If you want to share the actual schematics in a usable form, then just upload the file itself. This tool isn't so great for that, considering that it only supports two fairly minor formats. OrCAD and Altium are way more common. Maybe Eagle and KiCAD are popular for pure hobbyists, but even so, I don't see why you wouldn't just share the file.
If you just want to share a picture of the schematic, then a PDF with a working text search is arguably a better option, since it can be printed, and is available as an export from any CAD program you care to use.
The one use case where a tool like this could excel would be for schematics in which the components have a lot of metadata. For example, a schematic for an IC in which you can embed data about each transistor without having to clutter the page by printing it all. But that doesn't seem to be possible for this tool as it exists right now.
Reputation systems don't work. They just fracture the internet into radicalized cliques. People are forced to either mesh with the groupthink for a particular site, or leave. Just look at Slashdot... no matter how honestly someone believes that Microsoft is a good company, if they try to express that view on a routine basis, they'll be banned from participating in the moderation system at no time.
But do they think those things only because of increased exposure to radicalism? If a right-leaning but otherwise normal person spends time on Free Republic, they may start to embrace racism and hatred as normal. If a decent person spends time on 4chan, they may come to view trolling as fun, whereas a normal person sees it as sociopathic disregard for others. Those same people then contribute to the changing of other people's personalities.
Who you are is not set in stone. We all change based on external factors. Anonymous internet assholism can be both contagious and self-feeding.
False equivalency. Whenever these terrorist attacks occur, it's a right-wing terrorist behind them. From the assassination of Dr. Tiller, to the attempted assault on the Tides Foundation, to the attempt to bomb the MLK Day parade in Spokane, to the bombing of a Democratic party primary in Arkansas, to the bombing of a mosque in Jacksonville, to the suicide plane crash into the IRS offices in Austin, to the Hutaree Militia's plans to bomb a police officer's funeral and spark a civil war... and that's just a sample of the attacks in the past two years alone.
When the left-wing eco-terrorists were operating decades ago, then yes, that was also scary and deplorable and turned a lot of people off to the cause of environmentalism. But today, right now, the terrorist attacks are coming from the right-wing, pseudo-libertarians. And they are being encouraged by Fox and Limbaugh and the Republicans, who are constantly on the air, reinforcing the notion that the government is illegitimate and that violent attacks ("second amendment solutions") are acceptable responses. The reason for the hate-mongering is clear - if you whip the masses into a frenzy, they'll get out and vote for you. And if you push some over the edge and they murder people, you can just deny responsibility.
The right-wing has fully embraced terrorism as a means to achieve their goals. And the scary thing is that it's working.
It's a line from a movie. One that virtually everyone on this site has seen. It doesn't mean people are pro-rape. The occasional scumbag might be, but if you judge an entire country based on them, you're going to find that every country fails your standards.
Meh, it's really not a big deal. You say 4.8 million kids are home schooled. Working from that number, what percent are taught creationism? What percent of those will actually go to college? What percent of those will study biology? What percent of those will have trouble accepting the new information? What percent of those will go into a career where their Biology 101 grade matters?
You end up with a Drake-style equation, the answer of which is probably in the double digits at most. It's sad that those people will be at a disadvantage, but it's small potatoes next to the notion of creationism being forced on every child in the country.
Nonsense. One should always be investing, even when in debt. If I'm broke, you can bet your ass that I'll borrow money to travel to job interviews. Austerity makes for good sound bites, but in practice it's a disaster.
Steam already has an Indie game section. Just go to the store, click on "Genres" and select "Indie". Considering that, at any given time, there are at least a couple indie games on the front page, I think Valve is very serious about pushing indie titles. Most likely because they tend to be low cost, meaning that they can be impulse buys, and thus generate more revenue than $50 non-AAA games.
People always bring up this argument, but it is deeply, deeply flawed.
You assume: A) That no one who pirates a game would have bought it otherwise. This is false. There are at least some people who would have. B) That a substantial number of people buy the game after having pirated it. This is true to an extent, but you have no idea how common it is.
If the number of people in category A exceeds the number in category B, then it is a net loss for the developers. The fact that you fall into group B does not mean that most people do.
Well, fear of piracy isn't really a BS reason. Large numbers of people pirated the humble indie bundle, despite the fact that it could be purchased for $1 (or was it 1 cent?). Some people are just incredibly selfish. I can understand why devs might want to avoid that, even though I think they're making a mistake if they do.
Wow, look at the split in that case. The majority was Scalia, Thomas, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer. That would never happen in a similar case today. It's amazing how polarized the country has become in just a decade.
If that case were decided today, it would likely turn out the way the GP thought it did. Remember, Thomas is the guy who ruled (in the minority, thankfully) that it's okay for a school to strip-search a girl for Ibuprofen.
Or just don't install apps that are asking for privileges they shouldn't need. If an app claiming to be an Angry Birds addon wants permission to access my contacts list or the ability make phone calls, I'm going to be suspicious.
For millenium+ archives, you better just make it a book. Computers have been around for how many centuries? What's that you say, approximately zero? Well, then we probably shouldn't assume that they'll look the same in ten. Heck, even your writing will probably look like "Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum, theodcyninga, thrym gefrunon, hu dha aethelingas ellen fremedon," to people in 3011, but there will probably be historians who can manage it. Maybe there'll be historians who specialize in all the different file formats we use today, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Even in the case of areas with referendum and initiative, the fact remains that the people do not vote on every little thing. They would never have seen a bill spending such a relatively tiny amount.
And the Town Meeting system (which I am well aware of, having spent some time living in Connecticut), is rarely true direct democracy. Maybe for really tiny towns, it might be, but in most cases you have a Board of Selectmen who do most of the governing. They put policies up to a vote, and the system ends up being similar to a representative system with referendum/initiatives. I now live in Washington state, which has both, and I don't really see much difference between the two forms.
All of that is irrelevant though. The simple fact is that the people of Where-ever-this-was, CA, probably don't know or care about it. The only reason it's "newsworthy" is because some demagogues see an opportunity to spread FUD about both energy efficiency *and* government initiatives. It's a two-fer! How can they resist?
Again, you're deluded. You speak in grandiose yet meaningless terms because it makes you feel important. If you want to go live on your ten person island, go ahead. In the real world, we have hundreds of millions of people. It's a tad more complex to keep a society of that size running smoothly.
In your ten person island, every one of you is profoundly important, because you represent a huge portion of the populace. You have to get along, because you need each other. In the real world, you are insignificant. You could be murdered tomorrow, and society as a whole wouldn't notice. Your neighbors might, but there would be nothing they can do. Your problems are equally insignificant. If you lose your job, your neighbors might try to help, but if times are tough they can't. Your town wants a company to stop dumping poison in your drinking water? Too damn bad.
But the government fixes all those problems. If someone kills you, they will notice, and they will hunt down the killer. If your town is going through a rough economic patch, they will collect money from luckier towns to help you out, with the understanding that you will pitch in when it's your turn to help someone else. If some monolithic corporation is pushing you around, they provide you with a means to fight back.
Despite the lies that have been drilled into your head since your youth, the government is not the enemy. The government is us. We are the government. Unfortunately, we've been convinced that we are evil. That we can only do good when we act as individuals. The notion of being a small, unimportant part of something bigger obviously terrifies you. That's why you cling to your childish notions that every man can be an island. But if you wake up, and take a hard look at what the government actually does, you'll see that you've been lied to your entire life. We are the government, and we can be a force for good, if only we decide to try.
You're deluded. To just pick one of the many obviously wrong things in your post: you claim that it is offensive to think that the government is entitled to some share of our individual profits. But we wouldn't have those profits without a functioning government.
To paraphrase a wise man, taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
The good citizens worked hard for that money. Did they have a vote about how it was being "invested" in some feel-good scheme their know-it-all leaders wanted?
This may come as a surprise to you, but the United States is a representative democracy. The people don't have to vote on every little thing. They chose representatives who they felt would look out for their interests. Those representatives spent $3 per person on one particular venture. That single venture didn't pay off. Others likely did. The people are most likely still quite happy with their elected leaders, and probably don't know or care about this.
The only reason you're hearing about it is because it has the word "green" in the title, so the right-wing hate machine wants to drum up some manufactured outrage over it. Judging by your post... mission accomplished.
Isn't this the guy who made that game where you play ball with someone, and doing so gives you the ability to "reach for the stars" but you eventually realize you have to abandon your buddy in order to get a high score? I think he basically stumbled into making an interesting game once, and has now convinced himself that he's more talented than he is. A lot of artists have that problem. See: George Lucas.
You have infinite lives in nethack. Your character may die, but you just create a new one and use what you learned to do better. The goal is to use that learning to do better every time. In a game that can only ever be played once, there is no such learning. You do some things, and then never speak of or apply them again. What's the point?
Not always. Most people consider the Taliban to be terrorists, because they use suicide bombings and random shootings to kill Muslims whom they view as insufficiently devout. A while back (before the Pakistani military pushed them out) they outlawed things like dancing or women going out in public. If someone violated those rules, their names would get announced on the radio that night, and they would have maybe twelve hours to get the hell out of dodge, or else their organs would be decorating the town square.
I don't think even the Taliban members thought they were "freedom fighters" in this situation.
It's true that freedom fighters are often labeled terrorists by their opponents. It is not true that all terrorists are freedom fighters.
Apparently not. That first patent was filed in February of '96, long before the first BlackBerry came out. It would seem Apple has been planning to screw over the world through patent trolling for a very long time.
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I still don't see the purpose here.
If you want to share the actual schematics in a usable form, then just upload the file itself. This tool isn't so great for that, considering that it only supports two fairly minor formats. OrCAD and Altium are way more common. Maybe Eagle and KiCAD are popular for pure hobbyists, but even so, I don't see why you wouldn't just share the file.
If you just want to share a picture of the schematic, then a PDF with a working text search is arguably a better option, since it can be printed, and is available as an export from any CAD program you care to use.
The one use case where a tool like this could excel would be for schematics in which the components have a lot of metadata. For example, a schematic for an IC in which you can embed data about each transistor without having to clutter the page by printing it all. But that doesn't seem to be possible for this tool as it exists right now.
Reputation systems don't work. They just fracture the internet into radicalized cliques. People are forced to either mesh with the groupthink for a particular site, or leave. Just look at Slashdot... no matter how honestly someone believes that Microsoft is a good company, if they try to express that view on a routine basis, they'll be banned from participating in the moderation system at no time.
But do they think those things only because of increased exposure to radicalism? If a right-leaning but otherwise normal person spends time on Free Republic, they may start to embrace racism and hatred as normal. If a decent person spends time on 4chan, they may come to view trolling as fun, whereas a normal person sees it as sociopathic disregard for others. Those same people then contribute to the changing of other people's personalities.
Who you are is not set in stone. We all change based on external factors. Anonymous internet assholism can be both contagious and self-feeding.
False equivalency. Whenever these terrorist attacks occur, it's a right-wing terrorist behind them. From the assassination of Dr. Tiller, to the attempted assault on the Tides Foundation, to the attempt to bomb the MLK Day parade in Spokane, to the bombing of a Democratic party primary in Arkansas, to the bombing of a mosque in Jacksonville, to the suicide plane crash into the IRS offices in Austin, to the Hutaree Militia's plans to bomb a police officer's funeral and spark a civil war... and that's just a sample of the attacks in the past two years alone.
When the left-wing eco-terrorists were operating decades ago, then yes, that was also scary and deplorable and turned a lot of people off to the cause of environmentalism. But today, right now, the terrorist attacks are coming from the right-wing, pseudo-libertarians. And they are being encouraged by Fox and Limbaugh and the Republicans, who are constantly on the air, reinforcing the notion that the government is illegitimate and that violent attacks ("second amendment solutions") are acceptable responses. The reason for the hate-mongering is clear - if you whip the masses into a frenzy, they'll get out and vote for you. And if you push some over the edge and they murder people, you can just deny responsibility.
The right-wing has fully embraced terrorism as a means to achieve their goals. And the scary thing is that it's working.
"Shill" is not a synonym for "people I don't like".
It's a line from a movie. One that virtually everyone on this site has seen. It doesn't mean people are pro-rape. The occasional scumbag might be, but if you judge an entire country based on them, you're going to find that every country fails your standards.
Meh, it's really not a big deal. You say 4.8 million kids are home schooled. Working from that number, what percent are taught creationism? What percent of those will actually go to college? What percent of those will study biology? What percent of those will have trouble accepting the new information? What percent of those will go into a career where their Biology 101 grade matters?
You end up with a Drake-style equation, the answer of which is probably in the double digits at most. It's sad that those people will be at a disadvantage, but it's small potatoes next to the notion of creationism being forced on every child in the country.
A mobile.
Nonsense. One should always be investing, even when in debt. If I'm broke, you can bet your ass that I'll borrow money to travel to job interviews. Austerity makes for good sound bites, but in practice it's a disaster.
Steam already has an Indie game section. Just go to the store, click on "Genres" and select "Indie". Considering that, at any given time, there are at least a couple indie games on the front page, I think Valve is very serious about pushing indie titles. Most likely because they tend to be low cost, meaning that they can be impulse buys, and thus generate more revenue than $50 non-AAA games.
People always bring up this argument, but it is deeply, deeply flawed.
You assume:
A) That no one who pirates a game would have bought it otherwise. This is false. There are at least some people who would have.
B) That a substantial number of people buy the game after having pirated it. This is true to an extent, but you have no idea how common it is.
If the number of people in category A exceeds the number in category B, then it is a net loss for the developers. The fact that you fall into group B does not mean that most people do.
Well, fear of piracy isn't really a BS reason. Large numbers of people pirated the humble indie bundle, despite the fact that it could be purchased for $1 (or was it 1 cent?). Some people are just incredibly selfish. I can understand why devs might want to avoid that, even though I think they're making a mistake if they do.
Wow, look at the split in that case. The majority was Scalia, Thomas, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer. That would never happen in a similar case today. It's amazing how polarized the country has become in just a decade.
If that case were decided today, it would likely turn out the way the GP thought it did. Remember, Thomas is the guy who ruled (in the minority, thankfully) that it's okay for a school to strip-search a girl for Ibuprofen.
Or just don't install apps that are asking for privileges they shouldn't need. If an app claiming to be an Angry Birds addon wants permission to access my contacts list or the ability make phone calls, I'm going to be suspicious.
Shhh... just this once, /. would prefer to believe that correlation equals causation, and one point makes a line.
For millenium+ archives, you better just make it a book. Computers have been around for how many centuries? What's that you say, approximately zero? Well, then we probably shouldn't assume that they'll look the same in ten. Heck, even your writing will probably look like "Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum, theodcyninga, thrym gefrunon, hu dha aethelingas ellen fremedon," to people in 3011, but there will probably be historians who can manage it. Maybe there'll be historians who specialize in all the different file formats we use today, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Even in the case of areas with referendum and initiative, the fact remains that the people do not vote on every little thing. They would never have seen a bill spending such a relatively tiny amount.
And the Town Meeting system (which I am well aware of, having spent some time living in Connecticut), is rarely true direct democracy. Maybe for really tiny towns, it might be, but in most cases you have a Board of Selectmen who do most of the governing. They put policies up to a vote, and the system ends up being similar to a representative system with referendum/initiatives. I now live in Washington state, which has both, and I don't really see much difference between the two forms.
All of that is irrelevant though. The simple fact is that the people of Where-ever-this-was, CA, probably don't know or care about it. The only reason it's "newsworthy" is because some demagogues see an opportunity to spread FUD about both energy efficiency *and* government initiatives. It's a two-fer! How can they resist?
Again, you're deluded. You speak in grandiose yet meaningless terms because it makes you feel important. If you want to go live on your ten person island, go ahead. In the real world, we have hundreds of millions of people. It's a tad more complex to keep a society of that size running smoothly.
In your ten person island, every one of you is profoundly important, because you represent a huge portion of the populace. You have to get along, because you need each other. In the real world, you are insignificant. You could be murdered tomorrow, and society as a whole wouldn't notice. Your neighbors might, but there would be nothing they can do. Your problems are equally insignificant. If you lose your job, your neighbors might try to help, but if times are tough they can't. Your town wants a company to stop dumping poison in your drinking water? Too damn bad.
But the government fixes all those problems. If someone kills you, they will notice, and they will hunt down the killer. If your town is going through a rough economic patch, they will collect money from luckier towns to help you out, with the understanding that you will pitch in when it's your turn to help someone else. If some monolithic corporation is pushing you around, they provide you with a means to fight back.
Despite the lies that have been drilled into your head since your youth, the government is not the enemy. The government is us. We are the government. Unfortunately, we've been convinced that we are evil. That we can only do good when we act as individuals. The notion of being a small, unimportant part of something bigger obviously terrifies you. That's why you cling to your childish notions that every man can be an island. But if you wake up, and take a hard look at what the government actually does, you'll see that you've been lied to your entire life. We are the government, and we can be a force for good, if only we decide to try.
You're deluded. To just pick one of the many obviously wrong things in your post: you claim that it is offensive to think that the government is entitled to some share of our individual profits. But we wouldn't have those profits without a functioning government.
To paraphrase a wise man, taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
The good citizens worked hard for that money. Did they have a vote about how it was being "invested" in some feel-good scheme their know-it-all leaders wanted?
This may come as a surprise to you, but the United States is a representative democracy. The people don't have to vote on every little thing. They chose representatives who they felt would look out for their interests. Those representatives spent $3 per person on one particular venture. That single venture didn't pay off. Others likely did. The people are most likely still quite happy with their elected leaders, and probably don't know or care about this.
The only reason you're hearing about it is because it has the word "green" in the title, so the right-wing hate machine wants to drum up some manufactured outrage over it. Judging by your post... mission accomplished.
Isn't this the guy who made that game where you play ball with someone, and doing so gives you the ability to "reach for the stars" but you eventually realize you have to abandon your buddy in order to get a high score? I think he basically stumbled into making an interesting game once, and has now convinced himself that he's more talented than he is. A lot of artists have that problem. See: George Lucas.
You have infinite lives in nethack. Your character may die, but you just create a new one and use what you learned to do better. The goal is to use that learning to do better every time. In a game that can only ever be played once, there is no such learning. You do some things, and then never speak of or apply them again. What's the point?
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Not always. Most people consider the Taliban to be terrorists, because they use suicide bombings and random shootings to kill Muslims whom they view as insufficiently devout. A while back (before the Pakistani military pushed them out) they outlawed things like dancing or women going out in public. If someone violated those rules, their names would get announced on the radio that night, and they would have maybe twelve hours to get the hell out of dodge, or else their organs would be decorating the town square.
I don't think even the Taliban members thought they were "freedom fighters" in this situation.
It's true that freedom fighters are often labeled terrorists by their opponents. It is not true that all terrorists are freedom fighters.
Apparently not. That first patent was filed in February of '96, long before the first BlackBerry came out. It would seem Apple has been planning to screw over the world through patent trolling for a very long time.