The problem is that the drivers have to remain in constant flux because the kernel API is always changing. Now, when there are a limited number of drivers, this means that you can move quickly on the kernel. As you add more and more drivers, you add more and more work to keep the drivers updated. Eventually, there is more work needed to update the drivers than modify the kernel, and the drivers become your sticking point.
No - The kernel API (whilst not set in stone) is quite stable & doesn't change often. The kernel ABI on the other hand... well, changes alot.
But really - that only affects close source kernel modules - and why should the linux kernel team care about people who want to leverage the linux kernel without contributing their source code back.
Sorry guys, time to grow up. Linux *is* mainstream!
Time to grow up - pay for a kernel if you want it the way *you* want it.
You clearly haven't seen the authoritative 1936 anti-drug movie 'Reefer Madness', also released under the following aliases;
You link to the IMDB summary? Dear God man - that classic educational film was made in 1938, has fallen into the public domain and can be legally downloaded from archive.org.
But that wasn't my point. I'm a realist. There isn't going to be an illegal drug revolution in the US in the next 20 years (even with hemp). I'm just trying to focus on the issue of useful things you can do with hemp, other than smoke it.
It's good to be realistic - but the most realistic point of view is that it's impossible to stop the cultivation of high-thc-content-hemp if you allow the cultivation of thc-free hemp.
THC-free hemp has been available since 1999 and is still not legal.
Yup, its still illegal as it's almost intistinguishable from high-thc-content-hemp unless you actually smoke it. It wouldn't be particularly hard to grow a few hunded kilos of nice high quality weed in the middle of your legal hemp field without anyone notiving (and in fact, this has rumoured to have happenned in countries where thc-free hemp crops have been trialled).
So you live in a country like kuwait of 1990 perhaps?
Please either reread my comment - particularly the line rely on good relations for defense. or understand a little history - particularly the sort of relations Kuwait had with its neighbours in 1990.
Personally, I tend to like the swiss model. Have good relations with everybody and have a good mliitary.
Swiss are completely different - they're a neutral country (not even a part of the UN) and hard to compare. As for a 'good military'...well it aint so expensive.
Where we go wrong is that we have presidents who every so often have to prove something or they want something such as oil. Then we throw out might around (basically a bully or being greedy).
Four times the ethanol density of corn?(2/3 of sugar?) I find that hard to believe. The property of vegitable matter that determines how much ethanol will be produced is the sugar content of said vegitable matter. Hemp doesn't have that much sugar in it. This is why sugar caen is so much better for producing ethanol than corn. No matter how sweet the corn sugar cane will have more.
Hmmmmn, I can't find the story I was reading that had those figures - and they do seem a little too good to be true.
However IIRC it was gallons per acre per year IIRC - hemp was high as you could get more crops per year & had a higher energy unit as you could burn part of the plant to extract ethanol from the rest.
It seems to me that if that is the case, then removing the THC (if possible) would be a good solution.
How about allowing farmers to sell THC rich varieties as well. That way, you can get money from taxes, lower your dependance on foreign weed, reduce funding to criminals and still get the crop benefits listed above.
Great idea, lets all lay down our arms, hold hands and sing songs about peace and love.
I called for greater international coorporation (in a non-military context even). Nothing more, nothing less.
You're entire reactionary, pro-military, knee-jerk rant was irrelevant - but I have to reply to a couple of points.
Our military has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for wasted expenditures, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what the military knows.
You say 'Our' military - but I am not British (or French/Iranian/US/whatever you are), I come from & live in countries that are small, have minimal military budgets & rely on good relations for defense.
That military spending, while tragic and excessive, probably saved lives.
Uh huh. I feel safer allready (btw, if I was an Iraqi I'd definitely be disagreeing with you)
Ending the tariff is a good start, but it's pretty hard for corn farmer's to compete with sugar as an ethanol base material.
The obvious solution is to allow farmers to grow hemp - it's one of the easiest crops on the planet to grow (no spraying for pests, low irrigation, etc). Oil from the seeds can be used to run (unmodified) diesel vehicles, and the leftover material can be made into ethanol has four times the energy density of corn (about 2/3 that of sugar).
Oh - but this is in the land of the free - and we can't let the corn farmers compete, lest they plant a few thc bearing hemp plants in the middle of their crop. After all, a few stoners will mean the end of society as we know it.
The United States has already carried out a flight test with a scramjet engine, while the European Union, Japan, China, Russia and India are in different stages of testing their technologies.
*sighs*
Think how much money, time & effort could be saved if resources were pooled. (maybe this thing would be ready before 2025).
I guess we'll all have to learn to get along first (oh & hopefully, the cooporation will be more equal then it was on the Joint strike fighter project between Britain & the US)
How can this fact and quote be a "Story Update" if they're included in the story itself? (on page 1, nothing less). Moderators have been tricked.
Because the story, Hemos's additions to the submission, etc were all updated after my comment.
Have a look at the time I made my comment, the time the macworld story came out & the time the slashdot story came out & it's obvious the story was updated after I made my comment.
Yeesh, I know that many of the Microsoft Shills do not like my Whiney-Mac-Advocacy, but is that any reason to try & get me senselessly modded down?
The whole point about brands is, infringement is bad when it creates confusion in the market.
Well Duh!
That's why the Apple Music company was annoyed at Apple's online music store (gosh, even I'm confused which is which now)
Have you ever gone to the computer store to buy an Apple and come back with a Beatles record by mistake? If the Beatles had paid some smart fellows to put up an "Apple Music Store," like the computer company, then the "iTunes Music Store" might have had to take off all the Apple logos. Otherwise--
You have a far too simplistic outlook here. Trademark law is far more complicated then that. There's trademark dilution to start with & Apple Corps' future plans (what if they want to expand into online music sales?)
Offtopic: Please get your return button repaired. Your single paragraph comments are hard to parse.
Horsecrap - I can't see that quote anywhere in TFA or openlogic's press release
The press release says in fact:
Through the OpenLogic Expert Community, OpenLogic will pay qualified experts within the open source development community to provide in-depth support for open source products.
and:
In addition to paying members of the OpenLogic Expert Community to resolve enterprise issues, OpenLogic will also contribute money for each issue resolved to a fund that will be used to help further open source efforts.
And (slightly offtopic, but put more elequontly & humorously then the usual 'blah blah, oss has noone to sue'):
"We have heard loud and clear from our larger enterprise customers, some of whom are using more than 400 open source products, that they want one throat to choke for open source support," said Steven Grandchamp, CEO of OpenLogic.
You sir, are a shill from one of the proprietary companies, trembling in their boots about new business models.
As long as we're all being asses, it's "self-deprecating". Cars depreciate. Selves don't.
Nope, you can use either word - but you've got it the wrong way round. See deprecate's usage notes at dictionary.com:
Usage Note: The first and fully accepted meaning of deprecate is "to express disapproval of." But the word has steadily encroached on the meaning of depreciate. It is now used, almost to the exclusion of depreciate, in the sense "to belittle or mildly disparage," as in He deprecated his own contribution. In an earlier survey, this newer sense was approved by a majority of the Usage Panel.
Maybe if Apple Corps had actually participated materially in the market in the last thirty years there would be confusion, but now it's a niche player and Apple Inc. owns "apple" mindshare.
Apple corps had some relevance in the market 15 years ago when they made a deal with Apple Computers.
And for all those Apple Corps apologists that suggest Apple Corps market a macintosh coat
All those Apple Corps apologists?
There was only one person making a macintosh coat jibe (me!) and I'm not an Apple Corps apologist. I'm just disgusted at the hypocrisy displayed by Apple Computers.
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But you can allready download Warner Bros movies over bittorrent!
Oh wait, sell. Nevermind.
With a quick Googling, it looks like switchgrass has about 4-4.5 the energy density of corn, without the politics surrounding hemp.
True - and I guess from a pure energy-production standpoint switchgrass is most certainly the crop of choice for Northern America.
However - hemp is a far more versatile crop. Itcan be used for paper, rope, & oil-based products, hence is a more attractive cash crop to farmers.
The problem is that the drivers have to remain in constant flux because the kernel API is always changing. Now, when there are a limited number of drivers, this means that you can move quickly on the kernel. As you add more and more drivers, you add more and more work to keep the drivers updated. Eventually, there is more work needed to update the drivers than modify the kernel, and the drivers become your sticking point.
No - The kernel API (whilst not set in stone) is quite stable & doesn't change often. The kernel ABI on the other hand... well, changes alot.
But really - that only affects close source kernel modules - and why should the linux kernel team care about people who want to leverage the linux kernel without contributing their source code back.
Sorry guys, time to grow up. Linux *is* mainstream!
Time to grow up - pay for a kernel if you want it the way *you* want it.
You clearly haven't seen the authoritative 1936 anti-drug movie 'Reefer Madness', also released under the following aliases;
You link to the IMDB summary? Dear God man - that classic educational film was made in 1938, has fallen into the public domain and can be legally downloaded from archive.org.
But that wasn't my point. I'm a realist. There isn't going to be an illegal drug revolution in the US in the next 20 years (even with hemp). I'm just trying to focus on the issue of useful things you can do with hemp, other than smoke it.
It's good to be realistic - but the most realistic point of view is that it's impossible to stop the cultivation of high-thc-content-hemp if you allow the cultivation of thc-free hemp.
THC-free hemp has been available since 1999 and is still not legal.
Yup, its still illegal as it's almost intistinguishable from high-thc-content-hemp unless you actually smoke it. It wouldn't be particularly hard to grow a few hunded kilos of nice high quality weed in the middle of your legal hemp field without anyone notiving (and in fact, this has rumoured to have happenned in countries where thc-free hemp crops have been trialled).
So you live in a country like kuwait of 1990 perhaps?
Please either reread my comment - particularly the line rely on good relations for defense. or understand a little history - particularly the sort of relations Kuwait had with its neighbours in 1990.
Personally, I tend to like the swiss model. Have good relations with everybody and have a good mliitary.
Swiss are completely different - they're a neutral country (not even a part of the UN) and hard to compare. As for a 'good military'...well it aint so expensive.
Swiss military expenditure 1% of GDP
US military expenditure 4%+ of GDP" (interestingly, slightly less then Kuwait you mentioned earlier.
Where we go wrong is that we have presidents who every so often have to prove something or they want something such as oil. Then we throw out might around (basically a bully or being greedy).
I'm afraid more then 'every so often'.
Four times the ethanol density of corn?(2/3 of sugar?) I find that hard to believe. The property of vegitable matter that determines how much ethanol will be produced is the sugar content of said vegitable matter. Hemp doesn't have that much sugar in it. This is why sugar caen is so much better for producing ethanol than corn. No matter how sweet the corn sugar cane will have more.
Hmmmmn, I can't find the story I was reading that had those figures - and they do seem a little too good to be true.
However IIRC it was gallons per acre per year IIRC - hemp was high as you could get more crops per year & had a higher energy unit as you could burn part of the plant to extract ethanol from the rest.
It seems to me that if that is the case, then removing the THC (if possible) would be a good solution.
How about allowing farmers to sell THC rich varieties as well. That way, you can get money from taxes, lower your dependance on foreign weed, reduce funding to criminals and still get the crop benefits listed above.
Great idea, lets all lay down our arms, hold hands and sing songs about peace and love.
I called for greater international coorporation (in a non-military context even). Nothing more, nothing less.
You're entire reactionary, pro-military, knee-jerk rant was irrelevant - but I have to reply to a couple of points.
Our military has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for wasted expenditures, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what the military knows.
You say 'Our' military - but I am not British (or French/Iranian/US/whatever you are), I come from & live in countries that are small, have minimal military budgets & rely on good relations for defense.
That military spending, while tragic and excessive, probably saved lives.
Uh huh. I feel safer allready (btw, if I was an Iraqi I'd definitely be disagreeing with you)
Either way, I don't give a damn what you think.
You obviously do - or you wouldn't have posted.
Ending the tariff is a good start, but it's pretty hard for corn farmer's to compete with sugar as an ethanol base material.
The obvious solution is to allow farmers to grow hemp - it's one of the easiest crops on the planet to grow (no spraying for pests, low irrigation, etc). Oil from the seeds can be used to run (unmodified) diesel vehicles, and the leftover material can be made into ethanol has four times the energy density of corn (about 2/3 that of sugar).
Oh - but this is in the land of the free - and we can't let the corn farmers compete, lest they plant a few thc bearing hemp plants in the middle of their crop. After all, a few stoners will mean the end of society as we know it.
has a web page offering an artist's rendition of the supersonic jet plane
:-)
Just an artist's rendition? How about a video of the prototype taking off instead?
Problem is, most people will keep on thinking in terms of 'us' and 'them'. Barbaric.
Unless they're 'axis of evil' countires - in which case they'll be thinking in terms of 'us' and 'US'
Think how much money, time & effort could be saved if resources were pooled. (maybe this thing would be ready before 2025).
I guess we'll all have to learn to get along first (oh & hopefully, the cooporation will be more equal then it was on the Joint strike fighter project between Britain & the US)
How can this fact and quote be a "Story Update" if they're included in the story itself? (on page 1, nothing less). Moderators have been tricked.
Because the story, Hemos's additions to the submission, etc were all updated after my comment.
Have a look at the time I made my comment, the time the macworld story came out & the time the slashdot story came out & it's obvious the story was updated after I made my comment.
Yeesh, I know that many of the Microsoft Shills do not like my Whiney-Mac-Advocacy, but is that any reason to try & get me senselessly modded down?
The whole point about brands is, infringement is bad when it creates confusion in the market.
Well Duh!
That's why the Apple Music company was annoyed at Apple's online music store (gosh, even I'm confused which is which now)
Have you ever gone to the computer store to buy an Apple and come back with a Beatles record by mistake? If the Beatles had paid some smart fellows to put up an "Apple Music Store," like the computer company, then the "iTunes Music Store" might have had to take off all the Apple logos. Otherwise--
You have a far too simplistic outlook here. Trademark law is far more complicated then that. There's trademark dilution to start with & Apple Corps' future plans (what if they want to expand into online music sales?)
Offtopic: Please get your return button repaired. Your single paragraph comments are hard to parse.
Gosh, you really know someone has something to contribute to a discussion when all they can do is nitpick a spelling mistake.
(oh, and at least I can do multiple-paragraph posts)
Bitter?
Whatever dude, at least I don't comment soley on Apple stories.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
You're unfairly attacking Apple using logic!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
cid=15287960 and cid=15287962
Too late!
No he's not! That's me!!!!1!1!!!!!!! *
;-)
Oh - whoops! You wrote 'fucking fanboi'!!!!!1!!! thats not me!11!!1!!!
* Written in the 'mac user' style
The press release says in fact:and:And (slightly offtopic, but put more elequontly & humorously then the usual 'blah blah, oss has noone to sue'):You sir, are a shill from one of the proprietary companies, trembling in their boots about new business models.
Nope, you can use either word - but you've got it the wrong way round. See deprecate's usage notes at dictionary.com:
Oh btw funnily enough, only thing creating problem on _my_ system is the part he coded. Evil!
:-)
hahahahaha
I bet he did it deliberately!
This is somewhat horrible smoke of fanboyism and zealotry attached to every story having "Apple" name on it.
Don't even bother to try.
Don't worry Ilgaz, it's something I'm attempting to rectify.
I will single-handedly save slashdot with this nick (my plan is starting to work already!)
Maybe if Apple Corps had actually participated materially in the market in the last thirty years there would be confusion, but now it's a niche player and Apple Inc. owns "apple" mindshare.
Apple corps had some relevance in the market 15 years ago when they made a deal with Apple Computers.
And for all those Apple Corps apologists that suggest Apple Corps market a macintosh coat
All those Apple Corps apologists?
There was only one person making a macintosh coat jibe (me!) and I'm not an Apple Corps apologist. I'm just disgusted at the hypocrisy displayed by Apple Computers.