For historical reasons (we had sensors to detect phenomena before we understood what the phenomena were, thus the phenomena were named before we knew that the hell we were talking about) the word "radiation" is used for entirely different phenonena. Although this isn't necessarily wrong from a linguistic point of view it is confusing from a technical.
Your Farady Cage blocks electromagnetic radiation (so does a paper bag for that matter. Put a paper bag over your head to test this).
What we are dealing with here, as another poster notes, is particle radiation. Bits of atomic nucleus zipping through the air very, very fast.
In essence, teeny-tiny little bullets.
Put your burrito in the microwave oven. Start oven. Take aim at burrito with a.22 . . .
"Hollywood isn't going to get another dollar of my cash nor a minute of my attention anymore (TV)."
Which just "proves," statistically, that you must be pirating the steaming piles of shit.
Obviously we need a Content Remembursment Appropriations Policy (CRAP) Act to make sure the content providers are suitably recompensed out of your tax dollars for all the shows you're stealing from them by not watching them.
Of course not watching the ads in the content you aren't watching is going to be a criminal offense, you fucking thief you.
And for what's good for one customer being good for another: market research, market research, market research.
That's funny, my experience is that market research always ends up telling me to get fucking lost, because I'm interested in buying solid technology for a fair price, not chrome, tailfins or squids with tits on 'em at porno rates.
"Irony: "We can't compete because someone else makes the OS and we don't have full access to it." - Microsoft"
It makes one wonder, doesn't it? Do they actually have a clue what they look like when they say shit like this? If I were the flak given the task of making this statement I'd either look like I was about to die of embaressment, because I would be, or I wouldnt' be able to stop giggling.
Since I don't know whether to laugh or cry, I guess I'll just do both at once.
It is a relatively modern Idea that Freedom is equal to Privacy.
Have you read the Fourth and Fifth Amendments?
They do not all stand alone, but work in concert with each other, giving the right to say what you want, decline to say what you don't (that's the flip side of Freedom of Speech that few pay much attention to and relevant right of freedom in this case) want and the hide what you say and do.
It is true that the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, but that is because the wording of the Constitution denies the government the very right to question your privacy.
A right is what is nobody else's fucking business and thus the idea that freedom has a relationship to privacy is as old as the idea of freedom. It is the heirarchical control stucture of formal state government that is the relatively modern idea.
The short, pithy statement provided by your link does not even make sense. It's absolute gibberish legally.
Please name one country where you need a license on the patent to play an mp3? You can't, because their aren't any, either by law or by Fraunhofer's demand. In any case Ubuntu's issue is distribution, not playing, which the statement does not even address. It's a smoke and mirrors statement, redirecting your attention away from the actual facts.
Here is the relevant statement of licese from a legitimate licensing representative of Fraunhofer :
"However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00."
This is why the maintainers and distributors of software like mpg123 are in no legal jeapordy. They have a license. License does not imply payment. It implies permission. That's why the call it "license." License also goes with the player, not the distro. This is why it's legal for stores to sell DVD players without a patent license; and why it's legal for you to buy, drive and resell your car with license arrangements for the software the drives its fuel injection and ignition system, or the fuel injection system itself if it comes to that.
Gnu and Ubuntu have a free as in beer license provided to them by Fraunhofer.They may legally distribute. They choose not to distribute for philosophical reasons about patent encumberances.
You are speaking primarily of physiology. I spoke of anatomy.
Even so the chiken's stomach is still recognizbly a stomach and its liver a liver. We have the same number of limbs, located on the skeleton similarly, distinct heads, noses, eyes, etc.
but they are more useful in physiology classes as an example of divergent evolution.
I believe not enough time is spent in classes looking at examples of similarities. The old "I'm no monkey" syndrome still persists. Which is silly. Of course you're not a monkey. Your ancestors were lemur type thingies and you are an ape.
Although you had ancestors very much like mice as well. And bacterium.
Dude, what the hell are you talking about? Ubuntu comes with mp3 decoders. Gnome just refuses to support them in their players for philosophical reasons, even though one of the decoders is free as in beer and the other is free as in speech, because they object to the patent, even with a free license.
It has nothing to do with anybody paying for anything.
Oddly enough Ubuntu does not come with an mp3 to ogg converter, but will supply you with a supported non Gnome graphical mp3 player if you jump through the hoop.
Given their stance this does not make a lot of sense.
And for what it's worth, I have demanded nothing of Canonical and am already on record here as refusing to buy an iPod because of it's lack of vorbis support.
Oh, and while we're sharing our anecdotal experiences. ..
Emperical test between Mandrake/KDE, Windows 98 and Ubuntu/Gnome on the same system running the same apps. All hardware supported retail name brand stuff. No funky OEM shit in the box.
And I'm not even talking load times. I'm talking close the Firefox window times.
A new nitpick. Eye of Gnome and gThumb come configured with completely different control behaviors. This is not only a violation of UI usability guidelines, but you can't change them in preferences. Choice would only confuse the poor idiot user (so why are there two image viewers in the first place?) and the more sophisticated user should be perfectly willing to track down the appropriate config file and edit his GUI key bindings by hand I guess.
They've invented this thing called the "Advanced" button and even the Gnome guidelines not allow, but suggest it.
The sync and refresh rates for my monitor were apparently undefined in xorg.conf. so the system defaulted to VGA. Using a plain vanilla conf file from xorg at least got me up and running in 1024x768.
Athlon 900. I run the 486s and shit from the console.
No "guru" skills necessary, at least in my case.
You played mp3s out of the box?
Perhaps you shouldn't complain too much when trying to run it on stone-age hardware . ..
Mandrake/KDE3 runs slicker than owl shit sliding off a wet tin roof. Same apps.
Ubuntu is a distro that seems to focus on the eye candy stuff.
I would say rather less so than Mandrake/KDE.
More to the point, however, is that KDE allows me to do what I want to do. Gnome does not. Try setting your terminal to display in white on black, or remove an item from the Applications menu.
On the other hand you don't have to fire up a terminal to run traceroute, a purely text based operation. It's totally bassackwards.
I'm recovering from a HD crash a couple of days ago (5 year old IBM Deathstar. Didn't even give a death rattle. Bearing just gave out a squeak and that was all for it. Right in the middle of a backup, just to rub it in). I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," so most of my software is years old as well.
Well, things are definately broke now, so I figured it was a good time to play.
So I installed Breezy Badger. It's my first look at Ubuntu and what has become of Gnome these days.
I spent the first half hour figuring out how to get something other 640x480 resolution, then about 10 minutes or so looking for how to turn off windows animations, which it turns out you can't do without going under the hood. Something about their "philosophy."
And this is the award winning, "User Friendly" distro? Treating your users like idiots, but making them have "guru" skills just to play an mp3 is "friendly"? Good thing the average user only plays vorbis files, eh?
Fuck their "philosophy." Gnome not only does not do what I want it to do but appears to go out of its way to set up roadblocks to keep me from doing it.
But at least it runs "go out for coffee" slow, so I've got that going for me.
I think I'll try Slack and Ratpoison next. You can at least get things done that way.
Compare a brick house to a brick factory building.
Mice and men are made of the same bricks, assembled in the same manner, ending with much the same results, which is why they can use mice for medical research in the first place. Above poster has it right, God is in the details, but the details are really very, very tiny. Sometimes those tiny differences are critical, but it doesn't make them any less tiny.
I'm sorry if it insults your sense of humanity to be compared to a mouse, but I don't exactly see the point of gaining your "stature" by denigrating mice either.
You're "smarter" than a mouse, of course, but being "smarter" isn't even of any particular value if you don't act smarter, and the mouse can do something you likely can't. . .
so is all this 97.5% like generic organ, dna stuff?
You're about 50% banana.
i dont see the similarities between humans and mice
You obviously haven't even looked at a banana very closely, let alone a mouse. About the only difference a lifeform from the proverbial Mars would see between a human and a mouse would be scale. We are virtually identical to mice in every detail but stature.
If you want learn human anatomy, disect a chicken, and a chicken isn't even a mammal.
Dude, Coca-Cola is a syrup concentrate. You don't chug down 20 oz. of it, you mix a couple tablespoons into 20 oz. of something. The stuff in the cans just comes premixed for your convenience.
Go to a diner or a movie theater or something and have them show you how Coke is made into something drinkable.
yeah, but all the web recipes for coke don't have caffeine.
Incorrect.
I have a bucket of caffeine just not sure how much to add.
This'll get you started:
Original Coke formula:
Ingredients:
1oz. Citrate of Caffein 1 oz. Ext. Vanilla 2 1/2 oz. Flavoring 4 oz. F.E. Coco 3 oz. Citric Acid 1 Qt. Lime Juice 30 lbs. Sugar 2 1/2 gal. Water Caramel sufficient
Mix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice 1 Qt. Boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours.
But only a fool would follow a reicipe blindly. Adjust for personal taste, dude.
If they had recipes for cola that involed boiling a root or something I would go for it. ..
Then you would making root beer, not cola. Cola has always been something whipped up out of stuff lying on the shelves of the grocery store and apothocary shop. Someone else boiled the "root" for you and stuck it in a jar.
I love the week after Passover. Macaroons, borscht and Coke with sugar, all at blow out/get this shit out of the store prices. Stock up!
And when it comes right down to it it's really not all that hard to make your own sugar water, cola flavored (with or without coffee) or otherwise. The Web is littered with recipies.
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Nah, gamma radiation is technically a wave (EM wave, same as light and radio).
As per Maxwell's equations. Yes, I am aware. I've read Maxwell.
KFG
That's about it for the types of radioactive decay radiation [sic].
There are only two types of radiative phenomenon that are relevant to the discussion:
1.Self propogating waves of an electromagnetic field
2. Little bits of stuff going really, really fast
The two phenonema are fundamentally different. Whether the stuff is one bit or four bits stuck together is not.
Overdetailing is the curse of understanding. "Ghost Hunters" rely on it.
KFG
For historical reasons (we had sensors to detect phenomena before we understood what the phenomena were, thus the phenomena were named before we knew that the hell we were talking about) the word "radiation" is used for entirely different phenonena. Although this isn't necessarily wrong from a linguistic point of view it is confusing from a technical.
.22 . . .
Your Farady Cage blocks electromagnetic radiation (so does a paper bag for that matter. Put a paper bag over your head to test this).
What we are dealing with here, as another poster notes, is particle radiation. Bits of atomic nucleus zipping through the air very, very fast.
In essence, teeny-tiny little bullets.
Put your burrito in the microwave oven. Start oven. Take aim at burrito with a
Get the picture?
KFG
"Hollywood isn't going to get another dollar of my cash nor a minute of my attention anymore (TV)."
Which just "proves," statistically, that you must be pirating the steaming piles of shit.
Obviously we need a Content Remembursment Appropriations Policy (CRAP) Act to make sure the content providers are suitably recompensed out of your tax dollars for all the shows you're stealing from them by not watching them.
Of course not watching the ads in the content you aren't watching is going to be a criminal offense, you fucking thief you.
KFG
And for what's good for one customer being good for another: market research, market research, market research.
That's funny, my experience is that market research always ends up telling me to get fucking lost, because I'm interested in buying solid technology for a fair price, not chrome, tailfins or squids with tits on 'em at porno rates.
KFG
"Irony: "We can't compete because someone else makes the OS and we don't have full access to it." - Microsoft"
It makes one wonder, doesn't it? Do they actually have a clue what they look like when they say shit like this? If I were the flak given the task of making this statement I'd either look like I was about to die of embaressment, because I would be, or I wouldnt' be able to stop giggling.
Since I don't know whether to laugh or cry, I guess I'll just do both at once.
KFG
It is a relatively modern Idea that Freedom is equal to Privacy.
Have you read the Fourth and Fifth Amendments?
They do not all stand alone, but work in concert with each other, giving the right to say what you want, decline to say what you don't (that's the flip side of Freedom of Speech that few pay much attention to and relevant right of freedom in this case) want and the hide what you say and do.
It is true that the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, but that is because the wording of the Constitution denies the government the very right to question your privacy.
A right is what is nobody else's fucking business and thus the idea that freedom has a relationship to privacy is as old as the idea of freedom. It is the heirarchical control stucture of formal state government that is the relatively modern idea.
Just go watch a cat or something.
KFG
Get your facts straight.
The short, pithy statement provided by your link does not even make sense. It's absolute gibberish legally.
Please name one country where you need a license on the patent to play an mp3? You can't, because their aren't any, either by law or by Fraunhofer's demand. In any case Ubuntu's issue is distribution, not playing, which the statement does not even address. It's a smoke and mirrors statement, redirecting your attention away from the actual facts.
Here is the relevant statement of licese from a legitimate licensing representative of Fraunhofer :
"However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00."
This is why the maintainers and distributors of software like mpg123 are in no legal jeapordy. They have a license. License does not imply payment. It implies permission. That's why the call it "license." License also goes with the player, not the distro. This is why it's legal for stores to sell DVD players without a patent license; and why it's legal for you to buy, drive and resell your car with license arrangements for the software the drives its fuel injection and ignition system, or the fuel injection system itself if it comes to that.
Gnu and Ubuntu have a free as in beer license provided to them by Fraunhofer.They may legally distribute. They choose not to distribute for philosophical reasons about patent encumberances.
KFG
. . .even for batch processing which can be easily done with simple perl scripts!
That's silly. That's what Excel is for.
KFG
You are speaking primarily of physiology. I spoke of anatomy.
Even so the chiken's stomach is still recognizbly a stomach and its liver a liver. We have the same number of limbs, located on the skeleton similarly, distinct heads, noses, eyes, etc.
but they are more useful in physiology classes as an example of divergent evolution.
I believe not enough time is spent in classes looking at examples of similarities. The old "I'm no monkey" syndrome still persists. Which is silly. Of course you're not a monkey. Your ancestors were lemur type thingies and you are an ape.
Although you had ancestors very much like mice as well. And bacterium.
Almost as much fun as squid anatomy
Yeah, I almost brought up squid, in fact.
KFG
Dude, what the hell are you talking about? Ubuntu comes with mp3 decoders. Gnome just refuses to support them in their players for philosophical reasons, even though one of the decoders is free as in beer and the other is free as in speech, because they object to the patent, even with a free license.
.
It has nothing to do with anybody paying for anything.
Oddly enough Ubuntu does not come with an mp3 to ogg converter, but will supply you with a supported non Gnome graphical mp3 player if you jump through the hoop.
Given their stance this does not make a lot of sense.
And for what it's worth, I have demanded nothing of Canonical and am already on record here as refusing to buy an iPod because of it's lack of vorbis support.
Oh, and while we're sharing our anecdotal experiences. .
Emperical test between Mandrake/KDE, Windows 98 and Ubuntu/Gnome on the same system running the same apps. All hardware supported retail name brand stuff. No funky OEM shit in the box.
And I'm not even talking load times. I'm talking close the Firefox window times.
A new nitpick. Eye of Gnome and gThumb come configured with completely different control behaviors. This is not only a violation of UI usability guidelines, but you can't change them in preferences. Choice would only confuse the poor idiot user (so why are there two image viewers in the first place?) and the more sophisticated user should be perfectly willing to track down the appropriate config file and edit his GUI key bindings by hand I guess.
They've invented this thing called the "Advanced" button and even the Gnome guidelines not allow, but suggest it.
KFG
The sync and refresh rates for my monitor were apparently undefined in xorg.conf. so the system defaulted to VGA. Using a plain vanilla conf file from xorg at least got me up and running in 1024x768.
KFG
What kind of hardware are you using?
.
Athlon 900. I run the 486s and shit from the console.
No "guru" skills necessary, at least in my case.
You played mp3s out of the box?
Perhaps you shouldn't complain too much when trying to run it on stone-age hardware . .
Mandrake/KDE3 runs slicker than owl shit sliding off a wet tin roof. Same apps.
Ubuntu is a distro that seems to focus on the eye candy stuff.
I would say rather less so than Mandrake/KDE.
More to the point, however, is that KDE allows me to do what I want to do. Gnome does not. Try setting your terminal to display in white on black, or remove an item from the Applications menu.
On the other hand you don't have to fire up a terminal to run traceroute, a purely text based operation. It's totally bassackwards.
KFG
It took you 30 minutes of menu browsing to find Desktop -> Properties -> Resolution ? (or whatever it's called with an English locale)
.
That part took nearly seconds. The rest of the time was spent in getting it to give any option other than 640x480.
Well as they say in the answers to Linus' post, GNOME is not made for idiots...
You should know that I've taken the trouble to actually read the guidlines all the way through.
Now seriously, if you didn't get a good resolution at first there must have been a problem with your hardware. .
Funny that the bug does not exist under Red Hat 5.2 and Gnome 1.0.
I'm recovering from a HD crash a couple of days ago (5 year old IBM Deathstar. Didn't even give a death rattle. Bearing just gave out a squeak and that was all for it. Right in the middle of a backup, just to rub it in). I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," so most of my software is years old as well.
Well, things are definately broke now, so I figured it was a good time to play.
So I installed Breezy Badger. It's my first look at Ubuntu and what has become of Gnome these days.
I spent the first half hour figuring out how to get something other 640x480 resolution, then about 10 minutes or so looking for how to turn off windows animations, which it turns out you can't do without going under the hood. Something about their "philosophy."
And this is the award winning, "User Friendly" distro? Treating your users like idiots, but making them have "guru" skills just to play an mp3 is "friendly"? Good thing the average user only plays vorbis files, eh?
Fuck their "philosophy." Gnome not only does not do what I want it to do but appears to go out of its way to set up roadblocks to keep me from doing it.
But at least it runs "go out for coffee" slow, so I've got that going for me.
I think I'll try Slack and Ratpoison next. You can at least get things done that way.
KFG
As there is a lot of difference between two cars with different systems of electronic fuel injection.
The similarities, however, still dominate.
Compare a car to, say, a violin, for instance.
Come to think of it, you're very different from a car, but actually related to the violin.
You're much, much closer to a mouse than to a violin. A mouse does have a brain.
I assume you do as well. Perhaps I am mistaken.
KFG
Compare a brick house to a brick factory building.
Mice and men are made of the same bricks, assembled in the same manner, ending with much the same results, which is why they can use mice for medical research in the first place. Above poster has it right, God is in the details, but the details are really very, very tiny. Sometimes those tiny differences are critical, but it doesn't make them any less tiny.
I'm sorry if it insults your sense of humanity to be compared to a mouse, but I don't exactly see the point of gaining your "stature" by denigrating mice either.
You're "smarter" than a mouse, of course, but being "smarter" isn't even of any particular value if you don't act smarter, and the mouse can do something you likely can't. . .
Take care of itself.
KFG
so is all this 97.5% like generic organ, dna stuff?
You're about 50% banana.
i dont see the similarities between humans and mice
You obviously haven't even looked at a banana very closely, let alone a mouse. About the only difference a lifeform from the proverbial Mars would see between a human and a mouse would be scale. We are virtually identical to mice in every detail but stature.
If you want learn human anatomy, disect a chicken, and a chicken isn't even a mammal.
KFG
. . .more and more /. stories look like a disguised ad.
Yeah, like Superman was "disguised" when he put on a pair of glasses.
And you wouldn't hit an ad wearing glasses, now would you?
KFG
Any thoughts?
We used to have this shit called "radio." Looked just as good on a two inch screen as on a 25 incher.
It had the added advantage of allowing you to keep track of the ball game while looking at that hot chick three seats down.
Maybe if you wanna watch TV you should go home.
KFG
Dude, Coca-Cola is a syrup concentrate. You don't chug down 20 oz. of it, you mix a couple tablespoons into 20 oz. of something. The stuff in the cans just comes premixed for your convenience.
Go to a diner or a movie theater or something and have them show you how Coke is made into something drinkable.
KFG
"Yes. I am going to hell."
., and did you ever call, every write?"
We don't have one of those. God just kvetches at you for all eternity.
"Borrow the chariot? Do you remember that time a billion and half years ago, Tuesday, 4:47 P.M., when you. .
I hate it when he gives me two ties and the first time I wear one them he looks at me, sighs, and says, in his basic tone of voice:
"The other one you didn't like?"
Oy! Such a noodge.
KFG
yeah, but all the web recipes for coke don't have caffeine.
.
Incorrect.
I have a bucket of caffeine just not sure how much to add.
This'll get you started:
Original Coke formula:
Ingredients:
1oz. Citrate of Caffein
1 oz. Ext. Vanilla
2 1/2 oz. Flavoring
4 oz. F.E. Coco
3 oz. Citric Acid
1 Qt. Lime Juice
30 lbs. Sugar
2 1/2 gal. Water
Caramel sufficient
Flavoring:
80 Oil Orange
120 Oil Lemon
40 Oil Nutmeg
1 Qt. Alchohol (!)
40 Oil Cinnamon
20 Oil Coriander
40 Oil Neroli
Directions:
Mix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice 1 Qt.
Boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool.
Let stand for 24 hours.
But only a fool would follow a reicipe blindly. Adjust for personal taste, dude.
If they had recipes for cola that involed boiling a root or something I would go for it. .
Then you would making root beer, not cola. Cola has always been something whipped up out of stuff lying on the shelves of the grocery store and apothocary shop. Someone else boiled the "root" for you and stuck it in a jar.
KFG
Yeah, but do you guys say "sh-ch" or just "sht" when you say borscht?
I say:
"Good sh-chit. Just like Bubby used to make."
She got it out of a Manischewitz jar too.
KFG
I love the week after Passover. Macaroons, borscht and Coke with sugar, all at blow out/get this shit out of the store prices. Stock up!
And when it comes right down to it it's really not all that hard to make your own sugar water, cola flavored (with or without coffee) or otherwise. The Web is littered with recipies.
KFG