Among other things, if you move the electrical generating and consumption parts to large-scale nuclear and recycle the aluminum elsewhere, 'pollution' by the car is relocated where it is lessened or easier to manage. Choose some other form of electricity generation if you want, most are probably cleaner than an IC engine.
There is an opportunity here, but I'm suspicious of the recycling thing.
Wake me up when we have a couple other ideas for using relatively plentiful raw materials, and we can justify opening up old landfills to salvage them. I know, that is a hugely complex idea, but some day it may actually work. We may even get incinerators that work, ya never know about those crazy researchers...
A few kernel patches got us, and there were two for GroupWise that included kernel patches. An one IDE driver patch left me with several servers that just would not reload the IDE driver, and yes, we used IDE drives for boot drives.
The IDE driver, in particular, was the one that caused servers to lose time. IDE driver would switch between protected and real mode, and it lost ticks every time. Clock could be fiddled with to resync, and I think NW5 gave me NTP modules that helped, but still a problem. Ah, the days...
"First we do need to clear up the idea of what is private"
In the U.S., privacy should encompass what the Government or your business partners do not need to know.
The Government needs to know that for which they have probable cause or reasonable suspicion is necessary for them to know. Multiple amendments to our Constitution addrfess this.
Your business partners should similarly be limited, if for no other reason than they should not know what they need not know.
Just because they *can* does not give them permisson or the legal right to do so. This is important. Just because they *can* does not give them new or additonal rights, nor does it negate previous limits.
Here in the U.S., we are in deep trouble. We've let our government use security to justify surveillance. The TSA is a lesson in the fallacy of this, having not yet prevented any attack, and expanding their activities well beyond what we thought we were approving. Now citizens are challenged at the 'border' and denied their rights as if they are not citizens, because they are considered 'not in the U.S.', which is a fabrication. Posessions are searched without justification, computers searched largely because 'they can'.
And if you become vocal about this, challenging their authority, and come to their attention, you risk being singled out for more abuse.
How many people would start complaining about the TSA and ICE, would write to their representatives, would make public comments, but do not for fear that the next time they fly they will be taken aside and subjected to additional scrutiny, or put on the dreaded 'NO FLY' list. How many avoid making complaints because they fear risking their jobs and their ability to travel, all for exercising their FIRST amendment rights?
So the first rights to go may be the most important?
Most of the patches I applied to 3.12 didn't require a reboot, and those that did didn't require shutting down the power. Such requirements as reboots are uncivilized.
One of my clients ran PosgreSQL on their NetWare 3.12 server for years for an insurance agency app. No downtime, no app errors, not even abends.
Another ran the Advantage database engine through 2000. We had a 15 minute call 0002 EST when the app failed ot reload, and before I could get off the call the Y2K patch was in my inbox. Up at 0015, no further problems.
NetWare was my favorite server OS. Miss it still. Only Debian makes servers tolerable for me.
Security seemed to be a nonissue. Nearly every patch I recall was to secure the console - sitting at the keyboard was a prerequiste. Nothing like Windows NT.
I've got 16 years' worth of email in a multitude of formats, including all of those that are excoriated as unreliable, fatally flawed, or Satan's preferred meas of communication with our world.
I have them on O-L-D CD-ROMS, DVDs, saved to two cloud services, on my personal server, and tar'd/zipped/RAR'd/Stuff'd in some of the same places, and up to three copies in each of these places. I wonder if the.sitf files will even decompress, but no point in deleting them.
I've really only used a very few mail clients though; pine, elm, Eudora, GroupWise, Outlook in so many versions, POTP. My own servers have been the usual evolution of Sendmail, Dovecot, and now dbMail. And I use Yahoo! and Gmail as mirrors. Yahoo! Mail is my spam bucket as well as second realtime mirror, Gmail I use as a mirror and for some primary communications. my 'personal' email has been the same since 1996, but I've had three work emails.
And my email archives are close to unusable, of course. I guess I should try and take some of this advice.
And when I do rifle through the really old stuff, I need to put it through a spam filter. Some of that old spam people would pay for today. Not the IRC stuff.
I really should take a week and make sense of it. Naw, crap, who am I kidding? 1996?
/>rant/
I'm more interested in why this shows up in my feed twice. Like you think I didn't hear you the first time, you have to repeat yourself?
Or is/. pimping pageviews for gain, or just not paying attention in the subQ? What, repeating yourself is going to improve the story?
Go ahead, tell me me it's my feed reader. Happening on three different readers on both Windows and Android. The problem is not on my end.
We can sit through the lame griefers, but mirroring posts is within the power to control. Do.
With 'traditional' plans, you pay just as much after your contract expires and presumably the phone is paid off. In fact, most carriers happily tack on price increases to further offend you. If you just go 1 more year with your tired old phone, you saved $240 or more and have a little bundle to put down on the new one.
Or, in the current system, go to any of the top 3 and plop down that down payment every two years like clockwork.
This will also, BTW, change the GSM aftermarket, and third party retailers. I predict massive competition among phone makers. If you could get a phone that was 90% of a Galaxy S4 for say $350, TMO makes this pretty attractive. And if that manufacturer had enough of a clue to avoid a bootlocker and sport over the ROM to the gang at Cyanogen, well, AOSP releases could come out for this every 12 months or less - bingo, new Android close to the same time as the next nexus release, for the old phone you don't have to buy again. Winning?
Now if only my Sensation 4G hadn't been dropped six feet breaking Wifi AND Bluetooth, and then took an unsanctioned dip in the pool. Alas.
Maine Statute MRSA 29-A:sec 1921:BR>
A person may not operate a motor vehicle equipped with a television viewer, screen or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast that is visible to the operator. This section does not apply to a law enforcement officer using a video camera or other video equipment for law enforcement purposes. [1995, c. 584, Pt. B, 7 (AMD).]
And sec1923, "Reading while operating a motor vehicle prohibited"
An operator may not read printed material including but not limited to, a newspaper, book, brochure or pamphlet, while operating a motor vehicle. Printed material does not include a map or written directions to a specific location. [1999, c. 183, 7 (NEW).]
Arizona Statute ARS 28-963, which looks liek it may have (inadvertently, perhaps) exempted text-only devices:
A. A person shall not view a broadcast television image or a visual image from an image display device while that person is driving a motor vehicle and the motor vehicle is in motion on a public roadway or on an off-highway vehicle trail as defined in section 28-1171.
B. A person shall not operate a motor vehicle with an image display device that is visible to a driver seated in a normal driving position when the vehicle is in motion..
C. This section does not apply to any of the following:.
1. Emergency vehicles.
2. Image display devices that do any of the following:.
(a) Display images that provide a driver with navigation and related traffic, road and weather information..
(b) Provide vehicle information, controls or information related to driving a vehicle..
(c) Enhance or supplement a driver's view of the area to the front, rear or side of the vehicle..
(d) Permit a driver to monitor the vehicle occupants seated behind the driver..
(e) Display information intended to enhance traffic safety..
3. Image display devices that are built into the motor vehicle and that do not display images to a driver while the vehicle is in motion..
4. Image display devices that are portable and are not used to display dynamic visual images other than for purposes of navigation or global positioning to a driver while the vehicle is in motion..
5. Image display devices present in vehicles of a public service corporation or any political subdivision of this state and used for service or maintenance of its facilities..
6. Any use of an image display device while the vehicle is parked..
D. For the purposes of this section, "image display device" means equipment capable of displaying to the driver of a motor vehicle rapidly changing images that are either of the following:.
1. A broadcast television image or similar entertainment content transmitted by other wireless means to the image display device..
2. A dynamic visual image, other than text, from a digital video disc or other storage device..
I suspect most other states also prohibit video to the driver. When the courts hold that such devices as Glass fit this definition, game over. Much simpler.
We are allowing our government to play fast and loose with new technology, thinking that they can get away with it because there's no prohibition in law, when in fact there is both applicable law and, in many instances, no ENABLING LAW, by which I mean no permission. Our constitution doesn't intend to limit citizens so much as it intends to limit GOVERNMENT , but that's another rant, another time.
I can easily tell the difference between 128k MP3s and 320k, and from CD. I rip all my CDs at 320 or FLAC, 128 is incredibly annoying to me. the very high end is usually reduced to bacon frying, and the dynamics are hosed.
Of course, now I'm busy normalizing my library on Google so it gets over the gym noise, and pre-eqing it to make my Bluetooth headset 'sound better'. Ick, but it's a bit better.
But, but, but, I really liked ATRAC, especially after 4.x. I had a Sharp Minidisc player/recorder that rocked, and was vastly better sounding than the early MP3 players, iPods included.
ATRAC gets no respect. MD failed. But I still use it sometimes.
Saab was bought by GM for some insane reason. The NG900 was a fiasco, and the 9-3 did not resolve the real problems. But from the Classic 900 on Saabs were a romantic choice, able to go the distance with substantial effort and expense. 9000s were a money pit. NG900s had more frikking computers than Google, and they liked to be attached to working stuff. SID displays going bad, ignition switch return spring breaking, shift lever slop, and the convertible top mechanism...
The Opel platform is no prize, but Saab did not improve on it. I'd rather work on F-4s again than a 94-98 900.
Around here, giving in and doing the speed limit means you'll see other people sitting at red lights. Thinking ahead a bit and letting up on the gas early when you are indeed going to have to stop at a light helps. Jackrabbit starts cost big.
But the Saab had a good turbo, and effortless accleration from 60-90. Even putting the hammer down didn't cost too much. Not having second gear may have actually helped the MPG. The Saab sucked. Hard to fix, annoying crap breaking over and over, no more Saabs for me. For those of you wondering why I drove so many cars; that was the tally for 8 years of cars for the two of us, about 370k miles total. Both of us had had major commutes from time to time. Me, I drove company cars for 22 years before all this, and buying my first car in two decades was a real treat. And being able to do some minor repairs like brakes, cooling system, blower motors, heater cores, alternators, starters, fun times. But no more Saabs.
My Google email account gets incoming email from non-@gmail.com accounts all the damned time. What the hell is the problem? Am I not supposed to get emaI from the rest of the Internet or something? am I missign something? Am I alone in here? IS ANYBODY LISTENING? DOES ANYONE CARE?
How the hell do I contact Google and get this fixed? None of the phone numbers work, and no one answers their email! Seriously!
Most of the cars I've driven could meet or exceed the MPG specs.
My '98 Saab 900 SET Convertible did 25-28MPG on my mostly highway commute right up to 208K miles. That's winning.
My '95 Explorer was hitting 17-19MPG on the same commute, at 318k miles. Winning.
My 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer OZ Rally is hitting 27-31MPG, same commute, 212K miles. Winning.
My wife is driving the 2000 Explorer V8 at 143K miles, and is getting 16-18MPG. Not so winning, but not bad.
Her commute and mine are similar; relatively quick in the morning, stop and go in the afternoon.
Other cars I have driven that met their MPG estimates include various versions of the Taurus, Focus, Malibu Maxx, and a collection of forgettable crap. The older ones, pre-1990, were disappointing.
MPG results are highly influenced by the driver, the traffic, and vehicle condition, but the driver I think counts a lot.
Slashdot Mirror
Exercise your mental agility. You can do it, and without Python. Trust me, I dunnit before.
Among other things, if you move the electrical generating and consumption parts to large-scale nuclear and recycle the aluminum elsewhere, 'pollution' by the car is relocated where it is lessened or easier to manage. Choose some other form of electricity generation if you want, most are probably cleaner than an IC engine.
There is an opportunity here, but I'm suspicious of the recycling thing.
Wake me up when we have a couple other ideas for using relatively plentiful raw materials, and we can justify opening up old landfills to salvage them. I know, that is a hugely complex idea, but some day it may actually work. We may even get incinerators that work, ya never know about those crazy researchers...
A few kernel patches got us, and there were two for GroupWise that included kernel patches. An one IDE driver patch left me with several servers that just would not reload the IDE driver, and yes, we used IDE drives for boot drives.
The IDE driver, in particular, was the one that caused servers to lose time. IDE driver would switch between protected and real mode, and it lost ticks every time. Clock could be fiddled with to resync, and I think NW5 gave me NTP modules that helped, but still a problem. Ah, the days...
v qvqa'g arrq pelcgvp frq fgevatf gb tb jvgu vg gubhtu.
"First we do need to clear up the idea of what is private"
In the U.S., privacy should encompass what the Government or your business partners do not need to know.
The Government needs to know that for which they have probable cause or reasonable suspicion is necessary for them to know. Multiple amendments to our Constitution addrfess this.
Your business partners should similarly be limited, if for no other reason than they should not know what they need not know.
Just because they *can* does not give them permisson or the legal right to do so. This is important. Just because they *can* does not give them new or additonal rights, nor does it negate previous limits.
Here in the U.S., we are in deep trouble. We've let our government use security to justify surveillance. The TSA is a lesson in the fallacy of this, having not yet prevented any attack, and expanding their activities well beyond what we thought we were approving. Now citizens are challenged at the 'border' and denied their rights as if they are not citizens, because they are considered 'not in the U.S.', which is a fabrication. Posessions are searched without justification, computers searched largely because 'they can'.
And if you become vocal about this, challenging their authority, and come to their attention, you risk being singled out for more abuse.
How many people would start complaining about the TSA and ICE, would write to their representatives, would make public comments, but do not for fear that the next time they fly they will be taken aside and subjected to additional scrutiny, or put on the dreaded 'NO FLY' list. How many avoid making complaints because they fear risking their jobs and their ability to travel, all for exercising their FIRST amendment rights?
So the first rights to go may be the most important?
"Thankfully, in the USA we are nowhere near the total squashing of dissent"
How close do we need to be for it to be wrong?
tcpip.nlm
I think I first ran Apache on NetWare 4.11. 5.0 had a full stack, even the Tomcat server. GroupWise offered a web server on NW 4.x forward.
No, 3,12 didn't do all it could with TCP/IP, which was a little of a bummer.
Most of the patches I applied to 3.12 didn't require a reboot, and those that did didn't require shutting down the power. Such requirements as reboots are uncivilized.
One of my clients ran PosgreSQL on their NetWare 3.12 server for years for an insurance agency app. No downtime, no app errors, not even abends.
Another ran the Advantage database engine through 2000. We had a 15 minute call 0002 EST when the app failed ot reload, and before I could get off the call the Y2K patch was in my inbox. Up at 0015, no further problems.
NetWare was my favorite server OS. Miss it still. Only Debian makes servers tolerable for me.
Security seemed to be a nonissue. Nearly every patch I recall was to secure the console - sitting at the keyboard was a prerequiste. Nothing like Windows NT.
I've got 16 years' worth of email in a multitude of formats, including all of those that are excoriated as unreliable, fatally flawed, or Satan's preferred meas of communication with our world.
I have them on O-L-D CD-ROMS, DVDs, saved to two cloud services, on my personal server, and tar'd/zipped/RAR'd/Stuff'd in some of the same places, and up to three copies in each of these places. I wonder if the .sitf files will even decompress, but no point in deleting them.
I've really only used a very few mail clients though; pine, elm, Eudora, GroupWise, Outlook in so many versions, POTP. My own servers have been the usual evolution of Sendmail, Dovecot, and now dbMail. And I use Yahoo! and Gmail as mirrors. Yahoo! Mail is my spam bucket as well as second realtime mirror, Gmail I use as a mirror and for some primary communications. my 'personal' email has been the same since 1996, but I've had three work emails.
And my email archives are close to unusable, of course. I guess I should try and take some of this advice.
And when I do rifle through the really old stuff, I need to put it through a spam filter. Some of that old spam people would pay for today. Not the IRC stuff.
I really should take a week and make sense of it. Naw, crap, who am I kidding? 1996?
*whoosh*
I'm mildly interested in PS4.
/>rant/ /. pimping pageviews for gain, or just not paying attention in the subQ? What, repeating yourself is going to improve the story?
I'm more interested in why this shows up in my feed twice. Like you think I didn't hear you the first time, you have to repeat yourself?
Or is
Go ahead, tell me me it's my feed reader. Happening on three different readers on both Windows and Android. The problem is not on my end.
We can sit through the lame griefers, but mirroring posts is within the power to control. Do.
/rant/
Bingo! that's the problem.
With 'traditional' plans, you pay just as much after your contract expires and presumably the phone is paid off. In fact, most carriers happily tack on price increases to further offend you. If you just go 1 more year with your tired old phone, you saved $240 or more and have a little bundle to put down on the new one.
Or, in the current system, go to any of the top 3 and plop down that down payment every two years like clockwork.
This will also, BTW, change the GSM aftermarket, and third party retailers. I predict massive competition among phone makers. If you could get a phone that was 90% of a Galaxy S4 for say $350, TMO makes this pretty attractive. And if that manufacturer had enough of a clue to avoid a bootlocker and sport over the ROM to the gang at Cyanogen, well, AOSP releases could come out for this every 12 months or less - bingo, new Android close to the same time as the next nexus release, for the old phone you don't have to buy again. Winning?
Now if only my Sensation 4G hadn't been dropped six feet breaking Wifi AND Bluetooth, and then took an unsanctioned dip in the pool. Alas.
Maine Statute MRSA 29-A:sec 1921:BR> A person may not operate a motor vehicle equipped with a television viewer, screen or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast that is visible to the operator. This section does not apply to a law enforcement officer using a video camera or other video equipment for law enforcement purposes. [1995, c. 584, Pt. B, 7 (AMD).]
.
And sec1923, "Reading while operating a motor vehicle prohibited"
An operator may not read printed material including but not limited to, a newspaper, book, brochure or pamphlet, while operating a motor vehicle. Printed material does not include a map or written directions to a specific location. [1999, c. 183, 7 (NEW).]
Arizona Statute ARS 28-963, which looks liek it may have (inadvertently, perhaps) exempted text-only devices:
A. A person shall not view a broadcast television image or a visual image from an image display device while that person is driving a motor vehicle and the motor vehicle is in motion on a public roadway or on an off-highway vehicle trail as defined in section 28-1171.
B. A person shall not operate a motor vehicle with an image display device that is visible to a driver seated in a normal driving position when the vehicle is in motion..
C. This section does not apply to any of the following:.
1. Emergency vehicles.
2. Image display devices that do any of the following:.
(a) Display images that provide a driver with navigation and related traffic, road and weather information..
(b) Provide vehicle information, controls or information related to driving a vehicle..
(c) Enhance or supplement a driver's view of the area to the front, rear or side of the vehicle..
(d) Permit a driver to monitor the vehicle occupants seated behind the driver..
(e) Display information intended to enhance traffic safety..
3. Image display devices that are built into the motor vehicle and that do not display images to a driver while the vehicle is in motion..
4. Image display devices that are portable and are not used to display dynamic visual images other than for purposes of navigation or global positioning to a driver while the vehicle is in motion..
5. Image display devices present in vehicles of a public service corporation or any political subdivision of this state and used for service or maintenance of its facilities..
6. Any use of an image display device while the vehicle is parked..
D. For the purposes of this section, "image display device" means equipment capable of displaying to the driver of a motor vehicle rapidly changing images that are either of the following:.
1. A broadcast television image or similar entertainment content transmitted by other wireless means to the image display device..
2. A dynamic visual image, other than text, from a digital video disc or other storage device.
I suspect most other states also prohibit video to the driver. When the courts hold that such devices as Glass fit this definition, game over. Much simpler.
We are allowing our government to play fast and loose with new technology, thinking that they can get away with it because there's no prohibition in law, when in fact there is both applicable law and, in many instances, no ENABLING LAW, by which I mean no permission. Our constitution doesn't intend to limit citizens so much as it intends to limit GOVERNMENT , but that's another rant, another time.
VESA SCSI HBAs were the shit , till you got an EISA box.
In practice, you were running AutoCAD. and you wanted the DX50.
I can easily tell the difference between 128k MP3s and 320k, and from CD. I rip all my CDs at 320 or FLAC, 128 is incredibly annoying to me. the very high end is usually reduced to bacon frying, and the dynamics are hosed.
Of course, now I'm busy normalizing my library on Google so it gets over the gym noise, and pre-eqing it to make my Bluetooth headset 'sound better'. Ick, but it's a bit better.
But, but, but, I really liked ATRAC, especially after 4.x. I had a Sharp Minidisc player/recorder that rocked, and was vastly better sounding than the early MP3 players, iPods included.
ATRAC gets no respect. MD failed. But I still use it sometimes.
...Or a dog, particularly certain species.
Insurance companies are evil, but they are also not stupid.
Saab was bought by GM for some insane reason. The NG900 was a fiasco, and the 9-3 did not resolve the real problems. But from the Classic 900 on Saabs were a romantic choice, able to go the distance with substantial effort and expense. 9000s were a money pit. NG900s had more frikking computers than Google, and they liked to be attached to working stuff. SID displays going bad, ignition switch return spring breaking, shift lever slop, and the convertible top mechanism...
The Opel platform is no prize, but Saab did not improve on it. I'd rather work on F-4s again than a 94-98 900.
Around here, giving in and doing the speed limit means you'll see other people sitting at red lights. Thinking ahead a bit and letting up on the gas early when you are indeed going to have to stop at a light helps. Jackrabbit starts cost big.
But the Saab had a good turbo, and effortless accleration from 60-90. Even putting the hammer down didn't cost too much. Not having second gear may have actually helped the MPG. The Saab sucked. Hard to fix, annoying crap breaking over and over, no more Saabs for me.
For those of you wondering why I drove so many cars; that was the tally for 8 years of cars for the two of us, about 370k miles total. Both of us had had major commutes from time to time. Me, I drove company cars for 22 years before all this, and buying my first car in two decades was a real treat. And being able to do some minor repairs like brakes, cooling system, blower motors, heater cores, alternators, starters, fun times. But no more Saabs.
My Google email account gets incoming email from non-@gmail.com accounts all the damned time. What the hell is the problem? Am I not supposed to get emaI from the rest of the Internet or something? am I missign something? Am I alone in here? IS ANYBODY LISTENING? DOES ANYONE CARE?
How the hell do I contact Google and get this fixed? None of the phone numbers work, and no one answers their email! Seriously!
Yup. And running a full marathon is pointless and irrelevant - any one could run 26.2 miles on a couple of months, half a mile at a time.
Most of the cars I've driven could meet or exceed the MPG specs.
My '98 Saab 900 SET Convertible did 25-28MPG on my mostly highway commute right up to 208K miles. That's winning.
My '95 Explorer was hitting 17-19MPG on the same commute, at 318k miles. Winning.
My 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer OZ Rally is hitting 27-31MPG, same commute, 212K miles. Winning.
My wife is driving the 2000 Explorer V8 at 143K miles, and is getting 16-18MPG. Not so winning, but not bad.
Her commute and mine are similar; relatively quick in the morning, stop and go in the afternoon.
Other cars I have driven that met their MPG estimates include various versions of the Taurus, Focus, Malibu Maxx, and a collection of forgettable crap. The older ones, pre-1990, were disappointing.
MPG results are highly influenced by the driver, the traffic, and vehicle condition, but the driver I think counts a lot.
Wow, could you be more of what you're complaining about?
Buy an IBM p/n 22P5265 in eBay. Cheap and done. One of the best 3 stands ever made.
I can do snark if you want, however.