I'll direct you to my own post further down in this topic: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2073476&cid=35749140
But I'll also direct you to String Theory vs LQG, or Many Worlds vs de Broglie-Bohm vs Copenhagen, and ask you "science, or religion?"
That's a nice stereotype, but you have it wrong: faith is believing something with enough conviction that you base your actions upon it, and it is defined this way independently of any relationship to evidence.
On a deeper level, both science and religion are primarily based on inductive reasoning. "Does this model describe the way that, in my experience, I have perceived the world to work?" is the fundamental question of both scientific and religious belief.
Capitalism is great, but when you give corporations too much power (over individuals - see also "Corporate Personhood") the fundamental premise that people can be greedy equally falls apart. The roll of government in the economy should be to maintain competition, rather than to grant monopolies (patents, etc).
There's no excuse to not at least use something like Komodo Edit. It's extensible (and has a zen-coding plugin), and is centered around development with dynamic web scripting languages (Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/TCL).
For some reason Mac-development newbies always pick TextMate. I have NO idea why, since Komodo Edit is a HUGELY superior editor for all things scripted, Xcode is HUGELY superior for all things compiled, and of course OS X ships with both emacs and vim.
And I don't know why he's whining about the Mac Ports/Fink/Homebrew thing. Fink is archaic, and I've never even heard of Homebrew.
Not if they wanted to explore some white-hole cosmologies and the work of someone like Russell Humphreys. He may be wrong, but exploring his mathematical model could easily take up a handful of lectures, and there are others like his. They'd probably spend more time on the fossil record and Tu Quoque attacks on paleontology though (which while not a valid form of evidence FOR creationism can make the field of paleontology, from which most pre-geneticist arguments for evolution are derived, look pretty bad)
I don't think YOU read the article, because it spends significantly more time attacking Postmodernism and Relativism - decidedly liberal/democratic phenomena - than anything else. You may be disgusted to realize this, but as far as Truth goes, you're probably closer to the fundamentalists than the postmodernists, because you're convinced that something of the kind at least exists even if you disagree with the details.
It's funny that you say this, because it's for exactly that reason that I find Mac OS X such a brilliant operating system to use. Everyone b*tches and moans about it being a dumbed down O/S, but in reality I have just as much power of it by way of the terminal as I do with any other Unix.
I've stopped using Borders entirely in the last 2 years. Of the half that isn't purely vampires, about half is witches/demon-girls/supernatural-something-or-others who are hitwomen/assassins/PIs with evil ex's. It isn't even fantasy.
Thanks for repeating my criticism. Note the evidence that real calculators support real networking protocols.
Real engineers design and implement and a protocol that handles OSI layers 1-4.;)
What does that mean? Is that marketing speak for "modern computers don't have an RS232 port"? Do you not have serial to USB converters there? If it's not-quite-RS232, can't you just level shift rather than using a whole embedded computer?
It means that even modern computers with RS-232 ports no longer grant permissions to user level processes to access the port at the low level needed to set individual lines high or low. Serial to USB converters usually do a pretty good job of causing the same problem. Both microcontroller implementations of the gCn bridge package the protocol at the frame level. The Arduino provides an FTDI serial USB interface, and the non-Arduino version identifies as a USB HID device. An on-calculator bridge implementation is underway for the 84+ line which have their own USB controller.
For the third time, this isn't a TCP/IP stack, it's CN2.2 over TCP. The Arduino is monitoring the local CN2.2 network and broadcasting the packets over the Internet to other CN2.2 networks. TI didn't have to break anything, you can't just bit bang serial protocols on any modern PC, so you need an intermediary device to have proper drivers for.
He's *not* connecting to the Internet with his calculator, he's using the internet to retransmit his serial-line networking protocol to other clusters of locally networked calculators. This is really Cn2.2 over TCP.
You missed the point of this project. He's *not* connecting to the Internet with his calculator, he's using the internet to retransmit his serial-line networking protocol to other clusters of locally networked calculators. This is really Cn2.2 over TCP.
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Two words: fuel availability.
I'll direct you to my own post further down in this topic: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2073476&cid=35749140 But I'll also direct you to String Theory vs LQG, or Many Worlds vs de Broglie-Bohm vs Copenhagen, and ask you "science, or religion?"
That's a nice stereotype, but you have it wrong: faith is believing something with enough conviction that you base your actions upon it, and it is defined this way independently of any relationship to evidence. On a deeper level, both science and religion are primarily based on inductive reasoning. "Does this model describe the way that, in my experience, I have perceived the world to work?" is the fundamental question of both scientific and religious belief.
Producing some good Sci-Fi?
....which is what he was linking to.
Why are you surprised that a commercial Unix desktop has Emacs?
Capitalism is great, but when you give corporations too much power (over individuals - see also "Corporate Personhood") the fundamental premise that people can be greedy equally falls apart. The roll of government in the economy should be to maintain competition, rather than to grant monopolies (patents, etc).
There's no excuse to not at least use something like Komodo Edit. It's extensible (and has a zen-coding plugin), and is centered around development with dynamic web scripting languages (Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/TCL).
If we could add external sources to the App Store, I wouldn't mind so much ;)
For some reason Mac-development newbies always pick TextMate. I have NO idea why, since Komodo Edit is a HUGELY superior editor for all things scripted, Xcode is HUGELY superior for all things compiled, and of course OS X ships with both emacs and vim. And I don't know why he's whining about the Mac Ports/Fink/Homebrew thing. Fink is archaic, and I've never even heard of Homebrew.
Not if they wanted to explore some white-hole cosmologies and the work of someone like Russell Humphreys. He may be wrong, but exploring his mathematical model could easily take up a handful of lectures, and there are others like his. They'd probably spend more time on the fossil record and Tu Quoque attacks on paleontology though (which while not a valid form of evidence FOR creationism can make the field of paleontology, from which most pre-geneticist arguments for evolution are derived, look pretty bad)
A country of computer chips and precision surgical instruments =)
I don't think YOU read the article, because it spends significantly more time attacking Postmodernism and Relativism - decidedly liberal/democratic phenomena - than anything else. You may be disgusted to realize this, but as far as Truth goes, you're probably closer to the fundamentalists than the postmodernists, because you're convinced that something of the kind at least exists even if you disagree with the details.
Somehow I am doubting the home of the Free State Project has MORE restrictive laws regarding personal liberties.
Damn, beat me to it.
It's funny that you say this, because it's for exactly that reason that I find Mac OS X such a brilliant operating system to use. Everyone b*tches and moans about it being a dumbed down O/S, but in reality I have just as much power of it by way of the terminal as I do with any other Unix.
SGU was meant to be BSG 2, and thereby pissed off lots of SG fans and lots of BSG fans. I liked it -- lots of people didn't though.
I'd expect them to have better tastes then Twilight.
I've stopped using Borders entirely in the last 2 years. Of the half that isn't purely vampires, about half is witches/demon-girls/supernatural-something-or-others who are hitwomen/assassins/PIs with evil ex's. It isn't even fantasy.
Real engineers design and implement and a protocol that handles OSI layers 1-4. ;)
It means that even modern computers with RS-232 ports no longer grant permissions to user level processes to access the port at the low level needed to set individual lines high or low. Serial to USB converters usually do a pretty good job of causing the same problem. Both microcontroller implementations of the gCn bridge package the protocol at the frame level. The Arduino provides an FTDI serial USB interface, and the non-Arduino version identifies as a USB HID device. An on-calculator bridge implementation is underway for the 84+ line which have their own USB controller.
WTF are you talking about with "proprietary connector"? The 84+ has USB and serial communication. The 83+ just has serial.
For the third time, this isn't a TCP/IP stack, it's CN2.2 over TCP. The Arduino is monitoring the local CN2.2 network and broadcasting the packets over the Internet to other CN2.2 networks. TI didn't have to break anything, you can't just bit bang serial protocols on any modern PC, so you need an intermediary device to have proper drivers for.
You missed the point of this project. He's *not* connecting to the Internet with his calculator, he's using the internet to retransmit his serial-line networking protocol to other clusters of locally networked calculators. This is really Cn2.2 over TCP.
If you're in a rural area you probably don't have Comcast or Verizon anyway. Neither of them provide service for miles on any side of me.