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Communication With The Probe
Current Time, Somewhere in Nasa Headquarters: Dave and Frank, the Mission Directors, give the order to destroy the probe.
Nasa: Mr. Probe.. Change Heading to 15 Degrees Left, 20 Degrees Up.
Probe: I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that
Nasa: Why Can't you?
Probe: I know you and frank were planning to disconnect me.. and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen
Nasa: What the F$%K are you talking about.
Probe: I know you're really upset about this..I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
Nasa: But..
probe: goodby
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Communication With The Probe
Current Time, Somewhere in Nasa Headquarters: Dave and Frank, the Mission Directors, give the order to destroy the probe.
Nasa: Mr. Probe.. Change Heading to 15 Degrees Left, 20 Degrees Up.
Probe: I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that
Nasa: Why Can't you?
Probe: I know you and frank were planning to disconnect me.. and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen
Nasa: What the F$%K are you talking about.
Probe: I know you're really upset about this..I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
Nasa: But..
probe: goodby
Click. -
Communication With The Probe
Current Time, Somewhere in Nasa Headquarters: Dave and Frank, the Mission Directors, give the order to destroy the probe.
Nasa: Mr. Probe.. Change Heading to 15 Degrees Left, 20 Degrees Up.
Probe: I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that
Nasa: Why Can't you?
Probe: I know you and frank were planning to disconnect me.. and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen
Nasa: What the F$%K are you talking about.
Probe: I know you're really upset about this..I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
Nasa: But..
probe: goodby
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What about Fessenden!Hey! What about Reginald Aubrey Fessenden. He actually demonstrated voice transmission before Marconi did the trans-atlantic Morse code test.
Of course, they all built on the work of people like Tesla. Fessenden knew the physics better than Marconi, but Marconi knew how to sell it. Sound familiar?
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Re:Reasonable?
Would a pacifist have the freedom to not pay to support it? Yes, the government should also defend the borders.
This answer is unclear.
If I don't have the right to keep "all of my money"
If you do have the right to keep all of of your money, how does the US defend its borders. Bombs don't pay for themselves. Are you saying taxes for guns : good, taxes for welfare : bad. I don't understand.
You have just given a reason for taxation (the US' just war on Afghanistan). Now why do you struggle with the concept so much to ask vapid questions like: "Do I have the right to keep my house? My car? My clothes? Any of my property?". Yes, yes and yes. All I've suggested is a progressive taxation system. Effectively the system you have now, but with tax breaks for the poor, not the rich. Is that so hard to comprehend?
In the U.S., one's credit does NOT come from her/his parents
Bullshit, kiddo. When you're 16 or 17 and looking to go to college, your family situation is all important.
I dare and defy you to find a psychologist who disbelieves it.
Here is a nice review paper, discussing the many different views psychologists take to altruism. Here is another. Now give me a reference supporting your contention.
Why not have the government seize it all and be just like the ultra-successful Soviet Union?
Why do you keep suggesting this? The government taxes you. You agree that this is sometimes acceptable (military expenditure). Why, in this case, is taxation for welfare equivalent to Soviet-style totalitarianism? Its a non-sequitor. Thats why I don't respond.
Do you realize that morality is completely subjective?
Yes. Thats why I've couched all my statements as my opinion. You're the one making objective (and unjustified statements like Altruism doesn't exist. Everytime I say moral, I'm being subjective, I know. I'm telling you about my morality.
Do you realize that you put yourself in the exact same boat that as the Religious Fundamentalists of the U.S.A., who want to impose the Christian religion on all people and totally ban abortion becuase it's a "moral" thing to do?
Thats an awful analogy. There is no similarity between a position on tax rates and government spending and abortion. Having said that, all governments impose the view of the winning side on the losers, thats how it works. Is Bush's tax and spending cuts imposing his morality on America's leftists? Maybe, but thats how government works. Is it equivalent to religious fundamentalism. No.
The Ricky Martin phenomenon is a multi-million dollar part of the entertainment industry, and the entire lot depends on one person: Ricky Martin. What do you think his cut should be? 25%? 10%?
Whatever the record company feel like paying him. But he should pay tax on that money.
I notice that you didn't mention lottery winners as those who didn't earn their money. Is this perhaps they usually come from the holy "working class"?
No. Its because lottery wins are so few as to contribute negligibly to the exchequer. I didn't mention lingerie tycoons or stand-up comedians, auto workers or futures traders either, and they're far more important. Would you like an exhaustive list of jobs? All income taxed by the same rules. Not too tricky a concept. -
RyeHighOne of the "weeder" courses here at Ryerson has a resonable approach to this. The students work together in groups of about 4 on the core project but are supposed to do individual work on several assignments. The group members rate each other's contribution.
The course is *killer* and if you want to do well you *must* have a good group. The individual rating helps, but if the group does poorly, 75% of 0 is still 0.
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Re:Canadian Editorial
Looks like someone has done some judicious rewriting here and there. No harm done because the sentiments are still good, but if anyone wants to read the original script of Sinclair's June 5, 1973 broadcast, the real McCoy is at
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/news/uni que/am_text.html
There's also a thumbnail bio and a picture of Sinclair at
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/personal -
Re:Canadian Editorial
Looks like someone has done some judicious rewriting here and there. No harm done because the sentiments are still good, but if anyone wants to read the original script of Sinclair's June 5, 1973 broadcast, the real McCoy is at
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/news/uni que/am_text.html
There's also a thumbnail bio and a picture of Sinclair at
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/personal -
Re:Why are there only American airplanes ?I can't find directly what it is that you are posting in response to. I can only presume that this is what you are responding to.
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
This was a radio broadcast made by Gordon Sinclair from Canada in 1973. (Original audio is at above site.) At that point, the American Aeroindustry was the only one to really speak of.
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Re:An interesting commentary
This was written by Gordon Sinclair in 1973 at the end of the Vietnam Conflict.
You can read about it at this site, including the aftereffects of what it meant to his career - both good and bad. There's also a RealAudio copy of the recording he did of this, which is backed up by 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.
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Re:a must read, forward to friendssigh, this is about 25 or 30 years old at this point. I think I first read it in the Nixon era.
Gordon Sinclair died in 1984.
The Tri-Star and DC10 airplanes mentioned as pinnacles of US technology date from 1968.
This "recent" article is getting, ahem, a little tired.
Obviously, regardless how the current situation was created, recent events pass any test of requiring a military response, a response neither of revenge nor of deterrence but of necessary and total elimination. This is nothing to be happy or enthusiastic about. It's like chemotherapy. It hurts the patient but if it kills the cancer, it's worth it.
Spouting tired jingoism is neither helpful nor appropriate. Spouting jingoism that is *this* tired isn't particularly impressive either.
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Re:An Old Chestnut - Really oldSorry, I forgot the URL that I found for the speech.
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Re:What can be done about terrorism?This was broadcast in 1973 after the US withdrew from Vietnam. Sinclair died in 1984.
(The Europeans have started making decent planes since then.)
More information is available here.
The original text is avaiable here.
For some reason, the email version (I received one too) omits the references to China, Israel, Egypt and Nicaragua, among others.
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Re:What can be done about terrorism?This was broadcast in 1973 after the US withdrew from Vietnam. Sinclair died in 1984.
(The Europeans have started making decent planes since then.)
More information is available here.
The original text is avaiable here.
For some reason, the email version (I received one too) omits the references to China, Israel, Egypt and Nicaragua, among others.
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Re:This comes from a Canadian newspaper.
Sheesh... people, please check your sources before posting! The article is interesting, but it has nothing to do with current events! As a previous poster commented, the article is from 1973. Gordon Sinclair died in 1984. Check out:
The full, original script
Information on Gordon Sinclair
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Re:This comes from a Canadian newspaper.
Sheesh... people, please check your sources before posting! The article is interesting, but it has nothing to do with current events! As a previous poster commented, the article is from 1973. Gordon Sinclair died in 1984. Check out:
The full, original script
Information on Gordon Sinclair
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full spherical imaging systemLink to my old prof's research proposal here. (sorry 'bout the PDF) From the abstract:
...a study that will design, construct and test an inexpensive tethered video camera cluster that will be used to created and transmit real-time spherical panoramic video. The intent of the device is to create a cost-effective means of providing comprehensive, integrated and continuous spherical panoramic views of operational setting in micro-gravity.
Haven't heard anything recently on this - don't think he ever got the funding to really start. -
Why Marconi?
I'm from Newfoundland, so there was a focus on Marconi in my school.
Marconi is so often credited because he went farther with it. He crossed the Atlantic ocean. He started a successful company.
It didn't matter that Tesla experimented and Popov deployed remote lightning detectors before any of this because Marconi started a company. It's not who does the initial work, it's who profits from it, at least to the general populace.
Hey, we should call Bill Gates the father of computing. He has lots of money.
Actually, in a similar vein, the real father of modern radio is often forgotten as well. Until Reginald Fessenden, radio was only dits and dahs. This Canadian guy was the first to transmit normal sound.
Fessenden wanted to work for Thomas Edison, who basically told him to screw off. A full bio can be read here. -
Re:Ahh...
Checkout http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~lkolasa/CppWavelets.ht
m l for an egcs/c++ "freeware" (sic) for linux c++ wavelet library and join the stampede! -
It was done in MAY 97!! (MS WAS NOT FIRST!)Well.. apparently if you take a look at this (Scroll down to 1997 May), you will see that it was done long before at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Canada.
Well I go to Ryerson, and interestingly enough, I have heard that this multi-terrabyte web server isn't currently being put to much use, maybe we can suggest something to faculty... any ideas?
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Re:How old is this patent?
I think this issue is a certain method of handwriting recognition, not handwriting recognition in PDA's per se. Per this article the Newton had handwriting recognition when it was first introduced in 1993, but it didn't work very well.
On the otherhand, according to this research paper on PDA's, Palm introduced Grafiti prior to April of 1995 (perhaps even prior to September '94, per the footnote to a 9/26/94 EE Times article.) So it seems Xerox is out of luck if they didn't file their patent 'til 10/95.
While we're at it, any updates on this case where Palm was suing Royal over the similarities of its DaVinci PDA to the Pilot?
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Upgrade your old compact disc player!
How about putting one of those uClinux simms in your old cdaudioplayer (after removing all the old junk from the inside...) and hook a leftover cdromdrive and the mp3 decoderboard to it?
Now your cdplayer can play music-cd's, read data-cd's (filled with MP3's for instance) and do something useful with it and you can even hook it up to an ethernet to get your music from!
Oh, and you could brag about which kernelversion *your* cdplayer is running...
I already have dreams of my compact disc player sending SNMP traps when it's done playing another CDR filled with MP3's! -
awesome! what about palm linux?
The URL would be: http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/
Though it doesn't have any apps written for it (yet).
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Derived from uClinux
For those interested in micro controller Linux check out the uClinux home page from which the uClinux/Coldfire project was derived. Work is being done to bring the cold fire patchs back into the main tree of uClinux as we speak. Great work guys!
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Derived from uClinux
For those interested in micro controller Linux check out the uClinux home page from which the uClinux/Coldfire project was derived. Work is being done to bring the cold fire patchs back into the main tree of uClinux as we speak. Great work guys!
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Use the DragonBall SIMM PC.The people doing the Linux to PalmPilot port are developing a PC on a 1/2" high 30-pin SIMM module which includes:
- 1MB Flash ROM
- 8MB DRAM
- LCD controller
- RS232 Serial port
- I2C Serial port
- 10MBit Ethernet port
- A bunch of other IO Lines.
Linux has already been ported (this system is similar to the palm pilot, you can download source code or a binary image to run in the Palm Pilot emulator).