It's quite simple, they are trying to discourage people who are not prepared for the instability of the project from coming anywhere near it, as they do not wish to support those sorts of people - and who can blame them.
Sure, many people might interpret this as being a "badass" rebellious distro, but I don't believe that's how it's intended to be presented.
The whole point in GPL style freedom is that people are free to write another linux distro, if they feel that way inclined, and free to duplicate effort.
It is duplication of effort that produces multiple projects which do the same thing, which gives choice, which I believe to be a good thing. If it wasn't for duplication of effort, we wouldn't have GNOME, and KDE, and XFCE, and enlightenment. If you happened to not like the one window manager we did have, tough luck.
We're not all part of some big company, so you can't just tell us to all follow what guidelines you want to. This distro really isn't designed to be the next big thing, or to help out the community.
You talk about half assed half finished projects as though they are a bad thing. I find, what many people often consider to be an unfinished hack of a tool will do a particular job perfectly. Take this in contrast to something like openoffice, or firefox, which are often considered to be "finished", production, mature products, but are actually completely bloated and not that great at doing what they're supposed to.
Really, it is this sort of niche itch scratching that has made linux and everything to do with it what it is. If you happen to want to devote yourself to helping other people, and the "community", then feel free to, but don't start trying to stop other people from coding something for themselves, or a small user group.
Another hint: don't try to tell the mods how to think - if they mod down your post, don't whine about it, you deserved it.
Community support is often better than that given by companies, and now community support is possible.
I think it's be difficult to see this as a bad thing.
In the same way that many countries with democracies wish to see the rest of the world become a democracy?
I know, it's not a particularly fair comparison, but you'll see what I'm saying.
My money says their software will simply map "thoughts" to keystrokes or mouse movements. I.e. a particular "thought" moves the mouse up a bit, or presses the fire key.
Now, what I want is to be able to type normally with this baby - say hello to RSI free coding.
An unsigned integer would indeed be 32 bits, i.e. gold limit of 2^32-1, but they are using a signed one - one of the bits is a sign bit. Therefore half of the range of values is "lost" to negative values.
I think.
My oldish vaio does this - there are some parts on the front where the plastic has worn away, leaving metal exposed. This, combined with the two-prong charger can produce some interesting surprises depending on what else I happen to be touching at the time. I'm just glad I don't surf in the nude, on my lap....
Probably won't get read this far down, but I believe audacious has an NSF player builtin, and you can just select the audio file output plugin to get a nice normal wave output.
This is obviously a massive step forward - the major stereotypical problem with robots in the past has been their instability and slow shuffling. This opens the door to having them perform tasks like bend over and pick up weighty objects, which would have probably been impossible without this balancing mechanism.
I'm curious as to whether the kids actually thought the robot was another kid or how much they understood what it was (I can't really remember how intelligent I was at that age...). I'd have thought a better way to make the kids take a consistent interest in the robot would be to make it do something useful, like, say, actually help in the classroom rather than just dance or giggle.
I wonder how many photos it needs of an object to produce a decent model and if the software will ever be released to the public - it would be amazing to be able to produce a 3d model of an object just by snapping a bunch of photos from different angles and bunging them into a piece of software. (I know there are things to create a model using a video camera and a turntable, but that's not quite as easy as being able to grab your camera anywhere and make a model.)
Which would then provide an interesting way to sabotage another company - simply spam a pump-and-dump with their stock, near an interesting release and stand back.
I believe an appropriate quote would be, "You may have won the battle, but we will win the war" - Even taking out a large spammer like this doesn't have a particularly large effect on the overall influx of spam. Maybe we need to go with the ??AA tactics and sue the mom-and-pop spam shops to try and scare the $*&^ out of them?
Slashdot Mirror
It's quite simple, they are trying to discourage people who are not prepared for the instability of the project from coming anywhere near it, as they do not wish to support those sorts of people - and who can blame them. Sure, many people might interpret this as being a "badass" rebellious distro, but I don't believe that's how it's intended to be presented.
The whole point in GPL style freedom is that people are free to write another linux distro, if they feel that way inclined, and free to duplicate effort. It is duplication of effort that produces multiple projects which do the same thing, which gives choice, which I believe to be a good thing. If it wasn't for duplication of effort, we wouldn't have GNOME, and KDE, and XFCE, and enlightenment. If you happened to not like the one window manager we did have, tough luck. We're not all part of some big company, so you can't just tell us to all follow what guidelines you want to. This distro really isn't designed to be the next big thing, or to help out the community. You talk about half assed half finished projects as though they are a bad thing. I find, what many people often consider to be an unfinished hack of a tool will do a particular job perfectly. Take this in contrast to something like openoffice, or firefox, which are often considered to be "finished", production, mature products, but are actually completely bloated and not that great at doing what they're supposed to. Really, it is this sort of niche itch scratching that has made linux and everything to do with it what it is. If you happen to want to devote yourself to helping other people, and the "community", then feel free to, but don't start trying to stop other people from coding something for themselves, or a small user group. Another hint: don't try to tell the mods how to think - if they mod down your post, don't whine about it, you deserved it.
Community support is often better than that given by companies, and now community support is possible. I think it's be difficult to see this as a bad thing.
In the same way that many countries with democracies wish to see the rest of the world become a democracy? I know, it's not a particularly fair comparison, but you'll see what I'm saying.
I find a glossy display gives better blacks and dark colours, though I completely agree that they are terrible unless in perfect lighting.
My money says their software will simply map "thoughts" to keystrokes or mouse movements. I.e. a particular "thought" moves the mouse up a bit, or presses the fire key. Now, what I want is to be able to type normally with this baby - say hello to RSI free coding.
An unsigned integer would indeed be 32 bits, i.e. gold limit of 2^32-1, but they are using a signed one - one of the bits is a sign bit. Therefore half of the range of values is "lost" to negative values. I think.
My oldish vaio does this - there are some parts on the front where the plastic has worn away, leaving metal exposed. This, combined with the two-prong charger can produce some interesting surprises depending on what else I happen to be touching at the time. I'm just glad I don't surf in the nude, on my lap....
Probably won't get read this far down, but I believe audacious has an NSF player builtin, and you can just select the audio file output plugin to get a nice normal wave output.
This is obviously a massive step forward - the major stereotypical problem with robots in the past has been their instability and slow shuffling. This opens the door to having them perform tasks like bend over and pick up weighty objects, which would have probably been impossible without this balancing mechanism.
I'm curious as to whether the kids actually thought the robot was another kid or how much they understood what it was (I can't really remember how intelligent I was at that age...). I'd have thought a better way to make the kids take a consistent interest in the robot would be to make it do something useful, like, say, actually help in the classroom rather than just dance or giggle.
I wonder how many photos it needs of an object to produce a decent model and if the software will ever be released to the public - it would be amazing to be able to produce a 3d model of an object just by snapping a bunch of photos from different angles and bunging them into a piece of software. (I know there are things to create a model using a video camera and a turntable, but that's not quite as easy as being able to grab your camera anywhere and make a model.)
Which would then provide an interesting way to sabotage another company - simply spam a pump-and-dump with their stock, near an interesting release and stand back.
However, I would argue a an inbox full of spam can do a lot less damage to an individual than getting mixed up with drugs.
I believe an appropriate quote would be, "You may have won the battle, but we will win the war" - Even taking out a large spammer like this doesn't have a particularly large effect on the overall influx of spam. Maybe we need to go with the ??AA tactics and sue the mom-and-pop spam shops to try and scare the $*&^ out of them?
http://newengland.naisg.org/Archive/2004/05Graphics/computer_bomb.jpg
My hobby: Standing by fast moving roads, talking on a cell phone.
Pity, he seemed like a nice guy...