different product is better. Makes one wonder about the products you know nothing about.
For cars their bias against American manufactures is legendary.
Though I will admit that the better product might not be worth the cost, they seem to take low price too far.
My first thought is that UPS likely has IT guys around the country. Ship your laptop to the nearest one (in your state quite likely) and someone there will fix it and then fix a UPS owned machine. Seems like a perfect fit, a company with offices everywhere, many of which can do this work, and service goes up.
Cept that instead they ship it too a central location. sigh, so close to same day service everywhere, even middle of nowhere North Dakota.
There are plenty of router companies. Cisco is most popular, but that is the only thing you can easily see. Any other advantage needs to be tested in the real world (or in a lab).
Plenty of companies are as good or better, but until you define your requirements (to the point that few of us are qualified to comment) nobody can say which is really better.
IP is standard. There isn't much that someone can do different and still be correct. Firewalls, speed, and some max capacity. IPv6 would be nice too. Figure your needs and then ask who will meet them.
I've worked with and around several companies trying to knock Cisco off. It is hard because even when you have a technical advantage Cisco dominates. Sort of like how Microsoft dominates, but not as extreme, and Cisco has never been accused of being quite that evil.
Overall I prefer the AMD on a desktop, but why reccomend a AMD over the Intel Pentium-M? Sure the Centrino chipset doesn't have great linux support yet (or has that changed, rumor is it is coming soon and I've not kept up). Still the Pentium-M used much less power, and in a laptop that is worth the price. Mind the Pentium-M is not a budget processor.
At least in the US anyone can sue anyone for anything. Winning however is difficult. Still, if you think you have a case call a lawyer and present it. If you really do have one, lawyers are good at filling in the details. Details like perhaps lemons laws are not the right path in your state where some other law is better.
Warning: not anyone can win a lawsuit. And you can be counter sued. Still slashdot is not the place to ask, most of us (such as me) are not lawyers, so we aren't aware of everything.
Even if EULAs are valid (which as others have noted is not tested), nearly all states will not allow you to sign away some rights. Might help you in itself. (if nothing else why test the EULA if the clause they are using isn't valid in your state)
There is one more downside: you have to deal with lawyers. No matter how evil you call Microsoft, lawyers are worse! Only sue if it is really worth it.
My face is not important. Sure if I happen to be walking outside the police station just after they show my picture to all cops they will be suspicious. Otherwise there are millions of people in the US who look enough like me that you need to check them out. Sure nearly all are easy to clear, but shear numbers means you can't check all the pictures on file. You compare to known criminals (who are more likely to do something again) and then what? Mind it is a good idea to avoid giving them photos just in case they stumble on you, but that isn't always doable.
Pictures of my license plate (unless it is a rental under a false name, or stolen and I leave the car on the side of the road a few minutes latter) matter. Anything that can tell give the police just a hint of who I might be other than a white male between 25 and 32. (wigs or hair dye is easy to get, and contacts means that I won't always have glasses)
You can visit an ATM twice. You just have to visit enough ATMs at random enough times that they cannot place police officers at each one you use. If they can predict anything about where and when you withdraw cash, an officer will be across the street and waiting for you to swipe your card just in case they are right.
ATMs are suggested because they are everywhere, in particular poorly traveled places. $200/day 2 out of 3 days gives you $40,000/year tax free. I could live on that. Course you have to keep contacts in the underworld (to keep fake IDs up just in case you need one) and that costs some money. A bank branch leaves the possibility that there is a cop around the corner who can get to the parking lot before you can leave. Not worth the money.
Yes you have to travel a lot. Still I can visit an ATM in Minneapolis, and Fargo (4 hours apart), and still make it home in time for supper. I'm not sure what the right balance between hitting ATMs on the way, and passing them so they don't know your route is. Still that is a lot of ATMs.
There are thousands, perhaps millions of open source projects (over 100,000 on sourceforge alone). Some move, some don't. Linux isn't the only fast mover, in fact I'd have to say that KDE moves faster. Course KDE has about ten times as much code, in a lot more different areas, and that leaves more room. Remember the Mythical man-month applies, but when there is more modular code there is more room for more people.
Check the linux game of the month project. Just a couple months to take a game from almost nothing to great. Course the scope is much smaller than linux. Just one example of what motivates developers, and a good one because they are not a single project like KDE or the linux kernel.
When you define success you can eliminate all projects except linux if you want. However there are plenty of projects other than linux that are successful if you would give a definition that isn't so narrow.
Maybe that works for you, but I live in an area known as "the rust belt", a large part of the US and Canada also lives in this area. A 15 year old car (from 1989) has computers to control everything. If you took care of it the engine and transmission will still be fine (not good as new, but good enough that you wouldn't replace it yet), but not much will be left of the body because of rust.
Computers make maintenance easier once you know how to deal with them. Less to go wrong, so there is less to do overall. Most problems the computer tells you exactly what to do (replace the rear oxygen sensor or some such), do it and things work fine again. There are of course a few difficult problems, but the old cars had those difficult problems too.
I remember when 70,000 miles was a lot on a car, and 100,000 miles was something you brought all your friends along to see, never mind that you were at that point burning a quart of oil every few hundred miles. (the 1970s were particularly bad) A modern car (anything mid 80s or latter) the engine will last a long time, longer than the rest of the car in my experience. (again, I live in the rust belt)
Hubble isn't broke, 3 months or 3,000 miles since the last oil change is nearly up. They just need to get it into the nearest Jippy Lube for an oil change and it will be good as new for anouther 3 months/3,000 miles.
D-Link is to be avoided by linux guys. The ACX driver guys said so. (look it up if you don't belive me) Thats reason enough in my book to avoid everything they do. (Not just the products that don't work, but even the ones that do)
You are almost wrong. Perhaps the open source world has nothing to compare with exchange. The closed source world as several programs that go well beyond Exchange's ability to do meetings right. somehow Exchange just never seemed to work right (5 years ago when I last had to use it), I don't know if it was our admins or what, but we often had two meetings scheduled to the same room at one time. Other products didn't do that. Along with a better ability to choose your room. (I just need a meeting room with a overhead, I know there are 3, choose one for me) A lot of other details that just work. Finish off with something that has a better user interface. (until you try the others you don't realize how bad exchange is)
Well that used to be true. 7-UP has caffeine, at least in some incarnations. Most of the versions I've seen lately do have caffeine, but I don't know if they have gotten rid of the caffeine free versions, so just are promoting the version with caffeine.
Doesn't really matter, soda is bad for a lot of things health wise. Combine that with my inability to stand carbonated water and I don't drink much so I don't care. (though when I must I go for caffeine free pops)
Back before everyone had the internet Popular Electronics (or one such magazine) had a couple articles on this. Lookup it up in the library, you did get the skills of searching in school, didn't you? They operated on batteries, but you could do whatever so long as your managed to power your computer.
The idea was a bunch of sensors, made up of LED senders and receivers. Mow a path around the yard, plus around any trees, and then turn the mower on. It should attempt to keep 2 sensors out of grass, and the rest (~20) in the grass.
BTW, mini-itx boards now have 12 volt power inputs, so things should be easier in many respects.