Snap. Me too. I am glad somebody else has got one. I was given my 670MP when a friend was clearing out his office. Mine is sitting in the garage as it is too power hungry to run.
I only turn it on occasionally to demonstrate to people how loud it is. When the first set of fans kick in it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Everybody laughs and says that its loud.
Then the second lot of fans kick in and the floor starts to shake.
In addition, V for Vendetta was written against the background of the miner's strikes in Britain in the 1980's when excessive force was used against miners and their families whose only crime was to want to work and to want to know which collieries were next to be shutdown.
Police brutality was condoned, politicians and the police were allowed to run roughshod over the laws and effectively destroyed the trade unions.
It wasn't until the Poll tax riots of the early 90's that the same kind of scenes were repeated. In the meantime many new laws have been brought in to outlaw protest no matter how legitimate.
It is a very easy thing for a democracy to vote in its own dictatorship of leave themselves with no recourse when the elected government go rogue. Comparisons of western democracies against traditional dictatorships to show us how good we have got it is not a good argument.
There is probably a good quote about eternal vigilance &c. to insert here but I'll spare you...
...assuming that much of the cultural production of our day has any value.
This may actually be the crux of the entire problem. When cultural artifacts become popular they become more valuable. The valuable artifacts seldom need protection from copyright infringement because many people want to buy their own copy to enjoy.
It is only the less inspired entertainment commodities which provide momentary distraction and are essentially disposable which are in danger. I am not so sure that it would be such a loss to lose those things. The high value items which have their own innate quality by virtue of the love and care which went into their production are the very items which will endure no matter what the law says.
If there was not such a push to cynically exploit cultural artifacts for money we might not have the problems we are experiencing.
The secret is break those big task down into smaller tasks. Then do the smaller tasks.
The book uses a definition of task as something that takes, I think, 2 minutes. All tasks that will take longer than 2 minutes should be decomposed into several smaller tasks until you have a list of tasks that you just get on with without leaving one large task.
The trick is not to think of that large task as a large task but as a conglomeration of smaller tasks.
Can't somebody please make a clam shell design subnotebook of about psion series 5 proportions (series 7 at a push) which will run off of regular AA batteries, features a proper keyboard and can run Linux.
Thats all I want. It doesn't have to be super fast, just have enough power for vi, lynx, ssh and other essentials.
Not to mention the ridiculous assumption that most of the world will be covered by water...I realize burning fossil fuels creates water, but WTF?
What are you talking about? The world is mostly covered by water. Between 70 and 75% apparently
And we opted out when we started to imprison foreign nationals without legal representation, charge or trial. We had to because our position was incompatible with the european convention and it was our right to opt out.
There are 5 standing D-Notices: 1. Military operations, plans and capabilities 2. Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons and Equipment 3. Ciphers and secure communications 4. Sensitive Installations and Home Addresses 5. UK Security and Intelligence services and special forces
In addition, the government tried to bury stories relating to the northern Irish spy Stakeknife after it was discovered that the UK armed forces had been targetting irish nationals for assassinations. This was around 2000-2001 and I don't have urls to hand but cryptome files many of the stories. More recently the army stopped a radio 4 interview from going ahead.
Bear in mind that we have already opted out of the european convention on human rights in order to allow foreign nationals to be imprisoned without charge/legal representation, etc. Also we have had so-called D-Notices for many years which tell all media outlets in britain what stories they are not allowed to cover.
More to the point, what were these kids doing with access to a rifle? Don't get me wrong, I am not about to launch an anti-gun tirade, but like any tool it should be used responsibly and until you can show good judgement in your actions you shouldn't be using them unsupervised
This reminds me of a quote I read somewhere about the job of law enforcement not being easy in a free society.
It eventually comes down to striking that balance between freedom and safety. Everybody draws this line in a differnet place which is part of what makes the world so interesting, especially at present
I always thought that something along these lines would be good way of providing oversight of CCTV systems. In Britain, most towns and cities are monitored by CCTV but the only people who can see what is being monitored and recorded are those employed by the local coucils. Why not broadcast the feeds from local CCTV systems onto cable tv networks. There would be less likelihood of there not being witnesses to a crime committed, and there would be witnesses to any misuse of the cameras, ie. peeping through residential windows, spying on girls in the street etc.
Last months wired magazine 10.09 had a large article about the researchers who are trying to restore sight to the blind. One guy who has been blind for years has had electrodes implanted into his head which allowed him to see well enough to drive a car around a parking lot. But although the work looks very promising, the medical procedures have to be carried out in Lisbon because they would be illegal in the states.
This is one of those contentious issues where the politicians say, "no experiments on humans", yet the blind guy(or the quadraplegic, take your pic from the range of disabilities and illnesses) cannot get the treatment, however experimental it amy be.
In the past there were relaxations of federal rules to allow AIDS patients to get experimental drugs, why should other medical problems be treated any differently?
And before I am modded off-topic, what difference does it make whether the reasons are political or ethical if a sick person cannot get the treatment they need?
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One of the most pertinent was that we do not know what discoveries we make today, however innocuous, will be vitally important tomorrow.
We would actually be better off spending more money on science education, or at least courses in critical thinking though as there are not enough people who are qualified to make anything more than a knee-jerk decision about most research.
And that goes for both politicians and the general public. Good scientific thinking is a necessary safeguard we will require in the coming years!
But didn't the controller also include a small keyboard?
Even now with the number of advancements in interface design I still haven't seen a good method for entering my name on high score screens that wasn't frustrating and didn't lead me to type in aaaa as my name each time.
Anyway, I seem to remember that the controller wasn't actually uncomfortable even though it was oversized. A large controller, provided it is ergonomically designed can be much more comfortable than a small one. For example I have more problems with the Game Boy Advance than I do with the Gameboy classic.
In shape though, the jaguar controller was almost the spiritual predecessor to the Dreamcast controller, although my favourite is still the N64 controller!
What is it they say about the road to hell and all that?
Although Professor Jeffreys is trying to be fair to everybody, all it needs is for a few unscrupulous politicians to become involved to mess up his scheme. Should the database be set up, the firt calls will be asking to extend it to disease markers as money for public health can be better spent when we know which diseases the population is more susceptible to. After that I can see various groups asking for extension after extension for various reasons without respect for the individuals who make up the database.
What we are better off doing is not storing the information at all. At least then nobody will be tempted to misuse it, and the technique will still be available to law enforcement to eliminate suspects from their enquiries.
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Snap. Me too. I am glad somebody else has got one. I was given my 670MP when a friend was clearing out his office. Mine is sitting in the garage as it is too power hungry to run.
I only turn it on occasionally to demonstrate to people how loud it is. When the first set of fans kick in it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Everybody laughs and says that its loud.
Then the second lot of fans kick in and the floor starts to shake.
In addition, V for Vendetta was written against the background of the miner's strikes in Britain in the 1980's when excessive force was used against miners and their families whose only crime was to want to work and to want to know which collieries were next to be shutdown.
Police brutality was condoned, politicians and the police were allowed to run roughshod over the laws and effectively destroyed the trade unions.
It wasn't until the Poll tax riots of the early 90's that the same kind of scenes were repeated. In the meantime many new laws have been brought in to outlaw protest no matter how legitimate.
It is a very easy thing for a democracy to vote in its own dictatorship of leave themselves with no recourse when the elected government go rogue. Comparisons of western democracies against traditional dictatorships to show us how good we have got it is not a good argument.
There is probably a good quote about eternal vigilance &c. to insert here but I'll spare you...
...assuming that much of the cultural production of our day has any value.
This may actually be the crux of the entire problem. When cultural artifacts become popular they become more valuable. The valuable artifacts seldom need protection from copyright infringement because many people want to buy their own copy to enjoy.
It is only the less inspired entertainment commodities which provide momentary distraction and are essentially disposable which are in danger. I am not so sure that it would be such a loss to lose those things. The high value items which have their own innate quality by virtue of the love and care which went into their production are the very items which will endure no matter what the law says.
If there was not such a push to cynically exploit cultural artifacts for money we might not have the problems we are experiencing.
The secret is break those big task down into smaller tasks. Then do the smaller tasks.
The book uses a definition of task as something that takes, I think, 2 minutes. All tasks that will take longer than 2 minutes should be decomposed into several smaller tasks until you have a list of tasks that you just get on with without leaving one large task.
The trick is not to think of that large task as a large task but as a conglomeration of smaller tasks.
Spouse ??
What strange creature do you speak of ??
Can't somebody please make a clam shell design subnotebook of about psion series 5 proportions (series 7 at a push) which will run off of regular AA batteries, features a proper keyboard and can run Linux.
Thats all I want. It doesn't have to be super fast, just have enough power for vi, lynx, ssh and other essentials.
Then I clicked the first link and, viola!
A musical interlude???
I hate embedded midi files on webpages.
Maybe the word you were looking for was voila!
Not to mention the ridiculous assumption that most of the world will be covered by water...I realize burning fossil fuels creates water, but WTF? What are you talking about? The world is mostly covered by water. Between 70 and 75% apparently
And we opted out when we started to imprison foreign nationals without legal representation, charge or trial. We had to because our position was incompatible with the european convention and it was our right to opt out.
There already is one
There are 5 standing D-Notices:
1. Military operations, plans and capabilities
2. Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons and Equipment
3. Ciphers and secure communications
4. Sensitive Installations and Home Addresses
5. UK Security and Intelligence services and special forces
In addition, the government tried to bury stories relating to the northern Irish spy Stakeknife after it was discovered that the UK armed forces had been targetting irish nationals for assassinations. This was around 2000-2001 and I don't have urls to hand but cryptome files many of the stories.
More recently the army stopped a radio 4 interview from going ahead.
Bear in mind that we have already opted out of the european convention on human rights in order to allow foreign nationals to be imprisoned without charge/legal representation, etc.
Also we have had so-called D-Notices for many years which tell all media outlets in britain what stories they are not allowed to cover.
Only if your handle is Zero Coo... I mean Crash Override
Well it says Kingdom of Fife on the road sign next to my house near the Tay road bridge.
More to the point, what were these kids doing with access to a rifle?
Don't get me wrong, I am not about to launch an anti-gun tirade, but like any tool it should be used responsibly and until you can show good judgement in your actions you shouldn't be using them unsupervised
I read that as:
"Reminds me of Stalin!"
This reminds me of a quote I read somewhere about the job of law enforcement not being easy in a free society.
It eventually comes down to striking that balance between freedom and safety. Everybody draws this line in a differnet place which is part of what makes the world so interesting, especially at present
- support for DivX [No need to risk those original DVDs]
- 10/100 Ethernet [The killer inclusion]
- CD/Mp3 [What would life be like without them?]
- Progressive Scan [Great picture quality]
And it is available for around euro300 !!!I always thought that something along these lines would be good way of providing oversight of CCTV systems. In Britain, most towns and cities are monitored by CCTV but the only people who can see what is being monitored and recorded are those employed by the local coucils. Why not broadcast the feeds from local CCTV systems onto cable tv networks. There would be less likelihood of there not being witnesses to a crime committed, and there would be witnesses to any misuse of the cameras, ie. peeping through residential windows, spying on girls in the street etc.
Yup, Ally McBeal is descended from this illustrious and ancient race!!
Possibly ginger spice is also, but she is more likely just from another planet.
Last months wired magazine 10.09 had a large article about the researchers who are trying to restore sight to the blind. One guy who has been blind for years has had electrodes implanted into his head which allowed him to see well enough to drive a car around a parking lot. But although the work looks very promising, the medical procedures have to be carried out in Lisbon because they would be illegal in the states.
This is one of those contentious issues where the politicians say, "no experiments on humans", yet the blind guy(or the quadraplegic, take your pic from the range of disabilities and illnesses) cannot get the treatment, however experimental it amy be.
In the past there were relaxations of federal rules to allow AIDS patients to get experimental drugs, why should other medical problems be treated any differently?
And before I am modded off-topic, what difference does it make whether the reasons are political or ethical if a sick person cannot get the treatment they need?
In "The demon haunted world: science as a candle in the wind", Carl Sagan outlines many good reasons why governments and politics should not dictate where and how money is spent in research
One of the most pertinent was that we do not know what discoveries we make today, however innocuous, will be vitally important tomorrow.
We would actually be better off spending more money on science education, or at least courses in critical thinking though as there are not enough people who are qualified to make anything more than a knee-jerk decision about most research.
And that goes for both politicians and the general public. Good scientific thinking is a necessary safeguard we will require in the coming years!
But didn't the controller also include a small keyboard?
Even now with the number of advancements in interface design I still haven't seen a good method for entering my name on high score screens that wasn't frustrating and didn't lead me to type in aaaa as my name each time.
Anyway, I seem to remember that the controller wasn't actually uncomfortable even though it was oversized. A large controller, provided it is ergonomically designed can be much more comfortable than a small one. For example I have more problems with the Game Boy Advance than I do with the Gameboy classic.
In shape though, the jaguar controller was almost the spiritual predecessor to the Dreamcast controller, although my favourite is still the N64 controller!
Like so many other contentious issues nowadays, this is a test case just waiting to be brought to the european court of human rights.
Whatever happened to our right to privacy?
What is it they say about the road to hell and all that?
Although Professor Jeffreys is trying to be fair to everybody, all it needs is for a few unscrupulous politicians to become involved to mess up his scheme. Should the database be set up, the firt calls will be asking to extend it to disease markers as money for public health can be better spent when we know which diseases the population is more susceptible to. After that I can see various groups asking for extension after extension for various reasons without respect for the individuals who make up the database.
What we are better off doing is not storing the information at all. At least then nobody will be tempted to misuse it, and the technique will still be available to law enforcement to eliminate suspects from their enquiries.