"Not only because it provides a convenient source of fuel, but also because it pushes the energy requirements to the grid.
This is exactly right, for most people energy takes two useable forms.
1) The Grid
2) Fuel
In order to get our dependence off oil, we need to first concentrate on the grid. It is an efficient distribution mechanism that can be fed from many different points in many different ways. We need to drive the cost of feeding the grid down by expanding renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, etc.
The other form of energy is fuel, fuel represents stored energy and should only be used in places where the grid is not accessible such as for mobile applications. The current problem with fuel is that it is incredibly dirty and current fuel sources are finite. Any future fuel alternative should be clean and easily obtained. Batteries and hydrogen are two obvious answers. Using batteries is a decent solution as they run cleanly and can be charged from the grid. Unfortunately they are very dirty to create and dispose of. Hydrogen on the other hand is extremely clean to produce from the grid (assuming that the grid is fed in a clean fashion) and extremely clean to dispose of, the planet handles it automatically. This is not to say that hydrogen is the perfect solution (at least not yet) as there are issues to address such as storage and production where water is not easily available, but these issues are not insurmountable. Wired had an issue a few years ago that suggested that the US should embark on a Manhattan Project to address the main barriers to a hydrogen economy. They estimated that it would cost something like $10 billion over 10 years. Of course this seemed like a lot before some idiot spent close to a trillion dollars invading a foreign oil producing country and quadrupaled the price of oil.
I've been using browsersync since it came out and it worked reasonably well except for the periodic trashing or losing of my bookmarks. It just seems really strange to me that there is not a good solution in this space as most people user multiple machines between home and work.
Is this because its a hard problem or is it because there is no opportunity to make money from it?
I work for the most successful Wall St. investment bank and it is true. Pretty much all of our internal server machines are linux, yes they have pretty much pushed solaris out of the picture but no one would foolishy allow windows anywhere in the internal server environment.
This is probably not unique to Canada but one thing you should always remember is that head hunters do not work for you and they are not on your side. They get paid by the company that hires you and hope to get return business from them and therefore are more concerned with making sure that the company gets the best deal. What you will find is that they usually misrepresent the compensation up front and when it comes down to the final salary negotiations, don't be afraid to call them out on it or even go as far as demanding that they (the headhunter) give you a cut of their fee. Depending on the circumstances they will give you a "signing bonus".
Right, I'm not the sort of person that would ever pay double for something like that. I'm not a business user I have a simple personal low volume website for friends and family. I could probably work around the port 80 restriction but I can't understand why they would block port 25 inbound? Outbound I can understand.
I wish that Verizon did not block ports 25 and 80. I already have FIOSTV and would switch to their internet service in a heartbeat but I don't want to give up my web and mail servers.
Linux does little better, as above with the old download/compile scheme for legacy support. The kicker is that most other distributions of Linux don't even do that well. A user with Fedora Core 7 will still need to hunt down a different ISO for each and every nuance of processor, a real shame since Linux developers sit and scratch their heads over why Linux is still not ready for the desktop.
For each nuance of processor? hmm, 32 vs 64 bit not really what i would call a nuance.
Faulting an AV-less Vista for not stopping viruses is a bit like faulting a door without a lock for opening when the handle is twisted.
I think the point is that M$ should have learned their lesson last time, and the time before that, and made vista such that having anti-virus software would be unnecessary. Or in the terms of the analogy, Having forgotten to put a lock on the door of their previous house and repeatedly come home to find their underwear scattered all over the yard, you would have thought they would have made a secure door this time.
I know that I'm probably not their target audience, but the one reason that I have two subscribed tivos is that I can hack them and disable the DRM and generally they've been pretty cool about it. But the day they lock me out of my one boxes is the day that I cancel my subscriptions and either continue with the hardware on my own or switch to MythTV.
So much information is stored on media that may or may not last for more than a decade or so. Unfortunately for M$ though, while the data can be preserved or moved from physical representation to physical representation, the real danger to the longevity of the information is the format that it is written in. I have files on my computer that are 15 or more years old that i can still read and use because they are in ascii format. If they were in another format such as wordperfect, lotus 123 or even older word formats, i would have a hard time reading them today and an impossible time a few years from now. So the bottom line is that while preserving data to longterm physical media is a good idea, it should never be stored in a proprietary or envrypted format.
All true, but 500M pounds is almost 1 billion U$, i suspect that goes a very long way. (unless you happen to be waging a pointless war in the middle east)
With that kind of money they can problably buy an old cruise liner or cargo ship and then have a mobile platform that truely lives outside of territorial waters. Sure connectivity is a problem but it is a lot easier to pull up anchor when your host cuts you off and move to a more friendly access point. With a cruiseliner they could actually allow thier citizens to come and visit.
I whole heartedly agree, IPTC is the way to go, you can add keywords, descriptions, copyrights etc. One important point though is to make sure that the software you use actually adds the information to the original file not a copy. I believe that Aperature and many others do not modify the original file. I've been using Adobe Bridge which while being a pretty ugly program, does a decent job of setting IPTC tags. It also lets you create and save templates of metadata information so that you can easily apply certain thing over and over again.
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"Not only because it provides a convenient source of fuel, but also because it pushes the energy requirements to the grid.
This is exactly right, for most people energy takes two useable forms.
1) The Grid
2) Fuel
In order to get our dependence off oil, we need to first concentrate on the grid. It is an efficient distribution mechanism that can be fed from many different points in many different ways. We need to drive the cost of feeding the grid down by expanding renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, etc.
The other form of energy is fuel, fuel represents stored energy and should only be used in places where the grid is not accessible such as for mobile applications. The current problem with fuel is that it is incredibly dirty and current fuel sources are finite. Any future fuel alternative should be clean and easily obtained. Batteries and hydrogen are two obvious answers. Using batteries is a decent solution as they run cleanly and can be charged from the grid. Unfortunately they are very dirty to create and dispose of. Hydrogen on the other hand is extremely clean to produce from the grid (assuming that the grid is fed in a clean fashion) and extremely clean to dispose of, the planet handles it automatically. This is not to say that hydrogen is the perfect solution (at least not yet) as there are issues to address such as storage and production where water is not easily available, but these issues are not insurmountable. Wired had an issue a few years ago that suggested that the US should embark on a Manhattan Project to address the main barriers to a hydrogen economy. They estimated that it would cost something like $10 billion over 10 years. Of course this seemed like a lot before some idiot spent close to a trillion dollars invading a foreign oil producing country and quadrupaled the price of oil.
And I have to say that it works much better than browsersync ever did, with the added bonus that I can host my own data.
I've been using browsersync since it came out and it worked reasonably well except for the periodic trashing or losing of my bookmarks. It just seems really strange to me that there is not a good solution in this space as most people user multiple machines between home and work.
Is this because its a hard problem or is it because there is no opportunity to make money from it?
I work for the most successful Wall St. investment bank and it is true. Pretty much all of our internal server machines are linux, yes they have pretty much pushed solaris out of the picture but no one would foolishy allow windows anywhere in the internal server environment.
This is probably not unique to Canada but one thing you should always remember is that head hunters do not work for you and they are not on your side. They get paid by the company that hires you and hope to get return business from them and therefore are more concerned with making sure that the company gets the best deal. What you will find is that they usually misrepresent the compensation up front and when it comes down to the final salary negotiations, don't be afraid to call them out on it or even go as far as demanding that they (the headhunter) give you a cut of their fee. Depending on the circumstances they will give you a "signing bonus".
Right, I'm not the sort of person that would ever pay double for something like that. I'm not a business user I have a simple personal low volume website for friends and family. I could probably work around the port 80 restriction but I can't understand why they would block port 25 inbound? Outbound I can understand.
I wish that Verizon did not block ports 25 and 80. I already have FIOSTV and would switch to their internet service in a heartbeat but I don't want to give up my web and mail servers.
Works for me.
That the world would come to the point that xp would be described as an upgrade from anything.
But those reasons for rejecting Linux are disappearing.
Those reasons disappeared years ago, what needs to disappear now are stories repeating them.
Tell that the the controllers of the botnets, they seem to be laughing.
I had to disable Beagle on mu machine, was sick of it using all my cpu.
Linux does little better, as above with the old download/compile scheme for legacy support. The kicker is that most other distributions of Linux don't even do that well. A user with Fedora Core 7 will still need to hunt down a different ISO for each and every nuance of processor, a real shame since Linux developers sit and scratch their heads over why Linux is still not ready for the desktop.
For each nuance of processor? hmm, 32 vs 64 bit not really what i would call a nuance.
Microsoft has started handing out passes that let some people cross the Brooklyn Bridge.
Faulting an AV-less Vista for not stopping viruses is a bit like faulting a door without a lock for opening when the handle is twisted.
I think the point is that M$ should have learned their lesson last time, and the time before that, and made vista such that having anti-virus software would be unnecessary. Or in the terms of the analogy, Having forgotten to put a lock on the door of their previous house and repeatedly come home to find their underwear scattered all over the yard, you would have thought they would have made a secure door this time.
I know that I'm probably not their target audience, but the one reason that I have two subscribed tivos is that I can hack them and disable the DRM and generally they've been pretty cool about it. But the day they lock me out of my one boxes is the day that I cancel my subscriptions and either continue with the hardware on my own or switch to MythTV.
So much information is stored on media that may or may not last for more than a decade or so. Unfortunately for M$ though, while the data can be preserved or moved from physical representation to physical representation, the real danger to the longevity of the information is the format that it is written in. I have files on my computer that are 15 or more years old that i can still read and use because they are in ascii format. If they were in another format such as wordperfect, lotus 123 or even older word formats, i would have a hard time reading them today and an impossible time a few years from now. So the bottom line is that while preserving data to longterm physical media is a good idea, it should never be stored in a proprietary or envrypted format.
Probably way more than 10 billion spams sent since the law was enacted.
One conviction. Good Job!
Worthless
All true, but 500M pounds is almost 1 billion U$, i suspect that goes a very long way. (unless you happen to be waging a pointless war in the middle east)
With that kind of money they can problably buy an old cruise liner or cargo ship and then have a mobile platform that truely lives outside of territorial waters. Sure connectivity is a problem but it is a lot easier to pull up anchor when your host cuts you off and move to a more friendly access point. With a cruiseliner they could actually allow thier citizens to come and visit.
They should make a version with a hard drive and drop the cell phone functionality and they
would have a more accessible product for a lot of people.
I whole heartedly agree, IPTC is the way to go, you can add keywords, descriptions, copyrights etc. One important point though is to make sure that the software you use actually adds the information to the original file not a copy. I believe that Aperature and many others do not modify the original file. I've been using Adobe Bridge which while being a pretty ugly program, does a decent job of setting IPTC tags. It also lets you create and save templates of metadata information so that you can easily apply certain thing over and over again.
You mean Micro and Soft?