I think you are wrong. watching the show I saw what appeared so cool its practically magic and immediately wanted to know why it worked so I could do it and be cool like him. may not be true for everyone but like I said, it worked for me.
sadly, that is more true than you might think. I grew up spending all my time watching MacGyver and Baywatch as a young boy. as an adult I have become a complete nerd, if I am not thinking about computers, science, or math I am thinking about breasts. these shows undoubtedly affected the adult I became. and to be honest I think I am proof that exposure to the right shows can really benefit a child later on in life.
try again. how much is a similar product licensed for... then sue all the people you mentioned. its still a violated patent no matter how many people violate it or if its still used by the patentor.
there is a HUGE difference between allowing me to pay more for higher bandwith to my house so I can download your website as fast as the bandwith you paid for allows and both of us getting charged to get the bandwith we already paid for prioritized so we can actually use it. they want to charge you so that once it gets past your link and on to the backbone of the net it doesn't get the brakes slammed slowing it back down. basically this is a chance to make us pay twice for speed. I don't mind paying but I think its a ripoff to make me pay twice for one service.
hmm, some further research shows I did have self discharge of NIMH and NICAD backwards. I am certain that RC hobbyist are using NIMH because we can use a cheap capacitor to make up for the slower current draw and easily get batteries with 2x the capacity[twice the run time] pretty easily.
for reference I mostly posted to admit my mistake honestly instead of mysteriously disappearing from the thread, I just went ahead with correcting you on the RC batteries so you have it straight for future reference when trying to sound omnipotent on/.
on second thought those of us who run rc cars are as factioned and argumentative as/.ers so someone else who runs RC will disagree with me. but it doesn't change that I am right!
the only situations where LION is ruling the market is in devices where weight is towards the top of the list of concerns, laptops and cell phones. no one else is using it. everything else is mixed/partially/ LION at most. seriously go watch those videos on youtube, you'd be scared out of using LION's more than necessary. think white hot road flare.
I am not exactly certain what you mean by "gone the way of NIMH" I personally use all rechargeable AA batteries in household electronics and run hobby class electric RC vehicles in my free time and all of my batteries are NIMH except in my cell phone where the battery was included in the deal. [it also benefits more from weight and size than my tv remote or wii remotes do] I have not switched to LION because its not available in AA and their liklihood of going boom, check out the youtube videos of them going off... scary. NICAD on the other hand I have not used in years because of energy density, weight, and self discharge outweighing their increased current. I spent a lot of time researching the options before I decided NIMH are currently the best way to go before I shelled out the ~$500 I have vested in batteries and chargers between RC and household electronics.
The GPL only reduces the freedoms of the developer if the code is licensed GPL by someone other than the original author. The original author does get to "do what thou wilt" with their own code. What I got out of Theo's comment was simply that the GPL is rude to people who write and license with BSD/MIT licenses because they can see the improvements made to their original code but they can't touch. [I'm sure they find it equally rude to find their code taken for MS style closed licensing but they can't see that so easily] The GPL requires the courtesy of sharing back to your on terms you are cool with but BSD licensing does not. I think it was perfectly fair for Theo to point out that its a slap in the face for them to add the GPL to BSD code because it seems easy for GPL fans to overlook that courtesy after being used to having it guaranteed in their license.
I personally read "the universe in a single atom" which was written by his holiness. Say what you will about the history, the current Dalai Lama is the only religious leader who actually makes sense even after you think about what he said. I've been meaning to read more of his writings but at the moment learning awk and perl are eating all of my self study time.
thats fine, I'm sure I can reincarnate again. seriously though, the west is going to eat up stories of china killing suspected reincarnated monks. if only america could survive without china to prop itself up on... bonds and manufacturing will keep that from happening.
hey now, every piece of software that they want to be able to interact with their software gets the full specs on how to do it. which is to say they have access to their own standards, and fuck everybody else.
Meth heads don't do less drugs during the work week, I wonder if that has something to do with them not having jobs. I am surprised with heroin supposedly being so addictive that it's levels drop off during the week. Am I wrong in assuming that the weekday to weekend usage ratio should be closely tied to a drugs addictiveness?
3 18 wheeler trailers have about 1200 sq ft of floor space combined[53 ft trailers]. By no means huge but very livable. the average townhouse in my area seems to be about 1700 sq ft of livable space. but we all know they are filled with crap that wouldn't be needed for a 6 month trip to space.
I have heard this argument before and am surprised its gone so long with no one debunking it. First of all no one I know has dropped the "privacy" side of this argument, the security risk is simply in addition to the privacy reasons. You also need to consider that the people who are making the decision have already proven on more than one occasion that they are indifferent to privacy implications of legislation like this. If we can convince them to preserve some facet of our ever dwindling privacy out of fear of some script kiddy stealing a few hundred thousand from their trust fund its still a win. No commanding general would ever forfeit a battle because the only reason he was winning was a supply line interruption, he would move on to the next battle proud of his victory.
In many fields it appears people think in simple problem - implement solution form. Those of us who have training and experience coding or other complex technology have been retrained to think in a problem - evaluate repercussions of potential solution - implement solution form. Usually with quite a few loops over the evaluate repercussions phase because the initial solution was unsatisfactory.
Maybe the solution to the short comings in our government is to force them to take and pass advanced programming classes before being allowed to take office.
This is just plain amazingly cruel to everyone who gave them the benefit of the doubt and took the risk of being an early adopter. Things like this are the reason why windows has been relegated from my primary OS to dual booted with linux on only of my 4 computers over the last few years. [the rest run only linux].
I've been considering trying out apple, a mac book proto be specific, in the near future. Being as I don't really care for digg so I don't know that I'd like it.
linuxquestions, linuxforums, slashdot, beeradvocate, myspace, and flickr, in that order of occurrence make up my top ten google hits. The key is keeping my userid separate from my real life name. My real name, in quotes, does not return a single result that refers to me in the top ten. As long as I don't put the two together no one who doesn't personally know me would put the two together.
I also use the customize google firefox plugin to keep my secrets from google.
we don't have to wish anything away. office 2007 uses OOXML as the default format thanks to the open format scare with governments wanting to be able to read their documents years in to the future. something we saw becoming a hassle with MS changing the formats for each new generation of office, breaking backwards compatibility. since OOXML is an open format that we can all read the specs for the OO people are going to have much less trouble saving to and reading from it because they will know how. instead of being forced to guess around till they find something that sort of works to write and read a format they have never seen the specifications for.
seriously? I am a Linux user who occasionally uses windows for work and the few programs I can't find an equivalent for in Linux, and those programs seems to get more rare by the day. I thought it was rather refreshing to see someone who wasn't on a militant rant. seemed to just say he tried Ubuntu because he wanted to see how it stacked up and it worked for him. it works for me too, and when it doesn't I use something else. but I do shamelessly admit my preference is for Linux so I may be overlooking my own bias.
3 years to pay for themselves is not a big deal in the long term, most of the current panels that are the grade you would use to panel your roof are warrantied for 10 times that long last I checked. you also have to think that this is something you put on the roof of your house, until recently people would only buy one house and spend their entire lives in it. 3 years is nothing in those terms. I just recently bought a brand new toyota, cost a lot more than a used ford pinto would have up front, but I plan to keep it a long time and it should be cheaper in the end because a used pinto will cost a lot more to maintain. the same math applies here, suck up the initial cost, its cheaper in the long run.
a good grid tie system and these things will pay for themselves. I hope that panels of this efficiency are ready for public purchase when I am ready to be a homeowner. this is one of those things that makes economic and environmental sense and I hope it doesn't get stymied by people who are afraid to be "green" because they think it has to be more expensive.
I totally see where you are coming from, the tesla roadster is just a wet dream for me too. I was only pointing it out because it was an EV thread where it hadn't been mentioned, its freaking sweet, and its a real EV accomplishment instead of being an insulting conversion I could do in my garage for a few thousand dollars.
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I think you are wrong. watching the show I saw what appeared so cool its practically magic and immediately wanted to know why it worked so I could do it and be cool like him. may not be true for everyone but like I said, it worked for me.
sadly, that is more true than you might think. I grew up spending all my time watching MacGyver and Baywatch as a young boy. as an adult I have become a complete nerd, if I am not thinking about computers, science, or math I am thinking about breasts. these shows undoubtedly affected the adult I became. and to be honest I think I am proof that exposure to the right shows can really benefit a child later on in life.
try again. how much is a similar product licensed for... then sue all the people you mentioned. its still a violated patent no matter how many people violate it or if its still used by the patentor.
just to remind you how the other side thinks.
there is a HUGE difference between allowing me to pay more for higher bandwith to my house so I can download your website as fast as the bandwith you paid for allows and both of us getting charged to get the bandwith we already paid for prioritized so we can actually use it. they want to charge you so that once it gets past your link and on to the backbone of the net it doesn't get the brakes slammed slowing it back down. basically this is a chance to make us pay twice for speed. I don't mind paying but I think its a ripoff to make me pay twice for one service.
hmm, some further research shows I did have self discharge of NIMH and NICAD backwards. I am certain that RC hobbyist are using NIMH because we can use a cheap capacitor to make up for the slower current draw and easily get batteries with 2x the capacity[twice the run time] pretty easily.
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/.ers so someone else who runs RC will disagree with me. but it doesn't change that I am right!
for reference I mostly posted to admit my mistake honestly instead of mysteriously disappearing from the thread, I just went ahead with correcting you on the RC batteries so you have it straight for future reference when trying to sound omnipotent on
on second thought those of us who run rc cars are as factioned and argumentative as
the only situations where LION is ruling the market is in devices where weight is towards the top of the list of concerns, laptops and cell phones. no one else is using it. everything else is mixed /partially/ LION at most. seriously go watch those videos on youtube, you'd be scared out of using LION's more than necessary. think white hot road flare.
I am not exactly certain what you mean by "gone the way of NIMH" I personally use all rechargeable AA batteries in household electronics and run hobby class electric RC vehicles in my free time and all of my batteries are NIMH except in my cell phone where the battery was included in the deal. [it also benefits more from weight and size than my tv remote or wii remotes do] I have not switched to LION because its not available in AA and their liklihood of going boom, check out the youtube videos of them going off... scary. NICAD on the other hand I have not used in years because of energy density, weight, and self discharge outweighing their increased current. I spent a lot of time researching the options before I decided NIMH are currently the best way to go before I shelled out the ~$500 I have vested in batteries and chargers between RC and household electronics.
The GPL only reduces the freedoms of the developer if the code is licensed GPL by someone other than the original author. The original author does get to "do what thou wilt" with their own code. What I got out of Theo's comment was simply that the GPL is rude to people who write and license with BSD/MIT licenses because they can see the improvements made to their original code but they can't touch. [I'm sure they find it equally rude to find their code taken for MS style closed licensing but they can't see that so easily] The GPL requires the courtesy of sharing back to your on terms you are cool with but BSD licensing does not. I think it was perfectly fair for Theo to point out that its a slap in the face for them to add the GPL to BSD code because it seems easy for GPL fans to overlook that courtesy after being used to having it guaranteed in their license.
I personally read "the universe in a single atom" which was written by his holiness. Say what you will about the history, the current Dalai Lama is the only religious leader who actually makes sense even after you think about what he said. I've been meaning to read more of his writings but at the moment learning awk and perl are eating all of my self study time.
thats fine, I'm sure I can reincarnate again. seriously though, the west is going to eat up stories of china killing suspected reincarnated monks. if only america could survive without china to prop itself up on... bonds and manufacturing will keep that from happening.
hey now, every piece of software that they want to be able to interact with their software gets the full specs on how to do it. which is to say they have access to their own standards, and fuck everybody else.
Meth heads don't do less drugs during the work week, I wonder if that has something to do with them not having jobs. I am surprised with heroin supposedly being so addictive that it's levels drop off during the week. Am I wrong in assuming that the weekday to weekend usage ratio should be closely tied to a drugs addictiveness?
3 18 wheeler trailers have about 1200 sq ft of floor space combined[53 ft trailers]. By no means huge but very livable. the average townhouse in my area seems to be about 1700 sq ft of livable space. but we all know they are filled with crap that wouldn't be needed for a 6 month trip to space.
I was trusting I was setting that free in an environment where the irony would be appreciated.
I have heard this argument before and am surprised its gone so long with no one debunking it. First of all no one I know has dropped the "privacy" side of this argument, the security risk is simply in addition to the privacy reasons. You also need to consider that the people who are making the decision have already proven on more than one occasion that they are indifferent to privacy implications of legislation like this. If we can convince them to preserve some facet of our ever dwindling privacy out of fear of some script kiddy stealing a few hundred thousand from their trust fund its still a win. No commanding general would ever forfeit a battle because the only reason he was winning was a supply line interruption, he would move on to the next battle proud of his victory.
You are exactly right.
In many fields it appears people think in simple problem - implement solution form. Those of us who have training and experience coding or other complex technology have been retrained to think in a problem - evaluate repercussions of potential solution - implement solution form. Usually with quite a few loops over the evaluate repercussions phase because the initial solution was unsatisfactory.
Maybe the solution to the short comings in our government is to force them to take and pass advanced programming classes before being allowed to take office.
This is just plain amazingly cruel to everyone who gave them the benefit of the doubt and took the risk of being an early adopter. Things like this are the reason why windows has been relegated from my primary OS to dual booted with linux on only of my 4 computers over the last few years. [the rest run only linux].
I've been considering trying out apple, a mac book proto be specific, in the near future. Being as I don't really care for digg so I don't know that I'd like it.
linuxquestions, linuxforums, slashdot, beeradvocate, myspace, and flickr, in that order of occurrence make up my top ten google hits. The key is keeping my userid separate from my real life name. My real name, in quotes, does not return a single result that refers to me in the top ten. As long as I don't put the two together no one who doesn't personally know me would put the two together.
I also use the customize google firefox plugin to keep my secrets from google.
we don't have to wish anything away. office 2007 uses OOXML as the default format thanks to the open format scare with governments wanting to be able to read their documents years in to the future. something we saw becoming a hassle with MS changing the formats for each new generation of office, breaking backwards compatibility. since OOXML is an open format that we can all read the specs for the OO people are going to have much less trouble saving to and reading from it because they will know how. instead of being forced to guess around till they find something that sort of works to write and read a format they have never seen the specifications for.
seriously? I am a Linux user who occasionally uses windows for work and the few programs I can't find an equivalent for in Linux, and those programs seems to get more rare by the day. I thought it was rather refreshing to see someone who wasn't on a militant rant. seemed to just say he tried Ubuntu because he wanted to see how it stacked up and it worked for him. it works for me too, and when it doesn't I use something else. but I do shamelessly admit my preference is for Linux so I may be overlooking my own bias.
3 years to pay for themselves is not a big deal in the long term, most of the current panels that are the grade you would use to panel your roof are warrantied for 10 times that long last I checked. you also have to think that this is something you put on the roof of your house, until recently people would only buy one house and spend their entire lives in it. 3 years is nothing in those terms. I just recently bought a brand new toyota, cost a lot more than a used ford pinto would have up front, but I plan to keep it a long time and it should be cheaper in the end because a used pinto will cost a lot more to maintain. the same math applies here, suck up the initial cost, its cheaper in the long run.
a good grid tie system and these things will pay for themselves. I hope that panels of this efficiency are ready for public purchase when I am ready to be a homeowner. this is one of those things that makes economic and environmental sense and I hope it doesn't get stymied by people who are afraid to be "green" because they think it has to be more expensive.
I totally see where you are coming from, the tesla roadster is just a wet dream for me too. I was only pointing it out because it was an EV thread where it hadn't been mentioned, its freaking sweet, and its a real EV accomplishment instead of being an insulting conversion I could do in my garage for a few thousand dollars.
damn, you beat me to it. I hear they are working on a more family friendly daily driver type of vehicle now that the roadster sold out the first 100.
don't any of you know about the tesla roadster?
http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php
its faster, quicker, prettier, has a better range, and doesn't have a gasoline or diesel engine at all!