yeah, what if you're a Russian citizen, visit the US, and take a bunch of nickels to Russia to melt down? the US can't pull you out of there because you didn't melt it while being subjected to their law.
The guy SHOULD NOT have been jailed. Jails do not rehabilitate, they torture people instead.
A woman convicted of file sharing of copyrighted things should NOT face rape as a punishment. I know that's not the way jail is supposed to work, but currently it does.
The Enron guys should not have been jailed either, especially considering most businesses do exactly what the Enron guys did on a small scale. Martha Stewart also should not have been jailed. I don't see why insider trading is a crime. If you know information about a company beforehand, it's because you are smart. Stock markets should be a place of freedom and survival of the fittest in knowledge. If you're able to get insider information on a company and your neighbor isn't, well, your neighbor sucks.
so, it's clear from history that in the USA you can sue for random crap that doesn't make any sense. The fact that you *CAN* sue for something that's clearly set out to you makes no sense. in many other democracies of the world the government would show the guy Google's TOS and show the business that Google has no responsibility to them, and not allow the lawsuit to happen.
what i'm personally worried about is the fact that i have a website. what if someone decides to sue me for crap like this? i'm a poor college student who cannot afford a lawyer, and cannot afford the time in court because of my studies. i can't afford to deal with crap that's _clearly_ not my fault. what compensation is provided to me? the #1 point here is the affording a lawyer part. what the hell do i do?
hi all, does anyone know if this service is or will be SIP-based? i have a VoIP phone that steals wireless from wherever you are and speaks SIP and makes calls to any phone. i'm currently on a university beta test, but as soon as the beta test ends it may cost money to make calls, and this may be a better deal for me if it can work with the phone.
Mozart's language was German, and so is the language of the foundation. While it would be nice for them to release an English version, no reason to expect it from someone who is just doing a favor.
free of charger is all many people care about. i'm a student, not a music student, but play the piano and violin for fun. i don't generally perform or anything, but continue learning music just for fun. that makes this very worthwhile.
Back then you could also accomplish this "Ajax" BS by just creating an IFRAME in your page and accessing its contents from its parent frame. It was nice and handy. I used it for a long time on webpages, until somebody figured out that you could use it to read contents from your visitor's hard drive too, resulting in the "bug" being corrected.
After that, so long as your content was rectangular, you could just use the IFRAME itself to accomplish the same effect as what Google does today with "Ajax" in a table.
And by that I was not saying I hate "Ajax". It's a cool technology, just a stupid name. It's just JavaScript, nothing ever changed. Sites accomplished the same effect for years using IFRAME's, and JavaScript just came out with a nice handy function to simplify things. It's called JavaScript, dummies. JavaScript. Not "Ajax".
Don't tell me tomorrow that you're going to realize that JavaScript has a window resizing feature, say "wow wow wow" again, and decide as a management guy that it has to be called "Awacs" (Asynchronous Window Annoying Changing System). It's called JavaScript, dummy.
"Ajax" is just another hype word. It's like how management types run around their companies saying BS like:
"employ XML"
"facilitate collaboration"
"empowering innovators"
"strategic thinkers"
blah blah blah. it's so much crap.
"HTML" was something new. It DID stuff. You wrote and you SAW it on the screen.
"JavaScript" was something new. It did all kinds of stuff to make webpages dynamic and functional in new ways.
"DHTML" is a craptastic synonym of "HTML with JavaScript"
"XML" is utter crap. Try double-clicking a.xml file on your computer and see if anything happens. Then try double-clicking a.html file and tell me which got you to information faster. Don't tell me XML is some revolutionary standard BS, it's like saying "we redefined the.ini" file. For god's sake shut up about XML being anything new. It doesn't do anything.
"Ajax" is another crap term. It's management majors realizing after so long that "WHAA! We have XMLHttpRequest in our JavaScript specification? WOW! WOW WOW WOW we have to come up with a new name for it! It's so great we can't just call it JavaScript!"
argh.
1. What if you build your own computer? How do they know?
2. What if you take a trip to another country, buy a laptop, and bring it in on your backpack?
3. What if you junk an old computer? How do you stop paying the fee? And to follow, what if you junk and old computer and your neighbor decides he/she wants it a few days later and pulls it out of your trash? What if you pull it out of your trash - how would they know? What if you're like me and run around your university collecting old junked computers and put them to use online?
4. If they are going to charge everyone that has internet access because it is capable of receiving channels, and they are going to publish the internet channels just because they want to charge people, doesn't that mean everyone else outside of Germany will get them for free too?
in case i didn't mention it anywhere on the site, the pure reason why it's limited to 6x6 was the fact that it's the largest continuous available public space on the face of the building. if you go left, there's nothing, to the right, the windows stop being regular, and above/below are student rooms that we don't want to bother. we would have definitely liked to build a bigger one, though, if we could.
I looked at my logs. It's probably the initial rush of visits in the first couple of minutes. A potential "slashdotting-protection" system that could be implemented by large sites is to select different IP ranges at random and serve up the site with a 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, or 180 second delay based on the incoming IP range (i.e. if you're in the IP range corresponding to the 120 second delay, the article doesn't even show up for you until 120 seconds after it has been posted. I don't know if this has other moral issues, or if it's Slashdot's responsibility to care, but it's just a thought about a hypothetical solution.
Thanks for the suggestions. The PIC should actually be able to drive the MOSFET, it's just that there ends up being some small amount of ringing, which then [in some way that I didn't bother to analyze] caused the entire thing to hang. Adding the resistors killed that and made it work especially for cases where a large fraction of the entire array is suddenly turned on. But yeah, redoing it with better power supplies and power circuitry would definitely be something to do when we get time. At the time it was built we were trying to finish as quickly as possible and used ATX power supplies which are essentially free at MIT (you find them lying around in dumped computers everywhere).
Many PICs have internal oscillators, but they are RC which isn't very stable, and def. not good enough for RS232 or any other communication - especially when the temperature of the room fluctuates a lot...
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yeah, what if you're a Russian citizen, visit the US, and take a bunch of nickels to Russia to melt down? the US can't pull you out of there because you didn't melt it while being subjected to their law.
The guy SHOULD NOT have been jailed. Jails do not rehabilitate, they torture people instead. A woman convicted of file sharing of copyrighted things should NOT face rape as a punishment. I know that's not the way jail is supposed to work, but currently it does. The Enron guys should not have been jailed either, especially considering most businesses do exactly what the Enron guys did on a small scale. Martha Stewart also should not have been jailed. I don't see why insider trading is a crime. If you know information about a company beforehand, it's because you are smart. Stock markets should be a place of freedom and survival of the fittest in knowledge. If you're able to get insider information on a company and your neighbor isn't, well, your neighbor sucks.
so, it's clear from history that in the USA you can sue for random crap that doesn't make any sense. The fact that you *CAN* sue for something that's clearly set out to you makes no sense. in many other democracies of the world the government would show the guy Google's TOS and show the business that Google has no responsibility to them, and not allow the lawsuit to happen.
what i'm personally worried about is the fact that i have a website. what if someone decides to sue me for crap like this? i'm a poor college student who cannot afford a lawyer, and cannot afford the time in court because of my studies. i can't afford to deal with crap that's _clearly_ not my fault. what compensation is provided to me? the #1 point here is the affording a lawyer part. what the hell do i do?
hi all,
does anyone know if this service is or will be SIP-based? i have a VoIP phone that steals wireless from wherever you are and speaks SIP and makes calls to any phone. i'm currently on a university beta test, but as soon as the beta test ends it may cost money to make calls, and this may be a better deal for me if it can work with the phone.
Mozart's language was German, and so is the language of the foundation. While it would be nice for them to release an English version, no reason to expect it from someone who is just doing a favor.
free of charger is all many people care about. i'm a student, not a music student, but play the piano and violin for fun. i don't generally perform or anything, but continue learning music just for fun. that makes this very worthwhile.
you can't prevent it. any good performer can memorize what they are performing.
and if asked how they memorized it
"oh, i can't remember, i learned it when i was a kid"
"i borrowed it from a music library"
"i learned it by ear"
all of which are perfectly plausible.
yes, but at least there's a good deal of readership from there :-P
Back then you could also accomplish this "Ajax" BS by just creating an IFRAME in your page and accessing its contents from its parent frame. It was nice and handy. I used it for a long time on webpages, until somebody figured out that you could use it to read contents from your visitor's hard drive too, resulting in the "bug" being corrected.
After that, so long as your content was rectangular, you could just use the IFRAME itself to accomplish the same effect as what Google does today with "Ajax" in a table.
Nothing new at all.
And by that I was not saying I hate "Ajax". It's a cool technology, just a stupid name. It's just JavaScript, nothing ever changed. Sites accomplished the same effect for years using IFRAME's, and JavaScript just came out with a nice handy function to simplify things. It's called JavaScript, dummies. JavaScript. Not "Ajax".
Don't tell me tomorrow that you're going to realize that JavaScript has a window resizing feature, say "wow wow wow" again, and decide as a management guy that it has to be called "Awacs" (Asynchronous Window Annoying Changing System). It's called JavaScript, dummy.
"Ajax" is just another hype word. It's like how management types run around their companies saying BS like: "employ XML" "facilitate collaboration" "empowering innovators" "strategic thinkers" blah blah blah. it's so much crap. "HTML" was something new. It DID stuff. You wrote and you SAW it on the screen. "JavaScript" was something new. It did all kinds of stuff to make webpages dynamic and functional in new ways. "DHTML" is a craptastic synonym of "HTML with JavaScript" "XML" is utter crap. Try double-clicking a .xml file on your computer and see if anything happens. Then try double-clicking a .html file and tell me which got you to information faster. Don't tell me XML is some revolutionary standard BS, it's like saying "we redefined the .ini" file. For god's sake shut up about XML being anything new. It doesn't do anything.
"Ajax" is another crap term. It's management majors realizing after so long that "WHAA! We have XMLHttpRequest in our JavaScript specification? WOW! WOW WOW WOW we have to come up with a new name for it! It's so great we can't just call it JavaScript!"
argh.
I for one UNWELCOME overloads. it's aggravating to see that stupid sentence everywhere.
1. What if you build your own computer? How do they know? 2. What if you take a trip to another country, buy a laptop, and bring it in on your backpack? 3. What if you junk an old computer? How do you stop paying the fee? And to follow, what if you junk and old computer and your neighbor decides he/she wants it a few days later and pulls it out of your trash? What if you pull it out of your trash - how would they know? What if you're like me and run around your university collecting old junked computers and put them to use online? 4. If they are going to charge everyone that has internet access because it is capable of receiving channels, and they are going to publish the internet channels just because they want to charge people, doesn't that mean everyone else outside of Germany will get them for free too?
in case i didn't mention it anywhere on the site, the pure reason why it's limited to 6x6 was the fact that it's the largest continuous available public space on the face of the building. if you go left, there's nothing, to the right, the windows stop being regular, and above/below are student rooms that we don't want to bother. we would have definitely liked to build a bigger one, though, if we could.
I looked at my logs. It's probably the initial rush of visits in the first couple of minutes. A potential "slashdotting-protection" system that could be implemented by large sites is to select different IP ranges at random and serve up the site with a 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, or 180 second delay based on the incoming IP range (i.e. if you're in the IP range corresponding to the 120 second delay, the article doesn't even show up for you until 120 seconds after it has been posted. I don't know if this has other moral issues, or if it's Slashdot's responsibility to care, but it's just a thought about a hypothetical solution.
Thanks for the suggestions. The PIC should actually be able to drive the MOSFET, it's just that there ends up being some small amount of ringing, which then [in some way that I didn't bother to analyze] caused the entire thing to hang. Adding the resistors killed that and made it work especially for cases where a large fraction of the entire array is suddenly turned on. But yeah, redoing it with better power supplies and power circuitry would definitely be something to do when we get time. At the time it was built we were trying to finish as quickly as possible and used ATX power supplies which are essentially free at MIT (you find them lying around in dumped computers everywhere).
Many PICs have internal oscillators, but they are RC which isn't very stable, and def. not good enough for RS232 or any other communication - especially when the temperature of the room fluctuates a lot...
oh god. mirror: http://web.mit.edu/dheera/www/simdisplay.php.html
it's probably both... capacitors can go bajillions of cycles without breaking if designed well. there are no chemical reactions.