It blows my mind that after 2 or more years "debating" hardware specs and distributions, no one has bothered to just make something WORK yet. Why do you need a full distribution? Why do you need fancy hardware?
I'm a firm believer that ALL you need is a suitable Window Manager, a hand-me-down PC, and a $30 TV Out card off price-watch.
Why do you need an ISO? There are already a lot of Linux Distro's that have most of the apps you need, just unselect the stuff you don't need.
The Slick Interface is the trick. I don't even think you need a full blown "Window Manager" because you would want to run EVERYTHING full screen anyhow. All you need is something like Acid Launcher hacked to be used full screen, and return to the launcher when your done with that app.
The ONLY bell/whistle you need at all is complete control of your apps and your launcher by using a USB GamePad (Logitech and MicroSoft sell several for about $20-$40).
If you could grab a gamepad, choose a game or play an MPEG by ICON on your TV screen using the gamepad as a pointer, and when exiting the game/movie you come back to the launcher... What else do you need?
The Launcher HAS to be full screen, and easily hackable (text file that you can enter a number of buttons in, with only command line and path to the icon for each button needed).
Once your that far, I don't think it will be that long before people start hacking apps that work well in full screen mode with gamepad control.
Anyway... There are two big problems with all of these public websites to find active 802.11b nodes.
1) No one knows were to find them (lack of advertizing and promotion). Now, being that they are free, why don't they get free banner ad space on places like OSDN, or supporting users sites? (Other "free" projects do, right?
2) The information is WAY to old. Who wants to go a couple miles away, only to find out the node is dead? Why not write a snmp query interface to the database, and then have the people running the nodes allow specific snmp access from the public database server? Then, you could have live information, not "230 day old" information...
X10 is not X10.com, sorry. X10 is a protocol that has past it's copywrite/patent. And, X10.com has taken advantage of that, and now "ownes" the X10.com domain. But, X10.com, and it's owners ARE NOT X10.
The technology of X10 is very cool. It's a low speed protocol transmitted via standard home wireing, in duplicate to prevent errors, sent during the zero phase of the standard AC power curve. Quite cool, quite simple, quite elegent.
The ability to program you home lighting, broadcast home theater, lighting, temperature, security, and countless other bits of information over standard home wiring is defined by X10. It's there, unrestricted, and one could even argure it's BETTER than GPL, it's an EXPIRED patent, meaning there are NO rules on how to use it because it's an idea that can no longer be owned because it's past it's time limit for ownership.
Personally, I would rather go to a third tier school and be solely responsible for a research project, publish or perish, sink or swim on my own. Prove who you are and what you know by writing the papers, on your own. Much better than going 4 years in a 1st tier school being 1 of 20 authors (just put in the authors because you washed dishes on the project) in 20 papers.
Sadly, people graduate from 1st tier schools with Ph.D.'s and don't even know how to think on their own, think creatively, or even know how to identify, investigate, research and write about original ideas and science. Graduating with a Ph.D. from a Ivy League school has absolutely nothing to do with being creative and intelligent.
Now, sadly, if you do this same course in a 3rd tier school, your even MORE of a moron. However, those that actually research, write, create, compose, and identify their own publications don't care what school granted their degree. The fact is, the publications speak for themselves. The ability to hold your own in your field with your peers has a lot more to do with where you will end up than what school you came from.
Then again, Einstein failed math in grade school, and we all know that was the first indication of what an idiot he really was!!!
Ok, you've dug up something! That' put's Pig Hogger at 40+ (no crime being old! hehehehe... sorry, I'm 33 now, I have to be able to call SOMEONE old, seems like EVERYONE is 16-20 now days!).
I'd still like to know 2 things. I'm not sure how to make this sound "polite" because it will probably end up sounding more like a challenge, but that is NOT my intention.
I'd love to read a bit more about this project Pig Hogger did back in early 80's (when I was happy enough being able to figure out how to overlay credits onto a home video tape with a Tandy)...
And I'd love to hear what Pig Hogger is doing now days.
Hopefully this round will be better then "Conan" & "Heavy Metal" clones like "Beastmaster", "Red Sonja", etc. from the 70's and 80's
My God, I HOPE your right! If LofR is the FIRST of a series of trend movies, and will follow the 80's trend movies, we know better are in the works!
Say what you will, but I happened to enjoy some of those films. I thought "Rock and Rule" was way cooler than Heavy Metal (and Rock and Rule had Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, how can that be WORSE than Heavy Metal).
Conan inspired The Beastmaster? Well, honestly, I thought they both sort of sucked. But, Conan the Barbarian was out in 1982, and Conan the Destroyer was out in 1984. The Beastmaster was released in 1982. How can you believe that they put out Conan the Barbarian, and immediately went "good idea" and put out "The Beastmaster" the same year, with better production, a deeper story, better polished, as a "copy cat" THAT CAME OUT A COUPLE MONTHS LATER? Sad 80's referances there...
Sad part is, LotR isn't the trend setter. Harry Potter is the "Conan" of the 2000's. And LotR's is the "BeastMaster" of the 2000's. I'm sorry, I want to hope for better too, but I just don't think it will happen.
Well, in perspective, Orwellian 1984 would be the Government LYING to people about the true stat of things. Now, free speach is protected, you can say what you want, if it is OPINION. However, politically opinion is the core of politics, right? Well, what if it is lies? Liable, slander? Heard of that?
If you tell hundreds of people that if they shoot themselfs in the head with your special magic personally safe high tech gun, they will live, and soo will all of their friends if they get shot. But if you shoot a criminal, crook, robber, bad guy, evil guy, he will be hurt or dye. You make this claim, and then thousands of people shoot thier best friends to prove how cool and idiot proof thier new gun is... All these people die, and you say "1st Ammendment, I can say whatever I want."
Grow up, I've gave you the most Orwellian example there could ever be.... That's basically ALMOST the plot of 1984. How in the hell is that part of the 1st ammendment, your own right, etc.
Now, your saying, don't blame society for your inabilty to fight for your own right... Well, it's all of society that has to be what it's rights are to be able to keep them valid. If all of society slips into submission (and that is Orwellian), then you damn well can blame them.
What was your point? I think you might have had a good one, but it just wasn't clear to me. Explain please?
I'm sorry, but can you explain just a little more?
I'm sorry, but can you explain just a little more?
25 years ago (1978) you made a computer that used a LCD display (invented 1971, on a MC6809 (that the first reference I can find to is a Motorola Inc., MC6809 Preliminary Programming Manual, Austin, 1979), and then you went and said " hose motherboard was embedded in a 3-ring binder, with sheets."
Now, I'm assuming you had to be at a bear minimum 16 years old when you did this back in 1978, making you 44 now at a minimum. And as a 44+ year old that use to do cool shit like this (if it's true) you still have the time/interest to post to/.?
I don't completely mean to question your honesty, but, more so, if what your saying is true, I would be VERY impressed, and would love to meet you someday.
For those that lost the relevance to bar-coding.... My point was, how in the world can you expect something like bar-coding as a house key be important, significant, even remotely accepted as something that will ever happen in the future? The general population still is 1 step ahead of the 1800's "skeleton key" and not to tech savy. Even/. Readers are not so savy to make this happen in a moderate scale. How is this guys project even remotely significant?
Not. Half of/. doesn't understand how TiVo is diffrent than a VCR. And/. is suppose to be a geek crowd. Worse than that, X10 has been around since the 70's, and maybe a quarter of/. knows what X10 is.... Most of the people here probably think it's a windowing system for Linux (and to make it clear, you SHOULD know, it's NOT a windowing system for Linux, that would be X11, and that is a windowing system for UNIX, not Linux, and X10 has absolutely NOTHING to do with that...)
PS: History and naming may show more meanings for X10 and X11, however, it's the common usage that I am refering to.
I dont trust them to not send a kill down the line and render a Tivo useless.
How could they if you don't plug it into a phone and you don't want the subscription? Assuming your parinoid enough to buy the stand alone tivo not the directv one (the directv one is useless for anything else anyway, because it doesn't have an encoder, since directv is broadcast in digital. But I would much rather have the DirecTiVo anyday over a stand alone even if it doesn't have an encoder.
Or, if you are worried and do subscribe anyway, just use Tiger's TiVo tools and make a backup image and save it on your PC or on a CD or something.
If your not subscribed, the worst part is that you will have a lot of emails/messages that say "need programming data, dial in soon" that you have to delete. Probably the result of a cron job...
Then don't pay. You TiVo will still work to record live stuff, pause live stuff, etc... without the subscription.
You'll just end up with a list of dates, and that's it... And have to start playine each to know what it is. But hey, you didn't want to pay for the subscription to the guide, right? You don't want the extra features, right?
Once you've used one, you'll understand why it's worth it. Give a TiVo user the choice between a 34" HDTV, 200 channels and never the option to use a TiVo; OR... TiVo, just half the channels, and a smaller 27" normal TV. I'll bet over 70% (or more) would take the TiVo option.
Follow for a minute if you will, a computer is cool. Pull the hard drive out, and it's still fast... You can spend tons of money on it, and have a kick ass system. Save yourself $100 by not putting in a hard drive, and what do you have, money for a faster system or bigger monitor?
Now, you can boot from CD or floppy, you can save files on floppy, you can even burn CD's and open files. You can run a web browser or all your programs, all you have to do is switch disks every time you want to use something else. You can surf the net for hours never needing to use the hard drive.... But, do you REALLY want to live without a hard drive?
A home entertainment center without a TiVo is like a computer without a hard drive. If you haven't used one ever, only floppies and CDs (or video tapes), then you really just don't know what your missing....
The only people I hear complaining are people who think the TiVo is a glorified VCR.
I've tried to tell people too... That's TiVo's biggest downfall, everyone that has used one loves it, everyone that hasn't used one doesn't understand what it really is and does. The best analogy I can come up with is;
A TiVo is as much a VCR as a spreadsheet is a calculator. Sure they both do calculations, but they are WORLDS apart in how they work.
No analogy is perfect, and the best I can play this one out is... The TiVo will do sooo much more than a VCR, but won't do long term storage (Spreadsheets do way more than a calculator, but require a computer to use them). It sort of falls apart there, but at least people understand "recording" is to "calculating" and just getting the answer doesn't always mean my $5 generic one is as good as your fancy high tech thingie...
Linux is far mor dead than BSD, just look at NetBSD, and how many more ports it has than Linux. THen look at the Secure port, OpenBSD, then the General port, FreeBSD... DEAD? Red Hat is more dead that any BSD. F.off. I'm not much for a person to tell someon to F.off, but this deserves a full on F.OFF!.
Your kidding right? BSD has done more for me (and every IRIX user) as well as ever OsX user, Motorla user, etc.. than anyone else. I love OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD..
Look at the OpenBSD user base vs. the security contributions they put into Apache vs. the Linux user base vs. what help they gave Apache. Open BSD has done MORE per user that almost ANY OS on ANY project when it comes to security, espically Apache. The web wouldn't have a clue what security was if it were not for the likes of the OpenBSD guys. Don't even try to give me that shit....
BSD guys may not be the popular UNIX, or the gimme commy open source gods of the "Linus Linux" community. But take a history lesson.... GNU has made leaps and bounds into opening software to the general public. But what Open Source (GPL) has don, BSD has managed to keep the people with the money in the ball game. Where would GPL or GNU be without the BSD's of the world? How can you SERIOUSLY find fault with people who want to help and retain SOME profit? Are you such the communist you thing BSD is evil too now?
BSD !=UNIX. As an oldschool Next and SGI guy (yes those are my roots, long before I had a PC of my own, I had a NEXT account to a shell on a CRAY).
The truth is, those who belive in "the Desktop" belive in Microsoft, or OSX, and those with HOPE for the Desktop being for the PEOPLE belive in Linux.
But, those of us who live and breath "server has power, give the server more pwoer" and at the same time belive "I want to be a CLIENT to that POWER" believe in BSD. BSD can be ported to anything (NetBSD) and given the client to the server consept, will survive.
I support the server, I have 1 server in my house and 4 x-terminals. The SERVER having all the power, and the low cost clients is the future. The future is UNIX.... Linux is sidtracked trying to make the Desktop the future. But in the Future, people what THIER INFO SECURE, HONEST, and EVERYWHERE, ON DEMAND, now, clear and clean... Who is leading the way to that? OpenBSD (secure server) and NetBSD (access to it from ANY DEVICE).
Have faith, the Force is with the BSD's.....
Linus has opened the door. But, the security and reality has always been in the BSD's.
You actually have a lot to worry about with "pure" chemicals also. I wouldn't recommend doing anything without having a fire extinguisher, goggles, a lab coat (or something that can easily be ripped off of you if you spill something on yourself) and an eyewash and fume hood.
I suppose being outdoors would substitute for the lack of a fume hood, and a garden hose would be ok for eyewash. However, your never suppose to work alone in a lab, because if something goes wrong you don't have anyone to help you. How do you find your way to an eye wash when you can't see?
A freshman lab manual from any college bookstore will give you an idea what some simple experiments are, and what you learn from them. Reading through one would be a good place to start to figure out what you would want to try. But, it's still best if your assisted somehow. And I won't recommend anything to do on your own...
There are some people who need to actually see something happen in order to believe it's true or let it sink in, and that's where lab work really helps learning. But, the number of people I've seen cut themselves, spill stuff, or start accidental fires pretty much tells me, it's best to do in a lab, with an instructor. At least the instructor knows the risk of each experiment, and knows what to do when things go wrong.
The goal of chemistry lab classes is more to teach good lab techniques and lab safety. Learning chemistry in the lab is only a secondary benefit, most of the learning actually comes from books and lectures. It's the physical skills of handling materials that's learned in lab, and without instruction there isn't much learning you can do on these skills on your own.
You asked for recommendations, so here's mine. As a chemist, I recommend not getting one at all. There is nothing that fun in a chemistry set anymore (for legal reasons, almost everything fun is dangerous, so not in any set). You'll probably find more stuff in your own kitchen cabinet now days anyway if you know what your looking for.
I would recommend a molecular model kit though if you really want something to play with, or if you want to be more geeky, you can get some molecular modeling software.
When done poorly, they are completely lost on me, yes.
I'll try to keep your limitations in mind in my next post to slashdot. After all, when posting in a free form, free thought, rapid pace, open forum, we should always consider grammar, formatting, and a long drawn out editing structure first... NOT.
The presence of guns has nothing to do with the crime rate. Nothing. Crime is crime. Lack of guns will not decrease crime. More guns will not increase crime. They are completely orthogonal.
I don't agree. When it can be shown that one even did not effect the outcome of the other it does not prove that all events do not effect the outcome of others. (That blue car was fast, blue cars must be fast!)
In some cases, it is pretty clear that crime rates take a significant dip, and stay down, in relation to some legislation.
Specifically, in this case I'd say that while the Crime Bill of 1994 can't be conclusively shown to have any impact (crime was turning down before it went into effect, and the bans were not clear). However, there are cases where "concealed carry" laws passed in cities and states, and crime has taken a significant downturn, and stayed down. (this makes sense, the bad guys don't know which of the good guys have guns, so the bad guys have less control and less power).
So I don't agree with your fundamental conclusion to rule out legislations impact on crime rates. I remember once seeing a 100 year "per capita" graph of violent gun crimes, and there did appear to be a correlation between the dates that significant legislation passed and crime rates (I really wish I knew where it was now!). But, I would only consider "per capita" when comparing historic data because of the population growth factors, and this specific graph showed a sharp UPTURN in violent gun related crimes when the US Government attempted to limit legal access to guns in some way. Given the number of points this occurred, it would have been statistically extremely unlikely that there was not a correlation. (this makes sense, the good guys turn in their guns, the bad guys keep theirs, the bad guys now have more power).
One could argue that Christians themselfs only have 10 laws from the bible (The Commandments). Remove from those the ones that are purely religous, and you really are only going to have 2 that could be laws.
Don't Kill, it's a crime.
Don't Steal, it's a crime.
But, without expanding those into 800 volumes of text, lawyers and politicians wouldn't have much else to do.
Actually, I was waiting for someone to say that. Yes, motive should be somewhat of a factor. But, how much? Has it not gone too far already?
I'll give you the "accidental" as a lighter crime than "intentional." But I think that's where I would have to part ways with you. If you intentionally kill someone, I don't think it should matter if it was racially motivated, in the act of a robbery, if it was done with a baseball bat, a knife or a gun.
I see very little gray area here. Say, the most arguable case would be self defense. Then, it would be intentional, yet I'm not even willing to stretch this very far. If someone is shooting at you, or has a knife to your throat, that's self defense. If you have been abused for years, and one day you suddenly decide to come home and shoot your husband, that's total bullshit, because you were NOT required to defend yourself, you should have just LEFT. (Now, if you leave, and he hunts you down, and THEN has a knife to your throat, we would be back to self defense).
The sentence should fit the severity of the crime and not all murders are an identical event.
I think the real danger is the opposite. Not every crime should get a completely different punishment, because we WANT to see them as different. Why should the punishment be different in a case where a guy shoots a store clerk to death in a robbery compared to some redneck hanging a someone he disagrees with in the woods? Totally different motivations, yet, they are both intentional murders. They both should get life in prison (or death).
The death penalty is never acceptable
I'm not even going to go there... You've made up your mind already, and aren't willing to accept a different point of view on this issue, no matter HOW wrong you are.
There's no reason to assume it's the outlaw of guns versus the other multitude of factors that contribute to crime.
On what legitimate basis can you argue that the reverse would be true then? Like when President Clinton claimed the Crime Bill of 1994 banning Assult Weapons was a success by stating crime rates were down (even though the downturn started BEFORE the law was inacted, and LONG before the law had any effect on actual gun sales, that is IF you even believe it had an effect).
I think if you look closely at the statistics of violent crime as it relates to cities and states that inacted conceled carry laws, you WILL find significant downturns in crime. Try to form your own opinion, based on the numbers, or any other actual facts you can find.
Can you say that accidental deaths by handguns is up because we haven't passed enough handgun control laws? Or could it be that the NRA and ROTC classes from the 1950's and earlier have been removed from most high-schools, and a much smaller percentage of people actually know how to deal with guns when the find them?
If your looking into cause and effect relationships when it comes to gun control, I think you will have a lot of information to go over.
But, if you don't want to actually look at the facts and numbers, you can just look at the logic. If people acknoledge the fact that guns do exist in society in the USA, and have for a long long time, you will see removing them from society will be difficult. More difficult than most things, because it was written into the Constitution.
However, also logically, if you educate people on gun safety, you stand a REAL chance at saving lifes. A much better chance than trying to save lifes by passing yet another law, a law that attempts to side-step the Second Ammendment of the Constitution, and goes against the political beliefs of countless people. A law that will be broken, ignored, and hated by otherwise law abiding people.
Let me make sure I understand you: you were trying to point out how stereotyping people is bad by doing it?
Uh, YES, very perceptive of you... you figured it out? Sarcasm, folly, and exaggerated examples are clearly not lost on you, now are they?
I'm sorry if for some reason you actually believe that I actually think all Southern Baptists, Soccer Moms, or even Muslims, Men, Women, or children in general were all good or all bad as a group. Or if for some reason I wrote something that you actually took as true without putting your own critical thinking process into it. Let that be a lesson to you!
Lessons learned by exaggerated examples may both make the points clear, and induce thought in others. Imagine that. People thinking, talking, debating!
Wooo... (feeding trolls now, I'm going to shoot myself in the foot, so to speak, huh?)
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It blows my mind that after 2 or more years "debating" hardware specs and distributions, no one has bothered to just make something WORK yet. Why do you need a full distribution? Why do you need fancy hardware?
I'm a firm believer that ALL you need is a suitable Window Manager, a hand-me-down PC, and a $30 TV Out card off price-watch.
Why do you need an ISO? There are already a lot of Linux Distro's that have most of the apps you need, just unselect the stuff you don't need.
The Slick Interface is the trick. I don't even think you need a full blown "Window Manager" because you would want to run EVERYTHING full screen anyhow. All you need is something like Acid Launcher hacked to be used full screen, and return to the launcher when your done with that app.
The ONLY bell/whistle you need at all is complete control of your apps and your launcher by using a USB GamePad (Logitech and MicroSoft sell several for about $20-$40).
If you could grab a gamepad, choose a game or play an MPEG by ICON on your TV screen using the gamepad as a pointer, and when exiting the game/movie you come back to the launcher... What else do you need?
The Launcher HAS to be full screen, and easily hackable (text file that you can enter a number of buttons in, with only command line and path to the icon for each button needed).
Once your that far, I don't think it will be that long before people start hacking apps that work well in full screen mode with gamepad control.
Anyway... There are two big problems with all of these public websites to find active 802.11b nodes.
1) No one knows were to find them (lack of advertizing and promotion). Now, being that they are free, why don't they get free banner ad space on places like OSDN, or supporting users sites? (Other "free" projects do, right?
2) The information is WAY to old. Who wants to go a couple miles away, only to find out the node is dead? Why not write a snmp query interface to the database, and then have the people running the nodes allow specific snmp access from the public database server? Then, you could have live information, not "230 day old" information...
The technology of X10 is very cool. It's a low speed protocol transmitted via standard home wireing, in duplicate to prevent errors, sent during the zero phase of the standard AC power curve. Quite cool, quite simple, quite elegent.
The ability to program you home lighting, broadcast home theater, lighting, temperature, security, and countless other bits of information over standard home wiring is defined by X10. It's there, unrestricted, and one could even argure it's BETTER than GPL, it's an EXPIRED patent, meaning there are NO rules on how to use it because it's an idea that can no longer be owned because it's past it's time limit for ownership.
What was your complaint again?
How about indivual thinking?
Personally, I would rather go to a third tier school and be solely responsible for a research project, publish or perish, sink or swim on my own. Prove who you are and what you know by writing the papers, on your own. Much better than going 4 years in a 1st tier school being 1 of 20 authors (just put in the authors because you washed dishes on the project) in 20 papers.
Sadly, people graduate from 1st tier schools with Ph.D.'s and don't even know how to think on their own, think creatively, or even know how to identify, investigate, research and write about original ideas and science. Graduating with a Ph.D. from a Ivy League school has absolutely nothing to do with being creative and intelligent.
Now, sadly, if you do this same course in a 3rd tier school, your even MORE of a moron. However, those that actually research, write, create, compose, and identify their own publications don't care what school granted their degree. The fact is, the publications speak for themselves. The ability to hold your own in your field with your peers has a lot more to do with where you will end up than what school you came from.
Then again, Einstein failed math in grade school, and we all know that was the first indication of what an idiot he really was!!!
I'd still like to know 2 things. I'm not sure how to make this sound "polite" because it will probably end up sounding more like a challenge, but that is NOT my intention.
I'd love to read a bit more about this project Pig Hogger did back in early 80's (when I was happy enough being able to figure out how to overlay credits onto a home video tape with a Tandy)...
And I'd love to hear what Pig Hogger is doing now days.
Self fulfilling prophecy?
My God, I HOPE your right! If LofR is the FIRST of a series of trend movies, and will follow the 80's trend movies, we know better are in the works!
Say what you will, but I happened to enjoy some of those films. I thought "Rock and Rule" was way cooler than Heavy Metal (and Rock and Rule had Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, how can that be WORSE than Heavy Metal).
Conan inspired The Beastmaster? Well, honestly, I thought they both sort of sucked. But, Conan the Barbarian was out in 1982, and Conan the Destroyer was out in 1984. The Beastmaster was released in 1982. How can you believe that they put out Conan the Barbarian, and immediately went "good idea" and put out "The Beastmaster" the same year, with better production, a deeper story, better polished, as a "copy cat" THAT CAME OUT A COUPLE MONTHS LATER? Sad 80's referances there...
Sad part is, LotR isn't the trend setter. Harry Potter is the "Conan" of the 2000's. And LotR's is the "BeastMaster" of the 2000's. I'm sorry, I want to hope for better too, but I just don't think it will happen.
Well, in perspective, Orwellian 1984 would be the Government LYING to people about the true stat of things. Now, free speach is protected, you can say what you want, if it is OPINION. However, politically opinion is the core of politics, right? Well, what if it is lies? Liable, slander? Heard of that?
If you tell hundreds of people that if they shoot themselfs in the head with your special magic personally safe high tech gun, they will live, and soo will all of their friends if they get shot. But if you shoot a criminal, crook, robber, bad guy, evil guy, he will be hurt or dye. You make this claim, and then thousands of people shoot thier best friends to prove how cool and idiot proof thier new gun is... All these people die, and you say "1st Ammendment, I can say whatever I want."
Grow up, I've gave you the most Orwellian example there could ever be.... That's basically ALMOST the plot of 1984. How in the hell is that part of the 1st ammendment, your own right, etc.
Now, your saying, don't blame society for your inabilty to fight for your own right... Well, it's all of society that has to be what it's rights are to be able to keep them valid. If all of society slips into submission (and that is Orwellian), then you damn well can blame them.
What was your point? I think you might have had a good one, but it just wasn't clear to me. Explain please?
I'm sorry, but can you explain just a little more?
25 years ago (1978) you made a computer that used a LCD display (invented 1971, on a MC6809 (that the first reference I can find to is a Motorola Inc., MC6809 Preliminary Programming Manual, Austin, 1979), and then you went and said " hose motherboard was embedded in a 3-ring binder, with sheets."
Now, I'm assuming you had to be at a bear minimum 16 years old when you did this back in 1978, making you 44 now at a minimum. And as a 44+ year old that use to do cool shit like this (if it's true) you still have the time/interest to post to /.?
I don't completely mean to question your honesty, but, more so, if what your saying is true, I would be VERY impressed, and would love to meet you someday.
For those that lost the relevance to bar-coding.... My point was, how in the world can you expect something like bar-coding as a house key be important, significant, even remotely accepted as something that will ever happen in the future? The general population still is 1 step ahead of the 1800's "skeleton key" and not to tech savy. Even /. Readers are not so savy to make this happen in a moderate scale. How is this guys project even remotely significant?
PS: History and naming may show more meanings for X10 and X11, however, it's the common usage that I am refering to.
How could they if you don't plug it into a phone and you don't want the subscription? Assuming your parinoid enough to buy the stand alone tivo not the directv one (the directv one is useless for anything else anyway, because it doesn't have an encoder, since directv is broadcast in digital. But I would much rather have the DirecTiVo anyday over a stand alone even if it doesn't have an encoder.
Or, if you are worried and do subscribe anyway, just use Tiger's TiVo tools and make a backup image and save it on your PC or on a CD or something.
If your not subscribed, the worst part is that you will have a lot of emails/messages that say "need programming data, dial in soon" that you have to delete. Probably the result of a cron job...
Then don't pay. You TiVo will still work to record live stuff, pause live stuff, etc... without the subscription.
You'll just end up with a list of dates, and that's it... And have to start playine each to know what it is. But hey, you didn't want to pay for the subscription to the guide, right? You don't want the extra features, right?
Once you've used one, you'll understand why it's worth it. Give a TiVo user the choice between a 34" HDTV, 200 channels and never the option to use a TiVo; OR... TiVo, just half the channels, and a smaller 27" normal TV. I'll bet over 70% (or more) would take the TiVo option.
Follow for a minute if you will, a computer is cool. Pull the hard drive out, and it's still fast... You can spend tons of money on it, and have a kick ass system. Save yourself $100 by not putting in a hard drive, and what do you have, money for a faster system or bigger monitor?
Now, you can boot from CD or floppy, you can save files on floppy, you can even burn CD's and open files. You can run a web browser or all your programs, all you have to do is switch disks every time you want to use something else. You can surf the net for hours never needing to use the hard drive.... But, do you REALLY want to live without a hard drive?
A home entertainment center without a TiVo is like a computer without a hard drive. If you haven't used one ever, only floppies and CDs (or video tapes), then you really just don't know what your missing....
A TiVo is as much a VCR as a spreadsheet is a calculator. Sure they both do calculations, but they are WORLDS apart in how they work.
No analogy is perfect, and the best I can play this one out is... The TiVo will do sooo much more than a VCR, but won't do long term storage (Spreadsheets do way more than a calculator, but require a computer to use them). It sort of falls apart there, but at least people understand "recording" is to "calculating" and just getting the answer doesn't always mean my $5 generic one is as good as your fancy high tech thingie...
Linux is far mor dead than BSD, just look at NetBSD, and how many more ports it has than Linux. THen look at the Secure port, OpenBSD, then the General port, FreeBSD... DEAD? Red Hat is more dead that any BSD. F.off. I'm not much for a person to tell someon to F.off, but this deserves a full on F.OFF!.
Your kidding right? BSD has done more for me (and every IRIX user) as well as ever OsX user, Motorla user, etc.. than anyone else. I love OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD..
Look at the OpenBSD user base vs. the security contributions they put into Apache vs. the Linux user base vs. what help they gave Apache. Open BSD has done MORE per user that almost ANY OS on ANY project when it comes to security, espically Apache. The web wouldn't have a clue what security was if it were not for the likes of the OpenBSD guys. Don't even try to give me that shit....
BSD guys may not be the popular UNIX, or the gimme commy open source gods of the "Linus Linux" community. But take a history lesson.... GNU has made leaps and bounds into opening software to the general public. But what Open Source (GPL) has don, BSD has managed to keep the people with the money in the ball game. Where would GPL or GNU be without the BSD's of the world? How can you SERIOUSLY find fault with people who want to help and retain SOME profit? Are you such the communist you thing BSD is evil too now?
Those who love Unix use BSD.
Sorry, no.
BSD !=UNIX. As an oldschool Next and SGI guy (yes those are my roots, long before I had a PC of my own, I had a NEXT account to a shell on a CRAY).
The truth is, those who belive in "the Desktop" belive in Microsoft, or OSX, and those with HOPE for the Desktop being for the PEOPLE belive in Linux.
But, those of us who live and breath "server has power, give the server more pwoer" and at the same time belive "I want to be a CLIENT to that POWER" believe in BSD. BSD can be ported to anything (NetBSD) and given the client to the server consept, will survive.
I support the server, I have 1 server in my house and 4 x-terminals. The SERVER having all the power, and the low cost clients is the future. The future is UNIX.... Linux is sidtracked trying to make the Desktop the future. But in the Future, people what THIER INFO SECURE, HONEST, and EVERYWHERE, ON DEMAND, now, clear and clean... Who is leading the way to that? OpenBSD (secure server) and NetBSD (access to it from ANY DEVICE).
Have faith, the Force is with the BSD's.....
Linus has opened the door. But, the security and reality has always been in the BSD's.
I suppose being outdoors would substitute for the lack of a fume hood, and a garden hose would be ok for eyewash. However, your never suppose to work alone in a lab, because if something goes wrong you don't have anyone to help you. How do you find your way to an eye wash when you can't see?
A freshman lab manual from any college bookstore will give you an idea what some simple experiments are, and what you learn from them. Reading through one would be a good place to start to figure out what you would want to try. But, it's still best if your assisted somehow. And I won't recommend anything to do on your own...
There are some people who need to actually see something happen in order to believe it's true or let it sink in, and that's where lab work really helps learning. But, the number of people I've seen cut themselves, spill stuff, or start accidental fires pretty much tells me, it's best to do in a lab, with an instructor. At least the instructor knows the risk of each experiment, and knows what to do when things go wrong.
The goal of chemistry lab classes is more to teach good lab techniques and lab safety. Learning chemistry in the lab is only a secondary benefit, most of the learning actually comes from books and lectures. It's the physical skills of handling materials that's learned in lab, and without instruction there isn't much learning you can do on these skills on your own.
I would recommend a molecular model kit though if you really want something to play with, or if you want to be more geeky, you can get some molecular modeling software.
I'll try to keep your limitations in mind in my next post to slashdot. After all, when posting in a free form, free thought, rapid pace, open forum, we should always consider grammar, formatting, and a long drawn out editing structure first... NOT.
I don't agree. When it can be shown that one even did not effect the outcome of the other it does not prove that all events do not effect the outcome of others. (That blue car was fast, blue cars must be fast!)
In some cases, it is pretty clear that crime rates take a significant dip, and stay down, in relation to some legislation.
Specifically, in this case I'd say that while the Crime Bill of 1994 can't be conclusively shown to have any impact (crime was turning down before it went into effect, and the bans were not clear). However, there are cases where "concealed carry" laws passed in cities and states, and crime has taken a significant downturn, and stayed down. (this makes sense, the bad guys don't know which of the good guys have guns, so the bad guys have less control and less power).
So I don't agree with your fundamental conclusion to rule out legislations impact on crime rates. I remember once seeing a 100 year "per capita" graph of violent gun crimes, and there did appear to be a correlation between the dates that significant legislation passed and crime rates (I really wish I knew where it was now!). But, I would only consider "per capita" when comparing historic data because of the population growth factors, and this specific graph showed a sharp UPTURN in violent gun related crimes when the US Government attempted to limit legal access to guns in some way. Given the number of points this occurred, it would have been statistically extremely unlikely that there was not a correlation. (this makes sense, the good guys turn in their guns, the bad guys keep theirs, the bad guys now have more power).
Don't Kill, it's a crime.
Don't Steal, it's a crime.
But, without expanding those into 800 volumes of text, lawyers and politicians wouldn't have much else to do.
Actually, I was waiting for someone to say that. Yes, motive should be somewhat of a factor. But, how much? Has it not gone too far already?
I'll give you the "accidental" as a lighter crime than "intentional." But I think that's where I would have to part ways with you. If you intentionally kill someone, I don't think it should matter if it was racially motivated, in the act of a robbery, if it was done with a baseball bat, a knife or a gun.
I see very little gray area here. Say, the most arguable case would be self defense. Then, it would be intentional, yet I'm not even willing to stretch this very far. If someone is shooting at you, or has a knife to your throat, that's self defense. If you have been abused for years, and one day you suddenly decide to come home and shoot your husband, that's total bullshit, because you were NOT required to defend yourself, you should have just LEFT. (Now, if you leave, and he hunts you down, and THEN has a knife to your throat, we would be back to self defense).
The sentence should fit the severity of the crime and not all murders are an identical event.
I think the real danger is the opposite. Not every crime should get a completely different punishment, because we WANT to see them as different. Why should the punishment be different in a case where a guy shoots a store clerk to death in a robbery compared to some redneck hanging a someone he disagrees with in the woods? Totally different motivations, yet, they are both intentional murders. They both should get life in prison (or death).
The death penalty is never acceptable
I'm not even going to go there... You've made up your mind already, and aren't willing to accept a different point of view on this issue, no matter HOW wrong you are.
On what legitimate basis can you argue that the reverse would be true then? Like when President Clinton claimed the Crime Bill of 1994 banning Assult Weapons was a success by stating crime rates were down (even though the downturn started BEFORE the law was inacted, and LONG before the law had any effect on actual gun sales, that is IF you even believe it had an effect).
I think if you look closely at the statistics of violent crime as it relates to cities and states that inacted conceled carry laws, you WILL find significant downturns in crime. Try to form your own opinion, based on the numbers, or any other actual facts you can find.
Can you say that accidental deaths by handguns is up because we haven't passed enough handgun control laws? Or could it be that the NRA and ROTC classes from the 1950's and earlier have been removed from most high-schools, and a much smaller percentage of people actually know how to deal with guns when the find them?
If your looking into cause and effect relationships when it comes to gun control, I think you will have a lot of information to go over.
But, if you don't want to actually look at the facts and numbers, you can just look at the logic. If people acknoledge the fact that guns do exist in society in the USA, and have for a long long time, you will see removing them from society will be difficult. More difficult than most things, because it was written into the Constitution.
However, also logically, if you educate people on gun safety, you stand a REAL chance at saving lifes. A much better chance than trying to save lifes by passing yet another law, a law that attempts to side-step the Second Ammendment of the Constitution, and goes against the political beliefs of countless people. A law that will be broken, ignored, and hated by otherwise law abiding people.
Uh, YES, very perceptive of you... you figured it out? Sarcasm, folly, and exaggerated examples are clearly not lost on you, now are they?
I'm sorry if for some reason you actually believe that I actually think all Southern Baptists, Soccer Moms, or even Muslims, Men, Women, or children in general were all good or all bad as a group. Or if for some reason I wrote something that you actually took as true without putting your own critical thinking process into it. Let that be a lesson to you!
Lessons learned by exaggerated examples may both make the points clear, and induce thought in others. Imagine that. People thinking, talking, debating!
Wooo... (feeding trolls now, I'm going to shoot myself in the foot, so to speak, huh?)