The thing is, you have to convince people that you can change the corruption without becoming or already being corrupt. That is hard enough and very unlikely.
Then, to make real change, you have to convince people that you can make the lives better for the Poor's without making the lives of everyone else not any less than it is now. Probably impossible.
Nobody who has made it to being 'not poor' will give that up. But the money needs to come from somewhere. So we either reduce the military or become super efficient or redistribute wealth from the public. All equally unlikely things. It's going to be real fun when automation really kicks in as that primarily targets low income jobs. The future better get really comfortable with socialism or we will see many revolutions as it is guaranteed that the poor will vastly outnumber those who are not.
There is compiled ROMs where everything but the closed source hardware libraries are compiled from source.. ( these are what mostly died)
And there are kangs, that just repackage the stock rom with less or more/different stuff.
Even if you go with a compiled rom, it won't work correctly without almost all of the stock rom binaries and libraries included.
So the ideal of a custom rom devoid of backdoors and unknown crud has long been dead. The best you can hope for is being able to replace the apk's and framework of Android and maybe a custom outdated kernel. That's why most developers have moved on. Aosp is a crippled useless mess that has no hope of fully replacing stock ROMs for anyone except those that don't care about the multiple things that will not work on whatever hardware they're using it on.
I've seen other phones do this too. This especially seems to happen when you reconnect to a network on one of these non-complying phones. They re-use their old dhcp lease without caring what the dhcp server says and so not only could they be using an ip beyond their lease but they may also easily start using an ip now used by someone else since the first phone left the network earlier.
Some of the crappier wifi routers will take a dump when this happens. (my old phone would reliably lock a local wifi hotspot if i "remembered network"). But if i had to manually re-associate each time it was fine.
Anyone with homebrew setup can install the disc like any game to a usb harddrive and already run disc-less. You can even make main "channels" that directly launch it seamlessly through the homebrew channel like any other game you have installed. I haven't used a disc for any of my wii games since installing the homebrew channel.
Nintendo may be anti-hacking but at least they haven't done anything shady like disable the homebrew channel after it's been installed. That channel is the only reason why my wii gets used (dont own any other game systems or play pc games either).
Actually, it's just the website that causes the error. You can use hulu to embed it's player and host it on any other site (a local one even) and it will stream you the video just fine with your 64bit flash plugin.
So it is their website script writers that seem to have broken 64bit flash and dont care about fixing it.
managed languages are meant as a convenience, not a crutch. Bad programmers shouldn't be encouraged to write their brain vomit in java any more than in C/C++.
The problem here anyway has nothing to do with language choice as much as an api that puts no restrictions on third party extensions. The question then has to be, how do you restrict what an extension can do when your whole platform is based on the idea that you can use extensions to completely rewrite the application's functionality.
Some people hear things differently than others. Also in the 5 o'clock hour we'll talk about how some people see better than other people. And dont miss this week's special report on the varying ability of people to grasp sarcasm.
and that's the problem with the terminology of calling Linux Linux and not Gnu/linux and the like. While being pedantic, it separates the fact that what people are familiar with in dealing with linux, has little to do with the kernel and mostly to do with the utilities and apps that run on top of it. With debian, you dont change the utilities and apps , so it's the same OS no matter what kernel you're using. The kernel just makes subtle changes in what those apps can do (and possibly let you run different apps that aren't compatible between kernels). Start thinking of "Linux" in the same light as we think "Unix". It's not an OS, but it's a superset of OS's. Distributions aren't simply repackaging an OS, they are different OS's. Some limited to just one kernel, some limited by the gui even. We need to stop visualizing them as all revisions of the same pseudo OS.
So no, For the most part, i dont think linux users who use Debian Linux will find themselves in an alien environment with Debian kFreeBSD. And i dont think it would be a stepping stone to using FreeBSD. I think it just gives Debian users (which should be considered it's own OS) a different backend that may do certain things better than the more familiar Linux backend.
With Debian crossing the kernel boundaries, i think the idea that the OS is the kernel will be even more obviously misguided. It's the Debian OS. It really can't be described as anything else. Debian refuses your limitations. Unless it has a non-free license.
It's nigh time that we look at the sheer scrumtrulesence of Debian and realize that it's reign of End All Be All of OS's must be curtailed and possibly even put an end to. No single OS should be this awesome. And we can no longer ignore the fact that it is.
I'm not sure why people bring up democracy when the comparison is nonsense. It's not the people making a new law. It's an example of a free market, that's all.
People want to pay nothing, but they want stuff. Producers have the stuff, and they want something for it. Compromise ensues. The world doesn't collapse, it simple re-structures. If what they have is actually in demand, they will find a way for their consumers to pay for it. Otherwise, too bad.
This type of economy is best, because it benefits both the consumer and the producer equally. The problem is, no producer wants this type of economy, as it's no where near as profitable and secure as any that put the balance on their side (just about all of them that allow businesses to exist).
As a member of the "people", there is justified worry about leaving the ad-revenue powered internet behind for something new. New is always scary. The devil you know is much safer feeling than the one you dont. I think everyone realizes this all doesn't run on hopes and dreams, and they haven't really thought of what kind of evil crap those evil companies they are stopping ads from are going to think of if ads aren't working anymore. The train has started already though, and it's not going to stop so it'll be interesting to see what schemes those are in the near future.
entropy dictates that that everything loses to heat. This heat is at such a low energy level eventually that it can't cause any increase in energy to anything at all around it. This is how a system winds down, eventually all the energy in the atom will get sapped off this way and then it will start breaking down. Eventually devolving into the quantum soup that makes up the subatomic particles. Eventually, those too will lose energy to the space around them until everything is the same indistinguishable quantum soup.
This is the cold death scenario, and the only thing that can stop it is space itself increasing the density of energy instead of forever decreasing it. It's the expansion of space that continually provides for this loss of energy.
so no, atoms aren't perpetual motion machines. Though, for practical reasons, unless you need the machine to be functioning billions of years from now, you can call it perpetual.
A perpetual motion machine is not an analogue to FTL travel. Superluminal speeds have been seen and documented. They're not impossible. Hawking radiation is an immediate example of direct evidence of FTL. Then you have the idea of inflation and direct astronomical evidence (like the jets coming off a particular galaxy who's name escapes me at the moment that is moving at something like 6x the speed of light).
The thing is, we're fairly certain when it comes to nothing being 100% efficient. Entropy demands that some energy will be lost to heat to a degree that can't be converted back to something else under it's own energy.
We're not so sure that causality is a reflection of how our brain works or how the universe works. Superluminal things exist, and occur, yet the universe hasn't become an unpredictable chaotic soup. It doesn't require that our current theories are wrong, simply incomplete.
So, evidence for FTL exists, evidence for perpetual motion machines not so much. The problem is if FTL be utilized, and that thus far has been disproven.
I vote for #3. He probably died on impact. His belongings carried with his body by scavengers. But hey, it's probably how he was expecting to go anyway, during one of his record breaking attempts.
Discover magazine, June 1998 issue. "The darwin chip" need i say more? http://208.245.156.153/archive/outputgo.cfm?ID=145 5 for all the lazy people out there. I have the magazine and some pictures on my site.
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hardocp has had a review of this out for a while
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HardOCP has quite a nice review and explanation of just what is different with the Titanium compared to normal Geforce 3 cards running the ExploderXP driver set.
So it's vender neutral. So that means it's only about the kernel because linux is not an OS. It's just the kernel. The OS can be anything. Maybe it should be renamed gnu/linux+. Does it cover PDA versions of "linux" or any of the numerous other implimentations of "linux" ? If it's truly vender specific then it is only about the kernel because everything else around it is chosen by the vender. "linux" is not like Windows. So, now that we've decided it's only about the kernel, what kind of kernel is it about? There are many branches of the linux kernel being developed concurrently for different purposes. So lets assume they mean linus' branch. What exactly would someone with 6 months experience know about the kernel and how it works? More importantly, what job would require this certification of 6 month kernel knowledge? I know I'd want someone with a hell of a lot more experience with the kernel than 6 months if the job required that person to work on the kernel.
No this is not a case of symantics. When you say linux we're used to thinking about the distributions of debian, redhat, suse, slackware. But that is not linux. Linux is a kernel that can be used on any number of different operating system environments and it is on embedded systems and what not. A certification of "linux+" is misleading to any employer if any employer was stupid enough to rely on such a thing. If you're going to certify someone for an operating system, narrow it down to the damn operating system. A vender neutral gnu/linux+ is what they're talking about. That's not the same as embedded linux experience or experience with linux with any other environment.
change the certification to gnu/linux+ certification and it kind of makes sense and is useable. But trying to certify on all linux-based OS's by just having linux+ certification is not only impossible but totally useless.
Also, why dont they have WindowsNT+ or any other OS certifications? those are much more static and set in their specifications of what comprises the OS.
Recieved an email yesterday that speakeasy.net will be shutting down all customers who are infected until they clean their system. I suspect that would require a phone call. This is a good thing that all ISP's should be doing. They should do it quickly and maybe then we'll begin to see some cleaning up in areas where software makers can't seem to fix quickly enough. I for one am tired of these "Zombie" computers infecting others. Two thumbs up to all isp's that do this.
The only way you'll be able to hear the audio differences from equivalent VBR'd mp3 and ogg files is if you're using studio quality equipment in an acoustically sound area. Mp3s encoded with lame will be indistinguishable for almost all music from ogg files. I think that and the fact that the size difference isn't that big with ogg files being a bit smaller; people won't bother trying ogg files except to test them out. If we want oggs to start replacing mp3s then we'll need to petition for the mp3 patents to be enforced and get the developers of mp3 projects to either pay or stop development because otherwise there isn't much to convince people to stop their time hardened and proven practice of mp3 encoding. Either that or have some real university acoustic majors (note more than one) do a conclusive test on both formats and determine which reproduces the most accurate (as in to the source) sound. Of course for that you'd have to use an infinite amount of audio samples to appease the fans of the losing format. So i guess in summary, the only thing that will get people to really use vorbs, as i like to call them, or oggs is to make encoding an mp3 for free illegal and getting free mp3 encoders out of development and replace them with ogg encoders.
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He proves that not only are plastics conducters with some doping techniques, it's really easy and you can do it in your own home. He came to my school and showed us the plastic LED screen that bends and the plastic chip that is going to be used in grocery stores as well as plastic transistors. It's all here now and the plastic chips cost 1cent a piece to make and will most likely see use in grocery stores in under 5 years.
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The thing is, you have to convince people that you can change the corruption without becoming or already being corrupt. That is hard enough and very unlikely.
Then, to make real change, you have to convince people that you can make the lives better for the Poor's without making the lives of everyone else not any less than it is now. Probably impossible.
Nobody who has made it to being 'not poor' will give that up. But the money needs to come from somewhere. So we either reduce the military or become super efficient or redistribute wealth from the public. All equally unlikely things. It's going to be real fun when automation really kicks in as that primarily targets low income jobs. The future better get really comfortable with socialism or we will see many revolutions as it is guaranteed that the poor will vastly outnumber those who are not.
There is compiled ROMs where everything but the closed source hardware libraries are compiled from source.. ( these are what mostly died)
And there are kangs, that just repackage the stock rom with less or more/different stuff.
Even if you go with a compiled rom, it won't work correctly without almost all of the stock rom binaries and libraries included.
So the ideal of a custom rom devoid of backdoors and unknown crud has long been dead. The best you can hope for is being able to replace the apk's and framework of Android and maybe a custom outdated kernel. That's why most developers have moved on. Aosp is a crippled useless mess that has no hope of fully replacing stock ROMs for anyone except those that don't care about the multiple things that will not work on whatever hardware they're using it on.
The idiot in the Camry failed to yield and caused their own accident.
In no way should the car in the lane they were trying to merge into slow down. That's not how it is supposed to work.
That just pisses everyone off behind them and leads to dangerous lane changes as people try and avoid the speed change.
This is right up there with idiots who get on highways at 40mph when traffic is doing 70+. This is fully the merger's fault
Been using it exclusively since 1997. Seems to work fine to replace qwerty. Doesn't even need different hardware. Who looks at keys?
Also use Dvorak on Android Gboard. Finger swiping works fine on it. Good replacement for qwerty there too.
I've seen other phones do this too. This especially seems to happen when you reconnect to a network on one of these non-complying phones. They re-use their old dhcp lease without caring what the dhcp server says and so not only could they be using an ip beyond their lease but they may also easily start using an ip now used by someone else since the first phone left the network earlier.
Some of the crappier wifi routers will take a dump when this happens. (my old phone would reliably lock a local wifi hotspot if i "remembered network"). But if i had to manually re-associate each time it was fine.
I suggest they use a platinum cylinder of about 1.15 inches in diameter and 1.35 inches high. Works for everyone else.
Anyone with homebrew setup can install the disc like any game to a usb harddrive and already run disc-less. You can even make main "channels" that directly launch it seamlessly through the homebrew channel like any other game you have installed. I haven't used a disc for any of my wii games since installing the homebrew channel.
Nintendo may be anti-hacking but at least they haven't done anything shady like disable the homebrew channel after it's been installed. That channel is the only reason why my wii gets used (dont own any other game systems or play pc games either).
Actually, it's just the website that causes the error. You can use hulu to embed it's player and host it on any other site (a local one even) and it will stream you the video just fine with your 64bit flash plugin.
So it is their website script writers that seem to have broken 64bit flash and dont care about fixing it.
managed languages are meant as a convenience, not a crutch. Bad programmers shouldn't be encouraged to write their brain vomit in java any more than in C/C++.
The problem here anyway has nothing to do with language choice as much as an api that puts no restrictions on third party extensions. The question then has to be, how do you restrict what an extension can do when your whole platform is based on the idea that you can use extensions to completely rewrite the application's functionality.
Some people hear things differently than others. Also in the 5 o'clock hour we'll talk about how some people see better than other people. And dont miss this week's special report on the varying ability of people to grasp sarcasm.
and that's the problem with the terminology of calling Linux Linux and not Gnu/linux and the like. While being pedantic, it separates the fact that what people are familiar with in dealing with linux, has little to do with the kernel and mostly to do with the utilities and apps that run on top of it. With debian, you dont change the utilities and apps , so it's the same OS no matter what kernel you're using. The kernel just makes subtle changes in what those apps can do (and possibly let you run different apps that aren't compatible between kernels). Start thinking of "Linux" in the same light as we think "Unix". It's not an OS, but it's a superset of OS's. Distributions aren't simply repackaging an OS, they are different OS's. Some limited to just one kernel, some limited by the gui even. We need to stop visualizing them as all revisions of the same pseudo OS.
So no, For the most part, i dont think linux users who use Debian Linux will find themselves in an alien environment with Debian kFreeBSD. And i dont think it would be a stepping stone to using FreeBSD. I think it just gives Debian users (which should be considered it's own OS) a different backend that may do certain things better than the more familiar Linux backend.
With Debian crossing the kernel boundaries, i think the idea that the OS is the kernel will be even more obviously misguided. It's the Debian OS. It really can't be described as anything else. Debian refuses your limitations. Unless it has a non-free license.
It's nigh time that we look at the sheer scrumtrulesence of Debian and realize that it's reign of End All Be All of OS's must be curtailed and possibly even put an end to. No single OS should be this awesome. And we can no longer ignore the fact that it is.
I'm not sure why people bring up democracy when the comparison is nonsense. It's not the people making a new law. It's an example of a free market, that's all.
People want to pay nothing, but they want stuff. Producers have the stuff, and they want something for it. Compromise ensues. The world doesn't collapse, it simple re-structures. If what they have is actually in demand, they will find a way for their consumers to pay for it. Otherwise, too bad.
This type of economy is best, because it benefits both the consumer and the producer equally. The problem is, no producer wants this type of economy, as it's no where near as profitable and secure as any that put the balance on their side (just about all of them that allow businesses to exist).
As a member of the "people", there is justified worry about leaving the ad-revenue powered internet behind for something new. New is always scary. The devil you know is much safer feeling than the one you dont. I think everyone realizes this all doesn't run on hopes and dreams, and they haven't really thought of what kind of evil crap those evil companies they are stopping ads from are going to think of if ads aren't working anymore. The train has started already though, and it's not going to stop so it'll be interesting to see what schemes those are in the near future.
entropy dictates that that everything loses to heat. This heat is at such a low energy level eventually that it can't cause any increase in energy to anything at all around it. This is how a system winds down, eventually all the energy in the atom will get sapped off this way and then it will start breaking down. Eventually devolving into the quantum soup that makes up the subatomic particles. Eventually, those too will lose energy to the space around them until everything is the same indistinguishable quantum soup.
This is the cold death scenario, and the only thing that can stop it is space itself increasing the density of energy instead of forever decreasing it. It's the expansion of space that continually provides for this loss of energy.
so no, atoms aren't perpetual motion machines. Though, for practical reasons, unless you need the machine to be functioning billions of years from now, you can call it perpetual.
A perpetual motion machine is not an analogue to FTL travel. Superluminal speeds have been seen and documented. They're not impossible. Hawking radiation is an immediate example of direct evidence of FTL. Then you have the idea of inflation and direct astronomical evidence (like the jets coming off a particular galaxy who's name escapes me at the moment that is moving at something like 6x the speed of light).
The thing is, we're fairly certain when it comes to nothing being 100% efficient. Entropy demands that some energy will be lost to heat to a degree that can't be converted back to something else under it's own energy.
We're not so sure that causality is a reflection of how our brain works or how the universe works. Superluminal things exist, and occur, yet the universe hasn't become an unpredictable chaotic soup. It doesn't require that our current theories are wrong, simply incomplete.
So, evidence for FTL exists, evidence for perpetual motion machines not so much. The problem is if FTL be utilized, and that thus far has been disproven.
I vote for #3. He probably died on impact. His belongings carried with his body by scavengers. But hey, it's probably how he was expecting to go anyway, during one of his record breaking attempts.
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cpus/intel/p4nw/
does anything beat hardocp when it comes to testing new hardware?
The athlon XP tromples the P4 once again.
http://www.virtual-hideout.com has this kind of stuff all the time. along with howto's on how to make them yourself.
Discover magazine, June 1998 issue. "The darwin chip" need i say more? http://208.245.156.153/archive/outputgo.cfm?ID=145 5 for all the lazy people out there. I have the magazine and some pictures on my site.
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HardOCP has quite a nice review and explanation of just what is different with the Titanium compared to normal Geforce 3 cards running the ExploderXP driver set.
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http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/nvidia/
So it's vender neutral. So that means it's only about the kernel because linux is not an OS. It's just the kernel. The OS can be anything. Maybe it should be renamed gnu/linux+. Does it cover PDA versions of "linux" or any of the numerous other implimentations of "linux" ? If it's truly vender specific then it is only about the kernel because everything else around it is chosen by the vender. "linux" is not like Windows. So, now that we've decided it's only about the kernel, what kind of kernel is it about? There are many branches of the linux kernel being developed concurrently for different purposes. So lets assume they mean linus' branch. What exactly would someone with 6 months experience know about the kernel and how it works? More importantly, what job would require this certification of 6 month kernel knowledge? I know I'd want someone with a hell of a lot more experience with the kernel than 6 months if the job required that person to work on the kernel.
No this is not a case of symantics. When you say linux we're used to thinking about the distributions of debian, redhat, suse, slackware. But that is not linux. Linux is a kernel that can be used on any number of different operating system environments and it is on embedded systems and what not. A certification of "linux+" is misleading to any employer if any employer was stupid enough to rely on such a thing. If you're going to certify someone for an operating system, narrow it down to the damn operating system. A vender neutral gnu/linux+ is what they're talking about. That's not the same as embedded linux experience or experience with linux with any other environment.
change the certification to gnu/linux+ certification and it kind of makes sense and is useable. But trying to certify on all linux-based OS's by just having linux+ certification is not only impossible but totally useless.
Also, why dont they have WindowsNT+ or any other OS certifications? those are much more static and set in their specifications of what comprises the OS.
Recieved an email yesterday that speakeasy.net will be shutting down all customers who are infected until they clean their system. I suspect that would require a phone call. This is a good thing that all ISP's should be doing. They should do it quickly and maybe then we'll begin to see some cleaning up in areas where software makers can't seem to fix quickly enough. I for one am tired of these "Zombie" computers infecting others. Two thumbs up to all isp's that do this.
The only way you'll be able to hear the audio differences from equivalent VBR'd mp3 and ogg files is if you're using studio quality equipment in an acoustically sound area. Mp3s encoded with lame will be indistinguishable for almost all music from ogg files. I think that and the fact that the size difference isn't that big with ogg files being a bit smaller; people won't bother trying ogg files except to test them out. If we want oggs to start replacing mp3s then we'll need to petition for the mp3 patents to be enforced and get the developers of mp3 projects to either pay or stop development because otherwise there isn't much to convince people to stop their time hardened and proven practice of mp3 encoding. Either that or have some real university acoustic majors (note more than one) do a conclusive test on both formats and determine which reproduces the most accurate (as in to the source) sound. Of course for that you'd have to use an infinite amount of audio samples to appease the fans of the losing format. So i guess in summary, the only thing that will get people to really use vorbs, as i like to call them, or oggs is to make encoding an mp3 for free illegal and getting free mp3 encoders out of development and replace them with ogg encoders.
He proves that not only are plastics conducters with some doping techniques, it's really easy and you can do it in your own home. He came to my school and showed us the plastic LED screen that bends and the plastic chip that is going to be used in grocery stores as well as plastic transistors. It's all here now and the plastic chips cost 1cent a piece to make and will most likely see use in grocery stores in under 5 years.