Did Mindawn/theKompany not pay any attention to what happened to to mp3.com?
About the time mp3.com started to make money they were purchased by an RIAA member mega-corp. They were embraced, and extended - assimilated and unltimately destroyed both as an outlet for artists and as a corporate entity.
The music industry will not tolerate un-affiliated (independant) success any more than the political industry will. If an independant shows signs of gaining traction with the public - of getting a following - that independant will purchased by one of the RIAA mega-corps and shut down. If they don't gain a following, they'll simply go bankrupt and shut down.
Either way, no non-RIAA company can compete in the industry, and no dissenting (unsigned) artist stands a (statisticly significant) chance of success. That's why what the insdustry is doing is called "racketeering" and that's why the music industry as we know it must be destroyed before Capitalism (competition) can have an effect...
You can't win if you're playing with their ball and by their rules.
Now there's a marketting phrase! Can we expect IC manufacturers to start publishing an "electron count" for their products? How many ways can that be spun into deceptive marketing.... "Well, Brand X claims they're using fewer electrons than we are, but they're not telling you about the anicillary effects that consume 27% more electrons than the Acme Electron Lite Reduced Electron Count (REC) model. The fact is, our revolutionary REC technology represents a quantum leap in facilitated innovation..."
although carrying a lower voltage, are much closer, and therefore contribute more to the local electric fields.
It is the current determines the EMF, not the voltage. With sufficient current, the field will cover the distance between the transmission line and the home at the base of the tower.
There is a voltage/current conversion that is the reason high voltage lines are high voltage.
In any case, electro-magnetic flux can be measured, and the field from high-voltage will combine with the field generated by the house wiring.
esla (who worked with Edison on early electric devices) wanted to transmit electricity wirelessly.
As I understand it, Tesla did transmit electrical power "wirelessly" using RF. Lit up a bank of stadium floodlights from a mile away, or something.
He wanted to apply those principles to the (planned, at that time, i'm sure) power distribution "grid", which is evidently where the disagreement with Edison came in. I believe Tesla is also responsible for the fact that the power company isn't still trying to distribute DC...
to get enough electricity to power anything useful into the air over any real distance would be a huge cancer risk
This statement is patently false. It is the 60Hz EMF that exists now that is a huge risk, although it is arguable whether or not the risk is "cancer", per se. There have been a lot of studies done on the effects of EM on organisims; it became quite clear that the relatively sparse RF power fields are less damaging to organisms than the extremely dense low frequency (60Hz) fields that surround the wiring in buildings.
Strangely, the EM associated w/ ~200V 50Hz AC (what they have in Europe) is apparently less dangerous than 120V 60Hz, though. Something about the resonant frequency of cells, or something...
About 8 years ago I heard that the military/spy agencies were using an audio bug that demodulated its power from an RF field that was transmitted to it. Low power, very small application of some of Tesla's work. So yeah, I would say it's past time for power over WiFi...
I mean, here we have a country filled with and ruled by fascists and Islamic fundamentalists, where women are looked down upon -- the United States attempts to install a democracy and yet people like you see the United States as "the bad guys".
Until I read this a 2nd time and caught the "filled with" part I thought you were talking about the US.
Ruled by fascists, check
and Islamic fundies (Dubya/Chaney, by virtue of compliance with the Saudi agenda), check
Women looked down upon (refusal to sign international agreements to protect the rights of women, fundie xian sexism), check
US attempted to install democracy, check
... and do you really - in your apparent patriotic zeal - really want to compare US troops with suicide bombers? I mean, I can clearly see the comparison between Dybya and Hussein - Pete and Repete, they are - but I think the soldiers are fundamentally decent people, fighting for something they've been told to believe in - or because their National Guard unit got illegally relocated out of the US - or maybe they just though tution benefits were worth the risk - whatever the reason, they seem pretty mainstream compared to a teenage girl strapping dynamite to herself and splattering herself across a couple square blocks just because some fascist bullozed her dads house while her parents were in it.... is that really a comarison you want to make? I mean, it's not like anyone is bulldozing the homes of the US and British troops, and furthermore, they don't have as ready access to stuff like AK-47's and C4 as those Palestinian kids do.... sorry, I guess you were talking about the Iraqi kids - not so many girls blowing themselves up, there, are there? Isreal must be a much freer place than Iraq for arab teenagers...
The beheadings were US-paid "black ops" people pretending to be Muslims, unless the Muslims have suddenly developed a need to cover their faces while making idiot pronouncements and murdering people - which I doubt, since their ideology doesn't support the idea.
Or is that not the answer you're comfortable with?
Democrats have done a good job discreditting the president, which you have to admit whether or not you agree with the discreditting.
No, if the Democrats had done their job - if they had done a good job discrediting the current regime - Bush and Cheney would be up on charges - impeached for misappropriation of funds, minimally; desertion, sedition,... possibly treason or armed insurrection againt the United States, in a best case scenario - Halliburton would be shut down... there are many, many more and better outcomes that one could have expected from a real effort from the Left. Fact is, the US has no Left. There is only Right and Extreme Right. Fundies and Fundie-extremists. At least at the Federal Governmental level, that is.
Nov 2000 was a coup. Nothing more, nothing less - it was a subversion of the demoratic process, and this bullshit this year isn't going to "heal" anything.
The Bush Regime was not an is not the legal government of the US. They're just a bunch of thugs playing the system against the sheeple.
If you're talking about -corruption- you are talking about the coupons. If you're talking about -profit- then you are talking about [...]
Damn straight! And in reality what you should be talking about is the money Cheney, Halliburtun, and whomever American weapons manufacturers made selling Weapons of Mass Destruction (that's WMDs to you, budro) to Iraq.
Read the news yourself, ya ignorant freak. And here's a tip: What they're playing on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Knight-Ridder, ClearChannel, Disney, et al is not news. The journalistic (technical) term for it is "Editorial"; many people (those who've been aronud long enough to remember such things) call it what the US called it when the USSR did it: Propaganda. Of course, many of us just call it as we see it: It's BULLSHIT. Get a clue.
Here's a tidbit from the real news for ya:
Q: Why did Dubya think that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction?
A: Dick Cheney had the reciepts.
So look around a little bit; your bitchass right-wing masters haven't erradicated all non-Party news sources yet...
I do like the idea that my "UPC" code keeps me from getting mixed up with another patient
This is really a bogus rationale - arguably by the RFID manufacturers. Patient mixups wlll still occur.
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And.there is no reason.to believe that the additional complication of technology will make those mixups worse
The idea that tech is a magic bullet that will automatically solve the problem is fallacious, regardless of how intuitive it sounds when given as a pat, unsupported argument in favour of the change.
there is no reason to think that adding rfid tech wont actuallly cause added problems.
Note that a technology for identifying patients exists now. it is well known and human-readable. and it fails a statisticlly significant part of the time.
the new tech is unknown, complex, and will probably fail even more often.
Bottom line is that patient mis-identification is still a human problem (a least until robotic surgery gets this kind of approval) that (like so many things these days) would be more effectively addressed by application of basic principles of accountability than by gadgetry. In this case if the insurance companies - and thereby the entire medical proffession - were made accountable for their mistakes - the "accidental" deaths and maimings - like the rest of sociey is held accountable for their OTJ screwups - patient mixups would drop a lot uicker than sticking micro-circuitry under a patients skin will cause it to.
Just because people who hate liberals are willing to pay to keep the Fascists in power doesn.t mean they are willing to admit to accepting the ideology themselves.
There may be some statisticly insignificant number of "Dick'n'Bush" supporters out there who are something other than just panic-stricken liberal haters, but I have yet to see, hear, or meet one.
Could it be that the anti-Bush-haters have overtaken the Bush-haters? Does that leave anyone who actually like Bush?
No. The plain fact is there are no Bush supporters - only people who hate Kerry are voting for Bush. Of course, only Bush-haters are voting for Kerry, so the rest of us - those that don't hate - are just screwed.
The 2-party system has got to be torn down. Especially since it is now a 1-party system since the Right has succeeded in enforcing their control over the setting of the agenda, and e.g. Kerry can only react. As near as I can tell there is no Democratic platform this year. And probably no Democratic Party, either. Just a loose coalition of "People Against Bush". There are a lot more of them that is getting reported, of course, but it's still all just bullshit as long as the Demopublicrat system stays in place....
'd bet about anything that most of the 'against' votes on Slashdot came from Libertarians, be they Big L or Little L.
....but as near as I can tell all the Libertarians I knew (personally knew) voted for Bush in 2000. I don't know many, but the ones I know all jumped to the Right.
To give them credit, they thought that "neo-conservative" meant "new conservative" and didn't realize that "conservative" to the Bush camp means "bloated, deficit-spending fascism in pusuit of Global Dominion" and not "lean, low-powered, balanced budget, states rights, small goverment."
Some of them have seen the light since 2000, but it is really too bad, imo, that they did so too late. The Republicans played them, then tossed them away, and they (the Libertarians) will probably never recover, since by nature their ideology can only exist with Freedom as a co-requisite, and Freedom is in seriously short supply in the US since 2000.
It would seem strange for an American agency to get a warrant to seize information relating to Swiss undefcover police from a French website, but it's the most solid theory I've heard so far.
Sounds more like they're throwing you a sop. Something to distract from the real issues.
1. If the US can send FBI overseas - e.g. to Norway to arrest the DeCSS kid on behalf of Sony, or the Afghanistan, or Iraq (all of which they have done) - there's no reason to believe that they won't act as agents for foreign governments or private parties while they're within the US.
B. Remember that the Bush-ites have a history of trying to close down various internet sites that they consider unsupportive of their regime going all the way back to the 1999/2000 campaign when they convinced the FEC to intervene on their behalf over the... what was it, gwbush.com ?
No, I'd say that the RNC wanting to reserve those "journalists" that are supporting the coup and kowtowing to the regime the "right" to publish the names and home addresses of their "enemies" is a far more plausible explanation than any imaged Swiss agents.
Some one should cruise the RNC databases and see how many Right-wing militias are holding maps the homes of the protest organizers....
This is just another nail in the coffin of Speech in the US. It's not coincidence what the FCC is doing with indy radio while all this is going on, either.
Where are those data havens when you need them, gentlemen?
Here's a quote from a page I ran across while looking for references to back up my bullshit - stlightly OT, perhaps, but interesting, nonetheless:
And what should be done with these traitorous bliss-ninnies? I propose that, since the prison system is already full of liberals we've already caught, they be sent to special camps for processing on a priority basis. Trial lawyers should receive mandatory prison sentences, with special circumstances for anyone who represented O.J. In cases where it can be determined, these rifraf should be deported and repatriated to the country (or continent) of their original ancestral origin. The rest should be shipped off to Canada. Their drowning in liberals up there anyway so what's a few more. Only then will this great Republic be safe for democracy. - birdman
I think he's talking about those people that the FBI are no accusing of "intimidating" the RNC.
If the RNC and their cops and their "agents" didn't notice the fact that they were out-numbered something like 1000 to 1 by people who were there at their own expense for no reason other than to show that they disagreed with the RNC - tiny minority of right-wingers who are ruling/running the country... they must be on some seriously good shit, anyway (is that why Rush likes Oxycotin?). The kind of shit that lets them continue to believe that they are have some kind of a divine mandate to rule...
Well, you have to add into it the problem that the pro-Bush crowd doesn't really understand how to work a web browser... ain't the Right, Mr Cheney.... haw
A concerted effort to market on the web as "non-RIAA affiliated" (the first link from the search yeilded 6 different indie labels) or "independant music" should do well. This is was one of the big losses associated with the death of mp3.com as a venue for independant music, and (I feel sure) on of the main reasons the record industry felt the need to control the content that was accessible via MP3.com.
Browsing shared directories on P2P networks is also a good thing, but it won't (initially) be as quick or productive as web searching.
The point here is that indy bands need to have web sites. Not just crappy, broken shite that doesn't show up in search engines, but well-constructed, lightweight sites that offer streaming and downloadable music.
It's all about Marketting. Talent - real talent - needs to be supported by real marketting. That's how the RIAA and the labels seized control to start with: they controlled the marketting and distribution. That situation no longer pertains, but the advocates of non-corporate-controlled Art (music, film, etc) need to step up to the challenge, educate themselves, and get to it.
I think that is starting to happen, but it would be nice if there were a HOW-TO on it.
Unless you live in a major city, chances are local music mostly sucks, and what doesn't won't be a style you enjoy.
While this might seem intuitively correct, I have found it to be largely untrue. Large populations centers have no real advantage when it comes to producing quality music. In fact, much development of style - "new sounds" - comes from rural areas and small towns. The big-city bands tend to re-hash existing styles and sounds, in my experience. There are exceptions, of course, but just because a town is small doesn't mean that the local musicians are not worth listening to. Quite the opposite, imo.
Also, the principle of boycotting RIAA-owned material remains the same regardless of whether the material you are getting local to you or to the other side of the world. If you like big city bands, you can get local music from NYC using trivially available software and search techniques...
Okay, thanks for the tips. This actually has quite a bit of RAM for its vintage (at least 128M i'll have to check), but the HP stuff just seems wasteful, to me, and there is camera software, as well (Kodak and Logitech, i believe - The kodak stuff is junk - it won't do live capture from the camera; and this is a h/w problem, I guess, since e.g. GIMP won't pick it up for acquisition using TWAIN, either).
A somewhat more accurate measure is to turn on the "VM Size" column, but I'm not sure exactly what that measures.
Interesting. I did that, and the numbers are a bit smaller in most cases. About 1M smaller except for HPZipm12.exe which shows a VM of about 100K larger.
I also turned on "Peak" memory usage which is quite a bit larger in most cases (makes sense) up to 2140K for HPZipm12.exe (the largest percentage increase of the "VM size" for the group).
I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that the "Virtual Machine Size" probably refers to the size of "x86 virtual machine" that is created to run a program when it is loaded. That implies, though, that a VM can use memory space outside its own process space. That doesn't seem reasonable to me, but then, a bunch of stuff in Windows doesn't seem reasonable to me, so that may not be a good indicator.
Okay, that's interesting. I recently an HP printer for a friend. It is an HP 1210 "all-in-one printer scanner copier" ($99 at Radio Shack). This is installed on an HP 400 Mhz machine running Windows 2000 Professional (is there an "un-professional" version of 2000?). I followed the instructions in the printer box to hook it up.
I noticed right off that it had installed resident software (icon in the task bar near the clock). I also kept noticing 'hp*.exe' processes in the task list.
If my math doesn't fail me completely that's a total of 17500 K, or roughly 17.5 Meg of RAM occupied against the possiblity that the user might want to click "print" or "scan" or "copy" for something.
That does seem rather extreme, since I can clearly remember being able to print, scan, copy, and fax just fine on machines that had somewhat less that 17M of RAM total installed on the computer.... Of course, this thing prints in color, which wasn't done by ordinary mortals back then, but still...
Does anyone have the information about what each of those little images is or what they do, or which of them I can safely use the "End Process" on without having to e.g. re-install the printer?
This info could be useful, since it would free up some RAM on a machine, that, while obsolecent, can be quite useful for some time yet if I can keep it from being over-run by memory and CPU hogs.
but this stupid @$$ program would have me pirating movies in an instant.
Damn, you're tough, BrightBlade! All it took to turn me against DVD was region codes, Sony controlling all the content, and the fact that I couldn't get Sid and Nancy on VHS anymore. The only thing the DVD itself has ever been good for is copying, imo, and that's all it will ever be good for, since China will have players available for their competing standard and all the Sony-controlled content is just more Hollywood-produced US propaganda, anyway...
P2P and writable EVD (or some similar) devices are the future of video. Bet on it. Hollywood, DVD, RIAA, MPAA, and thier friends in Redmond are all over but the crying, at this point.
people who say windows are evil still live in the Dark Ages;
Do you have English as a second language?
I ask because you clearly interpretted the parent to mean "windowed interfaces" rather than MS Windows, and you went on to say...
RL (and, indeed, the WWW) is graphical, not text-based
I disagree that RL is graphical. RL is n-dimensional, and doesn't lend itself to re-representation in a finite number of dimensions; and that would be my idea of "graphical" in the abstract: "a representation of some informaion within a finite dimensional matrix"
In that sense, RL is not graphical by definition, since RL is not a representation, but actual.
I have to disagree with your statement that the WWW is "graphical, not text-based" in any case. Despite advertiser, marketer, and Micr$oft hype efforts to the contrary, the WWW is most definitely a text-based system. Grahpics were not grafted onto it until it had been operating for at least a year or two. I can distinctly remember finding out about Mosaic - the first graphical web browser - while using the WWW via a terminal program on a DOS box connected to a unix box that gave me a gopher client as a shell. It was several years later that I first got sufficient hardware and OS capabilities to run Mosaic's descendant, Netscape.
I thought then, and continue to believe in most cases, that the alleged "content" constituted by most grahpics is a waste of bandwidth.
Furthermore, the markup languages that tell your browser how to get those graphics are text.
If you are not a native English speaker, or if you just plain don't read, I can understand that you might think that the web is graphical, but the fact is that most of the actual information (as opposed to advertising or pretty fluff) remains textual in nature, and in fact could be better represented aurally than graphically...
Windows (& WIMP in general) seem to be the easiest to use and most efficient GUI paradigm
It's not clear here whether you are using the sense "Windows" or "windows". If you are attempting to assert that MS Windows is somehow easier to use or more efficient than e.g. X Windows, I have to disagree, although I can understand how you might get that impression if your only experience with X was e.g. using an early version of Gnome window management.
You seem to equate "Linux" with CLI, somehow dissociating it with X Windows, which is a lot like considering MS Windows to consist only of a DOS box window, except that a Bash CLI is one helluvalot more powerful than a CMD.EXE command shell.
Ease of use under X is about window manager configuration. The level of GUI config control you can trially (meaning "ease of use") get under, say, FVWM pretty well blows away anything MS has ever done to allow "customization" of their GUIs. And as for efficiency, I strongly suggest some experimentation: Take a P166 w/ 64M and a 1.2 G drive, set it up w/ Windoze and w/ Linux+FVWM using equivalently functional softwares. Do some timing tests. Also, check things like new user learning curves (you are allowed to customize either interface for the newbs as much as you like), and subtract all time spent rebooting the system and recovering lost data when the system goes down....
Anyway. If you're arguing just in favor of the GUI as a concept I can support that short of saying the WWW is graphical, but if you're trying to claim a better, easier to use, or more efficeint GUI under MS Windows than under some other system (e.g. Linux + X) then I must differ, and would ask for examples that would demostrate your assertion.
Not flaming here, just giving you the benefit of the doubt in wondering if you're being rigourous in your interpretation of "windows" to mean something other than "MS Windows", mis-read something, or are just trolling...
They recycle vegetable oil?? Right, tell me what restaurants are using recycled oil please. I'm not eating there!
All of them. The more vegetable oil they use, the more they recycle, the more they use recycled vegetable oil. As not what resteraunts; as which store brands are recycled resteraunt vegetable oil.
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Did Mindawn/theKompany not pay any attention to what happened to to mp3.com?
About the time mp3.com started to make money they were purchased by an RIAA member mega-corp. They were embraced, and extended - assimilated and unltimately destroyed both as an outlet for artists and as a corporate entity.
The music industry will not tolerate un-affiliated (independant) success any more than the political industry will. If an independant shows signs of gaining traction with the public - of getting a following - that independant will purchased by one of the RIAA mega-corps and shut down. If they don't gain a following, they'll simply go bankrupt and shut down.
Either way, no non-RIAA company can compete in the industry, and no dissenting (unsigned) artist stands a (statisticly significant) chance of success. That's why what the insdustry is doing is called "racketeering" and that's why the music industry as we know it must be destroyed before Capitalism (competition) can have an effect...
You can't win if you're playing with their ball and by their rules.
Now there's a marketting phrase! Can we expect IC manufacturers to start publishing an "electron count" for their products? How many ways can that be spun into deceptive marketing .... "Well, Brand X claims they're using fewer electrons than we are, but they're not telling you about the anicillary effects that consume 27% more electrons than the Acme Electron Lite Reduced Electron Count (REC) model. The fact is, our revolutionary REC technology represents a quantum leap in facilitated innovation..."
It is the current determines the EMF, not the voltage. With sufficient current, the field will cover the distance between the transmission line and the home at the base of the tower.
There is a voltage/current conversion that is the reason high voltage lines are high voltage.
In any case, electro-magnetic flux can be measured, and the field from high-voltage will combine with the field generated by the house wiring.
As I understand it, Tesla did transmit electrical power "wirelessly" using RF. Lit up a bank of stadium floodlights from a mile away, or something.
He wanted to apply those principles to the (planned, at that time, i'm sure) power distribution "grid", which is evidently where the disagreement with Edison came in. I believe Tesla is also responsible for the fact that the power company isn't still trying to distribute DC...
This statement is patently false. It is the 60Hz EMF that exists now that is a huge risk, although it is arguable whether or not the risk is "cancer", per se. There have been a lot of studies done on the effects of EM on organisims; it became quite clear that the relatively sparse RF power fields are less damaging to organisms than the extremely dense low frequency (60Hz) fields that surround the wiring in buildings.
Strangely, the EM associated w/ ~200V 50Hz AC (what they have in Europe) is apparently less dangerous than 120V 60Hz, though. Something about the resonant frequency of cells, or something ...
About 8 years ago I heard that the military/spy agencies were using an audio bug that demodulated its power from an RF field that was transmitted to it. Low power, very small application of some of Tesla's work. So yeah, I would say it's past time for power over WiFi...
Until I read this a 2nd time and caught the "filled with" part I thought you were talking about the US.
Ruled by fascists, check
and Islamic fundies (Dubya/Chaney, by virtue of compliance with the Saudi agenda), check
Women looked down upon (refusal to sign international agreements to protect the rights of women, fundie xian sexism), check
US attempted to install democracy, check
... and do you really - in your apparent patriotic zeal - really want to compare US troops with suicide bombers? I mean, I can clearly see the comparison between Dybya and Hussein - Pete and Repete, they are - but I think the soldiers are fundamentally decent people, fighting for something they've been told to believe in - or because their National Guard unit got illegally relocated out of the US - or maybe they just though tution benefits were worth the risk - whatever the reason, they seem pretty mainstream compared to a teenage girl strapping dynamite to herself and splattering herself across a couple square blocks just because some fascist bullozed her dads house while her parents were in it .... is that really a comarison you want to make? I mean, it's not like anyone is bulldozing the homes of the US and British troops, and furthermore, they don't have as ready access to stuff like AK-47's and C4 as those Palestinian kids do. ... sorry, I guess you were talking about the Iraqi kids - not so many girls blowing themselves up, there, are there? Isreal must be a much freer place than Iraq for arab teenagers...
The beheadings were US-paid "black ops" people pretending to be Muslims, unless the Muslims have suddenly developed a need to cover their faces while making idiot pronouncements and murdering people - which I doubt, since their ideology doesn't support the idea.
Or is that not the answer you're comfortable with?
No, if the Democrats had done their job - if they had done a good job discrediting the current regime - Bush and Cheney would be up on charges - impeached for misappropriation of funds, minimally; desertion, sedition, ... possibly treason or armed insurrection againt the United States, in a best case scenario - Halliburton would be shut down ... there are many, many more and better outcomes that one could have expected from a real effort from the Left. Fact is, the US has no Left. There is only Right and Extreme Right. Fundies and Fundie-extremists. At least at the Federal Governmental level, that is.
Nov 2000 was a coup. Nothing more, nothing less - it was a subversion of the demoratic process, and this bullshit this year isn't going to "heal" anything.
The Bush Regime was not an is not the legal government of the US. They're just a bunch of thugs playing the system against the sheeple.
Damn straight! And in reality what you should be talking about is the money Cheney, Halliburtun, and whomever American weapons manufacturers made selling Weapons of Mass Destruction (that's WMDs to you, budro) to Iraq.
Read the news yourself, ya ignorant freak. And here's a tip: What they're playing on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Knight-Ridder, ClearChannel, Disney, et al is not news. The journalistic (technical) term for it is "Editorial"; many people (those who've been aronud long enough to remember such things) call it what the US called it when the USSR did it: Propaganda. Of course, many of us just call it as we see it: It's BULLSHIT. Get a clue.
Here's a tidbit from the real news for ya:
So look around a little bit; your bitchass right-wing masters haven't erradicated all non-Party news sources yet...
This is really a bogus rationale - arguably by the RFID manufacturers. Patient mixups wlll still occur.
.And.there is no reason.to believe that the additional complication of technology will make those mixups worse
The idea that tech is a magic bullet that will automatically solve the problem is fallacious, regardless of how intuitive it sounds when given as a pat, unsupported argument in favour of the change.
there is no reason to think that adding rfid tech wont actuallly cause added problems.
Note that a technology for identifying patients exists now. it is well known and human-readable. and it fails a statisticlly significant part of the time.
the new tech is unknown, complex, and will probably fail even more often.
Bottom line is that patient mis-identification is still a human problem (a least until robotic surgery gets this kind of approval) that (like so many things these days) would be more effectively addressed by application of basic principles of accountability than by gadgetry. In this case if the insurance companies - and thereby the entire medical proffession - were made accountable for their mistakes - the "accidental" deaths and maimings - like the rest of sociey is held accountable for their OTJ screwups - patient mixups would drop a lot uicker than sticking micro-circuitry under a patients skin will cause it to.
Just because people who hate liberals are willing to pay to keep the Fascists in power doesn.t mean they are willing to admit to accepting the ideology themselves.
There may be some statisticly insignificant number of "Dick'n'Bush" supporters out there who are something other than just panic-stricken liberal haters, but I have yet to see, hear, or meet one.
No. The plain fact is there are no Bush supporters - only people who hate Kerry are voting for Bush. Of course, only Bush-haters are voting for Kerry, so the rest of us - those that don't hate - are just screwed.
The 2-party system has got to be torn down. Especially since it is now a 1-party system since the Right has succeeded in enforcing their control over the setting of the agenda, and e.g. Kerry can only react. As near as I can tell there is no Democratic platform this year. And probably no Democratic Party, either. Just a loose coalition of "People Against Bush". There are a lot more of them that is getting reported, of course, but it's still all just bullshit as long as the Demopublicrat system stays in place....
I would agree with you about this part...
....but as near as I can tell all the Libertarians I knew (personally knew) voted for Bush in 2000. I don't know many, but the ones I know all jumped to the Right.
To give them credit, they thought that "neo-conservative" meant "new conservative" and didn't realize that "conservative" to the Bush camp means "bloated, deficit-spending fascism in pusuit of Global Dominion" and not "lean, low-powered, balanced budget, states rights, small goverment."
Some of them have seen the light since 2000, but it is really too bad, imo, that they did so too late. The Republicans played them, then tossed them away, and they (the Libertarians) will probably never recover, since by nature their ideology can only exist with Freedom as a co-requisite, and Freedom is in seriously short supply in the US since 2000.
Sounds more like they're throwing you a sop. Something to distract from the real issues.
1. If the US can send FBI overseas - e.g. to Norway to arrest the DeCSS kid on behalf of Sony, or the Afghanistan, or Iraq (all of which they have done) - there's no reason to believe that they won't act as agents for foreign governments or private parties while they're within the US.
B. Remember that the Bush-ites have a history of trying to close down various internet sites that they consider unsupportive of their regime going all the way back to the 1999/2000 campaign when they convinced the FEC to intervene on their behalf over the ... what was it, gwbush.com ?
No, I'd say that the RNC wanting to reserve those "journalists" that are supporting the coup and kowtowing to the regime the "right" to publish the names and home addresses of their "enemies" is a far more plausible explanation than any imaged Swiss agents.
Some one should cruise the RNC databases and see how many Right-wing militias are holding maps the homes of the protest organizers....
This is just another nail in the coffin of Speech in the US. It's not coincidence what the FCC is doing with indy radio while all this is going on, either.
Where are those data havens when you need them, gentlemen?
Here's a quote from a page I ran across while looking for references to back up my bullshit - stlightly OT, perhaps, but interesting, nonetheless:
I think he's talking about those people that the FBI are no accusing of "intimidating" the RNC.
If the RNC and their cops and their "agents" didn't notice the fact that they were out-numbered something like 1000 to 1 by people who were there at their own expense for no reason other than to show that they disagreed with the RNC - tiny minority of right-wingers who are ruling/running the country ... they must be on some seriously good shit, anyway (is that why Rush likes Oxycotin?). The kind of shit that lets them continue to believe that they are have some kind of a divine mandate to rule...
Well, you have to add into it the problem that the pro-Bush crowd doesn't really understand how to work a web browser ... ain't the Right, Mr Cheney .... haw
A concerted effort to market on the web as "non-RIAA affiliated" (the first link from the search yeilded 6 different indie labels) or "independant music" should do well. This is was one of the big losses associated with the death of mp3.com as a venue for independant music, and (I feel sure) on of the main reasons the record industry felt the need to control the content that was accessible via MP3.com.
Browsing shared directories on P2P networks is also a good thing, but it won't (initially) be as quick or productive as web searching.
The point here is that indy bands need to have web sites. Not just crappy, broken shite that doesn't show up in search engines, but well-constructed, lightweight sites that offer streaming and downloadable music.
It's all about Marketting. Talent - real talent - needs to be supported by real marketting. That's how the RIAA and the labels seized control to start with: they controlled the marketting and distribution. That situation no longer pertains, but the advocates of non-corporate-controlled Art (music, film, etc) need to step up to the challenge, educate themselves, and get to it.
I think that is starting to happen, but it would be nice if there were a HOW-TO on it.
While this might seem intuitively correct, I have found it to be largely untrue. Large populations centers have no real advantage when it comes to producing quality music. In fact, much development of style - "new sounds" - comes from rural areas and small towns. The big-city bands tend to re-hash existing styles and sounds, in my experience. There are exceptions, of course, but just because a town is small doesn't mean that the local musicians are not worth listening to. Quite the opposite, imo.
Also, the principle of boycotting RIAA-owned material remains the same regardless of whether the material you are getting local to you or to the other side of the world. If you like big city bands, you can get local music from NYC using trivially available software and search techniques...
Okay, thanks for the tips. This actually has quite a bit of RAM for its vintage (at least 128M i'll have to check), but the HP stuff just seems wasteful, to me, and there is camera software, as well (Kodak and Logitech, i believe - The kodak stuff is junk - it won't do live capture from the camera; and this is a h/w problem, I guess, since e.g. GIMP won't pick it up for acquisition using TWAIN, either).
I will keep your remarks about Fuji in mind, too.
thanks again
Interesting. I did that, and the numbers are a bit smaller in most cases. About 1M smaller except for HPZipm12.exe which shows a VM of about 100K larger.
I also turned on "Peak" memory usage which is quite a bit larger in most cases (makes sense) up to 2140K for HPZipm12.exe (the largest percentage increase of the "VM size" for the group).
I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that the "Virtual Machine Size" probably refers to the size of "x86 virtual machine" that is created to run a program when it is loaded. That implies, though, that a VM can use memory space outside its own process space. That doesn't seem reasonable to me, but then, a bunch of stuff in Windows doesn't seem reasonable to me, so that may not be a good indicator.
Okay, that's interesting. I recently an HP printer for a friend. It is an HP 1210 "all-in-one printer scanner copier" ($99 at Radio Shack). This is installed on an HP 400 Mhz machine running Windows 2000 Professional (is there an "un-professional" version of 2000?). I followed the instructions in the printer box to hook it up.
I noticed right off that it had installed resident software (icon in the task bar near the clock). I also kept noticing 'hp*.exe' processes in the task list.
While reading I got curious, so here is the list:
If my math doesn't fail me completely that's a total of 17500 K, or roughly 17.5 Meg of RAM occupied against the possiblity that the user might want to click "print" or "scan" or "copy" for something.
That does seem rather extreme, since I can clearly remember being able to print, scan, copy, and fax just fine on machines that had somewhat less that 17M of RAM total installed on the computer. ... Of course, this thing prints in color, which wasn't done by ordinary mortals back then, but still...
Does anyone have the information about what each of those little images is or what they do, or which of them I can safely use the "End Process" on without having to e.g. re-install the printer?
This info could be useful, since it would free up some RAM on a machine, that, while obsolecent, can be quite useful for some time yet if I can keep it from being over-run by memory and CPU hogs.
Where did you get those recycle codes, if I may? Sounds like a site I need to have linked in my "Reference materials" page...
... and the chemical involved would be di-hydrogen monoxide.
Damn, you're tough, BrightBlade! All it took to turn me against DVD was region codes, Sony controlling all the content, and the fact that I couldn't get Sid and Nancy on VHS anymore. The only thing the DVD itself has ever been good for is copying, imo, and that's all it will ever be good for, since China will have players available for their competing standard and all the Sony-controlled content is just more Hollywood-produced US propaganda, anyway ...
P2P and writable EVD (or some similar) devices are the future of video. Bet on it. Hollywood, DVD, RIAA, MPAA, and thier friends in Redmond are all over but the crying, at this point.
Ditto. Don't get mad, get even.
Do you have English as a second language?
I ask because you clearly interpretted the parent to mean "windowed interfaces" rather than MS Windows, and you went on to say...
I disagree that RL is graphical. RL is n-dimensional, and doesn't lend itself to re-representation in a finite number of dimensions; and that would be my idea of "graphical" in the abstract: "a representation of some informaion within a finite dimensional matrix"
In that sense, RL is not graphical by definition, since RL is not a representation, but actual.
I have to disagree with your statement that the WWW is "graphical, not text-based" in any case. Despite advertiser, marketer, and Micr$oft hype efforts to the contrary, the WWW is most definitely a text-based system. Grahpics were not grafted onto it until it had been operating for at least a year or two. I can distinctly remember finding out about Mosaic - the first graphical web browser - while using the WWW via a terminal program on a DOS box connected to a unix box that gave me a gopher client as a shell. It was several years later that I first got sufficient hardware and OS capabilities to run Mosaic's descendant, Netscape.
I thought then, and continue to believe in most cases, that the alleged "content" constituted by most grahpics is a waste of bandwidth.
Furthermore, the markup languages that tell your browser how to get those graphics are text.
If you are not a native English speaker, or if you just plain don't read, I can understand that you might think that the web is graphical, but the fact is that most of the actual information (as opposed to advertising or pretty fluff) remains textual in nature, and in fact could be better represented aurally than graphically...
It's not clear here whether you are using the sense "Windows" or "windows". If you are attempting to assert that MS Windows is somehow easier to use or more efficient than e.g. X Windows, I have to disagree, although I can understand how you might get that impression if your only experience with X was e.g. using an early version of Gnome window management.
You seem to equate "Linux" with CLI, somehow dissociating it with X Windows, which is a lot like considering MS Windows to consist only of a DOS box window, except that a Bash CLI is one helluvalot more powerful than a CMD.EXE command shell.
Ease of use under X is about window manager configuration. The level of GUI config control you can trially (meaning "ease of use") get under, say, FVWM pretty well blows away anything MS has ever done to allow "customization" of their GUIs. And as for efficiency, I strongly suggest some experimentation: Take a P166 w/ 64M and a 1.2 G drive, set it up w/ Windoze and w/ Linux+FVWM using equivalently functional softwares. Do some timing tests. Also, check things like new user learning curves (you are allowed to customize either interface for the newbs as much as you like), and subtract all time spent rebooting the system and recovering lost data when the system goes down....
Anyway. If you're arguing just in favor of the GUI as a concept I can support that short of saying the WWW is graphical, but if you're trying to claim a better, easier to use, or more efficeint GUI under MS Windows than under some other system (e.g. Linux + X) then I must differ, and would ask for examples that would demostrate your assertion.
Not flaming here, just giving you the benefit of the doubt in wondering if you're being rigourous in your interpretation of "windows" to mean something other than "MS Windows", mis-read something, or are just trolling...
For my part, I consider MS Wind
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