then you should be pushing for a similar project on your local wikipedia.
The bulk of the work is in the reviewing. That pretty much has to be done seperately for each language. As you say ideally the online version should benifit from that reviewing as well but the overstretched mediawiki dev team has other priorities than making that happen.
i like the way you link to a wikipedia article that notes that the most relavent studies (though comparing HFCS to sucrose) have found little difference.
I thought it was at least partially us brits (cadburys chocolate contains veg oil and has for a long time iirc) that pushed for the allowing of veg oil in a harmonized chocolate definition.
Wouldn't the ultimate goal of every food manufacturer to produce a product that has no need to sit on a shelf indefinitely? Wouldn't a product that sells frequently be more desirable? If it sits on a shelf in a store, its not earning them money. If its sitting on a shelf in a consumer's home, it isn't earning money because the person isn't consuming the product and will not buy more until there is a need for more product. A longer shelf life means less wastage (however many you sell you are always going to get localised dips in demand or product lost and found much later) less wastage means less cost per item sold means more profit.
A longer shelf life means you can sell to customers over a geater area without the expense of fast delivery services.
A longer shelf life means you can sell to customers who demand that longer shelf life (think MREs and thier foriegn/civilian equivilents).
Yes its desirable to shift stock fast but when that doesn't happen its much better for it not to turn into a total writeoff.
a closer look at the wikipedia article seems to show a capacity of arround 3-4 times your estimate.
but anyway all the battery pack has do is spread the power generated by relatively short runs of the engine at its most efficiant power over a longer period of time. This is essencially the same thing it does while driving.
using a normal car (non hybrid) as a petrol powered generator will as you say be terriblly inefficiant and not produce very much power either because the engine and generator are not sized and set up for that use. They are set up to provide mainly propulsion with a bit of leccy on the side.
otoh a hybrid with a fully electric drivechain will have the engine and generator sized exclusively for producing electricity and a decent battery based storage system to allow use of the engine at its most efficiant operating point.
Afaict intel and amd both make significant profits from selling the cream of thier production at huge markups. It is much easier for AMD to do that if thier cream is currently better than the competitors cream (the same applies to intel but to a lesser extent because intel is the gorilla with lots of contracts and marketing).
you are a bit out of date, afaict while older ati cards did indeed have 3D support through open drivers written from specs the practice of releasing specs suitable for that stopped some time ago.
so it then becomes a case of who's binary blobs are better done and the impression i get is that nvidia are doing them better than ATI.
Sure, in the future that will be an issue.. but its not today. FPGAs cant compete with mass produced chips for price or speed, yet. I can't see how they ever can beat full custom VLSI chips made on similar fabrication processes. on a FPGA you always waste a considerable ammount of area and latency with the configurable interconnects and you never have an ideal arrangement for your functions because the positions and structure of the basic cells are fixed.
traditionally IDE users haven't encountered it that much, most people only have one IDE controller and all points on an IDE controller get given a name whether they are used for anything or not.
for scsi users this is much more of an issue as the linux scsi systems only allocate IDs to devices that actually exist not for unused scsi IDs
The bulk of FOSS development is done by people who are paid to do it and the companies who pay them most certainly expect that investment to pay off. I very much doubt that most FOSS development is done by people explicitly paid to do it though certain high profile projects may well be developed that way.
Afaict most free software development is done either by hobbyists or by people fixing stuff because they need the fix.
debian predates apt-get and neither it nor the apt libraries are strictly nessacery for updating though they do make it much easier.
i'm not sure what the apt libs do cover though i do know it includes at least some networking stuff but the actual installation removal and upgrading of packages is always performed directly or indirectly by running dpkg.
afaict the dominance of black on white for screen text is a side effect of the whole wysiwyg craze and long predates the web.
I much preffer light on dark but its very awkward to set up a modern system that way because so many app designers fix one color but not both, forcing a foreground without forcing a background or vice-versa really screws those with unusual color schemes.
i was under the impression that there was no such thing as a general international rate just rates applying to calls involving particular countries in a particular way. In some cases as you say the prices not too bad in others i belive you can be up into the pounds per minuite.
So when the article says international rates it really doesn't say anything about just how expensive this will be.
Just buy the Vista license (or get it with your Dell) and install XP. You CAN use your Vista license for XP until you are ready to upgrade. You WILL need to call MS for activation, but it is a simple process that takes only minutes. This is totally allowed under Microsoft's "relaxed" Vista licensing schema. do you have an authoritive source for this or is it just hearsay? does it apply to downgrades further than XP? Other than already having a suitable copy you can borrow is there a legitimate way to get the installation media to do this?
dell may be one of the bigger OEMs but they don't dominate thier market in anywhere near the way MS does and the market is VERY price sensitive.
if dell had to pay the same or more for windows than the white box OEMs they would find it much harder to compete on windows box prices.
dell would have to ramp up OSS sales very quickly to make up for the lost windows sales a fuck microsoft policy would bring. Moving to linux is going to be even worse for compatibility and familiarity than moving to vista (i presume vista keeps basic concepts like drive letters intact), backlash against this along with higher pricing on windows boxes could quickly decimate dell imo.
the trouble with fewer kids is while a lower population has long term advantages in the medium term a reducing population also means you have a lower proportion of the population being of working age and a higher proportion needing expensive medical support.
you can allow immigration to counter a low birthrate and by setting the rules strictly you can do so without affecting your tech level too much but this can have disadvantages of its own (like destroying the original culture/making those of local descent a minority in thier own country)
That being said, most cities have a natural monopoly with respect to cable. Last mile communications infrastructure is a natural monopoly.
The only reason many places (and this is hardly specific to the USA) have a duopoloy rather than a monopoly on last mile communications infrastruture is because of a combination of government regulation and the fact that in the pre-digital era TV had very different wiring needs from telephone.
The soloution is obvious but hard to force through with lots of lobbyists arround. The provision of last mile communication service needs to be decoupled from the provision of content service and long distance communication service. The provision of last mile service should be done by either government (preferablly as local governement as possible) or a highly regulated buisness. Provision of content and long distance communications service should be a competitive market.
it's quite possible, given the shoddy state of the U.S. rail network, that there might be less work involved (and certainly work in less remote/challenging conditions) in building new track or swapping one line of a double-track right-of-way in the American/Canadian side to Wide Gauge. yeah but switching russia to standard would also simplify connections with china and europe as well.
i'm not sure i'd want to use a grey market OEM copy in a buisness setting where there was a chance of being audited. particularlly on a machine where it was so obvious it was not put there by the OEM.
and full retail XP adds a fair whack of cost to the already expensive mac hardware.
It's not a question of how many people use firefox. It's a question of how many people will boycott your site rather than use IE. And that depends, in the case given above the poster had been given a substatial sum of money and to get it the only alternative to using IE was a long drawn out paper process.
Otoh if a firefox user is looking for a product which is availible from many sources and they hit a site that doesn't support firefox I imagine many of them will just move on without giving the IE only site a second thought.
I don't buy it, our cloning technology is far from perfect but even if it was i'd imagine genetics are only one of many factors effecting meat quality.
it would allow any country to overcome this feat of military infrastructure by sending trainloads of cars, tanks, and troops over just by paying the toll. ok so you can dress the people in civilian clothes and paint your trucks in civilian livery but how do you propose to get large stocks of military equipement through without customs noticing.
I don't see how smuggling military hardware by truck would be any easier than smuggling it by ship or plane and you aren't going to get much if any stuff through a tunnel by force before the other side blows it up.
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then you should be pushing for a similar project on your local wikipedia.
The bulk of the work is in the reviewing. That pretty much has to be done seperately for each language. As you say ideally the online version should benifit from that reviewing as well but the overstretched mediawiki dev team has other priorities than making that happen.
i like the way you link to a wikipedia article that notes that the most relavent studies (though comparing HFCS to sucrose) have found little difference.
I thought it was at least partially us brits (cadburys chocolate contains veg oil and has for a long time iirc) that pushed for the allowing of veg oil in a harmonized chocolate definition.
Wouldn't the ultimate goal of every food manufacturer to produce a product that has no need to sit on a shelf indefinitely? Wouldn't a product that sells frequently be more desirable? If it sits on a shelf in a store, its not earning them money. If its sitting on a shelf in a consumer's home, it isn't earning money because the person isn't consuming the product and will not buy more until there is a need for more product.
A longer shelf life means less wastage (however many you sell you are always going to get localised dips in demand or product lost and found much later) less wastage means less cost per item sold means more profit.
A longer shelf life means you can sell to customers over a geater area without the expense of fast delivery services.
A longer shelf life means you can sell to customers who demand that longer shelf life (think MREs and thier foriegn/civilian equivilents).
Yes its desirable to shift stock fast but when that doesn't happen its much better for it not to turn into a total writeoff.
a closer look at the wikipedia article seems to show a capacity of arround 3-4 times your estimate.
but anyway all the battery pack has do is spread the power generated by relatively short runs of the engine at its most efficiant power over a longer period of time. This is essencially the same thing it does while driving.
using a normal car (non hybrid) as a petrol powered generator will as you say be terriblly inefficiant and not produce very much power either because the engine and generator are not sized and set up for that use. They are set up to provide mainly propulsion with a bit of leccy on the side.
otoh a hybrid with a fully electric drivechain will have the engine and generator sized exclusively for producing electricity and a decent battery based storage system to allow use of the engine at its most efficiant operating point.
making the fastest is a big deal.
Afaict intel and amd both make significant profits from selling the cream of thier production at huge markups. It is much easier for AMD to do that if thier cream is currently better than the competitors cream (the same applies to intel but to a lesser extent because intel is the gorilla with lots of contracts and marketing).
you are a bit out of date, afaict while older ati cards did indeed have 3D support through open drivers written from specs the practice of releasing specs suitable for that stopped some time ago.
so it then becomes a case of who's binary blobs are better done and the impression i get is that nvidia are doing them better than ATI.
Sure, in the future that will be an issue.. but its not today. FPGAs cant compete with mass produced chips for price or speed, yet.
I can't see how they ever can beat full custom VLSI chips made on similar fabrication processes. on a FPGA you always waste a considerable ammount of area and latency with the configurable interconnects and you never have an ideal arrangement for your functions because the positions and structure of the basic cells are fixed.
traditionally IDE users haven't encountered it that much, most people only have one IDE controller and all points on an IDE controller get given a name whether they are used for anything or not.
for scsi users this is much more of an issue as the linux scsi systems only allocate IDs to devices that actually exist not for unused scsi IDs
The bulk of FOSS development is done by people who are paid to do it and the companies who pay them most certainly expect that investment to pay off.
I very much doubt that most FOSS development is done by people explicitly paid to do it though certain high profile projects may well be developed that way.
Afaict most free software development is done either by hobbyists or by people fixing stuff because they need the fix.
debian predates apt-get and neither it nor the apt libraries are strictly nessacery for updating though they do make it much easier.
i'm not sure what the apt libs do cover though i do know it includes at least some networking stuff but the actual installation removal and upgrading of packages is always performed directly or indirectly by running dpkg.
afaict the dominance of black on white for screen text is a side effect of the whole wysiwyg craze and long predates the web.
I much preffer light on dark but its very awkward to set up a modern system that way because so many app designers fix one color but not both, forcing a foreground without forcing a background or vice-versa really screws those with unusual color schemes.
i was under the impression that there was no such thing as a general international rate just rates applying to calls involving particular countries in a particular way. In some cases as you say the prices not too bad in others i belive you can be up into the pounds per minuite.
So when the article says international rates it really doesn't say anything about just how expensive this will be.
Just buy the Vista license (or get it with your Dell) and install XP. You CAN use your Vista license for XP until you are ready to upgrade. You WILL need to call MS for activation, but it is a simple process that takes only minutes. This is totally allowed under Microsoft's "relaxed" Vista licensing schema.
do you have an authoritive source for this or is it just hearsay?
does it apply to downgrades further than XP?
Other than already having a suitable copy you can borrow is there a legitimate way to get the installation media to do this?
dell may be one of the bigger OEMs but they don't dominate thier market in anywhere near the way MS does and the market is VERY price sensitive.
if dell had to pay the same or more for windows than the white box OEMs they would find it much harder to compete on windows box prices.
dell would have to ramp up OSS sales very quickly to make up for the lost windows sales a fuck microsoft policy would bring. Moving to linux is going to be even worse for compatibility and familiarity than moving to vista (i presume vista keeps basic concepts like drive letters intact), backlash against this along with higher pricing on windows boxes could quickly decimate dell imo.
the trouble with fewer kids is while a lower population has long term advantages in the medium term a reducing population also means you have a lower proportion of the population being of working age and a higher proportion needing expensive medical support.
you can allow immigration to counter a low birthrate and by setting the rules strictly you can do so without affecting your tech level too much but this can have disadvantages of its own (like destroying the original culture/making those of local descent a minority in thier own country)
That being said, most cities have a natural monopoly with respect to cable.
Last mile communications infrastructure is a natural monopoly.
The only reason many places (and this is hardly specific to the USA) have a duopoloy rather than a monopoly on last mile communications infrastruture is because of a combination of government regulation and the fact that in the pre-digital era TV had very different wiring needs from telephone.
The soloution is obvious but hard to force through with lots of lobbyists arround. The provision of last mile communication service needs to be decoupled from the provision of content service and long distance communication service. The provision of last mile service should be done by either government (preferablly as local governement as possible) or a highly regulated buisness. Provision of content and long distance communications service should be a competitive market.
No i mean standard gauge as in what the USA, canada, CHINA and most of europe among others use.
it's quite possible, given the shoddy state of the U.S. rail network, that there might be less work involved (and certainly work in less remote/challenging conditions) in building new track or swapping one line of a double-track right-of-way in the American/Canadian side to Wide Gauge.
yeah but switching russia to standard would also simplify connections with china and europe as well.
stopping development on something does not stop it existing and afaict the last release of IE mac will run on intel macs with rosetta.
dunno what proportion of users have it installed though.
i'm not sure i'd want to use a grey market OEM copy in a buisness setting where there was a chance of being audited. particularlly on a machine where it was so obvious it was not put there by the OEM.
and full retail XP adds a fair whack of cost to the already expensive mac hardware.
It's not a question of how many people use firefox. It's a question of how many people will boycott your site rather than use IE.
And that depends, in the case given above the poster had been given a substatial sum of money and to get it the only alternative to using IE was a long drawn out paper process.
Otoh if a firefox user is looking for a product which is availible from many sources and they hit a site that doesn't support firefox I imagine many of them will just move on without giving the IE only site a second thought.
I don't buy it, our cloning technology is far from perfect but even if it was i'd imagine genetics are only one of many factors effecting meat quality.
it would allow any country to overcome this feat of military infrastructure by sending trainloads of cars, tanks, and troops over just by paying the toll.
ok so you can dress the people in civilian clothes and paint your trucks in civilian livery but how do you propose to get large stocks of military equipement through without customs noticing.
I don't see how smuggling military hardware by truck would be any easier than smuggling it by ship or plane and you aren't going to get much if any stuff through a tunnel by force before the other side blows it up.