And I don't know about where you live, but where I live we have primaries and runoffs, so there's not even five candidates on the list, much less five candidates in addition to the one I voted for.
Apparently you don't actually vote. If you do, then you must be either blind or stupid.
I have voted in every election since I turned 18 (in 1993), and in every one of those elections there has been at least 5 candidates in every race except those for the most mundane local positions (like County Secretary). Even races for positions on the local school board have more than 5 candidates, and for President it's usually 7 or 8.
I know it's hard to believe, but the Republicans and the Democrats are not the only political parties in the country. There are several "third parties", and every one of them sponsors a Presidential candidate in every race. Let's see; Republican, Democrat, Green, American Independent, Libertarian, Reform, Natural Law... That's 7 parties off the top of my head, and I know I'm forgetting at least one more. That means at least 7 presidential candidates in every election, which is certainly more than 5.
Technological progress is dependent upon the free flow of information. The freer information flows, the faster technology will progress. Copyright, as an artificial barrier to the free flow of information, is therefore an impediment to the progress of technology.
They keep the servers at least two hours away from you for security reasons, huh? Seems like it would be easier to just fire you and hire somebody they trust...;-P
I'm aware that Windows comes with scripting ability, just as I'm aware that there are various third party scripting packages for Windows. I've even used a few of them, and no, they do not work great for the simple reason that Windows has nothing which is analagous to the *nix pipe. If you don't understand why not having pipe limits the functionality of scripts, then you should shut up because you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
There is no intergration of applications in Linux.
Actually, there is much more powerful, flexible, and complete integration in Linux, and in fact any *nix, than Windows can ever hope to have. That is what the pipe does, and it is part of the origional Unix design.
And to comment about keyboard vs mouse, windows is much better at keyboard shortcuts. Take IE for example, CRTL-O opens an address window, which used to do the same in netscape, but now it opens an open file window. You can't type in an URL! ugh.
You can change the hotkeys in Linux, you know. Yet another thing most Windows apps don't allow.
Tab completion is pretty cool, but the pipe is really where it's at!
And scripting! MS scripting is a sad state of affairs when compaired to *nix, being hamstrung by all those proprietary formats and the lack of the pipe.
Isn't the purpose of machines to automate dull, repetative tasks?
Well, installing SuSE Linux since 7.x is a lot easier than installing any Windows varient. No searching for drivers, no endless reboots, no entering cd-keys, and no cd-shuffle as you install all the apps that make the machine actually usable. And after it's installed, keeping it up-to-date is far easier than with Windows also.
Besides, the baby makes sure I don't get any sleep anyway...
You're almost over the hump, man. She'll start sleeping like a regular person soon enough. That doesn't mean you'll get more sleep, though. I find that as my daughter (born 5/4/00) gets more interested in doing what I'm doing, I have more projects that I don't really get to work on until she goes to bed. I have a lot of projects, of course, so that means I have a lot of stuff to do after 9pm. Oh well, it's worth it, as I'm sure you know...
I'm a big fan of the donation model, personally. If an Open Source project needs financial support, I think that's the way to do it. If you think about it, that's really how the major distros operate. They all offer some sort of free install (ISOs from Red Hat and Mandrake, FTP from SuSE, etc). The only reason I buy the boxed set is to support the distro, in other words as a donation, for which I recieve the gift of some already burned CDs and maybe a book.
I really don't think advertisements are appropriate, nor would they be effective. Advertising embedded in an Open Source project would obviously be easily removed, which would, I think, make advertisers a little wary of paying for that space. The most likely result would be a fork of the project, with the non-ad fork grabbing most of the users and the ad-based one slowly whithering away.
More than that, though, I think it's disrespectful to the users. The entire Open Source community is based on a web of trust and respect. The developers respect the users by providing them with high quality software at minimal cost, and the users trust the developers to not try to milk them.. Personally, I put advertising in OSS in the same sleazy boat as Ransom Love's per-seat licensing and all the BS Lindows is currently pulling.
I'd guess that it's produced just like any other plant or seed oil: pressed out and maybe filtered. Much lower production cost than ethanol, which has to be brewed.
Also, I suspect there would be much lower costs to grow. There's a reason they call it weed, after all. As a friend of mine used to say, "It's so easy to grow, even stoners can do it!"
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but as I recall hemp oil is an excellent fuel source. It's really a replacement for diesel (aka bio-diesel), not gasoline, but the word is that it has high energy density and burns very clean. I've heard that the deisel engine was actually origionally designed specifically for hemp oil.
The problem is that hemp bred for greater oil production is called marijuana, which Americans (or at least the US government) have some unfortunate issues with.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up, because that is exactly what I was going to say.
There seems to be a misconception in the US that money and technology will solve all problems. While they can certainly help, they are not the solution, but rather the tools used to affect it. The thing we forget is that tools are often interchangable, and the most technologically advanced is not always the best for the job.
A pencil and a peice of paper are the best tools around for teaching concepts of math, for example. A calculator is more high-tech, and possibly more impressive to the casual observer, but the student will learn far less using one, and it's a lot more expensive.
I have to give the article credit, though, in that this is the first time I've seen any suggestions for using tech in primary education that I consider legitimate, helpful, or even non-counterproductive to the ultimate goal of education. Maybe a class project to map the migrations of transients using local maps and GPS. Political Correctness issues aside, I would have been way into something like that as a kid. Maybe marking locations and descriptions of plants around the school would be more appropriate...
Anyway, technology can be good for education, but all too often it does more harm than good as our boundless enthusiasm leads to its misuse. All things considered, the money would be much better spent on higher quality books, both fiction and nonfiction, or even just making sure the kids all have basic school supplies like pencils and paper and maybe a binder to keep it all organized.
At least here in England Bush is a laughing stock, most people are of the opinion that he's simply in the pockets of american business.
That's pretty much the concensus among everyone I know here in the states.
it was sacrificed because American voters didn't want to give up their lifestyle.
It would be more accurate to say that it was sacrificed because American businesses didn't want to deal with the design and retooling costs to make their products more efficient/less polluting. The belief is that there isn't any profit in effieciency. This is short-sighted, of course, and the same sort of backwards reasoning that gave Toyota and Honda the huge American market they now enjoy, but that's pretty indicative of American business history.
The voting public is pretty well divided on the subject. I'm not trying to say that the American people are not at least partly to blame, but it's important to remember that Bush actually lost to popular vote. It's also important to point out that efficiency is important enough to the American people that gas mileage is included on every window sticker of every new car for sale on every car lot.
Don't write off the US just because our politicians are morons. Europe isn't exactly a shining bastion of rational politics either.
Email is pretty much standardized on one app, and look how great that's been!
Seriously, we recognize the dangers of monoculture in other areas of computing -- OS, email client, etc. -- what makes people think that IM is going to be any better? I'd think the last thing we'd want in computing is another monoculture.
I know the question is not when will IM be ruled by a single client but rather when will IM clients be interoperable, but is there really any chance of it happening another way? These are big corporations! These are the same people who keep us perpetually 3-5 years behind the rest of the world on cellphone technology!
Actually, in this context amp would be short for amplifier, a device which increases the amplitude of a waveform.
Current (ampere) driven amplifiers are to be avoided for audio, since they emphasize odd oder harmonics. Voltage driven devices, such as tubes (or valves) and some (all?) FETs, emphasize even order harmonics, which are much more pleasant on the ear..
...for agricultural telemetry and irrigation control. What we use is lower bandwidth than what you want (RS485 over ifrared), but the basic principals are similar.
The biggest problem we have is reflection. A unit sending data gets back a reflection of that data off the receiving lense. If you're just using 2 stations, it's not that big of a problem to scan the buffers for reflections, but we've found that with several units (usually all communicating with a central base-station) collision becomes a serious issue, and detecting/masking reflections is extremely difficult.
My wife is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whom I seduced by not being respectful. Do I have respect for her? Absolutely. If I didn't my marriage couldn't possibly be as good as it is.
The thing is, though, that women tend to take nice guys who treat them with respect for granted. The nice guy becomes a friend, a confidant, but certainly not someone she would date, let alone have sex with. There comes a time in every nice guys life when this is not enough. At this point he either becomes a bitter misogynist, or he learns to play the part that will get him what he wants, and the key to it is having confidence and not showing respect.
There are women who are exceptions to this rule, but they are few and far between.
You're right, a cheap whore is not what I want. I've had my share, and they aren't worth the effort. And sex has always been a fringe benefit for me, not the prize I was after. If I were just after sex, I certainly could have lost my virginity before I was 19. In fact, I was dumped a few times for being respectful and not trying to get in a girls pants.
Anyway, that is the truth as I have found and tested it (following the scientific method, of course, like any good geek should). Sorry if it offends you, but if it does you need to make sure that you aren't perpetuating it. Give the nice guy in your life a chance, I'll bet you dollars to donuts he wants you.
This is based on observations from my own life, and I put a great deal of thought into cause and effect.
The inescapable fact is that the less respect I showed the more dates I got. I don't consider myself to be a particularly good looking guy, but I most definately have become an asshole;-)
I'm not espousing misogyny here, nor am I saying you shouldn't have respect, just don't show it.
My sister's theory is that most women have serious self-esteem issues and don't believe they are worthy of being treated right.
You are by far the exception to the rule, and I commend you on finding an exceptionally enlightened woman.
Note that I didn't say a guy shouldn't have respect for women, just that he shouldn't show it if he wants to be more than friends. I had to learn that the hard way, but when I did I started getting dates. Eventually I got my wife (whom I had known for some time) to go out with me, which brings me to where I'm at; a happily married man with a beautiful daughter and a healthy sex life.
In truth, I would love to be able to say that I got here by being respectful of women, but that simply isn't the case. I was never a player by any means, nor was I after nothing more than sex, but I found that I had to project a certain image in order to get what I wanted; a meaningful relationship beyond being friends.
Actually, no. I'm 27, married, and have a 2 year old daughter, and I'm very much aware of what it took for me to get to this point; which was mainly a realization that if I kept being the nice guy who always treated women with respect that I would never be more than a friend and I would always sleep alone.
The truth hurts. It sucks, but that's the way it is. The day I came to that realization was a turning point in my life. Up to that point I treated women with the greatest respect, and I was always just a friend. The less respect I showed, the more dates I got.
Here's what my female friends determined as success criteria:
MALT...
Money, Ambition, Looks, Transport.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Notice that nowhere in there is "a nice guy who treats me with respect". A guy who has all the qualities listed above very rarely treats women with respect.
In fact, I know plenty of guys who fit only one of those catagories who have no trouble getting play. As far as I can tell, the real requirements for a guy to be able to pick up women are:
1) Don't treat women with respect 2) Don't be 'slimey'
Any guy who can fulfil those 2 requirements should be reasonably successful.
And yes, confidence is important. Ambition really isn't.
Let me point out, though, that I'm not saying you shouldn't have respect for women, just that you shouldn't show it if you want to date them. Obviously, my marriage wouldn't be anywhere near as successful as it is if I didn't respect my wife, but the fact remains that neither she, nor any of the various women I dated before her, would give me the time of day until I stopped showing it.
All the math professors here are great. Lots of applications, of course, but if you pay attention, you can learn a lot of theory as well.
Same at my CC.Instruction is generally focused on application, but if you ask they'll go as deep into the theory as you care to.
One thing I've noticed, though, is that the more focused an instructor is on application, the more the students seem to learn, and that also corelates with a lower drop rate.
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And I don't know about where you live, but where I live we have primaries and runoffs, so there's not even five candidates on the list, much less five candidates in addition to the one I voted for.
Apparently you don't actually vote. If you do, then you must be either blind or stupid.
I have voted in every election since I turned 18 (in 1993), and in every one of those elections there has been at least 5 candidates in every race except those for the most mundane local positions (like County Secretary). Even races for positions on the local school board have more than 5 candidates, and for President it's usually 7 or 8.
I know it's hard to believe, but the Republicans and the Democrats are not the only political parties in the country. There are several "third parties", and every one of them sponsors a Presidential candidate in every race. Let's see; Republican, Democrat, Green, American Independent, Libertarian, Reform, Natural Law... That's 7 parties off the top of my head, and I know I'm forgetting at least one more. That means at least 7 presidential candidates in every election, which is certainly more than 5.
Technological progress is dependent upon the free flow of information. The freer information flows, the faster technology will progress. Copyright, as an artificial barrier to the free flow of information, is therefore an impediment to the progress of technology.
They keep the servers at least two hours away from you for security reasons, huh? Seems like it would be easier to just fire you and hire somebody they trust... ;-P
Wscript works great and it comes with windows.
I'm aware that Windows comes with scripting ability, just as I'm aware that there are various third party scripting packages for Windows. I've even used a few of them, and no, they do not work great for the simple reason that Windows has nothing which is analagous to the *nix pipe. If you don't understand why not having pipe limits the functionality of scripts, then you should shut up because you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
There is no intergration of applications in Linux.
Actually, there is much more powerful, flexible, and complete integration in Linux, and in fact any *nix, than Windows can ever hope to have. That is what the pipe does, and it is part of the origional Unix design.
And to comment about keyboard vs mouse, windows is much better at keyboard shortcuts. Take IE for example, CRTL-O opens an address window, which used to do the same in netscape, but now it opens an open file window. You can't type in an URL! ugh.
You can change the hotkeys in Linux, you know. Yet another thing most Windows apps don't allow.
Tab completion is pretty cool, but the pipe is really where it's at!
And scripting! MS scripting is a sad state of affairs when compaired to *nix, being hamstrung by all those proprietary formats and the lack of the pipe.
Isn't the purpose of machines to automate dull, repetative tasks?
Well, installing SuSE Linux since 7.x is a lot easier than installing any Windows varient. No searching for drivers, no endless reboots, no entering cd-keys, and no cd-shuffle as you install all the apps that make the machine actually usable. And after it's installed, keeping it up-to-date is far easier than with Windows also.
My face is straight.
My car gets 50 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it
That's nothin! Mine gets 285 leagues to the oxhaft! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, sonny!
...The ghost in the machine...
I'm kidding, of course, but that was the first thing I thought of when I read the article.
Sorry if I spelled it wrong, it's been a long time since I last watched Brazil.
Besides, the baby makes sure I don't get any sleep anyway...
You're almost over the hump, man. She'll start sleeping like a regular person soon enough. That doesn't mean you'll get more sleep, though. I find that as my daughter (born 5/4/00) gets more interested in doing what I'm doing, I have more projects that I don't really get to work on until she goes to bed. I have a lot of projects, of course, so that means I have a lot of stuff to do after 9pm. Oh well, it's worth it, as I'm sure you know...
I'm a big fan of the donation model, personally. If an Open Source project needs financial support, I think that's the way to do it. If you think about it, that's really how the major distros operate. They all offer some sort of free install (ISOs from Red Hat and Mandrake, FTP from SuSE, etc). The only reason I buy the boxed set is to support the distro, in other words as a donation, for which I recieve the gift of some already burned CDs and maybe a book.
I really don't think advertisements are appropriate, nor would they be effective. Advertising embedded in an Open Source project would obviously be easily removed, which would, I think, make advertisers a little wary of paying for that space. The most likely result would be a fork of the project, with the non-ad fork grabbing most of the users and the ad-based one slowly whithering away.
More than that, though, I think it's disrespectful to the users. The entire Open Source community is based on a web of trust and respect. The developers respect the users by providing them with high quality software at minimal cost, and the users trust the developers to not try to milk them.. Personally, I put advertising in OSS in the same sleazy boat as Ransom Love's per-seat licensing and all the BS Lindows is currently pulling.
I'd guess that it's produced just like any other plant or seed oil: pressed out and maybe filtered. Much lower production cost than ethanol, which has to be brewed.
Also, I suspect there would be much lower costs to grow. There's a reason they call it weed, after all. As a friend of mine used to say, "It's so easy to grow, even stoners can do it!"
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but as I recall hemp oil is an excellent fuel source. It's really a replacement for diesel (aka bio-diesel), not gasoline, but the word is that it has high energy density and burns very clean. I've heard that the deisel engine was actually origionally designed specifically for hemp oil.
The problem is that hemp bred for greater oil production is called marijuana, which Americans (or at least the US government) have some unfortunate issues with.
I dont even care if they start making wallets!
They already have. It's an optionally installed component of Windows 98, under internet tools, IIRC.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up, because that is exactly what I was going to say.
There seems to be a misconception in the US that money and technology will solve all problems. While they can certainly help, they are not the solution, but rather the tools used to affect it. The thing we forget is that tools are often interchangable, and the most technologically advanced is not always the best for the job.
A pencil and a peice of paper are the best tools around for teaching concepts of math, for example. A calculator is more high-tech, and possibly more impressive to the casual observer, but the student will learn far less using one, and it's a lot more expensive.
I have to give the article credit, though, in that this is the first time I've seen any suggestions for using tech in primary education that I consider legitimate, helpful, or even non-counterproductive to the ultimate goal of education. Maybe a class project to map the migrations of transients using local maps and GPS. Political Correctness issues aside, I would have been way into something like that as a kid. Maybe marking locations and descriptions of plants around the school would be more appropriate...
Anyway, technology can be good for education, but all too often it does more harm than good as our boundless enthusiasm leads to its misuse. All things considered, the money would be much better spent on higher quality books, both fiction and nonfiction, or even just making sure the kids all have basic school supplies like pencils and paper and maybe a binder to keep it all organized.
At least here in England Bush is a laughing stock, most people are of the opinion that he's simply in the pockets of american business.
That's pretty much the concensus among everyone I know here in the states.
it was sacrificed because American voters didn't want to give up their lifestyle.
It would be more accurate to say that it was sacrificed because American businesses didn't want to deal with the design and retooling costs to make their products more efficient/less polluting. The belief is that there isn't any profit in effieciency. This is short-sighted, of course, and the same sort of backwards reasoning that gave Toyota and Honda the huge American market they now enjoy, but that's pretty indicative of American business history.
The voting public is pretty well divided on the subject. I'm not trying to say that the American people are not at least partly to blame, but it's important to remember that Bush actually lost to popular vote. It's also important to point out that efficiency is important enough to the American people that gas mileage is included on every window sticker of every new car for sale on every car lot.
Don't write off the US just because our politicians are morons. Europe isn't exactly a shining bastion of rational politics either.
Email is pretty much standardized on one app, and look how great that's been!
Seriously, we recognize the dangers of monoculture in other areas of computing -- OS, email client, etc. -- what makes people think that IM is going to be any better? I'd think the last thing we'd want in computing is another monoculture.
I know the question is not when will IM be ruled by a single client but rather when will IM clients be interoperable, but is there really any chance of it happening another way? These are big corporations! These are the same people who keep us perpetually 3-5 years behind the rest of the world on cellphone technology!
Actually, in this context amp would be short for amplifier, a device which increases the amplitude of a waveform.
Current (ampere) driven amplifiers are to be avoided for audio, since they emphasize odd oder harmonics. Voltage driven devices, such as tubes (or valves) and some (all?) FETs, emphasize even order harmonics, which are much more pleasant on the ear..
I agree with your general point, though.
You can bet the first SATA drives are going to be quite a bit more expensive than an equivalent capacity ATA100, too.
Not according to Seagate. I wish I could remember where I read that, but it was fairly recent.
...for agricultural telemetry and irrigation control. What we use is lower bandwidth than what you want (RS485 over ifrared), but the basic principals are similar.
The biggest problem we have is reflection. A unit sending data gets back a reflection of that data off the receiving lense. If you're just using 2 stations, it's not that big of a problem to scan the buffers for reflections, but we've found that with several units (usually all communicating with a central base-station) collision becomes a serious issue, and detecting/masking reflections is extremely difficult.
Hope this helps. Good luck on your project.
My wife is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whom I seduced by not being respectful. Do I have respect for her? Absolutely. If I didn't my marriage couldn't possibly be as good as it is.
The thing is, though, that women tend to take nice guys who treat them with respect for granted. The nice guy becomes a friend, a confidant, but certainly not someone she would date, let alone have sex with. There comes a time in every nice guys life when this is not enough. At this point he either becomes a bitter misogynist, or he learns to play the part that will get him what he wants, and the key to it is having confidence and not showing respect.
There are women who are exceptions to this rule, but they are few and far between.
You're right, a cheap whore is not what I want. I've had my share, and they aren't worth the effort. And sex has always been a fringe benefit for me, not the prize I was after. If I were just after sex, I certainly could have lost my virginity before I was 19. In fact, I was dumped a few times for being respectful and not trying to get in a girls pants.
Anyway, that is the truth as I have found and tested it (following the scientific method, of course, like any good geek should). Sorry if it offends you, but if it does you need to make sure that you aren't perpetuating it. Give the nice guy in your life a chance, I'll bet you dollars to donuts he wants you.
This is based on observations from my own life, and I put a great deal of thought into cause and effect.
;-)
The inescapable fact is that the less respect I showed the more dates I got. I don't consider myself to be a particularly good looking guy, but I most definately have become an asshole
I'm not espousing misogyny here, nor am I saying you shouldn't have respect, just don't show it.
My sister's theory is that most women have serious self-esteem issues and don't believe they are worthy of being treated right.
You are by far the exception to the rule, and I commend you on finding an exceptionally enlightened woman.
Note that I didn't say a guy shouldn't have respect for women, just that he shouldn't show it if he wants to be more than friends. I had to learn that the hard way, but when I did I started getting dates. Eventually I got my wife (whom I had known for some time) to go out with me, which brings me to where I'm at; a happily married man with a beautiful daughter and a healthy sex life.
In truth, I would love to be able to say that I got here by being respectful of women, but that simply isn't the case. I was never a player by any means, nor was I after nothing more than sex, but I found that I had to project a certain image in order to get what I wanted; a meaningful relationship beyond being friends.
Wow, you must still be in high school.
Actually, no. I'm 27, married, and have a 2 year old daughter, and I'm very much aware of what it took for me to get to this point; which was mainly a realization that if I kept being the nice guy who always treated women with respect that I would never be more than a friend and I would always sleep alone.
The truth hurts. It sucks, but that's the way it is. The day I came to that realization was a turning point in my life. Up to that point I treated women with the greatest respect, and I was always just a friend. The less respect I showed, the more dates I got.
Here's what my female friends determined as success criteria:
MALT...
Money, Ambition, Looks, Transport.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Notice that nowhere in there is "a nice guy who treats me with respect". A guy who has all the qualities listed above very rarely treats women with respect.
In fact, I know plenty of guys who fit only one of those catagories who have no trouble getting play. As far as I can tell, the real requirements for a guy to be able to pick up women are:
1) Don't treat women with respect
2) Don't be 'slimey'
Any guy who can fulfil those 2 requirements should be reasonably successful.
And yes, confidence is important. Ambition really isn't.
Let me point out, though, that I'm not saying you shouldn't have respect for women, just that you shouldn't show it if you want to date them. Obviously, my marriage wouldn't be anywhere near as successful as it is if I didn't respect my wife, but the fact remains that neither she, nor any of the various women I dated before her, would give me the time of day until I stopped showing it.
clean up the crap and treat women with respect and you might just get to have sex with another human being for once
Wow, you must not get laid much if you honestly believe that. The sad truth is that treating women with respect is the best way to not get laid.
Nice guys who treat women with respect get to be friends. Jerks who show women no respect get laid. Decide what you want, because you won't get both.
All the math professors here are great. Lots of applications, of course, but if you pay attention, you can learn a lot of theory as well.
Same at my CC.Instruction is generally focused on application, but if you ask they'll go as deep into the theory as you care to.
One thing I've noticed, though, is that the more focused an instructor is on application, the more the students seem to learn, and that also corelates with a lower drop rate.