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No way! Government beauruacracy(sp?) creates jobs by making it impossible for ordinary citizens to understand the laws of the land. We need more government spending! Raise taxes!
While I have to admit stuff like this scares my socks off, its a reality of globalizaton which also gives us 99 cent TV sets at Wal-mart. It will be a rough few years, especially for the less skilled among us.
Now if we really want to stop it, just start shipping our upper/middle management over there. They effectively killed productivity at my former employer, and I'm sure they could work the same magic in India.
The solution lies in new technology, not new legislation. If there were more content delivery methods(yes, theres satellite, but we need more), the cable companies would lose their monopoly and would have to compete for our business.
Wireless cable, telco delivered video on demand, cable blimps, and streaming video over IP come to mind. Better yet, lets come up with a system where we simply buy bandwidth from a carrier and use that as a 'universal content delivery mechanism' for cable, phone service, etc.
I know this has been tried before (by cable co's and telcos at least), so why did it fail?
Its always amazed me how the government can work for years trying to solve a problem and a new technological innovation will come along and make the entire debate irrelevant.
Enjoying my severance pay and catching up on house work. I WAS throwing together another lfs system, but my PII finally bit the dust and I lack the $$$ to replace it.
Anyone looking for an Embedded Linux guy in San Diego?
What about using some kind of biometric data, like key cadence, or a profile of typical mouse movement characteristics (like icon overshoot?) to do it? That way its totally seamless, although one could still do some damage as it would take a few input events to establish the identity.
Sure, its not foolproof, but who wants to wear an identifying token?
I TRIED to use their 68HC12 dev kit for my last project(at my now former employer) and spent 40%(rough guess, but it was close) of my time fighting tool problems. And after the 90 day support was up they stopped talking to me, even with regards to bugs in their c++ compiler.
Had I gone with the GNU toolchain(boss was a HW guy who insisted on paying for tools), I would have been up to speed in 3 days, the c++ support would have been near complete, and I MIGHT just still be employed(can't blame it ALL on them). Sure its nice when companies think they can provide total solutions, but in most implementations I've seen they give you a false sense of security and end up costing you.
1. Most of the time I check/., its from work on my win2k box. Win2k is required since our tools as well as most others' only run on windows.
2. At home I use windows because lately I just want to surf the web and in windows I can do it with a lot less hassle.
3. Games? Maybe... I still play half-life sometimes, and even though I CAN run it under linux it just seems like a lot of trouble.
Basically, I bought a linksys router, which removed the necessity for maintaining a linux box. Oh, and I got a life. That took most of the time I had previously devoted to playing with linux.
Don't get me wrong, I still love the penguin. I'd love to get to work on an embedded linux project, but that hasn't been in the cards lately.
One important point I recently heard from a libertarian:
In a libertarian society you're free to erect whatever institution you like. If you're a communist, feel free to setup a communist city/county/state. If you like our current society, feel free to implement socialism to whatever degree you like. Want to ban guns? Fine with me.
Now try setting up a libertarian society in our authoritarian state. Its just not possible, except possibly via something like the free state project. Lets hope they're successful!
I've been a redhat user since 6.0, and after trying LFS and deciding I needed a desktop, I gave Mandrake 8.2 a try. It was buggy, not all that fast, and frankly I think the blue and gold colors are ugly(which is 50% of the reason I didn't like it:))
I was expecting a lot more based on all the good reviews I had heard. After that I tried the redhat beta (null) and never looked back.
I guess it might be nice if you need your 3d card to work out of the box, but I was looking for a desktop with more 'finish'.
What about training normal people in developing countries? I understand its great to have more doctors, but what about training the local Grandma/Shaman/Elder in basic medicine? Could be a great help in lots of developing nations that would never get proper medical treatment otherwise.
Something like this, maybe put on to handheld computers and given out to the locals could go a long way towards elevating their medical standards. Granted its not like they'll be able to perform surgery, but for 90% of the 'first aid' incidents they'll be much better off.
Obviously you're not a parent. When I was a kid (4 years old?) I remember taking a candy bar from a grocery store when I was out shopping with my sister. I wanted it, so I took it. When we got outside my sister realized it and I had to go give it back. Society defines what I had just done as stealing, and I was never taught to steal. Obviously I had a poor concept of respecting the property of others.
I would say any parent could tell you story after story of a child needing to be taught right from wrong - from not pulling down their pants in public to not biting their friends when they get mad. The idea that we're all somehow born perfect and unspoiled is totally false - a delusion of proud humans.
I'd have to say that there are 2 reasons parents aren't as effective today as they used to be. The first being that the parents have immersed themselves in their own world of pleasures (tv, their own video games, sports, etc) that they're too selfish to put down and be parents. Second, there is a tremendous shift in the amount of marketing dollars which are spent on children - with the obvious reason that they wield the purchasing power of their parents, yet lack the wisdom to make appropriate decisions as to what is a resonable purchase.
Another thought: Violent video games don't necessarily make violent children anymore than non-violent video games do. What I think makes people in general more violent is the disconnection with others (loss of empathy) coupled with the immediate stimulation/reward of video games. This creates individuals who are trained to expect instant gratification and when this doesn't occur stress starts to accumulate. When you have this building stress level coupled with lack of respect for others you get violence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think video games in general are bad, but any self seeking activity that takes up as much time as video games can cause some real problems in developing minds.
Technology is never good or bad. Technology just is.
Technology is simply a tool that expands the power and abilities of the user with certain side effects. Are guns 'bad'? No! Guns exist, and free thinking individuals decide how to use them.
Are CCD cameras bad? Of course not. But in the hands of a repressive government they can be terrible.
I don't really think 1984 was meant to portray technology in a bad light any more than animal farm was a warning against farm animals. The real point is that man, as a species, is selfish and power hungry, and that technology only amplifies his abilities to manifest the desires of his heart.
Do you have any references mentioning the development of food grade canola oil? I'm interested in learning more but I can't find anything relevant on google.
Ok, its been.. what? 15 years? since they started talking about HDTV? And you expect the people who can't even agree on a simple hi-def format to adopt and commercialize this?
Hehe.. ok. I'll put this in the pile with all of the other schemes that are "only 5 years away".
What it would probably take is for geeks to design and implement it, and then develop some kind of 'killer app' based upon it. Maybe modify mozilla to support it and put some mp3 distro sites on it. Overnight you'd see it proliferate in college dorms, and in about 6 months IE would support it. Although, MS would probably make their own version, slightly modified and patented, which has DRM or somesuch... but you get the idea.
People need a reason to use things. The average joe isn't going to switch just because its technically better. Hey, how bout this: if we get a working implementation of something, we petition OSDN and other geek sites to drop their DNS
let you see through the crowds and undistinguished buildings to reveal nearby friends,
potential colleagues, departments, labs, and interesting events. By making the clutter
transparent and highlighting otherwise invisible things, the confusing bustle of the campus
becomes more sensible and within reach.
Wow, so instead of conversing with all those icky people(clutter) who aren't like me, I can ignore them and be instantly in touch with a community of like-minded(close minded?) people just like me.
So, like the internet, this is a new way for subcultures to reinforce their ties to each other and keep people apart.
Wow! You mean I'm the only person who cranks up his resolution AND his font size?
True, the characters are about as small as they can get, even in 640x480. But what I'm looking for is a resolution where the infobox text, for instance, doesn't take up half the screen, and the graphics look better than my Amiga circa 1991.
Lets just hope it doesn't suck as bad as Icewind Dale did. I finally broke down and spent $16 bucks at costco and got one of the most frustrating games imaginable.
First off, it was designed to be so difficult that the only way to win was to save-cheat (certain areas just aren't winnable the first 5-10 times you try it until you learn the technique).
Secondly, the path finding algorithm almost cost me my keyboard in a fit of rage as my party wandered aimlessly instead of attacking.
Assuming they've got these worked out, and it runs at higher than 800x600, it should be a great game.
Forgive me, as I have nothing useful to add to this discussion, but why is it that when anyone poses a question like this to a group of geeks, 90% of the responses are of the "Why would you want to do that, you idiot?" variety?
Yes, we know you don't like flash. Fine. That wasn't the question.
The Creativity Machine's basic design can be used for myriad purposes, says Thaler. One weekend, for example, he showed the machine a smattering of popular songs - actually just short phrases of about 10 notes without any accompanying harmonies - then turned it loose to imagine some new ones. The filtering network selected 11 000 of the best themes and Thaler sent them to the US Library of Congress to be copyrighted. "That makes me technically the most prolific songwriter of all time," he boasts.
Did I miss something? Aren't these guys a little late?
Computers already exist that can easily handle the compression, storage and manipulation of copyrighted content. Are they going to require me to turn in my home system? If not, then what on earth is going to stop me from hooking up my video capture card to the line out (which is going to have to be there to remain compatible with all of the billions of dollars of consumer equipment out there) and divx'ing their latest and greatest?
How about this: take one big squirrel cage fan and stick it in another room. Run 2 inch ducting to the case and suck all the hot air out through that. Then use appropriately placed air vents to direct fresh air over the CPU and Video Card.
I've been looking for the same setup for quite awhile, except that I'd like it to be cheap as well and that eliminates most options.
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No way! Government beauruacracy(sp?) creates jobs by making it impossible for ordinary citizens to understand the laws of the land. We need more government spending! Raise taxes!
While I have to admit stuff like this scares my socks off, its a reality of globalizaton which also gives us 99 cent TV sets at Wal-mart. It will be a rough few years, especially for the less skilled among us.
Now if we really want to stop it, just start shipping our upper/middle management over there. They effectively killed productivity at my former employer, and I'm sure they could work the same magic in India.
The solution lies in new technology, not new legislation. If there were more content delivery methods(yes, theres satellite, but we need more), the cable companies would lose their monopoly and would have to compete for our business.
Wireless cable, telco delivered video on demand, cable blimps, and streaming video over IP come to mind. Better yet, lets come up with a system where we simply buy bandwidth from a carrier and use that as a 'universal content delivery mechanism' for cable, phone service, etc.
I know this has been tried before (by cable co's and telcos at least), so why did it fail?
Its always amazed me how the government can work for years trying to solve a problem and a new technological innovation will come along and make the entire debate irrelevant.
Enjoying my severance pay and catching up on house work. I WAS throwing together another lfs system, but my PII finally bit the dust and I lack the $$$ to replace it.
Anyone looking for an Embedded Linux guy in San Diego?
What about using some kind of biometric data, like key cadence, or a profile of typical mouse movement characteristics (like icon overshoot?) to do it? That way its totally seamless, although one could still do some damage as it would take a few input events to establish the identity.
Sure, its not foolproof, but who wants to wear an identifying token?
Yeah, that's exactly what they TRY to do.
I TRIED to use their 68HC12 dev kit for my last project(at my now former employer) and spent 40%(rough guess, but it was close) of my time fighting tool problems. And after the 90 day support was up they stopped talking to me, even with regards to bugs in their c++ compiler.
Had I gone with the GNU toolchain(boss was a HW guy who insisted on paying for tools), I would have been up to speed in 3 days, the c++ support would have been near complete, and I MIGHT just still be employed(can't blame it ALL on them). Sure its nice when companies think they can provide total solutions, but in most implementations I've seen they give you a false sense of security and end up costing you.
...was a layoff notice.
At least the severance was nice.
So, anyone looking for an embedded linux/vxworks guy in San Diego?
1. Most of the time I check /., its from work on my win2k box. Win2k is required since our tools as well as most others' only run on windows.
2. At home I use windows because lately I just want to surf the web and in windows I can do it with a lot less hassle.
3. Games? Maybe... I still play half-life sometimes, and even though I CAN run it under linux it just seems like a lot of trouble.
Basically, I bought a linksys router, which removed the necessity for maintaining a linux box. Oh, and I got a life. That took most of the time I had previously devoted to playing with linux.
Don't get me wrong, I still love the penguin. I'd love to get to work on an embedded linux project, but that hasn't been in the cards lately.
One important point I recently heard from a libertarian:
In a libertarian society you're free to erect whatever institution you like. If you're a communist, feel free to setup a communist city/county/state. If you like our current society, feel free to implement socialism to whatever degree you like. Want to ban guns? Fine with me.
Now try setting up a libertarian society in our authoritarian state. Its just not possible, except possibly via something like the free state project. Lets hope they're successful!
I can feel the flames already, but here goes...
:))
I've been a redhat user since 6.0, and after trying LFS and deciding I needed a desktop, I gave Mandrake 8.2 a try. It was buggy, not all that fast, and frankly I think the blue and gold colors are ugly(which is 50% of the reason I didn't like it
I was expecting a lot more based on all the good reviews I had heard. After that I tried the redhat beta (null) and never looked back.
I guess it might be nice if you need your 3d card to work out of the box, but I was looking for a desktop with more 'finish'.
What about training normal people in developing countries? I understand its great to have more doctors, but what about training the local Grandma/Shaman/Elder in basic medicine? Could be a great help in lots of developing nations that would never get proper medical treatment otherwise.
Something like this, maybe put on to handheld computers and given out to the locals could go a long way towards elevating their medical standards. Granted its not like they'll be able to perform surgery, but for 90% of the 'first aid' incidents they'll be much better off.
Obviously you're not a parent. When I was a kid (4 years old?) I remember taking a candy bar from a grocery store when I was out shopping with my sister. I wanted it, so I took it. When we got outside my sister realized it and I had to go give it back. Society defines what I had just done as stealing, and I was never taught to steal. Obviously I had a poor concept of respecting the property of others.
I would say any parent could tell you story after story of a child needing to be taught right from wrong - from not pulling down their pants in public to not biting their friends when they get mad. The idea that we're all somehow born perfect and unspoiled is totally false - a delusion of proud humans.
Just some thoughts..
I'd have to say that there are 2 reasons parents aren't as effective today as they used to be. The first being that the parents have immersed themselves in their own world of pleasures (tv, their own video games, sports, etc) that they're too selfish to put down and be parents. Second, there is a tremendous shift in the amount of marketing dollars which are spent on children - with the obvious reason that they wield the purchasing power of their parents, yet lack the wisdom to make appropriate decisions as to what is a resonable purchase.
Another thought: Violent video games don't necessarily make violent children anymore than non-violent video games do. What I think makes people in general more violent is the disconnection with others (loss of empathy) coupled with the immediate stimulation/reward of video games. This creates individuals who are trained to expect instant gratification and when this doesn't occur stress starts to accumulate. When you have this building stress level coupled with lack of respect for others you get violence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think video games in general are bad, but any self seeking activity that takes up as much time as video games can cause some real problems in developing minds.
Technology is never good or bad. Technology just is.
Technology is simply a tool that expands the power and abilities of the user with certain side effects. Are guns 'bad'? No! Guns exist, and free thinking individuals decide how to use them.
Are CCD cameras bad? Of course not. But in the hands of a repressive government they can be terrible.
I don't really think 1984 was meant to portray technology in a bad light any more than animal farm was a warning against farm animals. The real point is that man, as a species, is selfish and power hungry, and that technology only amplifies his abilities to manifest the desires of his heart.
Do you have any references mentioning the development of food grade canola oil? I'm interested in learning more but I can't find anything relevant on google.
Interesting...
:)
Now if you could use the graffiti mode to replace billboards and ads, like the way they do with major league baseball games, THAT would be cool
Ok, its been.. what? 15 years? since they started talking about HDTV? And you expect the people who can't even agree on a simple hi-def format to adopt and commercialize this?
Hehe.. ok. I'll put this in the pile with all of the other schemes that are "only 5 years away".
What it would probably take is for geeks to design and implement it, and then develop some kind of 'killer app' based upon it. Maybe modify mozilla to support it and put some mp3 distro sites on it. Overnight you'd see it proliferate in college dorms, and in about 6 months IE would support it. Although, MS would probably make their own version, slightly modified and patented, which has DRM or somesuch... but you get the idea.
People need a reason to use things. The average joe isn't going to switch just because its technically better. Hey, how bout this: if we get a working implementation of something, we petition OSDN and other geek sites to drop their DNS
let you see through the crowds and undistinguished buildings to reveal nearby friends, potential colleagues, departments, labs, and interesting events. By making the clutter transparent and highlighting otherwise invisible things, the confusing bustle of the campus becomes more sensible and within reach.
Wow, so instead of conversing with all those icky people(clutter) who aren't like me, I can ignore them and be instantly in touch with a community of like-minded(close minded?) people just like me.
So, like the internet, this is a new way for subcultures to reinforce their ties to each other and keep people apart.
Wow! You mean I'm the only person who cranks up his resolution AND his font size?
True, the characters are about as small as they can get, even in 640x480. But what I'm looking for is a resolution where the infobox text, for instance, doesn't take up half the screen, and the graphics look better than my Amiga circa 1991.
Lets just hope it doesn't suck as bad as Icewind Dale did. I finally broke down and spent $16 bucks at costco and got one of the most frustrating games imaginable.
First off, it was designed to be so difficult that the only way to win was to save-cheat (certain areas just aren't winnable the first 5-10 times you try it until you learn the technique).
Secondly, the path finding algorithm almost cost me my keyboard in a fit of rage as my party wandered aimlessly instead of attacking.
Assuming they've got these worked out, and it runs at higher than 800x600, it should be a great game.
Forgive me, as I have nothing useful to add to this discussion, but why is it that when anyone poses a question like this to a group of geeks, 90% of the responses are of the "Why would you want to do that, you idiot?" variety?
Yes, we know you don't like flash. Fine. That wasn't the question.
I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet(heck, its worthy of a front page story)...
But what about The Creativity Machine? From the article:
Did I miss something? Aren't these guys a little late?
Computers already exist that can easily handle the compression, storage and manipulation of copyrighted content. Are they going to require me to turn in my home system? If not, then what on earth is going to stop me from hooking up my video capture card to the line out (which is going to have to be there to remain compatible with all of the billions of dollars of consumer equipment out there) and divx'ing their latest and greatest?
Its too late!
How about this: take one big squirrel cage fan and stick it in another room. Run 2 inch ducting to the case and suck all the hot air out through that. Then use appropriately placed air vents to direct fresh air over the CPU and Video Card.
I've been looking for the same setup for quite awhile, except that I'd like it to be cheap as well and that eliminates most options.