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Actually, you're supposed to burn a flag once it gets too old and tattered to display. But, as you can imagine, flag burning (in this context) is designed to project a loud statement, and to evoke a strong emotional response. And a strong emotional response is what you're getting from veterans.
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Regardless of the motivations of the politicians who sent veterans (of which I am one) to (as you say) "Keep oil prices low" or "suppress other's freedom," soldiers don't make those decisions. We follow them. These decisions are made by politicians, NOT the military. That means civilians like yourself.
It sounds like you aren't a veteran yourself, so you can't speak for us.
As a member of the U.S. military, I was asked to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That means I was defending our country's interests, be they political, or economic.
Do you really think that as I hauled my dead friends out of the water after their helicopter went down that I was thinking about "Gee this sucks. Screw these Iraqui bastards, we just want the oil." I was thinking, "What did politicians get me into now?" Many of us risked our lives for what you call opressive or futile purposes. We didn't have a choice. We swore an oath.
I swore an oath, and I followed up on it. It's a hard thing to do. Try it yourself sometime. I swore that oath on the U.S. flag. That flag is a symbol of my oath to support my country. Tell me what's wrong with doing that. So, the flag means a LOT to me, and to people like me.
Maybe it's unconstitutional to burn the flag. Fine. We have EVERY right in the world to try to protect it from people who don't know or care what that means to us. Think of anything that means a lot to you. Do you go to church? Would you permit me to waltz in and scream obcenities at the altar to "express my feelings?" I doubt it. How about art? Maybe I don't like the art you created. So I burn it. I'm just expressing my feelings, right? I have the right to do that, right?
I don't have to like your opinion of flagburning any more than you like mine. That's the beauty of the U.S. Everybody gets an opinion. And, in the represenative DEMOCRACY that we live in, if enough people feel that a certain way, well then a LAW gets passed. That's what these veterans are trying to do. You don't have to agree. We want people to know what's happening.
But don't you EVER belittle our sacrifices as the judgement of the military. Try asking your civilian congressman or your president what they were thinking.
Maybe you should ask another veteran or two how and why we feel the way we do about the flag. See if they give you a different answer.
If I recall correctly, Galileo did almost this thing. He very obnoxiously and abrasively proclaimed that the Church was screwed in the head (which, in truth it was, but it's hard to argue with or change centuries of tradition). So the Inquisition got medieval on his butt.
Would it be worth my time to buy one of these things if I can't use the phone line? I don't have a phone line at my house. I have a cable modem and a cell phone. That's all I've needed so far, really.
Unless we spread out. And we must do so as soon as possible, to other planets, solar systems, and galaxies.
It's clear (from this excellent article and technologies around us) that humans are in the process of evolving themselves right out of existence.
As has been quoted by more than one Sci-Fi writer "We cannot afford to have all our eggs in one basket."
A really great question that never seems to get asked is: Why do we feel compelled to advance technology? What is this driving force? It seems to me that our own drive to survive at the expense of competitors is the same force that will drive humans to extinction.
I just called their customer service line. The operator was a bit confused when I asked her if I could order the appliance without the ISP service, but assured me that I could cancel it at any time. So, you don't need to subscribe to their service. Woohoo!
suppose you put a touch-screen keyboard overlay on this thing. Further suppose that you add a DC power supply (battery:) Portable Linux webpad! and it would play Quake! for $99!
In reference to this post about an "in-between" API, what do you think about (specifically) an API that translates DirectX calls into SDL calls? (Is this even a correct example?)
I hear you there...If I was so foolish as to be doing client-side Java (read: applets, event model 1.0) I'd be screwed. I wasn't too pleased with JDBC before version 2 either. And if I'd written enterprise beans with the 1.0 version, and had to migrate to version 1.1, again I would be screwed. But that's the price you pay for bleeding edge evolving standards. The nice thing was/is that Java API is easy to read and learn. Even the totally hosed-up 1.0 event model taught me lots of important lessons about object modeling (with no previous OO experience).
So, your very(!) lengthy and thorough post boils down to this: The difference between C++ and Java is like the difference between Linux and Windows. Windows - far easier to learn, a wealth of libraries (which may be unoptimized, but functional), and much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with. Linux - very flexible, will do anything you tell it to, but it never asks you "Are you sure?" and which assumes the user is experienced enough to know how to at least RTFM. I was the first person to write production Java for my company. This means I had no one to help me out with the pitfalls/dangers of programming. I do not believe I could have done (on schedule) the projects I was assigned in any other language (as I was not an experienced programmer). So, Java made me a hero, and I like that. Paychecks are nice.
Well, they may let you download it, but don't expect to read about it. I can't believe a site like Sony has a page as illegible as this. What's with those two little frames? Yeesh.
The point was that: You couldn't copy mp3 files back from the player with the Windows version of the management tool. So, a couple of guys REVERSE-ENGINEERED the communications protocol between the client software and the mp3 player so that they could, effectively, make the device work under Linux. Like DeCSS, it also:
Drumroll please....
Defeats the copy protection.
So, in effect, those guys have potentially put themselves in the same position.
See this link: http://www.world.co.uk/sba/mpman.htm Apparently, the encryption is in the client software. These guys are showing that the current SDMI encryption isn't in the hardware at all. So, we're looking at some guys who reverse-engineered something, so that it would work with linux. Are we seeing the DVD disaster all over again?
Good article, JonKatz. A well-stated, fully-supported article. Slashdot readers probably realize this for the most part, but a good read all the same.
You should also consider submitting this article to a somewhat more "mainstream media" site. Whether or not it would be accepted, this article would make an interesting read for non-technical people as well. Especially the totalitarian types.
What?? Nobody liked the commercial with the dog and the owner playing, with the voice-over ending up being the dog saying "So that's why I give him Budweiser." That and the impossibility of herding cats. And, "I mean, hey, he's got money coming out the wazoo."
If you read a bit farther into the release information, you'll find that the 700mhz part is designed for handhelds, laptops, etc. A bit farther down you will see a part talking about ease of addign to the architechture for models that are not portable-based, i.e. server architecture. They go further into performance gains from this change in architecture.
I think we should thank SGI heartily for releasing this to us.
However, I notice that the terms of the release are defined as "Sample Implementation." What does this mean? Is this a less-than-full release? Do we have all of the source, or just part of it?
Well, with the opening of these frequencies, can anyone here give me a qualified comment on usage for wireless networking? Specifically, radio packet ethernet (ax.25 I think).
If this spectrum is useful for these applications (which admittedly, is purely speculative on my part), could we see here the development of an open information exchange? I believe there is a development effort along these lines on 2600's site, but don't quote me on that.
Online, hostile environments are driving almost every social group other than techno-savvy young white men away from coherent public discussion of technology. These men are invariably smart and skilled, but almost unable to communicate civilly or tolerate disagreement or difference. Are we breeding communities of impulsive and creative jerks?
So what you're saying, JK, is that only technosavvy white men are assholes on the Internet.
What's more, with yellow-journalistic statements like this one, you're stating "facts" without ANY relevant supporting statistics. Perhaps you should just go away.
C'mon people. You're not voting anonymously now. Ever hear of voter registration? Naturally, there isn't supposed to be a link between that piece of paper and your name, but you do declare (supposedly for statistical purposes) your party of choice. A vote is not a private thing. Think about it. First, you must publicly register. Then, you must go to a public place of voting to actually vote. I agree that your individual choices aren't supposed to be attached to your name, but there's no such thing as truly anonymous voting.
My own thoughts are that the kind of online identification required to do online voting would destroy online anonymity. Any ID for this purpose would soon be exploited. Think not? Social Security numbers were specifically NOT for identification purposes. And look at them now. Everybody wants them. So, do you REALLY want to vote online?
ISA? Do not expect to find a "decent" openGL-compliant card in ISA. This bus does not have the bandwidth to rapidly render. (About 25mb/sec, I think). Considering that AGP is in the hundreds of mb/sec (I could be off here), that is. I doubt if there are any opengl accelerators in ISA. You'd probably be better off with software rendering.
Pittsburgh? Well, I work near enough (10 miles north) and here's the problems I have:
NO frickin' parking anywhere.
Pay doesn't match other metropolitan areas.
ALL the radio stations suck. This is because all but 2 are owned by the owners of WDVE. Just ask any of them if they know, say, Chemical Brothers. "Is that a video game?"
As per an earlier post I saw, if you're not a Steelers codger, forget it.
Stupid one-way streets everywhere.
Housing is expensive if it's not a rat-trap. And sometimes then, too.
On the plus side:
Metropol plays some forward-thinking music once in a while.
Lots of hotties up on the bar at BAR Pittsburgh.
Pirmanti's Brothers. If you have never had a sammich from Pirmanti Brothers, you have not lived.
The view from Mount Washington of the city. Priceless.
Apparently, all the states managed to figure out for themselves that prescription drugs ought to be regulated. They didn't need the federal government's help. What would the federal government bring to this industry with regulation? Hmm, let's see...
Well, for one, this sure is a GREAT check-off item to help Bill Clinton push through the National ID system. "See, we need to regulate who's getting drugs, and the only way to do that is with a national medical id..." I can see it now.
Does anyone here want this? Doesn't this scare ANYONE?
Bill Clinton wants desperately to be "relevant" to our times. After all, when he's gone, what will we remember him for? Monica? Whitewater? The implementation of the National ID would, in his mind, make him relevant.
The point is, this industry is already regulated by the Federal goverment. Ever heard of the FDA? Have the states done a woeful job to this point? Does the Clinton administration feel that the movers and shakers in the e-commerce world cant' do the same?
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Actually, you're supposed to burn a flag once it gets too old and tattered to display. But, as you can imagine, flag burning (in this context) is designed to project a loud statement, and to evoke a strong emotional response. And a strong emotional response is what you're getting from veterans.
It sounds like you aren't a veteran yourself, so you can't speak for us.
As a member of the U.S. military, I was asked to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That means I was defending our country's interests, be they political, or economic.
Do you really think that as I hauled my dead friends out of the water after their helicopter went down that I was thinking about "Gee this sucks. Screw these Iraqui bastards, we just want the oil." I was thinking, "What did politicians get me into now?" Many of us risked our lives for what you call opressive or futile purposes. We didn't have a choice. We swore an oath.
I swore an oath, and I followed up on it. It's a hard thing to do. Try it yourself sometime. I swore that oath on the U.S. flag. That flag is a symbol of my oath to support my country. Tell me what's wrong with doing that. So, the flag means a LOT to me, and to people like me.
Maybe it's unconstitutional to burn the flag. Fine. We have EVERY right in the world to try to protect it from people who don't know or care what that means to us. Think of anything that means a lot to you. Do you go to church? Would you permit me to waltz in and scream obcenities at the altar to "express my feelings?" I doubt it. How about art? Maybe I don't like the art you created. So I burn it. I'm just expressing my feelings, right? I have the right to do that, right?
I don't have to like your opinion of flagburning any more than you like mine. That's the beauty of the U.S. Everybody gets an opinion. And, in the represenative DEMOCRACY that we live in, if enough people feel that a certain way, well then a LAW gets passed. That's what these veterans are trying to do. You don't have to agree. We want people to know what's happening.
But don't you EVER belittle our sacrifices as the judgement of the military. Try asking your civilian congressman or your president what they were thinking.
Maybe you should ask another veteran or two how and why we feel the way we do about the flag. See if they give you a different answer.
If I recall correctly, Galileo did almost this thing. He very obnoxiously and abrasively proclaimed that the Church was screwed in the head (which, in truth it was, but it's hard to argue with or change centuries of tradition). So the Inquisition got medieval on his butt.
Would it be worth my time to buy one of these things if I can't use the phone line? I don't have a phone line at my house. I have a cable modem and a cell phone. That's all I've needed so far, really.
It's clear (from this excellent article and technologies around us) that humans are in the process of evolving themselves right out of existence.
As has been quoted by more than one Sci-Fi writer "We cannot afford to have all our eggs in one basket."
A really great question that never seems to get asked is: Why do we feel compelled to advance technology? What is this driving force? It seems to me that our own drive to survive at the expense of competitors is the same force that will drive humans to extinction.
I just called their customer service line. The operator was a bit confused when I asked her if I could order the appliance without the ISP service, but assured me that I could cancel it at any time. So, you don't need to subscribe to their service. Woohoo!
suppose you put a touch-screen keyboard overlay on this thing. Further suppose that you add a DC power supply (battery :) Portable Linux webpad! and it would play Quake! for $99!
In reference to this post about an "in-between" API, what do you think about (specifically) an API that translates DirectX calls into SDL calls? (Is this even a correct example?)
I hear you there...If I was so foolish as to be doing client-side Java (read: applets, event model 1.0) I'd be screwed. I wasn't too pleased with JDBC before version 2 either. And if I'd written enterprise beans with the 1.0 version, and had to migrate to version 1.1, again I would be screwed. But that's the price you pay for bleeding edge evolving standards. The nice thing was/is that Java API is easy to read and learn. Even the totally hosed-up 1.0 event model taught me lots of important lessons about object modeling (with no previous OO experience).
So, your very(!) lengthy and thorough post boils down to this: The difference between C++ and Java is like the difference between Linux and Windows. Windows - far easier to learn, a wealth of libraries (which may be unoptimized, but functional), and much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with. Linux - very flexible, will do anything you tell it to, but it never asks you "Are you sure?" and which assumes the user is experienced enough to know how to at least RTFM. I was the first person to write production Java for my company. This means I had no one to help me out with the pitfalls/dangers of programming. I do not believe I could have done (on schedule) the projects I was assigned in any other language (as I was not an experienced programmer). So, Java made me a hero, and I like that. Paychecks are nice.
Well, they may let you download it, but don't expect to read about it. I can't believe a site like Sony has a page as illegible as this. What's with those two little frames? Yeesh.
Drumroll please....
Defeats the copy protection.
So, in effect, those guys have potentially put themselves in the same position.
See this link: http://www.world.co.uk/sba/mpman.htm Apparently, the encryption is in the client software. These guys are showing that the current SDMI encryption isn't in the hardware at all. So, we're looking at some guys who reverse-engineered something, so that it would work with linux. Are we seeing the DVD disaster all over again?
You should also consider submitting this article to a somewhat more "mainstream media" site. Whether or not it would be accepted, this article would make an interesting read for non-technical people as well. Especially the totalitarian types.
What?? Nobody liked the commercial with the dog and the owner playing, with the voice-over ending up being the dog saying "So that's why I give him Budweiser." That and the impossibility of herding cats. And, "I mean, hey, he's got money coming out the wazoo."
If you read a bit farther into the release information, you'll find that the 700mhz part is designed for handhelds, laptops, etc. A bit farther down you will see a part talking about ease of addign to the architechture for models that are not portable-based, i.e. server architecture. They go further into performance gains from this change in architecture.
However, I notice that the terms of the release are defined as "Sample Implementation." What does this mean? Is this a less-than-full release? Do we have all of the source, or just part of it?
If this spectrum is useful for these applications (which admittedly, is purely speculative on my part), could we see here the development of an open information exchange? I believe there is a development effort along these lines on 2600's site, but don't quote me on that.
Online, hostile environments are driving almost every social group other than techno-savvy young white men away from coherent public discussion of technology. These men are invariably smart and skilled, but almost unable to communicate civilly or tolerate disagreement or difference. Are we breeding communities of impulsive and creative jerks?
So what you're saying, JK, is that only technosavvy white men are assholes on the Internet.
What's more, with yellow-journalistic statements like this one, you're stating "facts" without ANY relevant supporting statistics. Perhaps you should just go away.
My own thoughts are that the kind of online identification required to do online voting would destroy online anonymity. Any ID for this purpose would soon be exploited. Think not? Social Security numbers were specifically NOT for identification purposes. And look at them now. Everybody wants them. So, do you REALLY want to vote online?
ISA? Do not expect to find a "decent" openGL-compliant card in ISA. This bus does not have the bandwidth to rapidly render. (About 25mb/sec, I think). Considering that AGP is in the hundreds of mb/sec (I could be off here), that is. I doubt if there are any opengl accelerators in ISA. You'd probably be better off with software rendering.
How much were you paid to post this crap up here? If I wanted to read about HARDWARE REVIEWS, I would go to a HARDWARE REVIEW (read: commercial) site.
Kindly do not defile Slashdot with this tripe.
NO frickin' parking anywhere.
Pay doesn't match other metropolitan areas.
ALL the radio stations suck. This is because all but 2 are owned by the owners of WDVE. Just ask any of them if they know, say, Chemical Brothers. "Is that a video game?"
As per an earlier post I saw, if you're not a Steelers codger, forget it.
Stupid one-way streets everywhere.
Housing is expensive if it's not a rat-trap. And sometimes then, too.
On the plus side:
Metropol plays some forward-thinking music once in a while.
Lots of hotties up on the bar at BAR Pittsburgh.
Pirmanti's Brothers. If you have never had a sammich from Pirmanti Brothers, you have not lived.
The view from Mount Washington of the city. Priceless.
Anyone else?
What would the federal government bring to this industry with regulation? Hmm, let's see...
Well, for one, this sure is a GREAT check-off item to help Bill Clinton push through the National ID system. "See, we need to regulate who's getting drugs, and the only way to do that is with a national medical id..." I can see it now.
Does anyone here want this? Doesn't this scare ANYONE?
Bill Clinton wants desperately to be "relevant" to our times. After all, when he's gone, what will we remember him for? Monica? Whitewater? The implementation of the National ID would, in his mind, make him relevant.
The point is, this industry is already regulated by the Federal goverment. Ever heard of the FDA? Have the states done a woeful job to this point? Does the Clinton administration feel that the movers and shakers in the e-commerce world cant' do the same?
Just my quick rant. I'm done now. :)
Not really a fan of his, but now I know why Marilyn Manson wrote "The Beautiful People."
I'd like to be excused from the human race, on account of embarassment.