You lost me at "On top of that Nokia will use Android on their lower end phones"
What about the part where he says Nokia is the largest phone manufacturer? Wasn't there just an article posted less than a week ago about Samsung taking the top spot from Nokia?
I don't know if this is true elsewhere, but In Southern Ontario, Canada, the crime rate per capita is actually much lower in densely popular areas than it is in rural areas.
You are more likely to be a victim of crime if you live out in the country than if you are an urban dweller.
Of course, you are going to hear about far more crime happening in the big cities, because when you have 4 million people living in one place vs. 10,000, there is a higher total number of crimes occurring, but people can't do math (myself included) and fear the city and move out the country (I did the opposite)
Interesting how much of the world is interested in our politics. Several years ago, I was walking around Porvoo, Finland, taking pictures. I talked to a few teenagers doing skateboard tricks. In their perfect English, they were very curious how we could have elected Bush II twice. It's all they wanted to talk about.
I thought Bush was only actually elected once, for his second term... (As a non-American, I can't complain about his presidency too much, as his decisions made my country's economy much stronger by comparison.)
Same thing when I was living in South Korea. So much attention is paid to American politics. There were massive protests in the streets during August's protest season over some American policy.
I find it odd how defensive Americans get when we talk about their politics. Just because you happen live in an isolated bubble where other countries don't exist doesn't mean the rest of the world lives like that. We are saturated with your news, movies, music, tv, radio, products, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if a good number of foreigners were more knowledgeable about American politics than many Americans are.
Not only is the National Post a mainstream Canadian paper (one of the big 3 - The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post) but the National Post is the most conservative of the three.
Everything that reduces the necessity to dumb down Linux (see Unity) for end users (who do not care if they use Linux or Windows) is applauded by me.
Why is the dumbing down of linux a bad thing?
You may not like unity, but if you look hard enough, you might eventually find someone who does, and for you, there are any number of other desktop environments to choose from, and switching between them isn't hard at all. Isn't that the whole point of linux: freedom and choice to make your system do what you want it to sudo.
computers don't have to be hard to use, they are tools that allow us to do work (and look at porn.) if a simpler interface aids anyone in getting their work done (or their porn viewed) how can it possibly be a bad thing?
I predict that this will be as successful as Microsoft's "ipod killer". What was that thing called again?
This looks like a solution in search of a problem. How often must someone go low-level with an arduino? It's the community, not the hardware that have made that platform successful. And if I need to do something, chances are someone has already written code to do just that, and made it available to the community. I don't have to code much of anything, only tweak what I find.
"Why go through the mess of transplantation of that magnitude?"
Do it for science.
If this is a world-first, regardless of the outcome, these doctors will learn from this experiment, and the body of human knowledge will grow. I think it's entirely worth it to do crazy medical stuff like this when people volunteer.
If we don't try, we won't ever know what' possible to achieve.
I'm a content creator, and Google and YouTube have done wonderful things for me. I've gotten a few shows and jobs from YouTube videos that have gone semi-viral.
For the independent artist, the potential these services unlock is simply too important to lose.
Well, if the DHS Chief wants better algorithms for analyzing intelligence data, maybe he can have the department's funding cut, so more money can be put to use educating a generation of better students.
I would advise against having hardware and software sharing the same space.
do people really want to code between a bandsaw and stick welder?
what kind of work are you thinking about doing in this hackerspace? its hard to say what you will need when we don't know what you will build.
this is what i find helpful for my purposes:
numerous soldering stations those grippy tables with 2 arms and a magnifying glass. lots of reverse tweezers. (most useful tool ever.) proper wire cutters. the huge ones that hammer down and pull apart. save tons of time. fish tank for holding etching acid heat press for iron on transfers rotary tools small metal lathe hand drill drill press band saw a good vice various clamps
optional: safety goggles
oh, and try to get a plasma cutter! I've never actually used one for anything useful, but it's fun as hell to play with.
The national passtime of South Korea is StarCraft... Siege Tank crawl... My God, it suddenly makes sense! Oh hell! WE'RE FUCKED!
North Korea has a lot of very cheap units, while the South has a lot of very powerful, but expensive units. It's pretty much a Zerg vs Protoss battle. All the South has to do is survive the initial rush. After that, their eventual victory is pretty much assured.
Happened to me a few times as well. Genuine retail copy on my shelf, real disc in a real CD drive - base explodes. I got bitten by Operation Flashpoint's over-zealous FADE DRM as well.
Legit copies crapping out? that is really lame; luckily I've never had that problem.
"If you pirate Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, brace yourself for an explosion, as your entire base will detonate within 30 seconds of loading the game" I know for a fact that this statement is false. I have this friend who had a pirated copy. I....oops, I mean "he"....played it all the time back in the day, and never once had his base explode on him. It worked fine, other than the music and videos were all missing.
Remember, the original goal of copyright was to give exclusive copy rights to the authors for a limited period in exchange for their work to become public domain after that limited period.
A lot more people would agree to abide by copyright laws if they had not been twisted into the lifetime + 50 years locks that they are now.
I believe it's now life +70 years in Britain and America.
life of the artist should have nothing to do with it. it should be 'x years from date of first publication'
Perhaps a vacation would be a better choice than inducing a frustration built upon frustration.
For artists, taking a vacation can be more stressful than working. The whole time I'm "relaxing", I'm stressing over all the ideas I'm having and are unable to accomplish
eg. The only time I am able to enjoy a concert is when the band has hired me to be their photographer, because then I am working on composing cool shots, and creating something. Otherwise, when I'm just at a concert for 'fun', I spend the whole time thinking, "damn, that would have made a great shot...I wish I had my [camera gear] with me" (and it's not about the money, its about the hassle security gives people with SLRs (and standing front row/backstage))
working to use the non-dominant hand might not achieve anything artistically, but the feeling of working hard to achieve something might be good for boosting his morale and distracting him during the slow healing process. Probably better for his spirits than a vacation would be.
Does anyone in Korea understand what SATIRE fucking is?
I lived/worked in Korea for a year. One of the first things they told us about the Korean language/culture is that sarcasm does not exist. That's not exactly the same thing as satire, but most of the comedy shows were things like "how many lemons can you squash with your face in 30 seconds" or "how close will you get to a cobra while pouring milk on it's head". Obviously, as a non-native Korean speaker, I wouldn't get any of the spoken humour if I came across it, but I would be able to tell something was going on if a character spoke and the audience started laughing. I never had that experience. From what I saw, satire and sarcasm weren't the comedic norm. slapstick was.
That's what you get for Third World offshoring. Yes, that means South Korea too.
South Korea? 3rd world?
I was watching TV on my cellphone while riding the subway. I could hit record, change channels, go back, rewind, hit play. And this was back in 2007. And it cost me less than $30/month. My classroom had 2 giant interactive touch screen displays. This was a public school in a small village in the middle of nowhere, not some rich urban private school.
The minimum wage might be low, and the work hours long, but from what I saw, the standard of living for a middle-class Korean family is on about the same as any middle-class North American family. (although the lower-class Koreans do seem to have it worse than North Americans do.)
To me, calling a nation full of people with PVRs in their pockets "3rd world" is ridiculous.
even today's mainstream cpus are far more powerful than what our everyday tasks involve. even the fps-hungry gaming crowd has been reaching perceptive limits in regard to human eye, and the frame rate has become a sport, a statistical value.
unless society takes on seti, parallel computing etc as hobbies, we wont need more processing power in our daily lives.
Just wait till the next version of windows hits the shelves...
I'm fairly certain that computing power is like hard drive space or time 'till the deadline , we will always find ways to fill it, no matter how much we think we have in the beginning.
...If you're caught with a radio with its seals broken (i.e. someone opened it up) then you're arrested...
almost right. Technically, the penalty for listening to South Korean broadcasts is death, but a small bribe is usually enough to get off without punishment.
...But they were also kind of dicks about that whole independence thing. So it all evens out.
You know, Americans say that about the Brits, but look to your neighbour to the North. Rather than going through a bloody and violent war for independence, we just kinda sat around for a while. Eventually, the Brits forgot about us, we did our own thing, and we got some independence, we waited around some more, signed some papers, then got some more independence. No dickery at all. All I can really say about the accusations of one side being a dick is, "pot, meet kettle"
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You lost me at "On top of that Nokia will use Android on their lower end phones"
What about the part where he says Nokia is the largest phone manufacturer? Wasn't there just an article posted less than a week ago about Samsung taking the top spot from Nokia?
Harper is working real hard to change a lot of this.
I don't know if this is true elsewhere, but In Southern Ontario, Canada, the crime rate per capita is actually much lower in densely popular areas than it is in rural areas.
You are more likely to be a victim of crime if you live out in the country than if you are an urban dweller.
Of course, you are going to hear about far more crime happening in the big cities, because when you have 4 million people living in one place vs. 10,000, there is a higher total number of crimes occurring, but people can't do math (myself included) and fear the city and move out the country (I did the opposite)
Interesting how much of the world is interested in our politics.
Several years ago, I was walking around Porvoo, Finland, taking pictures. I talked to a few teenagers doing skateboard tricks. In their perfect English, they were very curious how we could have elected Bush II twice. It's all they wanted to talk about.
I thought Bush was only actually elected once, for his second term... (As a non-American, I can't complain about his presidency too much, as his decisions made my country's economy much stronger by comparison.)
Same thing when I was living in South Korea. So much attention is paid to American politics. There were massive protests in the streets during August's protest season over some American policy.
I find it odd how defensive Americans get when we talk about their politics. Just because you happen live in an isolated bubble where other countries don't exist doesn't mean the rest of the world lives like that. We are saturated with your news, movies, music, tv, radio, products, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if a good number of foreigners were more knowledgeable about American politics than many Americans are.
Why isn't this in the mainstream news?
Not only is the National Post a mainstream Canadian paper (one of the big 3 - The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post) but the National Post is the most conservative of the three.
Imagine the Star's take on this!
Everything that reduces the necessity to dumb down Linux (see Unity) for end users (who do not care if they use Linux or Windows) is applauded by me.
Why is the dumbing down of linux a bad thing?
You may not like unity, but if you look hard enough, you might eventually find someone who does, and for you, there are any number of other desktop environments to choose from, and switching between them isn't hard at all. Isn't that the whole point of linux: freedom and choice to make your system do what you want it to sudo.
computers don't have to be hard to use, they are tools that allow us to do work (and look at porn.) if a simpler interface aids anyone in getting their work done (or their porn viewed) how can it possibly be a bad thing?
I predict that this will be as successful as Microsoft's "ipod killer". What was that thing called again?
This looks like a solution in search of a problem. How often must someone go low-level with an arduino? It's the community, not the hardware that have made that platform successful. And if I need to do something, chances are someone has already written code to do just that, and made it available to the community. I don't have to code much of anything, only tweak what I find.
Reality is not racist; it simply is.
"Why go through the mess of transplantation of that magnitude?"
Do it for science.
If this is a world-first, regardless of the outcome, these doctors will learn from this experiment, and the body of human knowledge will grow. I think it's entirely worth it to do crazy medical stuff like this when people volunteer.
If we don't try, we won't ever know what' possible to achieve.
They didn't test BASIC? Lame...
That's funny.
I'm a content creator, and Google and YouTube have done wonderful things for me. I've gotten a few shows and jobs from YouTube videos that have gone semi-viral.
For the independent artist, the potential these services unlock is simply too important to lose.
Well, if the DHS Chief wants better algorithms for analyzing intelligence data, maybe he can have the department's funding cut, so more money can be put to use educating a generation of better students.
someone give me a one-word answer. Which is better: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
Open Office.org now belongs to Oracle. That should settle it for many FOSS fans.
I've played around with a makerbot. It might seem like the plastic would jiggle on the moving base, but it really isn't a problem at all.
The biggest problem I've seen with the makerbot is the z-axis, the standard bars are too flexible, causing alignment problems on taller objects.
My verdict on the makerbot: toy, not tool.
I would advise against having hardware and software sharing the same space.
do people really want to code between a bandsaw and stick welder?
what kind of work are you thinking about doing in this hackerspace? its hard to say what you will need when we don't know what you will build.
this is what i find helpful for my purposes:
numerous soldering stations
those grippy tables with 2 arms and a magnifying glass.
lots of reverse tweezers. (most useful tool ever.)
proper wire cutters. the huge ones that hammer down and pull apart. save tons of time.
fish tank for holding etching acid
heat press for iron on transfers
rotary tools
small metal lathe
hand drill
drill press
band saw
a good vice
various clamps
optional: safety goggles
oh, and try to get a plasma cutter! I've never actually used one for anything useful, but it's fun as hell to play with.
The national passtime of South Korea is StarCraft... Siege Tank crawl... My God, it suddenly makes sense! Oh hell! WE'RE FUCKED!
North Korea has a lot of very cheap units, while the South has a lot of very powerful, but expensive units.
It's pretty much a Zerg vs Protoss battle.
All the South has to do is survive the initial rush. After that, their eventual victory is pretty much assured.
Happened to me a few times as well. Genuine retail copy on my shelf, real disc in a real CD drive - base explodes. I got bitten by Operation Flashpoint's over-zealous FADE DRM as well.
Legit copies crapping out? that is really lame; luckily I've never had that problem.
"If you pirate Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, brace yourself for an explosion, as your entire base will detonate within 30 seconds of loading the game"
I know for a fact that this statement is false.
I have this friend who had a pirated copy. I....oops, I mean "he"....played it all the time back in the day, and never once had his base explode on him.
It worked fine, other than the music and videos were all missing.
Remember, the original goal of copyright was to give exclusive copy rights to the authors for a limited period in exchange for their work to become public domain after that limited period.
A lot more people would agree to abide by copyright laws if they had not been twisted into the lifetime + 50 years locks that they are now.
I believe it's now life +70 years in Britain and America.
life of the artist should have nothing to do with it. it should be 'x years from date of first publication'
Perhaps a vacation would be a better choice than inducing a frustration built upon frustration.
For artists, taking a vacation can be more stressful than working.
The whole time I'm "relaxing", I'm stressing over all the ideas I'm having and are unable to accomplish
eg. The only time I am able to enjoy a concert is when the band has hired me to be their photographer, because then I am working on composing cool shots, and creating something. Otherwise, when I'm just at a concert for 'fun', I spend the whole time thinking, "damn, that would have made a great shot...I wish I had my [camera gear] with me"
(and it's not about the money, its about the hassle security gives people with SLRs (and standing front row/backstage))
working to use the non-dominant hand might not achieve anything artistically, but the feeling of working hard to achieve something might be good for boosting his morale and distracting him during the slow healing process. Probably better for his spirits than a vacation would be.
Does anyone in Korea understand what SATIRE fucking is?
I lived/worked in Korea for a year.
One of the first things they told us about the Korean language/culture is that sarcasm does not exist.
That's not exactly the same thing as satire, but most of the comedy shows were things like "how many lemons can you squash with your face in 30 seconds" or "how close will you get to a cobra while pouring milk on it's head".
Obviously, as a non-native Korean speaker, I wouldn't get any of the spoken humour if I came across it, but I would be able to tell something was going on if a character spoke and the audience started laughing. I never had that experience. From what I saw, satire and sarcasm weren't the comedic norm. slapstick was.
That's what you get for Third World offshoring. Yes, that means South Korea too.
South Korea? 3rd world?
I was watching TV on my cellphone while riding the subway. I could hit record, change channels, go back, rewind, hit play. And this was back in 2007. And it cost me less than $30/month.
My classroom had 2 giant interactive touch screen displays.
This was a public school in a small village in the middle of nowhere, not some rich urban private school.
The minimum wage might be low, and the work hours long, but from what I saw, the standard of living for a middle-class Korean family is on about the same as any middle-class North American family. (although the lower-class Koreans do seem to have it worse than North Americans do.)
To me, calling a nation full of people with PVRs in their pockets "3rd world" is ridiculous.
even today's mainstream cpus are far more powerful than what our everyday tasks involve. even the fps-hungry gaming crowd has been reaching perceptive limits in regard to human eye, and the frame rate has become a sport, a statistical value.
unless society takes on seti, parallel computing etc as hobbies, we wont need more processing power in our daily lives.
Just wait till the next version of windows hits the shelves...
I'm fairly certain that computing power is like hard drive space or time 'till the deadline , we will always find ways to fill it, no matter how much we think we have in the beginning.
almost right.
Technically, the penalty for listening to South Korean broadcasts is death, but a small bribe is usually enough to get off without punishment.
...But they were also kind of dicks about that whole independence thing. So it all evens out.
You know, Americans say that about the Brits, but look to your neighbour to the North.
Rather than going through a bloody and violent war for independence, we just kinda sat around for a while. Eventually, the Brits forgot about us, we did our own thing, and we got some independence, we waited around some more, signed some papers, then got some more independence. No dickery at all. All I can really say about the accusations of one side being a dick is, "pot, meet kettle"
in my opinion the United States enjoys more freedom because even assholes are free to be themselves.
Yes I'm being serious. Freedom means freedom for ALL people, even the ones you don't like .
America: free speech for all, even douchebags
Canada: free speech for all, except douchebags and Anglophones in Quebec.