Don't hate me just because I only see the web in 16 colors.
And yes my resume may be pixelated, but the content is still there.
Besides the Commodore=64 makes one hell of a game machine. It's like an NES, but since somewhere around 5000 games were released for it, I could spend the rest of my life before I play them all. And they are all free.:-)
In my experience most of the problems are in the northern half of D.C.'s Beltway. The area between D.C. and Baltimore might slowsdown but it never completely stops (except accidents of course). And Baltimore's beltway is good except for the area around I-83 (which is a poor design).
A couple times I've suggested extending I-85 up to Philadelphia and beyond, so as to provide an alternate route for traffic (especially truckers who are going straight through from Richmond-to-Philly without stopping), but neither the Congress nor the AAA seems to hear. Oh well.
I don't think it's a big deal. It just means that a program must tell a user, "Your files you send via this program will be visible to other people." Most P2P programs, and even web browsers, already do this so nothing's going to change.
Earlier this week, he professor used a lecture at King's College, London, to say that smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small risk" of psychotic illness and it was actually less harmful than nicotine or alcohol. But on Friday he was forced to quit after receiving a letter from Home Secretary Alan Johnson who said his comments had undermined the scientific independence of the council.
The professor told the BBC..... "Gordon Brown comes into office and soon after that he starts saying absurd things like cannabis is lethal... it has to be a Class B drug. He has made his mind up. We went back, we looked at the evidence, we said, 'No, no, there is no extra evidence of harm, it's still a Class C drug.' He said, 'Tough, it's going to be Class B.'" Prof Nutt said drug laws should not be influenced "petty party politics" and compared them to interest rates, which are set by the Bank of England not the government.
Sounds like a perfectly good example to me. It's not about science and what the evidence shows (marijuana is not particularly dangerous), but about what one man named the prime minister BELIEVES and his power to force his belief on others (make marijuana a class B restricted substance). It's not different than a monarchy in that respect.
Personally this is why I don't think a central government should be making decisions about what citizens can or can not ingest. If I want to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol until I kill myself, and someone finds my rotting body in my home, so be it. That's freedom. It includes not just the right to life, but also the right to end your life, if that's what you choose to do.
Without that right, you're not liberated. You're a serf..... under somebody else's control.
>>>we have politicians who's only education is in English, law, history, politics, art.
Therefore more of us engineers and programmers need to run for office. At the state level it's fairly easy - you just need to stand by a highway, hold a sign with your name in bold letters, wave and smile. Once we get enough geeks we can start making sane, logical laws regarding technology.
Alternatively we could bombard our government employees with emails explaining why P2P is not evil. And ultimately even if you banned, we will invent new ones to connect to one another (like direct-dialing).
San France should have two bridges (or a secondary tunnel), so if one fails or needs repair, the second can still be used. In Baltimore we have two tunnels and one bridge over the harbor, so if one fails the traffic can be diverted on the other two routes. Redundancy.
In between D.C. and Baltimore we even have three parallel highways - I-95 and 295 and US-1. One might be closed but the other two will still be usable.
NPR came-down on the "government funding is a good idea" viewpoint.
Gee what a surprise. A partially government-funded organization that thinks more government funding is great! They have inadvertently demonstrated how Uncle Sam dollars can skew viewpoints - naturally NPR is in favor of *more* Uncle Sam programs, because "he" is their sugar daddy.;-) Honestly I've never heard either NPR or PBS espouse smaller government, or even interview a libertarian (like Congressman Paul). They are pro-statists.
NPR just recently covered this issue. NPR came-down on the "government funding is a good idea" viewpoint. Gee what a surprise. A partially government-funded organization that thinks more government funding is great! They have inadvertently demonstrated how Uncle Sam dollars can skew viewpoints - naturally NPR is in favor of *more* Uncle Sam programs, because "he" is their sugar daddy.;-)
Actually you don't even need a study. Just think about NPR and PBS and ask yourself, "When was the last time either of these interviewed a libertarian, or otherwise presented a 'less government is better government' viewpoint?" As far as I know, never. They haven't even interviewed Congressman Ron Paul, the most visible small-government proponent out there.
NPR/PBS are pro-big government statist organizations. (See my other comments about NPR one page below)
>>>[DNC-NBC] isn't a real news organisation not because it is right wing, but because it doesn't really care about actual truth, it just broadcasts whatever it likes regardless of the facts. >>>
Fixed. After all it was MS-NBC that showed a man toting a rifle at a presidential protest and had their reporters wax eloquently about "white racists who fear having a black president" for 5 solid minutes.
Turns-out the video was creatively-edited. The rifle-carrying protester was black. MSNBC was guilty of reporting fake news, altering video, instilling fear amongst blacks, hate speech about whites ("racists"), and creating propaganda. And the rifle-guy was actually a black man! - link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI
The difference is that government can reach into my wallet and swipe money (and if I refuse to open my wallet voluntarily the government can jail me). In contrast a media conglomerate (like Comcast) can not. I can hide my wallet and tell Comcast to "frak off".
If enough people tell the media conglomerate to frak off, then it will end-up like Circuit City (bankrupt).
>>>Pay us voluntarily or we'll reach into your wallet ourselves.
Well then just steal it back. It's easy enough to do. AIG took 50 billion out of taxpayer wallets, or $500 per american home. I've recovered about half of my share so far.
>>>The BBC is a government institution that holds its own purse strings --
Except when you don't pay that TV license fee (tax), then the BBC calls on the government to round you up and toss you in jail, or extract the funds from your paycheck. So the BBC is not really independent of the government - its *beholden* to the government to enforce its collection of funds. .
>>>In western countries, public news organisations offer by far the highest quality of reporting
Not in the States. NPR and PBS sucks when it comes to news gathering since it was biased towards a statist regime (more/bigger government). If the reporters at this organizations had their way private ownership would be dead and our homes/car/et cetera would all be government owned. Okay I maybe be exaggerating a little but that is how their reporting leans.
The only good news is that NPR/PBS only costs me about $10 a year in taxation, so it doesn't really "hurt" me that much.
>>>When was the last, really hard hitting documentary you saw on American television?
Glenn Beck does a virtual documentary every day. You may think he's an ass or a joke but he is right about one thing: We should be asking questions. What is the government up to, why are they doing it, and who is behind these decisions? What, why, who are the questions we should all be asking.
Rachel Maddow operates a similar program over at MSNBC.
>>>250 years ago, there were no "newspapers". They were technologically impossible, and demographically unreadable.
That's only true if you completely-and-totally ignore the existence of founding father Benjamin Franklin. He ran a weekly Philadelphia newspaper for several decades, and became so rich he was able to retire at age 40 (circa 1750). Granted he also earned money from publishing other people's books, but to say newspapers were not possible is an untruth.
I bet the major cities of Europe also had newspapers in the 1700s.
Those who think "sensationalism" or "political slant" is anything new need to go watch the movie His Girl Friday, made in the 1930s. This stuff dates waaaay back all the way to the 1800s. It's nothing new.
When you have a free press it's only natural the paper will reflect the view of whoever owns it. It's our job as citizens to read both sides of the story and determine where the truth lies. Back in the past that would have meant reading both the Philadelphia Democrat and the Inquirer (republican-slanted).
Or the communications arm of the democratic party called MSNBC, NBC, GE, or any other organization that stands to gain huge profits from Carbon Taxes. 'k thanks.
Buying or leasing a building downtown is cheaper, because of foolish politicians subsidizing the cost. Even in New York City the most-densely populated region in N. America with the highest land costs, a megacorp can often convince the NYC politicians to pay half the cost. Or even sometimes give the land for free!
>>>Shut down broadcast TV completely, I mean all of it
I like my free television, thank you very much. Including the subchannels I am able to get 40 different programs at any time of the day. Why should I give that up for some inferior slow, interference-prone, overloaded, non-HD Wifi connection? I do watch some steaming television via the net, but don't particularly like it. It's poor sub-standard definition VHS-level quality and prone to sudden pauses in the middle of the show. I tried to watch Sanctuary on scifi.com, and the damn thing got stuck in an infinite loop - the same 30 seconds repeated over and over.
I prefer broadcast. Maybe someday in the future, say 2030, the internet will finally catchup to the same HD-level quality as over-the-air ATSC, but certainly not now.
>>>The broadcast spectrum monopolies that CBS,NBC,ABC don't pay a cent for
False. I wish people would stop repeating this oft-stated lie. The ~2000 TV stations plus ~10,000 lowpower/clear air neighborhood stations all pay a lease for their spectrum (called a license fee).
>>>plus the entire copyright system
On this we agree. The original version in the 1790 Act was reasonable - 14 years of monopoly helped the authors stand on their own feet and earn money from their labor. Today's 105-year span is ridiculous. It's like creating a welfare state where an author pen a best-seller in his 20s, and then sit on his ass for the rest of his life, signing books, and collecting the residuals. (cough J.K.Rowlings). The rest of us poor slobs have to work 'til we're 70 or 80.
14 years plus a possibility for renewal (28 years total) is long enough.
Else we'll have the situation with Boscovs which was bailed-out, but after examining the store, I think should have died.
This store has not been modernized its look since the 1980s, still employs three people to man every single register (wasteful), and carries product a modern consumer has little-to-no interest in buying (sewing patterns & machines to make your own clothes). Other stores like Penneys and Sears have streamlined their operations, eliminating product that doesn't sell, and having 3 employees serve an entire QUARTER of a store not just one register. They've cut costs and grown more efficient. Boscovs has not.
Government bail-outs for stores just encourage inefficiency. Ditto bail-outs for newspapers. Let the papers innovate or pass-away into history (along with horsewhips and cobblers).
"Just" include a crystal? Ya know there are differing levels of accuracy for crystals. For an operating time of 5 days you'd need 10 hertz +/- approximately 0.0000001 accuracy to stay within 0.1 second real time. It's been awhile but as I recall we spent $200 for it because the one included with our off-the-shelf CPU board wasn't good enough.
As for tabletop clocks they use the 60 hertz line frequency, which is regulated by the government, hence the accuracy. Although even though they are not perfectly accurate. My alarm clock loses about 5 seconds every month. My VCR clock loses around 1 second each month.
The battle was Not between Hardware* and Software Engineers. We agreed.
If you re-read what I wrote I said the hardware group and the SYSTEMS engineers were the ones battling it out. In my experience systems engineers rarely understand the intricate details of the projects they work upon, which is fine. It's not possible to know everything. The frustration is when the systems engineers assume that hardware engineers and programmers are dunces, and refuse to listen to us.
That was the root problem. We hardware/software persons knew binary counting would provide the best accuracy, but the systems engineers refused to let us do that.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't hate me just because I only see the web in 16 colors.
And yes my resume may be pixelated, but the content is still there.
Besides the Commodore=64 makes one hell of a game machine. It's like an NES, but since somewhere around 5000 games were released for it, I could spend the rest of my life before I play them all. And they are all free. :-)
"Everybody uses it" is not the same as open. PDF is like VHS or CD. All are closed standards, requiring a license from their respective owners.
BTW why was I modded "flamebait" for expressing an opinion? Silly, silly, silly.
In my experience most of the problems are in the northern half of D.C.'s Beltway. The area between D.C. and Baltimore might slowsdown but it never completely stops (except accidents of course). And Baltimore's beltway is good except for the area around I-83 (which is a poor design).
A couple times I've suggested extending I-85 up to Philadelphia and beyond, so as to provide an alternate route for traffic (especially truckers who are going straight through from Richmond-to-Philly without stopping), but neither the Congress nor the AAA seems to hear. Oh well.
I don't think it's a big deal. It just means that a program must tell a user, "Your files you send via this program will be visible to other people." Most P2P programs, and even web browsers, already do this so nothing's going to change.
>>>I always thought it was 'nigger'.
Yes that is a highly-charged word. You can't even say "niggardly" anymore, and that word is perfectly innocent.
Earlier this week, he professor used a lecture at King's College, London, to say that smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small risk" of psychotic illness and it was actually less harmful than nicotine or alcohol. But on Friday he was forced to quit after receiving a letter from Home Secretary Alan Johnson who said his comments had undermined the scientific independence of the council.
The professor told the BBC..... "Gordon Brown comes into office and soon after that he starts saying absurd things like cannabis is lethal... it has to be a Class B drug. He has made his mind up. We went back, we looked at the evidence, we said, 'No, no, there is no extra evidence of harm, it's still a Class C drug.' He said, 'Tough, it's going to be Class B.'" Prof Nutt said drug laws should not be influenced "petty party politics" and compared them to interest rates, which are set by the Bank of England not the government.
Sounds like a perfectly good example to me. It's not about science and what the evidence shows (marijuana is not particularly dangerous), but about what one man named the prime minister BELIEVES and his power to force his belief on others (make marijuana a class B restricted substance). It's not different than a monarchy in that respect.
Personally this is why I don't think a central government should be making decisions about what citizens can or can not ingest. If I want to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol until I kill myself, and someone finds my rotting body in my home, so be it. That's freedom. It includes not just the right to life, but also the right to end your life, if that's what you choose to do.
Without that right, you're not liberated. You're a serf..... under somebody else's control.
>>>we have politicians who's only education is in English, law, history, politics, art.
Therefore more of us engineers and programmers need to run for office. At the state level it's fairly easy - you just need to stand by a highway, hold a sign with your name in bold letters, wave and smile. Once we get enough geeks we can start making sane, logical laws regarding technology.
Alternatively we could bombard our government employees with emails explaining why P2P is not evil. And ultimately even if you banned, we will invent new ones to connect to one another (like direct-dialing).
San France should have two bridges (or a secondary tunnel), so if one fails or needs repair, the second can still be used. In Baltimore we have two tunnels and one bridge over the harbor, so if one fails the traffic can be diverted on the other two routes. Redundancy.
In between D.C. and Baltimore we even have three parallel highways - I-95 and 295 and US-1. One might be closed but the other two will still be usable.
NPR came-down on the "government funding is a good idea" viewpoint.
Gee what a surprise. A partially government-funded organization that thinks more government funding is great! They have inadvertently demonstrated how Uncle Sam dollars can skew viewpoints - naturally NPR is in favor of *more* Uncle Sam programs, because "he" is their sugar daddy. ;-) Honestly I've never heard either NPR or PBS espouse smaller government, or even interview a libertarian (like Congressman Paul). They are pro-statists.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/10/30/03
Take For Granted
October 30, 2009
NPR just recently covered this issue. NPR came-down on the "government funding is a good idea" viewpoint. Gee what a surprise. A partially government-funded organization that thinks more government funding is great! They have inadvertently demonstrated how Uncle Sam dollars can skew viewpoints - naturally NPR is in favor of *more* Uncle Sam programs, because "he" is their sugar daddy. ;-)
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/10/30/03
Take For Granted
October 30, 2009
And here's a study from FAIR which shows that NPR is extremely biased: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1180
Actually you don't even need a study. Just think about NPR and PBS and ask yourself, "When was the last time either of these interviewed a libertarian, or otherwise presented a 'less government is better government' viewpoint?" As far as I know, never. They haven't even interviewed Congressman Ron Paul, the most visible small-government proponent out there.
NPR/PBS are pro-big government statist organizations. (See my other comments about NPR one page below)
>>>[DNC-NBC] isn't a real news organisation not because it is right wing, but because it doesn't really care about actual truth, it just broadcasts whatever it likes regardless of the facts.
>>>
Fixed. After all it was MS-NBC that showed a man toting a rifle at a presidential protest and had their reporters wax eloquently about "white racists who fear having a black president" for 5 solid minutes.
Turns-out the video was creatively-edited. The rifle-carrying protester was black. MSNBC was guilty of reporting fake news, altering video, instilling fear amongst blacks, hate speech about whites ("racists"), and creating propaganda. And the rifle-guy was actually a black man! - link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI
Unbelievable.
The difference is that government can reach into my wallet and swipe money (and if I refuse to open my wallet voluntarily the government can jail me). In contrast a media conglomerate (like Comcast) can not. I can hide my wallet and tell Comcast to "frak off".
If enough people tell the media conglomerate to frak off, then it will end-up like Circuit City (bankrupt).
>>>Pay us voluntarily or we'll reach into your wallet ourselves.
Well then just steal it back. It's easy enough to do. AIG took 50 billion out of taxpayer wallets, or $500 per american home. I've recovered about half of my share so far.
>>>The BBC is a government institution that holds its own purse strings --
Except when you don't pay that TV license fee (tax), then the BBC calls on the government to round you up and toss you in jail, or extract the funds from your paycheck. So the BBC is not really independent of the government - its *beholden* to the government to enforce its collection of funds.
.
>>>In western countries, public news organisations offer by far the highest quality of reporting
Not in the States. NPR and PBS sucks when it comes to news gathering since it was biased towards a statist regime (more/bigger government). If the reporters at this organizations had their way private ownership would be dead and our homes/car/et cetera would all be government owned. Okay I maybe be exaggerating a little but that is how their reporting leans.
The only good news is that NPR/PBS only costs me about $10 a year in taxation, so it doesn't really "hurt" me that much.
>>>When was the last, really hard hitting documentary you saw on American television?
Glenn Beck does a virtual documentary every day. You may think he's an ass or a joke but he is right about one thing: We should be asking questions. What is the government up to, why are they doing it, and who is behind these decisions? What, why, who are the questions we should all be asking.
Rachel Maddow operates a similar program over at MSNBC.
>>>250 years ago, there were no "newspapers". They were technologically impossible, and demographically unreadable.
That's only true if you completely-and-totally ignore the existence of founding father Benjamin Franklin. He ran a weekly Philadelphia newspaper for several decades, and became so rich he was able to retire at age 40 (circa 1750). Granted he also earned money from publishing other people's books, but to say newspapers were not possible is an untruth.
I bet the major cities of Europe also had newspapers in the 1700s.
Those who think "sensationalism" or "political slant" is anything new need to go watch the movie His Girl Friday, made in the 1930s. This stuff dates waaaay back all the way to the 1800s. It's nothing new.
When you have a free press it's only natural the paper will reflect the view of whoever owns it. It's our job as citizens to read both sides of the story and determine where the truth lies. Back in the past that would have meant reading both the Philadelphia Democrat and the Inquirer (republican-slanted).
Or the communications arm of the democratic party called MSNBC, NBC, GE, or any other organization that stands to gain huge profits from Carbon Taxes. 'k thanks.
Buying or leasing a building downtown is cheaper, because of foolish politicians subsidizing the cost. Even in New York City the most-densely populated region in N. America with the highest land costs, a megacorp can often convince the NYC politicians to pay half the cost. Or even sometimes give the land for free!
Obviously it should not be that way, but it is.
Corruption runs rampant.
Hold on, I just noticed this:
>>>Shut down broadcast TV completely, I mean all of it
I like my free television, thank you very much. Including the subchannels I am able to get 40 different programs at any time of the day. Why should I give that up for some inferior slow, interference-prone, overloaded, non-HD Wifi connection? I do watch some steaming television via the net, but don't particularly like it. It's poor sub-standard definition VHS-level quality and prone to sudden pauses in the middle of the show. I tried to watch Sanctuary on scifi.com, and the damn thing got stuck in an infinite loop - the same 30 seconds repeated over and over.
I prefer broadcast. Maybe someday in the future, say 2030, the internet will finally catchup to the same HD-level quality as over-the-air ATSC, but certainly not now.
>>>The broadcast spectrum monopolies that CBS,NBC,ABC don't pay a cent for
False. I wish people would stop repeating this oft-stated lie. The ~2000 TV stations plus ~10,000 lowpower/clear air neighborhood stations all pay a lease for their spectrum (called a license fee).
>>>plus the entire copyright system
On this we agree. The original version in the 1790 Act was reasonable - 14 years of monopoly helped the authors stand on their own feet and earn money from their labor. Today's 105-year span is ridiculous. It's like creating a welfare state where an author pen a best-seller in his 20s, and then sit on his ass for the rest of his life, signing books, and collecting the residuals. (cough J.K.Rowlings). The rest of us poor slobs have to work 'til we're 70 or 80.
14 years plus a possibility for renewal (28 years total) is long enough.
Else we'll have the situation with Boscovs which was bailed-out, but after examining the store, I think should have died.
This store has not been modernized its look since the 1980s, still employs three people to man every single register (wasteful), and carries product a modern consumer has little-to-no interest in buying (sewing patterns & machines to make your own clothes). Other stores like Penneys and Sears have streamlined their operations, eliminating product that doesn't sell, and having 3 employees serve an entire QUARTER of a store not just one register. They've cut costs and grown more efficient. Boscovs has not.
Government bail-outs for stores just encourage inefficiency. Ditto bail-outs for newspapers. Let the papers innovate or pass-away into history (along with horsewhips and cobblers).
"Just" include a crystal? Ya know there are differing levels of accuracy for crystals. For an operating time of 5 days you'd need 10 hertz +/- approximately 0.0000001 accuracy to stay within 0.1 second real time. It's been awhile but as I recall we spent $200 for it because the one included with our off-the-shelf CPU board wasn't good enough.
As for tabletop clocks they use the 60 hertz line frequency, which is regulated by the government, hence the accuracy. Although even though they are not perfectly accurate. My alarm clock loses about 5 seconds every month. My VCR clock loses around 1 second each month.
The battle was Not between Hardware* and Software Engineers. We agreed.
If you re-read what I wrote I said the hardware group and the SYSTEMS engineers were the ones battling it out. In my experience systems engineers rarely understand the intricate details of the projects they work upon, which is fine. It's not possible to know everything. The frustration is when the systems engineers assume that hardware engineers and programmers are dunces, and refuse to listen to us.
That was the root problem. We hardware/software persons knew binary counting would provide the best accuracy, but the systems engineers refused to let us do that.