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Lego Mindstorms Robot Invention Kit 2.0!!
Since September, here I finally made the only adult decision of my life and left windows behind, I've been thinking about getting a set of mindstorms components.
I've done some research and it looks like Not Quite C, ( http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc/ ) is going to be my best bet for building programs to power the unit from linux.
My next big project I think, will be to build a stoopid gui for building bricks akin to the windows methods, only using NQC instead of the binary format that the windows application uses. Should be a nice learning experience.
My girlfriend and I finally spent a christmas together after being together on and off for the last 8 years... That was pretty exciting, although I missed my family a good deal, and look forward to next year.
Doesn't it seem however that in order to make this work, that there should be some sort of predefined way of going about this?
I remember seeing a while back that there were a few sites that just collected needs from the buying public and made those needs available to developers with skills and time to complete projects to meet those needs. But I have no idea if any of those sites are still around, or if they actually work at all.
Still it does seem to beg a huge question of the opensource development community.
This is actually one of the things that's crossed my mind continually in the past few weeks as my one-man anti-microsoft campaign has ensued. How does one make money without the 'populace-approved' microsoft tools? Apps like jabber rock, but when there's Netmeeting and IM for windows, how many people can be expected to know how to customize the smaller tool? Also, where (besides the developer mailing list) would someone in the mood to purchase customizations go to find the people with the right skills / inclinations / reliability to get the job done right?
-mh
"Adding to the confusion of the difference between what I know and what you don't know by the opposite of what you don't know."
Being a long time gamer and a fervent computer user, I came to a decision about a month and a half ago.
I'm no longer going to use microsoft products in my home. My girlfriends computer is going to get a fresh install of Redhat in about two weeks and that should be the last of it.
The only shortfall to the whole thing has been the lack of mmog's to play under linux. I figure this will take a little time, but it'll get there eventually (most likely in the form of a game / games that play on all platforms..)
I went and bought a ps2 this summer, and some of the games coming out right now, Ico (SCEA) and Devil May Cry are absolutely stunning single player games. It will be interesting to see what happens when the net adapter and hard disk come out for the ps2, but in the meantime, based on principle I've made a few smaller decisions.
I won't be installing explorer 6.x+ ever (even at work), and I won't be buying an Xbox. Some of the stuff that Microsoft is doing with their licensing practices, as well as the shoddy quality of all their products since they were born just don't warrant rewards.
Then again, I'll most likely be one of those parents that spanks their kids as a disciplinary action as well, so maybe that just makes me a great big asshole.
Nobody should be siding with microsoft in any of their endeavors, I wonder why nobody is standing up and saying anything like this, now that MS is reaching into the gaming arena.
Still, it's rather humorous that some of the demo systems don't work, and people will still run out and buy them like lemmings.
I was an art major in college and one of the ways that group projects would be graded was based on participation in critiques. In this way is was more a reflection on direct participation in events that would move the project forward / as opposed to who actually did the work. We then did write-ups on team members and that's where the 'honesty' issue came into play.
It gets very tough to not be critical of your team members if you've put a ton of time into a project. Dishonest people usually show up as being dishonest, so you don't have to worry about them. Write-ups were always a smaller percentage of the grade than participation in critique.
Anyhow, wouldn't CVS also give teachers a great way to measure team participation in work related issues? Sure this wouldn't give a meaningful representation of design time, but in actual coding it would work pretty well.
I was reading one of the links in the article above and got this... read to the bottom. Must be running on w2k.
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Q and A
After his speech Ramos opened the floor to questions from the sparse audience. The first asked if Reader 2.0 would be released for the Macintosh platform.
"We have no tangible plans for a Mac version," Ramos said. He listed cell phones, PDAs, PCs, digital cameras and other devices as considered targets.
Perhaps most ominously for Microsoft and its plans for securing media rights, one questioner stated that Reader 2.0 had already been hacked, opening up Reader-format e-books for copying to more than the allowed four locations. Ramos denied that Reader had been cracked.
Ironically, by that point most of the audience had left, possibly to attend a panel discussion about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Apple can add new technologies to their hardware and operating systems because quite simply, they have total control over the system.
If they put 2.0 in the box, they'll sure as hell be making a bunch of peripherals to run on it, otherwise it wouldn't matter to them.
USB got added to the imac, because it was cheaper to make devices than using ADB.
mh
KMail and KNode are pretty decent. There's a few display glitches when delivering mail and sorting into subfolders, but there's a few great features in the mail program. Folders that contain messages from mail lists can have the mail list address associated so sending to the mail list is just like posting to a newsgroup.
KNode (news) on the other hand doesn't handle alot of binary stuff yet, and the text display seems kind of buggy.
Gnome has PAN which is a great newsreader and it does handle attachments very well.
Of course I'm interested in comparisons of windows and linux. I just recently destroyed my W98 setup partitioning with fdisk and not paying attention. I've wished more than once in the last 3 weeks that I had a seperate box for linux to run on, but oh well.
I find that alot of the articles out there on this issue are comparing windows and linux, when what they should probably be comparing is the individual window manager and windows. Just from the little experience I have garnered of late, I realize that Linux as an OS has a ton more power than I'll ever use, and on windows that was always a limiting factor, so where's the argument?
I'm slowly turning the tide and learning new stuff about linux, asking questions in irc, banging my head against KDE day in-day out. I'm pretty confidant that it won't be too long before I'm as comfortable using linux as I used to be using windows (which I still have to use at work) but there are still a few things that don't fit, and I wish that this guy had addressed some of those issues. Sure he talks about installation hiccups, but you aren't even going to be interested in reading about Linux unless you got past those. He also played into the familiar trap that you see so often... in that: he finds that he has some problem or other, and goes to the net to find a solution, he obviously found a solution, but he doesn't say where. It's amazing that we're this far into the whole concept of hypertext linking and people still don't hyperlink inside the articles they write for the internet. There's always a huge pool of links at the ends of articles.
It's tough going learning to use linux, with all the configuration files and compiling of source code for applications and I've also had alot of trouble installing the update to kde. I can't get my Wacom to work with my mouse in tandem, and the Kodak DC290 USB isn't going anywhere with gPhoto... Maybe I'll come out the other end of this learning experience and go back to Macintosh...;)
Like the marketing department, I think it's always easy to try and tear someone else's work down to elevate yourself, and I hate to think that this is what I'm doing so, in conclusion to this comment: I think the guy did an admirable job in promoting Linux specifically Redhat but hey, the article was well worded and the organization was easy to understand. I think we could all do well to be able to write an article like that.
mh
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Can we by any chance get an isbn number for the historical text this is printed in please?
I would be very interested to read more around this topic if it actually was published as Washington's own words.
Otherwise, I'll leave it in the category of Nostradamus freaks that have been posting.
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I had read some reports that the Isreali government was consider reports that the attacks at the wtc and pentagon were backed by Saddam. Why is no one talking about this?
It seemed like the two or three places I read about this were credible (cnn, cnet, others) and it does seem to make that creepy logical sense that you find in situations like these.
In life most times what you think is going on, 99% of the time ends up being what was actually going on. Sure I could see this being the work of Laden, but aren't alot of those groups just mercenary establishments for hire? In that case, the people flying the planes could have been (at one point) connected to bin Laden, and then just moved to a different area or seperated themselves and been hired by another government.
I keep drilling my brain trying to find out who benefits from these activities, and surely this is not about one man's ego (or mistaken belief in a righteous god that demands this action)
Or maybe I'm naive and a god like that really does exist.
Makes me think of that scene in The Last Temptation, axe in the sand after an evening with the devil.
I don't really so how VA could ever make any money without moving to this sort of 'custom-tailored' 'on-your-own-turf' system.
The funny part about it is that even though the installed systems will have a more 'limited' user base, the companies that use the system will actually be benefitting from opensource software.
"A spoonful of sugar, makes the medicine go down, in the most delightful way..."
Actually the name of the app on the mac is Network Administrator. You can do screen sharing, it comes bundled with Appleshare IP v6. Works on 0S 9. Pretty speedy lil thing. Connect to Machine #1 and run the program from machine #1's hard drive. All memory and processor req's are from machine#1
Microsofts version of spirituality.
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"Double-click on the lifestone to attune your spirit to the lifestone." Microsoft's version of sprituality:
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Sweating Monkey Boy "I Rule" when you need him to demonstrate a point?
Lego Mindstorms Robot Invention Kit 2.0!!
Since September, here I finally made the only adult decision of my life and left windows behind, I've been thinking about getting a set of mindstorms components.
I've done some research and it looks like Not Quite C, ( http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc/ ) is going to be my best bet for building programs to power the unit from linux.
My next big project I think, will be to build a stoopid gui for building bricks akin to the windows methods, only using NQC instead of the binary format that the windows application uses. Should be a nice learning experience.
My girlfriend and I finally spent a christmas together after being together on and off for the last 8 years... That was pretty exciting, although I missed my family a good deal, and look forward to next year.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
-mh
Doesn't it seem however that in order to make this work, that there should be some sort of predefined way of going about this?
I remember seeing a while back that there were a few sites that just collected needs from the buying public and made those needs available to developers with skills and time to complete projects to meet those needs. But I have no idea if any of those sites are still around, or if they actually work at all.
Still it does seem to beg a huge question of the opensource development community.
This is actually one of the things that's crossed my mind continually in the past few weeks as my one-man anti-microsoft campaign has ensued. How does one make money without the 'populace-approved' microsoft tools? Apps like jabber rock, but when there's Netmeeting and IM for windows, how many people can be expected to know how to customize the smaller tool? Also, where (besides the developer mailing list) would someone in the mood to purchase customizations go to find the people with the right skills / inclinations / reliability to get the job done right?
-mh
"Adding to the confusion of the difference between what I know and what you don't know by the opposite of what you don't know."
Don't we already have enough mp3 players out there?
I can't seem to understand why they would make something new that nobody has seen before.....
Is this 2001?
Did apple really just do that?
Being a long time gamer and a fervent computer user, I came to a decision about a month and a half ago.
I'm no longer going to use microsoft products in my home. My girlfriends computer is going to get a fresh install of Redhat in about two weeks and that should be the last of it.
The only shortfall to the whole thing has been the lack of mmog's to play under linux. I figure this will take a little time, but it'll get there eventually (most likely in the form of a game / games that play on all platforms..)
I went and bought a ps2 this summer, and some of the games coming out right now, Ico (SCEA) and Devil May Cry are absolutely stunning single player games. It will be interesting to see what happens when the net adapter and hard disk come out for the ps2, but in the meantime, based on principle I've made a few smaller decisions.
I won't be installing explorer 6.x+ ever (even at work), and I won't be buying an Xbox. Some of the stuff that Microsoft is doing with their licensing practices, as well as the shoddy quality of all their products since they were born just don't warrant rewards.
Then again, I'll most likely be one of those parents that spanks their kids as a disciplinary action as well, so maybe that just makes me a great big asshole.
Nobody should be siding with microsoft in any of their endeavors, I wonder why nobody is standing up and saying anything like this, now that MS is reaching into the gaming arena.
Still, it's rather humorous that some of the demo systems don't work, and people will still run out and buy them like lemmings.
-mh
I was an art major in college and one of the ways that group projects would be graded was based on participation in critiques. In this way is was more a reflection on direct participation in events that would move the project forward / as opposed to who actually did the work. We then did write-ups on team members and that's where the 'honesty' issue came into play.
It gets very tough to not be critical of your team members if you've put a ton of time into a project. Dishonest people usually show up as being dishonest, so you don't have to worry about them. Write-ups were always a smaller percentage of the grade than participation in critique.
Anyhow, wouldn't CVS also give teachers a great way to measure team participation in work related issues? Sure this wouldn't give a meaningful representation of design time, but in actual coding it would work pretty well.
anyhow, just an outsiders perspective.
-mh
Ha,
... read to the bottom. Must be running on w2k.
I was reading one of the links in the article above and got this
"
Q and A
After his speech Ramos opened the floor to questions from the sparse audience. The first asked if Reader 2.0 would be released for the Macintosh platform.
"We have no tangible plans for a Mac version," Ramos said. He listed cell phones, PDAs, PCs, digital cameras and other devices as considered targets.
Perhaps most ominously for Microsoft and its plans for securing media rights, one questioner stated that Reader 2.0 had already been hacked, opening up Reader-format e-books for copying to more than the allowed four locations. Ramos denied that Reader had been cracked.
Ironically, by that point most of the audience had left, possibly to attend a panel discussion about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Apple can add new technologies to their hardware and operating systems because quite simply, they have total control over the system. If they put 2.0 in the box, they'll sure as hell be making a bunch of peripherals to run on it, otherwise it wouldn't matter to them. USB got added to the imac, because it was cheaper to make devices than using ADB. mh
KMail and KNode are pretty decent. There's a few display glitches when delivering mail and sorting into subfolders, but there's a few great features in the mail program. Folders that contain messages from mail lists can have the mail list address associated so sending to the mail list is just like posting to a newsgroup.
KNode (news) on the other hand doesn't handle alot of binary stuff yet, and the text display seems kind of buggy.
Gnome has PAN which is a great newsreader and it does handle attachments very well.
-mh
Of course I'm interested in comparisons of windows and linux. I just recently destroyed my W98 setup partitioning with fdisk and not paying attention. I've wished more than once in the last 3 weeks that I had a seperate box for linux to run on, but oh well.
;)
I find that alot of the articles out there on this issue are comparing windows and linux, when what they should probably be comparing is the individual window manager and windows. Just from the little experience I have garnered of late, I realize that Linux as an OS has a ton more power than I'll ever use, and on windows that was always a limiting factor, so where's the argument?
I'm slowly turning the tide and learning new stuff about linux, asking questions in irc, banging my head against KDE day in-day out. I'm pretty confidant that it won't be too long before I'm as comfortable using linux as I used to be using windows (which I still have to use at work) but there are still a few things that don't fit, and I wish that this guy had addressed some of those issues. Sure he talks about installation hiccups, but you aren't even going to be interested in reading about Linux unless you got past those. He also played into the familiar trap that you see so often... in that: he finds that he has some problem or other, and goes to the net to find a solution, he obviously found a solution, but he doesn't say where. It's amazing that we're this far into the whole concept of hypertext linking and people still don't hyperlink inside the articles they write for the internet. There's always a huge pool of links at the ends of articles.
It's tough going learning to use linux, with all the configuration files and compiling of source code for applications and I've also had alot of trouble installing the update to kde. I can't get my Wacom to work with my mouse in tandem, and the Kodak DC290 USB isn't going anywhere with gPhoto... Maybe I'll come out the other end of this learning experience and go back to Macintosh...
Like the marketing department, I think it's always easy to try and tear someone else's work down to elevate yourself, and I hate to think that this is what I'm doing so, in conclusion to this comment: I think the guy did an admirable job in promoting Linux specifically Redhat but hey, the article was well worded and the organization was easy to understand. I think we could all do well to be able to write an article like that.
mh
Can we by any chance get an isbn number for the historical text this is printed in please?
I would be very interested to read more around this topic if it actually was published as Washington's own words.
Otherwise, I'll leave it in the category of Nostradamus freaks that have been posting.
It seemed like the two or three places I read about this were credible (cnn, cnet, others) and it does seem to make that creepy logical sense that you find in situations like these.
In life most times what you think is going on, 99% of the time ends up being what was actually going on. Sure I could see this being the work of Laden, but aren't alot of those groups just mercenary establishments for hire? In that case, the people flying the planes could have been (at one point) connected to bin Laden, and then just moved to a different area or seperated themselves and been hired by another government.
I keep drilling my brain trying to find out who benefits from these activities, and surely this is not about one man's ego (or mistaken belief in a righteous god that demands this action) Or maybe I'm naive and a god like that really does exist.
Makes me think of that scene in The Last Temptation, axe in the sand after an evening with the devil.
*holds breath as he's moderated under*
I don't really so how VA could ever make any money without moving to this sort of 'custom-tailored' 'on-your-own-turf' system.
The funny part about it is that even though the installed systems will have a more 'limited' user base, the companies that use the system will actually be benefitting from opensource software.
"A spoonful of sugar, makes the medicine go down, in the most delightful way..."
So much for all the microsoft banter.
Actually the name of the app on the mac is Network Administrator. You can do screen sharing, it comes bundled with Appleshare IP v6. Works on 0S 9. Pretty speedy lil thing. Connect to Machine #1 and run the program from machine #1's hard drive. All memory and processor req's are from machine#1 Microsofts version of spirituality. ---------------------------------------------- "Double-click on the lifestone to attune your spirit to the lifestone."
Microsoft's version of sprituality:
The one million unit announcement will just create a false sense of rarity. Nintendo did it when they released the N64...