Your comment is probably a troll because of your last statement when suddenly makes "Southern Baptist Soccor Moms" the bad people that want gun control and you all but state that their opinion does not matter because "they are in the minority".Ah, but that is precisely the point, isn't it? You can't judge the politics of freedom on the grounds of religion, stereotypes, race, popularity, or fashion. And, that is exactly what I was trying to point out.
If you asked someone to conjure up the image of a "Southern Baptist Soccer Mom" and then asked that person to describe that person, you would get a lot of details.... Maybe you can already see the MiniVan and the "My Kid is an Honor Roll Student at Edison Elementary." But what you DON'T conjure up is the thought of someone who is slowly eating away at your freedom, and the founding principles of the USA.
Now, ask someone to think of a "Muslim Single 25 year old Man in New York born in the Middle East" and ask them to describe that person. If you honestly think "terrorist" or "anti-American" doesn't at least cross their mind, your kidding yourself. However, it's probably more likely that this person would support the principles of freedom that the USA was founded on. It's likely that man CAME to the USA because of these freedoms.
Bringing up the stereo-types is EXACTLY what I intended to do. Because it's important to realize that when it comes down to "democracy" vs. "individual liberty" you can't be so sure your right on what OTHER people are thinking, and you can't use stereo-types. I'm pointing that out, the person that appears "non-threatening" politically may actually be very threatening to freedom. Individual Liberty was the founding principle, and democracy was chosen as the best means of the time to insure it. However, democracy may also be one of the fundamental means by which Individual Liberty is taken away. Democracy does not insure freedom.
If you want to only be surrounded by people who buy into your idea of freedom then I suggest you buy an island somewhere and start your own country.
For what possible reason should I abandon my native country and accept that the principles of the founding fathers are doomed to be forgotten and changed? Am I now to believe I shouldn't even SPEAK of these principles in the USA? Hmm, are we now talking about First Amendment, not the Second Amendment?
but we all know why the M16 and AK-47 are restricted. They look scary......It's insane that the Crime Bill of 1994 ever passed.
But your forgetting the 2 out of 3 rule! Flash hider, pistol grip stock, or bayonet lug must be part of the rifle to make it an "assault" weapon. Manufactures simply removed some of the features and continued to sell these weapons. Well, at least until the lawmakers figured out how to start making "a list."
Now that this law has passed, there are hardly any drive-by bayoneting incidents to speak of. Doesn't that prove how successful the new law is? After all, it got a lot of bayonets and flash hiders off the streets!
A 30.06 is a much more powerful weapon than a M16 or AK-47. A M1 Carbine is even better. Both are now weapons civilians can own IIRC without any special permits. A M1 Carbine is an order of magnitude deadlier in the hands of a skilled fighter than a M16 because its shots are more powerful and accurate than a M16.
I think you mean an M1 Grand (30-06), or an M1A1 (308 version), or an M14 (308 version with magazine). Those are 30-06 and 308 rifles. The M1 Carbine is a "30 Carbine" cartage, a shorter, less powerful cartage more on par with handgun cartages. The M1 Carbine was created for officers who thought the M1 Grand was too heavy to carry, and couldn't handle the recoil of a handgun. Then, there is the M2 carbine, the full auto version of the M1 carbine....
The very basic assumption on the campaign is that there are/should be guns around!
Are you honestly saying that we should just start to assume that there "are not" guns around, and that will make it so?
NRA should be kept away from schools just like any cult and drug dealers.
Is Planned Parenthood not political? Yet they give money, information, condoms,and pamphlets on in schools. Because it is better to "teach safe sex" than to pretend sex isn't really there. Yet, the EDUCATION of sex is still done, and we assume that teaching it does not MAKE kids go out and have sex.
Same with drugs, look at all of the politics involved with anti-drug laws, and we teach the effects of drug use in health classes. Yet the EDUCATION of drugs is still done, and we assume that teaching the effects of drugs will not MAKE kids go out and do drugs.
The point I was trying to make by calling democracy a form of mob rule was;
Democracy does not insure freedom. There is no form of government that insures freedom. People like to point to "the great democracies" of the world as a good thing.
But when it comes down to it, if the Majority decides that the minorities are evil and should be put too death, that's still a functioning democracy.
For true freedom, as an American, it is more important to uphold the Constitution. All of it. Even the parts you don't like, and even if the second ammendment is out of fashion or isn't "popular" this year.
An orginized mob is still a mob. And a majority vote does not make something right or wrong.
#1-Police. What happens if a cop's partner is disabled and he has the only remaining ammo between them. Is the other cop supposed to say, "hey mr. nice criminal, let me pop this clip into my gun so I can kill you?"
Sarah Brady doesn't care. She just wants the US to become England, and can't deal with the reality that there are more guns buried in back yards than the police use. Cops? To the people who support this law they are an unfortunate expense we have to live with, like James S. Brady was... The Sarah Brady's of the world have already accepted loosing cops, now they want others to suffer too.
#2-Families where the kids can handle a firearm. I could handle (admittedly not perfectly by any stretch of the imagination) a 9mm at an early age, around 9-10 or so. I'm sick of the anti-gun nuts who say such rubbish as kids can't use guns effectively and responsibly. And so what if they can't in such a situation? It's better that the kid die trying than die a totally defenseless victim. Oh and, in close range... you don't have to be that good of a shot.
Look at the Eddy Eagle campain by the NRA. Where they put this comic book charector out there to try to teach kids what to do if they find a gun.
Almost no schools in the country allowed this NRA campain into the schools, even though it was ONLY about gun safety, not about pro-gun politics. Given the number of guns in the USA, it's UNDENYABLE that over 50% of the children of the country will SOME DAY come in contact with a gun, they didn't care.
Fact is, if the kids learned not to touch a gun, or how to unload it if forced to, it would save lifes, that would hurt the anti-gun movement. They need children to be ignorant so they can keep the accidental death toll numbers up, snd prove their point.
Remember the ROTC and NRA classes in High School in the 50's? Probably not, if your not that old, because they are slowly being erased from history...
#3-What happens if the gun gets damaged and can't recognize its owner? Oh sheot, that's right. The gun ain't worth a damn now.
One less gun on the street to the anti-gun folks. Who cares if THAT gun owner obeyed all the laws, and actually had a "smart gun" unlike the criminals had...
I noticed my first few mods on this post were "troll" and moding me down. Cool, feel free to consider this a troll, because I know it's not, I know it's the foundation for what I believe, I know this law is not based on real technology, I have seen the NJ debates to pass it, and I know there are people who know better.
And what the hell, my karma has been "excellent" for the last couple years, take me down a couple pegs and give me something to start posting again for.... SlashDot's got quite boring and full of BS lately, spam fest, crap posts. This is a post I will reply to until it's in archive and no longer sorted.
At least you can't sue me for having an opinion (yet! and yes, THIS comment is a troll! And I've got experiance with trolls dating back to 1994 USENET... I'm pretty sure I can handle it). Go for it if you want a gun control debate!
I'll tell you what, give me the hard working, open minded, freedom loving, socialist, people from around the world who are NOT Christian like me ANYDAY over the bible thumping Southern Baptist Soccer Moms who want "smart guns" any day!
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I'll tell you what, give me the hard working, open minded, freedom loving, people no matter what color thier skin, where they were born, no matter what, as long as they persue freedom and try to escape opressive socialist governments or opression, and I will accept those people from around the world who are NOT Christian like me ANYDAY over the bible thumping Southern Baptist Soccer Moms who want "smart guns" any day
This law makes me want to cry. This is as bad as the "drug dealers licence" that California passed in the 80's to make selling drugs to kids MORE illegal. Selling drugs was illegal already, and they passed a "feel good" law to require drug dealers to have a licence to sell drugs hoping to tack more years to their jail sentence.
If you ask me, we need LESS laws, not MORE. We need to clear the courts from the stupid lawsuit and patent law CRAP, and free up court and prison space for the real criminals.
If you kill someone, you KILLED THEM, and you should get life in prison, or death. Not X years for killing them, X more for doing it with a gun, X more because your motive was racial. Look, I don't care if you killed a black or white or yellow or red person, you killed them, go to jail I don't care if he was Christian, Jew, Hindu, or what, you killed them. Your telling me an EXTRA law that makes it a race crime, a religious crime, makes the system better? By making MORE laws like that, you just dilute the system. Crime is crime, simple is simple. Kill, go to jail. Black man kills black man, less jail time because it wasn't a hate crime? Should we really say "white guy killed white guy, not racial, not religious, less of a sentence?" He was killed with a gun, not a knife, the criminal should do 105 years instead of 150 years?
All I can say is, it's just another step in the long and relentless process for the United States of America to drift into the New World order. I am going to rant, long and hard, prepare. This is a step to a socialist society, where we see "Democracy" become something that is nothing more than "Mob Rule" with a slight bit of organization.
Look, it's a feel good law, we all know that. The science and the technology are not presently available to comply with this law. This law requires all guns to "recognize they are in the hands of their owner" before they are able to fire, WHEN that technology becomes a reality. Let's be realistic, some lame as money grubbing company will come up with some half ass way to almost make this happen, because they want to monopolize the gun market in NJ. But, they will fail because no one buys guns in NJ anyway, because of the existing legislation. And it's just an exercise in "can we do it."
Now, don't get me wrong, if I wanted to own a firearm, and I knew I could get a high-tech one that wouldn't allow anyone to fire it except me, that would be cool. I would get one like that, if I wanted one at all, to be sure that I could defend myself and the invader of my home couldn't disarm me and shoot me with my own gun.
But, that's not what this law is about. This law is yet another measure of the Sarah Brady group to make guns harder to own. And, being a Libertarian, I have respect for other people's beliefs. However, I love my country, and I love my country because it is the country that is founded on individual freedoms.
If you were to tell me that there was a country in the world that would allow you to do anything you wanted, provided you did not bring harm to anyone else, I would respect that country as well. However, the USA is as close as we have now. Capitalist (work hard and earn a lot). Intelligence, perseverance, planning, and hard work should pay off. And people should be allowed to do what ever, worship whatever they want, think whatever they want, self destructive or not, risky or not, SOMEWHERE in the world. That is why the USA was founded.
The USA is becoming Socialist under pressure of the rest of the world. If you don't like it, you have a lot of other countries in the world to go to that believe what you do, we don't stop you from leaving. Yet every day people are willing to die (look at the boat people, the central Americans, the middle eastern people that are not the "popular" religion" in their country). People come here because of the freedom.
We are soo willing to give away our freedom to make "Soccer Moms" who are the minority, feel better.
I'll tell you what, give me the hard working, open minded, freedom loving, socialist, people from around the world who are NOT Christian like me ANYDAY over the bible thumping Southern Baptist Soccer Moms who want "smart guns" any day!
I do understand exactly what your saying... However... How is this any different than any other x86 barebones box in that respect?
I mean, I understand they are trying to target the "non-desktop" but were exactly does paying $1000 for a development kit prevent someone from having to come up with a custom motherboard fab for a set-top or other embedded device? Where exactly is paying $1000 (and I really want to know this, there might be an answer) help you in writing code for embedded device on a processor that is suppose to be x86 compatible?
I'm really missing the point here... But IMHO, it's more likely they are leveraging the geek market to help promote other mobo manufactures to build transmeta boards, so they can sell more chips in the long run..... And prolong the time it takes before they reach the fate that Cyrix did (bought out, low market share, nitch low-budjet/low-preformance x86 compatible chips).
Yea, I know, I'm trying to work that out myself. Living room needs 2 live (DirecTiVo) as does the bedroom (that's 4 total live needed). But I think I will only have 1 line live in each of the other rooms.
I'm actually looking at a wiring diagram for the house now, and I have 1) Kitchen, 2&3) Livingroom, 3&5) Bedroom 1, 6) Bedroom 2, 7) Bedroom 3, 8) 3rd Floor (media-room to be). So that will be the 8 off of my 5x8 multi-switch will get me 8 DirecTV feeds.
But I still want 2x coax on the 3rd floor, because the DirecTiVo will likely go there when the Media Room is done. And, we are also doing an addition off the house, so the 2nd bedroom will be expanded and become the master, so it should have 2x coax lines also.
Basically, I got the walls opened up, I'm just running tons of wire! Some of them won't be live for a while.
But, more to your question, I believe you can cascade some of the better powered multi-way switches. I'd ask around in the TiVo Community Forum in the DirecTV section if you want to know. There are a lot of guys who know quite a bit about multi-way switches there, and they just love to pull out these really cool graphics to explain them too!
Good point. I didn't realize there was a difference.
I don't think I'll be doing that this year though. My goal is high quality overkill wiring in at least 5 rooms in my house by 2003. So my entire Christmas list revolves around wiring bits. 2 high quality coax (DirecTiVo), 1 CAT7 (data) and 1 CAT5 (phone) in at least 5 rooms. Distribution rack in basement. Lot's of parts, lots of pulling wires, and I'll be happy when it's done...:-)
You have to acknowledge that the simple fact that your shopping for funding will turn off a lot of people, especially the non-ivy-league school professors out there. Professor Joe Blow at Montana State Chemistry Department isn't going to have a lot of respect for someone who wants to make money off scientific publications after he's spent the last 20 years of his career doing peer reviews for ACS's Analytical Chemistry, only for the knowledge and never to make a dime.
I'm not saying the concept of the project is bad. I'm not saying something shouldn't be done. I'm not saying the way things are now is good enough. What I am saying is, why should someone support this project instead of someof theother ideas out there that could be more of a public effort supported by volunteers?
Editorial costs... Let's see. Papers submitted to the best journals need to
Be in a very exact format, or they are rejected. The author of the paper does this formatting (read scientist, not an editor), the editor just rejects them.
Be "peer reviewed." This is key, this is what keeps the better journals really honest and true, with good science. Who reviews them? Other scientists, for free. The SUBMITTING author usually recommends at least 3 people in his specific field, then the paper gets sent out to 3 to 5 scientists who review it for free for the Journal to be considered someday to be a "editor" or get editorial credit. What's this cost the journal? Shipping? They don't even make copies, the submitting author is required to provide all the copies.
Sorry, but where are the "editorial costs?" You mean those 1 page, un-reviewed, opinion pages they sometimes stick in the front after the index? Or the trouble of having to create the index page?
I'd believe publication costs (like printing and such), but editorial? Come on.
The system isn't totally broken, but it could be improved. The key is the peer review process, not the editorial parts. Good science passes peer review. Bad science is published only when peer review is not present or poor.
You're paying $9.95/month to save $10/month on cable. So you're saving $.05/month, right?
Exactly.... I figure, why pay the extra 5 cents! And, why not get CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, and all the local channels in all the other rooms on my other TV's without buying all those extra recievers for DirecTV
I'm about to switch from my cable+TiVo combo to a DirecTiVo combo now that the new Series II DirecTiVo's are out, but I'm keeping my cable. At least with DirecTiVo, I can record 2 channels at once, and get real 5.1 sound.
In my area, Cable Modem speeds blow away DSL (epically when you look at the price/performance factors). So, to get a $10/month discount on my cable internet, I'm going to keep the $9.95 basic local channel option on my cable TV bill.
It strikes me very odd that Cable has the best potential tap into mass market broadband, and they are wasting any time worried about Satellite TV or PVR's. Satellite is not threat in the broadband department. And, if we ever do get to mass sharing of TV broadcast ala Napster like stuff, we will need broadband more than ever (even if the shows come from satellite). Even thought I am one of the people switching, I'm still keeping my broadband with the cable company.
1 flop? I'd have thought at least a mega-flop. So AMD will be a Giga-flop?
You know what, I don't give a rats-behind about x86 backwards compatability, I care about GOOD hardware, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, a good compiler that works on THAT SPECIFIC HARDWARE.
Where is a benchmark I can understand? One that takes the best hardware, with a standard aplication (COMPILED NATIVELY, WITH a GOOD compiler) and gives me a number I can understand before I buy it.
Say what you will, but G4 is at least GCC compiled (know the compiler) and benchmarkable... I'm still trying to figure out what compilers best for NORMAL x86. One's good on AMD's, another on Intel, and then they are OS dependant.....
How can soo many people care soo much about hardware that they will pay an extra 50% for hardware that is ONLY 20% FASTER??? All while the right compiler can make all of your apps faster by 10% to 30%, without additional hardware costs?
Come on, new hardware is great, but let's not put the cart before the horse AGAIN. Avoid the hype, ask the right questions.... Where is the good compiler for the new CPU? What are the SPECs (or other benchmarks)?
Is this REALLY AI though?
I thought it just looked at your settings, and matched those using simple statistics to others with the same shows in their ratings and wish lists.
If it's really AI (which I doubt), why would that be better than simple statistics? Do you really think they are going to spend computing power (in a server somewhere, surely not on your little TiVo) crunching through show descriptions to determine what key words and phrases match best with those of the shows you typically watch?
I don't think this is really AI at all, I think it's just stats. I'd be shocked if this was really AI. And I'd be a bit shocked if someone called the simple stats a from of AI.
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If you asked someone to conjure up the image of a "Southern Baptist Soccer Mom" and then asked that person to describe that person, you would get a lot of details.... Maybe you can already see the MiniVan and the "My Kid is an Honor Roll Student at Edison Elementary." But what you DON'T conjure up is the thought of someone who is slowly eating away at your freedom, and the founding principles of the USA.
Now, ask someone to think of a "Muslim Single 25 year old Man in New York born in the Middle East" and ask them to describe that person. If you honestly think "terrorist" or "anti-American" doesn't at least cross their mind, your kidding yourself. However, it's probably more likely that this person would support the principles of freedom that the USA was founded on. It's likely that man CAME to the USA because of these freedoms.
Bringing up the stereo-types is EXACTLY what I intended to do. Because it's important to realize that when it comes down to "democracy" vs. "individual liberty" you can't be so sure your right on what OTHER people are thinking, and you can't use stereo-types. I'm pointing that out, the person that appears "non-threatening" politically may actually be very threatening to freedom. Individual Liberty was the founding principle, and democracy was chosen as the best means of the time to insure it. However, democracy may also be one of the fundamental means by which Individual Liberty is taken away. Democracy does not insure freedom.
If you want to only be surrounded by people who buy into your idea of freedom then I suggest you buy an island somewhere and start your own country.
For what possible reason should I abandon my native country and accept that the principles of the founding fathers are doomed to be forgotten and changed? Am I now to believe I shouldn't even SPEAK of these principles in the USA? Hmm, are we now talking about First Amendment, not the Second Amendment?
But your forgetting the 2 out of 3 rule! Flash hider, pistol grip stock, or bayonet lug must be part of the rifle to make it an "assault" weapon. Manufactures simply removed some of the features and continued to sell these weapons. Well, at least until the lawmakers figured out how to start making "a list."
Now that this law has passed, there are hardly any drive-by bayoneting incidents to speak of. Doesn't that prove how successful the new law is? After all, it got a lot of bayonets and flash hiders off the streets!
I think you mean an M1 Grand (30-06), or an M1A1 (308 version), or an M14 (308 version with magazine). Those are 30-06 and 308 rifles. The M1 Carbine is a "30 Carbine" cartage, a shorter, less powerful cartage more on par with handgun cartages. The M1 Carbine was created for officers who thought the M1 Grand was too heavy to carry, and couldn't handle the recoil of a handgun. Then, there is the M2 carbine, the full auto version of the M1 carbine....
Are you honestly saying that we should just start to assume that there "are not" guns around, and that will make it so?
NRA should be kept away from schools just like any cult and drug dealers.
Is Planned Parenthood not political? Yet they give money, information, condoms,and pamphlets on in schools. Because it is better to "teach safe sex" than to pretend sex isn't really there. Yet, the EDUCATION of sex is still done, and we assume that teaching it does not MAKE kids go out and have sex.
Same with drugs, look at all of the politics involved with anti-drug laws, and we teach the effects of drug use in health classes. Yet the EDUCATION of drugs is still done, and we assume that teaching the effects of drugs will not MAKE kids go out and do drugs.
Democracy does not insure freedom. There is no form of government that insures freedom. People like to point to "the great democracies" of the world as a good thing.
But when it comes down to it, if the Majority decides that the minorities are evil and should be put too death, that's still a functioning democracy.
For true freedom, as an American, it is more important to uphold the Constitution. All of it. Even the parts you don't like, and even if the second ammendment is out of fashion or isn't "popular" this year.
An orginized mob is still a mob. And a majority vote does not make something right or wrong.
Typo, please see my correction in the follow-up. I understand the confusion. It was NOT what I meant to post.
Sarah Brady doesn't care. She just wants the US to become England, and can't deal with the reality that there are more guns buried in back yards than the police use. Cops? To the people who support this law they are an unfortunate expense we have to live with, like James S. Brady was... The Sarah Brady's of the world have already accepted loosing cops, now they want others to suffer too.
#2-Families where the kids can handle a firearm. I could handle (admittedly not perfectly by any stretch of the imagination) a 9mm at an early age, around 9-10 or so. I'm sick of the anti-gun nuts who say such rubbish as kids can't use guns effectively and responsibly. And so what if they can't in such a situation? It's better that the kid die trying than die a totally defenseless victim. Oh and, in close range... you don't have to be that good of a shot.
Look at the Eddy Eagle campain by the NRA. Where they put this comic book charector out there to try to teach kids what to do if they find a gun.
Almost no schools in the country allowed this NRA campain into the schools, even though it was ONLY about gun safety, not about pro-gun politics. Given the number of guns in the USA, it's UNDENYABLE that over 50% of the children of the country will SOME DAY come in contact with a gun, they didn't care.
Fact is, if the kids learned not to touch a gun, or how to unload it if forced to, it would save lifes, that would hurt the anti-gun movement. They need children to be ignorant so they can keep the accidental death toll numbers up, snd prove their point.
Remember the ROTC and NRA classes in High School in the 50's? Probably not, if your not that old, because they are slowly being erased from history...
#3-What happens if the gun gets damaged and can't recognize its owner? Oh sheot, that's right. The gun ain't worth a damn now.
One less gun on the street to the anti-gun folks. Who cares if THAT gun owner obeyed all the laws, and actually had a "smart gun" unlike the criminals had...
And what the hell, my karma has been "excellent" for the last couple years, take me down a couple pegs and give me something to start posting again for.... SlashDot's got quite boring and full of BS lately, spam fest, crap posts. This is a post I will reply to until it's in archive and no longer sorted.
At least you can't sue me for having an opinion (yet! and yes, THIS comment is a troll! And I've got experiance with trolls dating back to 1994 USENET... I'm pretty sure I can handle it). Go for it if you want a gun control debate!
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I'll tell you what, give me the hard working, open minded, freedom loving, people no matter what color thier skin, where they were born, no matter what, as long as they persue freedom and try to escape opressive socialist governments or opression, and I will accept those people from around the world who are NOT Christian like me ANYDAY over the bible thumping Southern Baptist Soccer Moms who want "smart guns" any day
If you ask me, we need LESS laws, not MORE. We need to clear the courts from the stupid lawsuit and patent law CRAP, and free up court and prison space for the real criminals.
If you kill someone, you KILLED THEM, and you should get life in prison, or death. Not X years for killing them, X more for doing it with a gun, X more because your motive was racial. Look, I don't care if you killed a black or white or yellow or red person, you killed them, go to jail I don't care if he was Christian, Jew, Hindu, or what, you killed them. Your telling me an EXTRA law that makes it a race crime, a religious crime, makes the system better? By making MORE laws like that, you just dilute the system. Crime is crime, simple is simple. Kill, go to jail. Black man kills black man, less jail time because it wasn't a hate crime? Should we really say "white guy killed white guy, not racial, not religious, less of a sentence?" He was killed with a gun, not a knife, the criminal should do 105 years instead of 150 years?
All I can say is, it's just another step in the long and relentless process for the United States of America to drift into the New World order. I am going to rant, long and hard, prepare. This is a step to a socialist society, where we see "Democracy" become something that is nothing more than "Mob Rule" with a slight bit of organization.
Look, it's a feel good law, we all know that. The science and the technology are not presently available to comply with this law. This law requires all guns to "recognize they are in the hands of their owner" before they are able to fire, WHEN that technology becomes a reality. Let's be realistic, some lame as money grubbing company will come up with some half ass way to almost make this happen, because they want to monopolize the gun market in NJ. But, they will fail because no one buys guns in NJ anyway, because of the existing legislation. And it's just an exercise in "can we do it."
Now, don't get me wrong, if I wanted to own a firearm, and I knew I could get a high-tech one that wouldn't allow anyone to fire it except me, that would be cool. I would get one like that, if I wanted one at all, to be sure that I could defend myself and the invader of my home couldn't disarm me and shoot me with my own gun.
But, that's not what this law is about. This law is yet another measure of the Sarah Brady group to make guns harder to own. And, being a Libertarian, I have respect for other people's beliefs. However, I love my country, and I love my country because it is the country that is founded on individual freedoms.
If you were to tell me that there was a country in the world that would allow you to do anything you wanted, provided you did not bring harm to anyone else, I would respect that country as well. However, the USA is as close as we have now. Capitalist (work hard and earn a lot). Intelligence, perseverance, planning, and hard work should pay off. And people should be allowed to do what ever, worship whatever they want, think whatever they want, self destructive or not, risky or not, SOMEWHERE in the world. That is why the USA was founded.
The USA is becoming Socialist under pressure of the rest of the world. If you don't like it, you have a lot of other countries in the world to go to that believe what you do, we don't stop you from leaving. Yet every day people are willing to die (look at the boat people, the central Americans, the middle eastern people that are not the "popular" religion" in their country). People come here because of the freedom.
We are soo willing to give away our freedom to make "Soccer Moms" who are the minority, feel better.
I'll tell you what, give me the hard working, open minded, freedom loving, socialist, people from around the world who are NOT Christian like me ANYDAY over the bible thumping Southern Baptist Soccer Moms who want "smart guns" any day!
I mean, I understand they are trying to target the "non-desktop" but were exactly does paying $1000 for a development kit prevent someone from having to come up with a custom motherboard fab for a set-top or other embedded device? Where exactly is paying $1000 (and I really want to know this, there might be an answer) help you in writing code for embedded device on a processor that is suppose to be x86 compatible?
I'm really missing the point here... But IMHO, it's more likely they are leveraging the geek market to help promote other mobo manufactures to build transmeta boards, so they can sell more chips in the long run..... And prolong the time it takes before they reach the fate that Cyrix did (bought out, low market share, nitch low-budjet/low-preformance x86 compatible chips).
I'm actually looking at a wiring diagram for the house now, and I have 1) Kitchen, 2&3) Livingroom, 3&5) Bedroom 1, 6) Bedroom 2, 7) Bedroom 3, 8) 3rd Floor (media-room to be). So that will be the 8 off of my 5x8 multi-switch will get me 8 DirecTV feeds.
But I still want 2x coax on the 3rd floor, because the DirecTiVo will likely go there when the Media Room is done. And, we are also doing an addition off the house, so the 2nd bedroom will be expanded and become the master, so it should have 2x coax lines also.
Basically, I got the walls opened up, I'm just running tons of wire! Some of them won't be live for a while.
But, more to your question, I believe you can cascade some of the better powered multi-way switches. I'd ask around in the TiVo Community Forum in the DirecTV section if you want to know. There are a lot of guys who know quite a bit about multi-way switches there, and they just love to pull out these really cool graphics to explain them too!
Typo.
I don't think I'll be doing that this year though. My goal is high quality overkill wiring in at least 5 rooms in my house by 2003. So my entire Christmas list revolves around wiring bits. 2 high quality coax (DirecTiVo), 1 CAT7 (data) and 1 CAT5 (phone) in at least 5 rooms. Distribution rack in basement. Lot's of parts, lots of pulling wires, and I'll be happy when it's done... :-)
You mean the ones I get about 2-3 spams a day that people are trying to sell? I'd not even consider them simply because of the spam factor.
I'm not saying the concept of the project is bad. I'm not saying something shouldn't be done. I'm not saying the way things are now is good enough. What I am saying is, why should someone support this project instead of some of the other ideas out there that could be more of a public effort supported by volunteers?
- Be in a very exact format, or they are rejected. The author of the paper does this formatting (read scientist, not an editor), the editor just rejects them.
- Be "peer reviewed." This is key, this is what keeps the better journals really honest and true, with good science. Who reviews them? Other scientists, for free. The SUBMITTING author usually recommends at least 3 people in his specific field, then the paper gets sent out to 3 to 5 scientists who review it for free for the Journal to be considered someday to be a "editor" or get editorial credit. What's this cost the journal? Shipping? They don't even make copies, the submitting author is required to provide all the copies.
Sorry, but where are the "editorial costs?" You mean those 1 page, un-reviewed, opinion pages they sometimes stick in the front after the index? Or the trouble of having to create the index page?I'd believe publication costs (like printing and such), but editorial? Come on.
The system isn't totally broken, but it could be improved. The key is the peer review process, not the editorial parts. Good science passes peer review. Bad science is published only when peer review is not present or poor.
I don't see this will be much of a leap. There has long been a TiVo/Samba connection
Exactly.... I figure, why pay the extra 5 cents! And, why not get CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, and all the local channels in all the other rooms on my other TV's without buying all those extra recievers for DirecTV
In my area, Cable Modem speeds blow away DSL (epically when you look at the price/performance factors). So, to get a $10/month discount on my cable internet, I'm going to keep the $9.95 basic local channel option on my cable TV bill.
It strikes me very odd that Cable has the best potential tap into mass market broadband, and they are wasting any time worried about Satellite TV or PVR's. Satellite is not threat in the broadband department. And, if we ever do get to mass sharing of TV broadcast ala Napster like stuff, we will need broadband more than ever (even if the shows come from satellite). Even thought I am one of the people switching, I'm still keeping my broadband with the cable company.
I can't find it... Someone mentioned they use to sell them but are sold out?
Until someone makes it, and sells it for that price, the $199 is a hit for a functional PC for under $200 (functional != fast)...
I'm just thinking Xterminal anyway... And this thing is cheaper than Diskless Workstations that the LTSP guys use.
1 flop? I'd have thought at least a mega-flop. So AMD will be a Giga-flop?
You know what, I don't give a rats-behind about x86 backwards compatability, I care about GOOD hardware, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, a good compiler that works on THAT SPECIFIC HARDWARE.
Where is a benchmark I can understand? One that takes the best hardware, with a standard aplication (COMPILED NATIVELY, WITH a GOOD compiler) and gives me a number I can understand before I buy it.
Say what you will, but G4 is at least GCC compiled (know the compiler) and benchmarkable... I'm still trying to figure out what compilers best for NORMAL x86. One's good on AMD's, another on Intel, and then they are OS dependant.....
How can soo many people care soo much about hardware that they will pay an extra 50% for hardware that is ONLY 20% FASTER??? All while the right compiler can make all of your apps faster by 10% to 30%, without additional hardware costs?
Come on, new hardware is great, but let's not put the cart before the horse AGAIN. Avoid the hype, ask the right questions.... Where is the good compiler for the new CPU? What are the SPECs (or other benchmarks)?
So this is a positive benefit? ;-) (Just kidding, Corps fans!)
It's just HAPPY, not Homosexual, until it's proven in context. So, who doesn't want HAPPY Marines?
To the programmers of this profiling software it's just a nice gig.
Bleah. Is the SW community still using "gig" for job?
Ah... Yet another mistake.... I can see the headlines now.... "Cyber War Declared... Marines draft Unhappy Jazz Musicians by Mistake"
Is this REALLY AI though? I thought it just looked at your settings, and matched those using simple statistics to others with the same shows in their ratings and wish lists. If it's really AI (which I doubt), why would that be better than simple statistics? Do you really think they are going to spend computing power (in a server somewhere, surely not on your little TiVo) crunching through show descriptions to determine what key words and phrases match best with those of the shows you typically watch? I don't think this is really AI at all, I think it's just stats. I'd be shocked if this was really AI. And I'd be a bit shocked if someone called the simple stats a from of AI.