I think that's a great idea... an excise tax on computer equipment won't be popular, but if done right, it would help encourage more companies to set up recycling programs (like IBM).
Actually, I used to work at (one of) the IBM sites where the recycling takes place (Endicott, NY). At least IBM's program is legit - there was just too much space and too many people there for it to be a "front" to an overseas shipping operation.
I've developed Linux on the mainframe, and none of this is true. It IPLs very quickly, and is just as easy to use as any other Linux. That post ought to be (-1, Troll), not (5, Informative).
Here for proof that I know what I am talking about (down toward the bottom).
As much as I hate to say it, one day you're going to have to put aside your idealistic fantasies and come to terms with the world in which you live. War happens - it is inevitable. Fortunately, wonderful acts of kindness tend to be inevitable as well, so they sort of balance out.
Take some time and read through the history of societies - until a monolith comes down from on high an reprograms human nature, war is just going to be one of those facts of life.
This has nothing to do with me "accepting the system" or some other such nonsense. It's just the way humans are. Accept it, decide which side you're on, and make the best out of life - but don't go on with your head in the sand.
The iBooks are pretty sturdy... and their screen hinge (milled aluminum) is not only function (it lowers the screen to give more viewing angle) but it is really tough and solid.
Ironically, the Powerbook G4 (tiBook) had some serious hinge problem - the screen flexes when lifted by a corner, and they tend to break (based on the experiences of a friend).
That stinks... my +/= key on my iBook came off (same problem, those little clamp things broke) and I brought it to an Apple store. Within 20 minutes I had a brand new *entire keyboard*, and they gave me another laptop with Airport to play around with while I was waiting.
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I completely agree... while Fight Club might not be as profound as, say, A Clockwork Orange, it certainly is a worthwhile commentary on socitey.
Regardless, it is also a well filmed, engaging movie with some truly enlightened moments and effects (and example of the latter being the walk through Ikea catalog)
I know this is a little offtopic, but its about as on topic as it will ever be.;)
A friend of my father once had a pinball machine that he had built from a kit - sometime in the 70's or 80's I think. From what I've been told, a company used to sell these kits (along with kits for other various electronic things) complete, and you would assemble them. I'd love to have my own pinball machine, and I'd really like to build it, but I have been unable to find such a kit.
Can anyone out there tell me if such a thing exists, or verify that the company who created these kits is long gone? Thanks for any leads you can give.
IANAlan Cox, but what 99% of the people in this discussion fail to realize is that this probably has nothing to do with the future of Redhat/Linux, but with the principles involved.
Fact: Alan Cox has serious issues with the DMCA, both practical and philosophical.
Fact: AOL/Time-Warner, being an industry leader in the area of movies and such, is a proponent of the DMCA and other similar laws.
Alan, being a man of principle, probably feels that the merger would be a bad thing becuase of this, and his working in the resulting company would comprimise things that he believes in. Unlike many people in this world (and, it seems, on slashdot), he feels the finding a new job is the proper course of action in this case.
As an aside, the non-Alan consequences of this are interesting - AOL/TW owns RH, in order for RH to play DVDs (which is an important feature of a modern desktop OS) it needs to violate the DMCA, AOL/TW supports the DMCA. So with AOL/TW owns a product that endorses breaking the DMCA, or they give RH (and by that, perhaps all of Linux/x86) a "legal" (if not open) method to play DVDs.
Buy the O'Reilly book on device drivers mentioned above, and pick a driver you use. Try to understand it, and then tweak it a bit. Since they can be loaded and unloaded, device drivers are a little easier/quicker to play with. And there is a good book on them.;)
Working on it during part of an 8 hour work day, in about 1 month I was able to hack tab support into the s390 vm console driver with nothing more than reading code, searching the net, and using that book. And that was probably a little on the slow side. (see here http://www.eagle7.org/ibmlinux.html
And like Alan Cox said in the interview posted to/. a bit ago - Have Fun!
From the product info page for the one that play's music:
A standard 8 MB Memory Stick® media is included with your CLIÉ? PEG-N760C handheld. This is adequate for storing a few, non-secure, music tracks at a time. To carry more than a few tracks at once, or to download and play secure music (ATRAC3? audio content) requires a larger MagicGate? Memory Stick® media (sold separately).
It seems that it will play all the "insecure" MP3s you throw at it - but I love the wording of this. In-secure music vs. Secure music - as if the insecure music will somehow send out emails on the device to your boss or something.
Bravo to Sony for creating a neat product... but a slap on the wrist for attempting to brainwash the consumer into shooting him/herself in the foot.
What we need then is a quality, Word-like GUI for TEX. There are open standards (TEX, PS), but they are too cumbersome for the average person to use on a daily basis. Or the learning/comfortability curve is too steep.
No, I think you are right and wrong. You're right in the sense that your viewpoint is the commonly used example... but it is also identical to what they are saying (twisted a bit).
They are saying that if you have 100 pigeons and 1 hole, you need 100 unique markers (labels) to differentiate them. If I added a pigeon and didn't add a label, there would be two ambiguous pigeons. This is the same as 101 pigeons in 100 holes - two of them must share a hole (or share a marker). I like the multiple holes version better, but its just a different way to discribe the same thing.
They are suggesting that by using multidimensional mathematics (meaning, I assume, greater than your usual 3 dimensions) they can alleviate this "marker" problem. They completely lose me here though, so I'll shut up.;)
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has a major security vulnerability in the
latest stable (4.7.2480) and beta (4.8.2616) Windows versions.
It's a buffer overflow, so the/. description is off - it's a client vunerability, not a protocol one (although it looks like AOL will fix it in the server).
Hrm... in that case, it would be removing the heat from the CPU (by turning it into some other form of energy). So the end result would be a dynamic heatsink (as opposed to a static one without moving parts) that cooled more efficiently as it got hotter, because it would move air through itself.
You could do something like this simply by adding a fan to the top (it would work like those Christmas candle things at craft fairs, the rising hot air would turn the fan), but I doubt this would generate enough air flow to make it worthwhile.
My guess would be that if there was a simple way to turn this heat into enough electricity to power a fan to cool off the heat (which would in turn shut the fan off by reducing the voltage), someone would have done it. Either that, or I should go apply for a patent.;)
Short and sweet: That was one of the single most stupid articles I have ever read in the computer field. His ideas (which he fails to argue very well or logically) might help an *extreme* novice use a computer more easily, but would (as a design feature) prevent them from ever understanding the system. And anyone who was even a modest "power user" would feel completely strangled by the restrictive interface.
Ya know... I don't think you should worry about what you had. If anything, you should feel a little proud that you made it ok. In the end, it doesn't matter if it was other people not liking you, or a disease, or a sadistic god sprinkling dust on your little clay statue. You were faced with a problem, you adapted to it, and you won. You might not have known the cause, but you still came out on top. That's about all a pshycologist can tell you.
What is important is your daughter. She's going to have a heck of a time, and she's going to need all the understanding, patience, and love that you can muster. Take all that knowledge and experience that you have from your life, all those memories of how you felt, and what you liked, and what made you feel better, and channel it into being that best father for your her. And making her life as rich and worthwhile as possible, regardless of what her prognosis ends up as.
You can look back at your past and analyse yourself and feel pity, or sadness or whatever. Or you can take this disease that you had/have, and turn it into a heroic trait. Use that understanding and apply it to your daughter, and become a hero for her. Do that and you won't have to worry about the ways that your physiology isn't normal, becuase you will have lept beyond the norm in the one area in which you are handicapped - interacting with another person.
Posting from it now. Seems to be nice - I wish there was an option to make it jump more lines with the scroll wheel, but other than that I am liking it.
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I think that's a great idea... an excise tax on computer equipment won't be popular, but if done right, it would help encourage more companies to set up recycling programs (like IBM).
Actually, I used to work at (one of) the IBM sites where the recycling takes place (Endicott, NY). At least IBM's program is legit - there was just too much space and too many people there for it to be a "front" to an overseas shipping operation.
Mod the Parent *DOWN*.
I've developed Linux on the mainframe, and none of this is true. It IPLs very quickly, and is just as easy to use as any other Linux. That post ought to be (-1, Troll), not (5, Informative).
Here for proof that I know what I am talking about (down toward the bottom).
As much as I hate to say it, one day you're going to have to put aside your idealistic fantasies and come to terms with the world in which you live. War happens - it is inevitable. Fortunately, wonderful acts of kindness tend to be inevitable as well, so they sort of balance out.
Take some time and read through the history of societies - until a monolith comes down from on high an reprograms human nature, war is just going to be one of those facts of life.
This has nothing to do with me "accepting the system" or some other such nonsense. It's just the way humans are. Accept it, decide which side you're on, and make the best out of life - but don't go on with your head in the sand.
Rob or Kathleen- How about posting a pic of the ring for all to see? I mean, what kind of proposal is it with no rock?
Congrats - best of luck to both of you!
Googlewhack!!!
"Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics."
The iBooks are pretty sturdy... and their screen hinge (milled aluminum) is not only function (it lowers the screen to give more viewing angle) but it is really tough and solid.
Ironically, the Powerbook G4 (tiBook) had some serious hinge problem - the screen flexes when lifted by a corner, and they tend to break (based on the experiences of a friend).
That stinks... my +/= key on my iBook came off (same problem, those little clamp things broke) and I brought it to an Apple store. Within 20 minutes I had a brand new *entire keyboard*, and they gave me another laptop with Airport to play around with while I was waiting.
I completely agree... while Fight Club might not be as profound as, say, A Clockwork Orange, it certainly is a worthwhile commentary on socitey.
Regardless, it is also a well filmed, engaging movie with some truly enlightened moments and effects (and example of the latter being the walk through Ikea catalog)
I know this is a little offtopic, but its about as on topic as it will ever be. ;)
A friend of my father once had a pinball machine that he had built from a kit - sometime in the 70's or 80's I think. From what I've been told, a company used to sell these kits (along with kits for other various electronic things) complete, and you would assemble them. I'd love to have my own pinball machine, and I'd really like to build it, but I have been unable to find such a kit.
Can anyone out there tell me if such a thing exists, or verify that the company who created these kits is long gone? Thanks for any leads you can give.
IANAlan Cox, but what 99% of the people in this discussion fail to realize is that this probably has nothing to do with the future of Redhat/Linux, but with the principles involved.
Fact: Alan Cox has serious issues with the DMCA, both practical and philosophical.
Fact: AOL/Time-Warner, being an industry leader in the area of movies and such, is a proponent of the DMCA and other similar laws.
Alan, being a man of principle, probably feels that the merger would be a bad thing becuase of this, and his working in the resulting company would comprimise things that he believes in. Unlike many people in this world (and, it seems, on slashdot), he feels the finding a new job is the proper course of action in this case.
As an aside, the non-Alan consequences of this are interesting - AOL/TW owns RH, in order for RH to play DVDs (which is an important feature of a modern desktop OS) it needs to violate the DMCA, AOL/TW supports the DMCA. So with AOL/TW owns a product that endorses breaking the DMCA, or they give RH (and by that, perhaps all of Linux/x86) a "legal" (if not open) method to play DVDs.
Buy the O'Reilly book on device drivers mentioned above, and pick a driver you use. Try to understand it, and then tweak it a bit. Since they can be loaded and unloaded, device drivers are a little easier/quicker to play with. And there is a good book on them. ;)
/. a bit ago - Have Fun!
Working on it during part of an 8 hour work day, in about 1 month I was able to hack tab support into the s390 vm console driver with nothing more than reading code, searching the net, and using that book. And that was probably a little on the slow side. (see here http://www.eagle7.org/ibmlinux.html
And like Alan Cox said in the interview posted to
From the product info page for the one that play's music:
A standard 8 MB Memory Stick® media is included with your CLIÉ? PEG-N760C handheld. This is adequate for storing a few, non-secure, music tracks at a time. To carry more than a few tracks at once, or to download and play secure music (ATRAC3? audio content) requires a larger MagicGate? Memory Stick® media (sold separately).
It seems that it will play all the "insecure" MP3s you throw at it - but I love the wording of this. In-secure music vs. Secure music - as if the insecure music will somehow send out emails on the device to your boss or something.
Bravo to Sony for creating a neat product... but a slap on the wrist for attempting to brainwash the consumer into shooting him/herself in the foot.
What we need then is a quality, Word-like GUI for TEX. There are open standards (TEX, PS), but they are too cumbersome for the average person to use on a daily basis. Or the learning/comfortability curve is too steep.
Damnit... why isn't there a (-1, Paranoia) mod option?
No, I think you are right and wrong. You're right in the sense that your viewpoint is the commonly used example... but it is also identical to what they are saying (twisted a bit).
;)
They are saying that if you have 100 pigeons and 1 hole, you need 100 unique markers (labels) to differentiate them. If I added a pigeon and didn't add a label, there would be two ambiguous pigeons. This is the same as 101 pigeons in 100 holes - two of them must share a hole (or share a marker). I like the multiple holes version better, but its just a different way to discribe the same thing.
They are suggesting that by using multidimensional mathematics (meaning, I assume, greater than your usual 3 dimensions) they can alleviate this "marker" problem. They completely lose me here though, so I'll shut up.
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has a major security vulnerability in the
latest stable (4.7.2480) and beta (4.8.2616) Windows versions.
It's a buffer overflow, so the
Hrm... in that case, it would be removing the heat from the CPU (by turning it into some other form of energy). So the end result would be a dynamic heatsink (as opposed to a static one without moving parts) that cooled more efficiently as it got hotter, because it would move air through itself.
;)
You could do something like this simply by adding a fan to the top (it would work like those Christmas candle things at craft fairs, the rising hot air would turn the fan), but I doubt this would generate enough air flow to make it worthwhile.
My guess would be that if there was a simple way to turn this heat into enough electricity to power a fan to cool off the heat (which would in turn shut the fan off by reducing the voltage), someone would have done it. Either that, or I should go apply for a patent.
Short and sweet: That was one of the single most stupid articles I have ever read in the computer field. His ideas (which he fails to argue very well or logically) might help an *extreme* novice use a computer more easily, but would (as a design feature) prevent them from ever understanding the system. And anyone who was even a modest "power user" would feel completely strangled by the restrictive interface.
Ya know... I don't think you should worry about what you had. If anything, you should feel a little proud that you made it ok. In the end, it doesn't matter if it was other people not liking you, or a disease, or a sadistic god sprinkling dust on your little clay statue. You were faced with a problem, you adapted to it, and you won. You might not have known the cause, but you still came out on top. That's about all a pshycologist can tell you.
What is important is your daughter. She's going to have a heck of a time, and she's going to need all the understanding, patience, and love that you can muster. Take all that knowledge and experience that you have from your life, all those memories of how you felt, and what you liked, and what made you feel better, and channel it into being that best father for your her. And making her life as rich and worthwhile as possible, regardless of what her prognosis ends up as.
You can look back at your past and analyse yourself and feel pity, or sadness or whatever. Or you can take this disease that you had/have, and turn it into a heroic trait. Use that understanding and apply it to your daughter, and become a hero for her. Do that and you won't have to worry about the ways that your physiology isn't normal, becuase you will have lept beyond the norm in the one area in which you are handicapped - interacting with another person.
The mascot is Wilbur. Duh.
Posting from it now. Seems to be nice - I wish there was an option to make it jump more lines with the scroll wheel, but other than that I am liking it.
And I'm surprised no one mentioned The Wizard of Oz. Esp. if you're a US history buff.
BTW, I hated A Wrinle In Time as a child.