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Don Harlow has a huge amount of information about Esperanto, including a detailed history of the more successful auxlangs. There's also a debate on auxlangs.

In short, I think we outta be able to play with the products that we BUY and therefore OWN. Also, I outta be able to talk about H4X0R1NG the white house all I want as long as I don't do it! Does that really sound so absurd?

"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to bid defiance to the laws of our country."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1812

Esperanto actually contains a great deal of ambiguity and obscurity. See Why Esperanto is not my favourite Artificial Language , Learn Not To Speak Esperanto! , a Wired article on the subject , Lango , and The Problem of an International Auxiliary Language and its Solution in Ido for more information.

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Like other /. posters, I'm a little confused as to how NOT voting is "political". Not voting may be ethical, but is still apolitical. The Internet--specifically the Web--is a great forum for a new rationalist perspective for people who want to vote for a good candidate instead of to vote with apathy or not vote at all. Is anyone else interested in forming a new Net-based movement formed on open debate? I have been for several years. This new Katz column was the push over the edge for me.The drive of the /. community and other online forums could make it successful. Visit The 20th Perspective at http://www.geocities.com/gotscheme if you're up for this online debate process in formation of a new (can you say name-in-progress?) Rationalist's Party. Currently, I'm taking suggestions on the message board system for this "grassroots" movement. Within the next seven days, I'm shooting for a full-steam ahead debate on one mainstream topic and one publicly unaddressed issue. It's time somebody do something...And do it right. I want a movement, and I hope you do, too.

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But it's about fourteen years too late. I expect the Cybermen will arrive shortly to drain the earth of its precious energy...

I think most of this technology was perfected in the late sixies and made various cameos on the UK TV show The Prisoner.

Here're some clear images of EB173 captured by the Fort Bend Astronomy Club. It seems they imaged it without necessarily knowing EB173's significance at the time.

And while I'm at it, here's a considerably grainier shot taken at the Klet observatory.

I hope they're paying royalties to Walter Lantz's estate for use of Chilly Willy as their penguin! One would expect a commercial software company to honor the Intellectual Property of others ;-)

I hope they're paying royalties to Walter Lantz's estate for use of Chilly Willy as their penguin! One would expect a commercial software company to honor the Intellectual Property of others ;-)

They'll just adapt to their new environment and find new employment singing in Disney adaptations of Hans Christien Andersson stories. There's precedent, you know.

Speaking of the Pasadena area, it would be truly great to see a well-detailed Quake or Unreal map of the Gamble House, a local Arts and Crafts masterpiece. Or Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. You can find books of photos from the Gamble House, even see a video tour of Fallingwater, but being able to walk around like you would in a FPS would be the next-best thing to being there.

The point is that the money is not needed until a person is beyond medical help. At that point the choices are 1. burning 2. rotting 3. cryopreservation There are no other alternatives. Once choices 1 or 2 are taken then money is a meaningless concept. Now in the society in which we live lawyers have made it very difficult to leave money reliably for this or anything else. Therefore some money odes have to be spent during life in order to set up a trust and/or take out life insuranmce. But it need not be a lot. Cryonics is reliant on technology progress - all you need do is to invest in technology and if enough progress is there to make cryonics work, then a relatively small amount invested in a technology mutual fund will do the trick. For more on this and investment in general, please see http://www.geocities.com/longev ity rpt/shares.htm whicvh includes lots of outlinks to technology companies' corporate home pages.

This is what they really mean.

Hmm. Your alternative scan shows two seperate pages. I have also tried to do another scan and it looks a bit better than yours:

http://www.geocities.com/msadscan/

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I will sacrifice a boxfull of Microsoft cd's at the gun range if you can scan in your copy.

Here you are. Enjoy:

http://www.geocities.com/msadscan/

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Typical creationist pab, and I see it all the time. Just because something exists in nature doesn't mean it was necessarily placed there by an intelligent and omnipotent Creator. It goes back to Dawkins and the watchmaker -- complexity will manifest itself when given sufficient time and enough evolutionary pressure.

Look, the internet is going on thirty years old today. Do you have any idea how many doublings of Moore's law that is? Is it really that hard to believe that somewhere in there, when all those transistors got packed in really tight in warm dark quarters, they remained completely chaste? Is it so inconceivable that the result of just one of these matings could've produced the primordial ancestor of the modern internet filter?

The universe is an exciting enough place as it is. We don't have resort to unsubstantiated but entrenched rumors about divine intervention in these strictly mortal affairs.

Before "Pong" started the coin-op video game market, Noland tried to market a coin op game called Computer Space.

>Was the captain ever disciplined?

No. There was a cover-up. There was a report on this on Nightline (I believe - I'm in Australia and so I'm uncertain which program it was in the US - Australians saw the report on Four Corners), that showed video footage from the bridge of the incident.

There are a number of web sites with further details. This one is preachy but isn't too bad:
http://www.geocities.com/Ca pit olHill/5260/vince.html

When they hire convicted, admitted perverts to write crime-catching applications like this!

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Gee, that's all we need! Another pedo phi le programming language for PERVERTS only good for writing applications like this!

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This is the one, three friends of mine wrote it in about 6 hours or so over night, vital components were lots of coffee and the Microsoft sample driver code which they nicked.

That's what the Amiga was FOR. The Video Toaster and all those neat applications that made Amiga famous? Those came later.. by several years.

As with many things from the early days of personal computers, the history is muddy and filled with opinon, but if you poke around for a bit, you can pick up one common thread: They were striving to build the next hot gaming platform.

One example of this would be a history found here.

There's dozens more out there.. I reccomend looking them up and getting a lot of opinions before making your own. But playing games exclusively wouldn't be an insult to the Amiga. :) It'd be using it for exactly what it was meant to do.

You laugh... but after Apollo 13, Grumman (the makers of the LM) sent North American Rockwell (the makers of the CM/SM) an invoice for $400,000 in towing fees. I don't know if was ever paid, but it sets an interesting precedent :)

Paxman is a notorious talking-head famous for verbal jousting with MPs and other officials on "Newsnight"

I always thought that his theme-tune should be
"Paxman. Yeah, I'm the Paxman. And you answer to no-one but me" (sorry, George)

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or just plain lazy, a design based on a similar concept can be found here. For some really wild designs (like the "binary" clock) check out this. And to add some non-commercial links, here is a clock based on Blick's design for DIYers.

If you find this project interesting, you may want to also see THIS link which has details/schemas on many other Mech.Scanned clocks. None as neat and clean as Blick's - but nice nonetheless. Has a few projects with pretty large units - different formats/methods ect.. have a look.

Ive been putting off building a mechanically scanned clock like this for some time! I saw this page some time ago, Bob Blick's project is very neat and clean. I stumbled across it while researching about BEAM robotics. Meant to comment on the last story here on /. about the Home Robot. I dug up this link which is decidedly more hardcore an offering compared to the Pocket-Bot (scroll to very bottom of page) offered by Divent (though _Not_ the bot featured in the /. article - it is the other kit Divent apparently markets).



Hey Americans: Big Biz has bought your Democracy, are using your gov' and military to enslave you. Wake up. Free yourselves. Do the world a favour; Tell your friends/relatives/neighbours to:

Government's primary function is protection of property rights, not the active exercise of those rights. Therefore it is property rights, not activities, that should be taxed. The government should be held accountable for property losses, as is any insurer; particularly losses due to government malfeasance as protector. But the government should _not_ be held accountable for losses to property rights for which it is not paid a tax. Exemptions for taxation naturally extend to the property rights traditionally protected by the head of the household, such as home and tools of the trade (which are also protected from creditor confiscation under traditional notions of bankruptcy).

Such tax exemptions should include patents held by the inventor as they are quite naturally an extension of the concept of "tools of the trade".

The main symptom of activity taxation is the distance created between technology and capital. The legalistic literacy needed to avoid activity taxation is enormous and it is acquired at the expense of technological literacy. The best example of this is the enormous industry of tax accountants and lawyers who sit at the right hand of any corporate CEO. "flat tax" proposals never really go anywhere due to the fact that they are taxing all activity "evenly". Such proposals are the reductio ad absurdum of activity taxation. It is simply impossible to tax all activity. Voluminous exemptions are needed or else the economy would be so impeded that even the government recognizes it would suffer enormously. This creates yet another industry of lobbyists who attempt to off-load their clients of these burdens.

I put out a white paper on a net asset tax in 1992 after having participated in passing a couple of laws to reform technology policy at the federal level, including tax policy. But over the years I've become much more realistic and therefore radical in my thinking. I now believe those that proclaim themselves to be "libertarians" need to take their own rhetoric more seriously by pursuing something like my proposal for Warrior's Insurance. But that's only if they want to be honest with themselves, which is doubtful. Even Ayn Rand couldn't face the fact that at some point the word games have to stop.

Like This one

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Dave Barrett's Clock

The Original - Bob Blick's Clock

Luberth Dijkman's Clock

Andrew Jardine's Clock

Ken Staton's Clock

Victor Tihonov's Clock

Don Zehnder's Clock

Come one, build a clock, join the club!
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Dave Barrett's Clock

The Original - Bob Blick's Clock

Luberth Dijkman's Clock

Andrew Jardine's Clock

Ken Staton's Clock

Victor Tihonov's Clock

Don Zehnder's Clock

Come one, build a clock, join the club!
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Dave Barrett's Clock

The Original - Bob Blick's Clock

Luberth Dijkman's Clock

Andrew Jardine's Clock

Ken Staton's Clock

Victor Tihonov's Clock

Don Zehnder's Clock

Come one, build a clock, join the club!
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Low-pass filtering will not reconstruct the input sine wave as you believe. I have uploaded a short
SPICE analysis of the first 10us of the waveforms in your first example, (http://euphoria.org/home/help/nyquist.html)

The SPICE analysis is at

http://www.geociti es. com/Athens/Atlantis/1798/misc/294f998d.htm

Turn javascript off to kill the web bug.

As you can see, the output waveform after low-pass filtering resembles more closely the "connect-the-dots" stick figure than it does the sine wave input signal.

Of course the record industry is pissed at and scared of Napster. Napster is giving away for free something that costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars to create. If Napster's allowed to flourish, that means that really, in the short term, cool, everyone gets free music, but in the longer term, how much more music do people think will actually come out? And how much of that will actually sound okay, recording wise? If labels aren't to exist, then there goes the money that artists would have used to pay for recording their albums in a nice studio rather than in their basements with one microphone set up in the middle of their setup...

Almost... I'll tell you what will happen if Napster is allowed to flourish, and the recording companies get screwed: The musician wins, the music affectionado wins, record labels still get money.

Honestly now, how many of you people actually KNOW how the recording process (when dealing with a label) happens? Show of hands?

Anyone?

Thats what I thought.

Recording equipment IS NOT so expensive that you need to get a big big loan from a record company to produce an album. A decent 8-track is usually more than the average band needs (excluding prefab teeny bopper bands), and coupled with computer software capable of mixing and editing, you can have a very nice recording rig for approxamately 2 grand. (includes the price of the PC to run the software on, BTW).

Yeah, 2 grand seems like a lot to spend on recording equipment, but its really not. An artist can spend nearly twice that much just for stage equipment in order to do a live show (which is what MOST real bands do first before recording anyway). There are many cd-recording companies throughout this area (which happens to be in the middle of nowhere), that are more than happy to press, package, and help you distribute for the price of $1.50 per CD. If record labels go belly up, artist have to try harder and be more dedicated to win praise. The music will have to have soul. We'll have a throwback to the old days when thats ALL music was about... expressing one's self, and not for the love of money. Being Bassist/Guitarist/Vocalist and Co-Writer for a band, I can stress how important this really is.

Record labels actually harm artists in general, whether its by stealing the spotlight with thier Next Greatest Thing(TM) prefab groups, or actually signing us and then screwing us over (signed artists make a penance on CD sales. The real moneymaker for an artist is by doing live shows and selling merchandise).

Just in my band's experience, Napster and MP3.com have helped us out, not only to get the word out, but to let people try before they buy, so to speak. Real life example:

Fan - "Hey DP, that song "S.N.E" rocks... I can't wait until you guys release your CD..."
Me - "Well thanks," *aw-shucks look* "but you can just check out our site on MP3.com and download it, or search Napster."

Fan - "You mean for free..."
Me - "Yeah, and have other people who might like our stuff check out the site too"

Guess who's friends I saw at our last show?

I doubt they would have been there if it weren't for exposure like MP3.com or Napster!

(BTW, tix for our shows are $9 a piece. Our CD will go for $4.50. I'm willing to trace a CD sale for a ticket sale anyday, thank you.)

Oh, and a gratuitous link to the lyrics for our first album ;-)

The Palm is such a great platform for interactive fiction. Why limit yourself to just reading? Go get pilot-frotzfrobnitz and some text adventures.

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In case you're interested in seeing for yourself, I should point out that my personal page is on Geocities, not the business page I list in my user info. Another interesting thing is that Mozilla, by choice, doesn't suppor non-standard html, e.g. the BS that Yahoo adds to the bottom of my page.