Sir, I did not insinuate that Arab Sheiks have poor, overblown taste. I insinuated merely that only an Arab Shiek would have a Winnebago gold plated, country music stars prefering converted Greyhound Scenicruisers.
As for your final point, I wish that I could look at my spelling, but being dyslexic I find that neurologically impossible, but at least I know how to count to one exclamation point!
That's pretty much already available, it's just that's it's ugly, fills a cubic meter or two, weighs 20 kilograms and requires an extension cord of infinite length if you want to haul it around with you.
Hey, look, you can't have *everything* with your everything.
( And if you want it to cut julliene fries in seconds you need an adaptor)
And long time fan of the marque, I find it rather insulting that this ugly brick of an "everything including the kitchen sink" device should be compared with the single function honesty, beauty, simplicity and downright elegance that has always been the hallmark of the Maserati name.
I think it would be far more appropriate to call it the "Arab Shiek's Gold Plated, Decked out, Winnebago" of smart phones.
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Fair use! Fair use!
The funny thing is I remember when The Tonight Show held a party for the expiry of this particular copyright.
It seems to be one of those peculiar works which the Bono Act retrieved from the public domain, a thing for which there is no legal precident, nor justification.
Go figure that congress might pass a law which contrevenes all of legal history and philosophy.
KFG
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It's considered by many a desirable attribute of social politness to arrive at a party at least somewhat "fashionably late." If only because it makes life rather easier for the host to have a gentle influx of incoming guests, rather than a gushing torrent.
KFG
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Actually, many embeded systems already have DRM. It's where you implement it first because it's free of consumer objection.
You are also confusing my inability to get parts for my 8088 with my observation about future parts availability. The cases are not similar. Computer sales are flattening because people *do* wish to keep the machines they have now working since they already do *everything* they wish them to.
Nor is there any reason to believe "server" HD's will be any freer than "consumer" HD's. In fact, my guess is that they'll show up in server hardware first because, as above, there will be no consumer objection, and second, because people running servers will find it desirable.
It wouldn't be the first time America has set itself back 20 years through unenlightened self interest.
Watch the sleeping dragon. Its sleep is becoming decidedly restless.
Just a few years ago. Not because It didn't do what I wanted it to. In fact I rather miss it because it was ideally suited to its task, but because various little mechanical bits of it started to get wonky and I couldn't find replacements.
I'll be able to custom build a replacement now with the new VIA stuff, and the replacement will undoubtably be "better" than the Compaq, but it's still just plain annoying to have to take a grand or so out of pocket to replace something that did it's job ( and that I only payed $50 for in the first place) and could have continued to do so ad infinitum had a few $5 parts been available.
And of course its basically working carcass is now sitting in some landfill because none of the local shops even considered it worth taking up space if I gave it to them for free.
And this could still be a continuing issue. One of the surest ways to force DRM "enabled" machines on the majority of the populace is to simply phase out the bits of the machines people already have making them impossible to keep going.
It might take 20 years, but businesses seem to find the patience they otherwise lack when it comes to ways to grind down the consumer to the level they desire.
This classic from the 60's is still the absolute MUST place to start.
I really don't know how to say this strongly enough. Without at least reading this book *first* you are blind.
Technology may have changed, and you may not go along with everything Mr. Roberts has to say, but it's primary value is teaching you how to *think* about house building on a "proper foundation" (both figuratively and literally) without cultural bias and the false "knowledge" that has been imparted to you since birth by commercial interests.
It will open your eyes. You can't really ask for much more, and building a house blind can be a tragic mistake.
But this book. Read this book. Then read it again. Then put it aside for a few day and read it *again.*
It will become one of your most treasured possessions, along with the house it helps you create for *you* rather than some vague ideas other people have about what your house should be.
And above all remember, the "value" of your house isn't what you can sell it for. The value of your house is that it *houses* you and if you truly want to build for the ages and your heirs it's selling price is irrellevant.
Thoreau understood this, and it wouldn't hurt to read Walden even if your intention is to live in a 5000 square foot mansion in the middle of a city.
Your Engineered House is about *what* to live in. Walden is about *how* to live.
My Athlon 900 with Voodoo 4 does ok, although the GPLEA Eagle gives it stutter fits when it's in my mirrors. I'll have to get a new vid card one of these days I guess if I want to do the road racing stockers thingy, but that can wait, at least until the MoG season is over.
And I've got *two* LWFF's to rotate between. I need to add ball bearings though.
Since you homed in on GPL can I assume you have some idea who I am? You have the advantage of me sir.:)
Ok, I won't buy a gamepad. Problem solved. Although I wonder how long it will be before the MS wheel and pedal set is declared the "standard" for such as well.
Let's look at the gamepad itself though. Gamepads are not quite the same as they were years ago. They have evolved. On the whole they have improved.
Evolution and improvement come through *change.* In fact, sometimes from something called "innovation."
In this case MS seems to be trying to take another step to making the entire PC world, and console world as well, a Microsoft product.
When they pry it from my cold dead fingers, and toes.
Same goes for my flight stick.
The PC is *not* a console. That's kinda the point. It's a *general purpose* machine which one can adapt as one likes. Hell, they've even had to supply wheel and pedal sets for consoles now. Using anything else for seriously playing driving sims doesn't even make sense.
I like adaptation, of the machine to me. Not the other way around, and I've never seen no "game pad" in a Fokker DR1.
I always wanted one of those, never worked it out. My Cinelli ended its life under the wheels of a Lincoln Continental.
Hit and run. Never got the bastard, and I limped for several months.
Haven't ridden a good set of silks in ages, but it's my plan to build up a good set of wheels and lay in a stock before they disappear from the world entirely, if only to take out on the weekends for a spin in the country. There's certainly nothing like them.
Been riding my own frames for several years now, but have gotten a NOS steel Schwinn Passage for a "beater." Not a bad bike for the price. I was really surprised.
I'm a refugee from the age of steel, and while I like the odd ride on carbon I've taken I've never warmed up to aluminum.
My family used to employ two carpenters. One was the gung ho type, always rushing around, cutting up boards, hammering, always on the go *doing* something. He was also relatively cheap.
The other guy was the typical old New England carpenter. Rarely spoke, and then in as few words as possible. He moved painfully slowly, almost like he was drugged. It seemed like he never did *anything*. If you walked in on him unexpected 19 times out of 20 you'd find him chewing on a pencil and staring out in to space.
He also cost twice as much as the other guy, so we were paying twice as much an hour to "get less work out of him."
Well, come the end of a project guess who turned out the most "product" for the least money?
Yep, the old slow guy. Think twice cut once works.
What's more, the stuff "Old guy" did is still standing strong 35 years later, and still drawing comment about the beautiful craftsmanship in our house.
Mr. "Works a lot"'s stuff has all had to be torn out and redone, in more modern, and thus more expensive, dollars.
I used to be head mechanic in the largest bicycle shop in New York State's Captial district. The boss would look at new bikes I put together and whistle, declaring, "I should charge every customer $10 for your assembly jobs."
Then he'd go out and hire some hack (literally, a cab driver) to throw bikes together for $5 each. Then he'd sell the bike, and with an impatient customer waiting ask me to "prep it."
Any bike I built didn't need "preping." If I put it on the floor it was ready for Lance Armstrong to get on and ride out the door.
These cabbie built bikes I had to take apart and reassemble, a job that took three times longer than had I been assembling them out of the box, while a customer stood tapping his toes. And the boss had to pay my high hourly to do this.
At one point I went to him and said, "Look, how about letting me assemble all of the bikes and you charge ten bucks *less* for them. You'll save money."
He never did get it.
I don't work there anymore.
For the most part, and I realize there are exceptions, being a craftsman means being selfemployed.
It's a rare boss who really pays you for the value you bring to the company. What they really want is people who make "the fur fly," even if all that does is make a bloody mess.
For the average, but moderately dedicated to the concept, person, I think that 10 miles is the outside for commuting by bike. And that has to be as the bike rides, not as the crow flies or the car drives. If you can't get it under that don't even worry about all the other reasons it isn't practical for you, it ain't gonna happen anyway, so don't sweat it.
If you REALLY want to ride your bike to work though, you could always move to Eugene Oregon.:)
I'm that sort of guy I'm afraid. I figure out how I *want* to live, than make the compromises that make it possible. That alone costs me money sometimes.
Once you've got a car you have fixed expenses, and that's that. Even for maintainence. A car that has done nothing but sit in the garage for three years should its hoses changed right off.
It's amazing how fast the buggers just kinda rot away, even just sitting there. Some collectors actually vacuum bag the really expensive ones when they aren't actually displaying them.
The EV1 is not something I would have been proud to come off my drawing board, excuse me, CAD station. It's not a *bad* design, per se, but it's certainly not great.
The funny thing is, except for a few oddballs here and there GM really is at the forefront of electric car technologies.
But this car wasn't designed to be at the forefront of anything. It was designed so they could go to Sacremento and say, " Alright, we built your damned electric car. Are you bloody hippies in suits *happy* now?"
And it shows.
To bring the whole thing full circle, the car I'm working on right now isn't an electric. It's got pedals.:)
I'm tempted to make it look like a fire engine, but that would be silly.
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Ummmmm, Ghostbusters?
KFG
I think the late George Mallory put it rather succinctly:
"Because they're there."
On the other hand, in the words of Voltaire:
"If Microsoft didn't exist it would be necessary to invent them."
However, regarding the current kernel situation I think my deeply missed old granny put it best:
"Oh fuck."
KFG
Sir, I did not insinuate that Arab Sheiks have poor, overblown taste. I insinuated merely that only an Arab Shiek would have a Winnebago gold plated, country music stars prefering converted Greyhound Scenicruisers.
As for your final point, I wish that I could look at my spelling, but being dyslexic I find that neurologically impossible, but at least I know how to count to one exclamation point!
KFG
That's pretty much already available, it's just that's it's ugly, fills a cubic meter or two, weighs 20 kilograms and requires an extension cord of infinite length if you want to haul it around with you.
Hey, look, you can't have *everything* with your everything.
( And if you want it to cut julliene fries in seconds you need an adaptor)
KFG
And long time fan of the marque, I find it rather insulting that this ugly brick of an "everything including the kitchen sink" device should be compared with the single function honesty, beauty, simplicity and downright elegance that has always been the hallmark of the Maserati name.
I think it would be far more appropriate to call it the "Arab Shiek's Gold Plated, Decked out, Winnebago" of smart phones.
KFG
The article started being incorrect with the friggen *title.*
But at least it followed its own advice and maintained consistency from there on out.
So at least it has *that* going for it.
KFG
Playschool?
KFG
Fair use! Fair use!
The funny thing is I remember when The Tonight Show held a party for the expiry of this particular copyright.
It seems to be one of those peculiar works which the Bono Act retrieved from the public domain, a thing for which there is no legal precident, nor justification.
Go figure that congress might pass a law which contrevenes all of legal history and philosophy.
KFG
It's considered by many a desirable attribute of social politness to arrive at a party at least somewhat "fashionably late." If only because it makes life rather easier for the host to have a gentle influx of incoming guests, rather than a gushing torrent.
KFG
Happy Birthday to GNU,
Happy Birthday, Dear Richard. . . "
Oh, sorry. Just one of the many variants *somebody* is obligated to post sooner or later.
I'll GNU/Shutup now.
KFG
Actually, many embeded systems already have DRM. It's where you implement it first because it's free of consumer objection.
You are also confusing my inability to get parts for my 8088 with my observation about future parts availability. The cases are not similar. Computer sales are flattening because people *do* wish to keep the machines they have now working since they already do *everything* they wish them to.
Nor is there any reason to believe "server" HD's will be any freer than "consumer" HD's. In fact, my guess is that they'll show up in server hardware first because, as above, there will be no consumer objection, and second, because people running servers will find it desirable.
It wouldn't be the first time America has set itself back 20 years through unenlightened self interest.
Watch the sleeping dragon. Its sleep is becoming decidedly restless.
KFG
However lots of other people do. Go figure.
KFG
Just a few years ago. Not because It didn't do what I wanted it to. In fact I rather miss it because it was ideally suited to its task, but because various little mechanical bits of it started to get wonky and I couldn't find replacements.
I'll be able to custom build a replacement now with the new VIA stuff, and the replacement will undoubtably be "better" than the Compaq, but it's still just plain annoying to have to take a grand or so out of pocket to replace something that did it's job ( and that I only payed $50 for in the first place) and could have continued to do so ad infinitum had a few $5 parts been available.
And of course its basically working carcass is now sitting in some landfill because none of the local shops even considered it worth taking up space if I gave it to them for free.
And this could still be a continuing issue. One of the surest ways to force DRM "enabled" machines on the majority of the populace is to simply phase out the bits of the machines people already have making them impossible to keep going.
It might take 20 years, but businesses seem to find the patience they otherwise lack when it comes to ways to grind down the consumer to the level they desire.
KFG
This classic from the 60's is still the absolute MUST place to start.
I really don't know how to say this strongly enough. Without at least reading this book *first* you are blind.
Technology may have changed, and you may not go along with everything Mr. Roberts has to say, but it's primary value is teaching you how to *think* about house building on a "proper foundation" (both figuratively and literally) without cultural bias and the false "knowledge" that has been imparted to you since birth by commercial interests.
It will open your eyes. You can't really ask for much more, and building a house blind can be a tragic mistake.
But this book. Read this book. Then read it again. Then put it aside for a few day and read it *again.*
It will become one of your most treasured possessions, along with the house it helps you create for *you* rather than some vague ideas other people have about what your house should be.
And above all remember, the "value" of your house isn't what you can sell it for. The value of your house is that it *houses* you and if you truly want to build for the ages and your heirs it's selling price is irrellevant.
Thoreau understood this, and it wouldn't hurt to read Walden even if your intention is to live in a 5000 square foot mansion in the middle of a city.
Your Engineered House is about *what* to live in. Walden is about *how* to live.
Put the two together and you're set for life.
KFG
My Athlon 900 with Voodoo 4 does ok, although the GPLEA Eagle gives it stutter fits when it's in my mirrors. I'll have to get a new vid card one of these days I guess if I want to do the road racing stockers thingy, but that can wait, at least until the MoG season is over.
:)
And I've got *two* LWFF's to rotate between. I need to add ball bearings though.
Since you homed in on GPL can I assume you have some idea who I am? You have the advantage of me sir.
KFG
Ok, I won't buy a gamepad. Problem solved. Although I wonder how long it will be before the MS wheel and pedal set is declared the "standard" for such as well.
Let's look at the gamepad itself though. Gamepads are not quite the same as they were years ago. They have evolved. On the whole they have improved.
Evolution and improvement come through *change.* In fact, sometimes from something called "innovation."
In this case MS seems to be trying to take another step to making the entire PC world, and console world as well, a Microsoft product.
To do this they are "innovating" toward *stasis.*
They can stuff it.
KFG
When they pry it from my cold dead fingers, and toes.
Same goes for my flight stick.
The PC is *not* a console. That's kinda the point. It's a *general purpose* machine which one can adapt as one likes. Hell, they've even had to supply wheel and pedal sets for consoles now. Using anything else for seriously playing driving sims doesn't even make sense.
I like adaptation, of the machine to me. Not the other way around, and I've never seen no "game pad" in a Fokker DR1.
KFG
I always wanted one of those, never worked it out. My Cinelli ended its life under the wheels of a Lincoln Continental.
Hit and run. Never got the bastard, and I limped for several months.
Haven't ridden a good set of silks in ages, but it's my plan to build up a good set of wheels and lay in a stock before they disappear from the world entirely, if only to take out on the weekends for a spin in the country. There's certainly nothing like them.
Been riding my own frames for several years now, but have gotten a NOS steel Schwinn Passage for a "beater." Not a bad bike for the price. I was really surprised.
I'm a refugee from the age of steel, and while I like the odd ride on carbon I've taken I've never warmed up to aluminum.
To each his own I guess.
KFG
That's why they call it the "two stroke tingle."
I got a lot of dates when I had an RD400.
KFG
My family used to employ two carpenters. One was the gung ho type, always rushing around, cutting up boards, hammering, always on the go *doing* something. He was also relatively cheap.
The other guy was the typical old New England carpenter. Rarely spoke, and then in as few words as possible. He moved painfully slowly, almost like he was drugged. It seemed like he never did *anything*. If you walked in on him unexpected 19 times out of 20 you'd find him chewing on a pencil and staring out in to space.
He also cost twice as much as the other guy, so we were paying twice as much an hour to "get less work out of him."
Well, come the end of a project guess who turned out the most "product" for the least money?
Yep, the old slow guy. Think twice cut once works.
What's more, the stuff "Old guy" did is still standing strong 35 years later, and still drawing comment about the beautiful craftsmanship in our house.
Mr. "Works a lot"'s stuff has all had to be torn out and redone, in more modern, and thus more expensive, dollars.
I used to be head mechanic in the largest bicycle shop in New York State's Captial district. The boss would look at new bikes I put together and whistle, declaring, "I should charge every customer $10 for your assembly jobs."
Then he'd go out and hire some hack (literally, a cab driver) to throw bikes together for $5 each. Then he'd sell the bike, and with an impatient customer waiting ask me to "prep it."
Any bike I built didn't need "preping." If I put it on the floor it was ready for Lance Armstrong to get on and ride out the door.
These cabbie built bikes I had to take apart and reassemble, a job that took three times longer than had I been assembling them out of the box, while a customer stood tapping his toes. And the boss had to pay my high hourly to do this.
At one point I went to him and said, "Look, how about letting me assemble all of the bikes and you charge ten bucks *less* for them. You'll save money."
He never did get it.
I don't work there anymore.
For the most part, and I realize there are exceptions, being a craftsman means being selfemployed.
It's a rare boss who really pays you for the value you bring to the company. What they really want is people who make "the fur fly," even if all that does is make a bloody mess.
KFG
I'll call craft unionization when the independant luthier and potter down the street from me unionize.
KFG
I don't know about that. I use the finest piece of string I could find and it still looks irrational to me.
KFG
I've never tried one of those, but I'm getting ready to fool around with electric "boosters" in one of my HPV designs.
:)
The motor would never fully power the vehicle but just add a bit of go up hill and into winds.
As a three wheeler it would be a little hard to fold up though.
KFG
For the average, but moderately dedicated to the concept, person, I think that 10 miles is the outside for commuting by bike. And that has to be as the bike rides, not as the crow flies or the car drives. If you can't get it under that don't even worry about all the other reasons it isn't practical for you, it ain't gonna happen anyway, so don't sweat it.
:)
If you REALLY want to ride your bike to work though, you could always move to Eugene Oregon.
I'm that sort of guy I'm afraid. I figure out how I *want* to live, than make the compromises that make it possible. That alone costs me money sometimes.
Once you've got a car you have fixed expenses, and that's that. Even for maintainence. A car that has done nothing but sit in the garage for three years should its hoses changed right off.
It's amazing how fast the buggers just kinda rot away, even just sitting there. Some collectors actually vacuum bag the really expensive ones when they aren't actually displaying them.
Go figure.
Maybe we need Tupperware for Chevys.
KFG
I want my flying car. :)
:)
The EV1 is not something I would have been proud to come off my drawing board, excuse me, CAD station. It's not a *bad* design, per se, but it's certainly not great.
The funny thing is, except for a few oddballs here and there GM really is at the forefront of electric car technologies.
But this car wasn't designed to be at the forefront of anything. It was designed so they could go to Sacremento and say, " Alright, we built your damned electric car. Are you bloody hippies in suits *happy* now?"
And it shows.
To bring the whole thing full circle, the car I'm working on right now isn't an electric. It's got pedals.
I'm tempted to make it look like a fire engine, but that would be silly.
KFG