Convieniently, you left out the rest of the sentence and more than half of the point. What he actually said was:
"Things like the Taplight, the PIC programmer, the circuit board, and the miscellaneous electronic parts have been omitted because they would have brought the total above $50 (and most tinkerers such as myself have these things on hand already)."
Basically, he wanted to spend less than $50, and he did.
This is a great press release reprint. I wasn't aware that the BBC was counting that as journalism now too. Some choice quotes: "Embedded web technology developed by NASA" (and countless bored college students)... "Doesn't contain a computer" (as long as you define computer as an x86 based PC with a VGA monitor). Give me a break. When MIT students internet enabled their soda machines in the early '90s it was an original idea. Now it's been done before, and they're applying it to a fairly non-useful device (you can really only cook one thing in a microwave at a time).
Besides, people have been leaving their stuff in the oven on time-bake for ages, why do we suddenly need to refridgerate it for the whole day before the heat kicks in now? Can't we just have an internet enabled time-bake feature, and skip this silly refridgeration.
It currently typically takes multiple people multiple days to inventory a retail store. Not only would these tags significantly reduce the costs of doing a full inventory, but could keep the inventory more up to date. Many stores only do a full inventory once every 6 months because it's so expensive, which makes something like these tags very desirable.
Sheet steel is cheaper than any high grade wood or polymer product you'll find. You'll want the high grade products if you don't want it to look like ass. It also tends to be stronger at any given thickness, so your steel case can potentially be lighter than a wood or polymer case.
Something that has been tried and failed before in the US is stuffing environmental regulation down the people's throats to the detriment of their day to day life. You wouldn't believe the bitching about low-flow toilets - i've heard dozens of people talk about keeping their old toilets so they don't have to use the shitty (no pun intended) new ones that don't flush properly.
You're using that as an example without giving all the information. It isn't necissarily the problem that people don't like having regulations shoved down their throats in this case, but that they don't like having poorly thought out and inflexible regulations stuffed down their throats. Sure, low-flow toilets sound like a good idea, especially if you live in an area where water conservation is important (yes there are areas where it isn't as important), but you can't just tell people to use them without thinking through the details. Speciffically that flushing with less water doesn't push solid waste as far along pipes as the older, higher water usage toilets do. Most houses and septic systems weren't designed with low flow toilets in mind, so in the most benign case, you may have stuff left in your toilet after a flush, and in the worst case your basement could fill up with shit just because you did some work in your bathroom and the law said that you had to change your toilet to one that doesn't move stuff all the way out to the tank. I don't know if you've ever shoveled shit out of your basement, but I have and believe me, it's a good reason to bitch about a poorly thought out regulation.
You've caught The Register's point, but you missed the overall picture. Google is a tool for using the internet. Now, sombody on the internet attached a meaning to a phrase, and sombody wo writes for the New York Times attached a different meaning to that very same phrase. It doesn't make a difference who was first because they both pulled it out of their asses. Regardless of how popular the New York Times is in the real world, the other usage had a greater impact on internet publishers, and Google is accuratly reflecting that. This isn't a change in our language as El purports-to-be-a-tech-rag Reg suggests, since both usages are less than a few months old, and they're both acceptable analogies for different concepts. This whole discussion is basically the equivalent of Milhouse on the Simpsons saying "Hey, that's my thing. I say Radical." Grow up, learn to play nice and don't loose sight of what you're trying to do (protest a war) because somebody else "stole" your catch phrase. When you support the minority side of a cause you need to learn to deal with the disadvantages that come with supporting that side. You're not going to win supporters by fighting these other silly little battles.
Under GNU, do you have to release any private encryption keys you may have used with the code?
That's irrelevant. If you negotiate a seperate licence with the copyright holder, you are not bound to the terms of the GPL, regardless of what they are.
Members of the BSA report higher software piracy rates than companies who are not members. Obviously this means that joining the BSA causes your software to pe pirated more!
I don't think that Hollywood and the movie studios care so much about the outcome of the trial as long as the process is scaring the shit out of other potential code writers.
I'm scared, but not scared to write code, only to put my name on code I release. There's lots of developers that think similarly. If I want a piece of code that doesn't exist and may make somebody with a lot of money unhappy, I'll still write it and I'll still release it, but I won't tell anybody it was me who did it.
I had that attitude before all this DeCSS stuff started though. I stopped putting my name on stuff when some video game ROM manipulation tools I wrote showed up on a warez site after I gave them to a friend who was helping me write software for a multi-cart. Even if you are well intentioned and not planning on breaking any laws, and even if you're not planning on distributing something you create widely, you still become legaly responsible for what you distribute, and may someday be asked to pay for what other people do with your stuff when the next rediculous law gets passed. These scare tactics are nothing new, and they only seperate the stupid from the careful. If you're careful enough not to get noticed there's no reason to stop writing code, and these lawsuits are teaching more and more people how to be careful.
Load them up in two tabs in mozilla and switch between the two. You're right that the boy was removed from the second one, but he was added to the first one. Either that, or he is transparent to light, and emits a funky darkness haze in front him and under his arm...
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Another victim of interface fundamentalism.... Spatial orientation is a good paradigm. It is not, however, the be-all and end-all of interface design.
I think the article's flaw is on a different level. It's not that he wants spacial representation, but that he wants a specific spacial representation that he happens to be familliar with. He says "there must be a one to one relationship between folders and windows." This is not the only way to create a coherent spacial relationship, it's just the one he's used to. He's so convinced that he's right that he came up with this argument, wrote a multi-page article about it, and didn't think it through with the open mind he asked of his readers. A spacial interface, by his definition, only needs a uniform spacial representation for files and folders. The relationship between windows and folders he insists on was the result of a logical leap he made because it seemed obvious to him. He never justified it beyond saying that it was how MacOS 9 and earlier did it, and it never occured to him that there were other posibilities. There is no way he'll ever convince me that he's come up with the perfect spacial interface when he's shown that he's too short sighted to see more than one possibility.
yet the IBM PC is not dead, there is a market for them
The IBM PC is dead. IBM no longer manufactures PCs (However they do rebrand other company's machines in limited quantities with practically no margin). The IBM compatible PC clone business didn't just "not help" IBM's PC business, it killed it. People seem to forget that when they start ranting about Apple not allowing clones. If there are clones, increasing Mac market share doesn't necissarily help Apple. There isn't a lot of money to be made from selling huge software suites for $120, and Apple can't get away with charging Microsoft sized prices unless they become Microsoft sized.
If you're a musician, there's a VERY cool one called Electronic Projects for Musicians by Craig Anderton.
I second this recommendation. The second project I ever built, and the first board I ever etched was his four channel mixer. The author does a very good job at making the projects inviting to beginners.
Also, if anybody in the Sin Lab down at WPI happens to be reading this, I want my copy back!
Besides, how would a cashless society hurt the richest of the rich?
It wouldn't. It would hurt their perception of sability of the currency. They would switch to a currency they consider safer. Their financial lives would go on, and the US economy would tank.
Never underestimate human stupidity.
You're talking about a country that's afraid to change the pictures on the back of it's coinage because it may destabilize the economy. Nobody, no matter how stupid they are, will be making sudden drastic changes to the US currency.
Despite the many many nay-sayers, HDTV is here, now.
There are so many nay-sayers because you have either a different definition of 'here', or a different definition of 'now' than manufacturers that want to make money and the majority of consumers that put price before quality (probably because they have a puny paycheck compared to you). When you can get a 20" or larger HDTV with HD tuner for $170, HDTV will be here. Until then it's a high end toy for technology junkies, no matter how good it looks.
Don't bet on it. Mass hystaria my grip the like of Joe sixpack, but the people with the most money aren't buying it. The dissapearance of US currency as a printed bill would cause the richest of the rich to loose faith in the US dollar and take their currency business to Europe. You think our economy is bad now? The people running the show at the federal reserve aren't stupid enough to let that happen.
You've got two things going for you when you burn paper with a magnifying glass that you don't have while heating a chip lead. Paper combusts spontaniously, and paper is a poor conductor of heat compared to copper, tin, and lead. This means that you can heat a tiny spot on a piece of paper to over 400F more easily than a spot of copper because the energy you're putting into the paper isn't being carried away so fast, and that you only have to set a tiny spot of paper on fire for the whole sheet to burn. My guess would be that your magnifying glass wouldn't be able to heat a chip lead up that much because the heat would get carried elsewhere almost as quickly as you were putting it in, and even if it didn't, you'd have to pump a lot more heat into the chip lead since it's got to be completely heated to get the job done instead of having just a tiny spot heated.
I care more about...stability...which is I why I use Netscape 4.7
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
<gasp>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You may not be aware of this, but Netscape crashing only once a day isn't something to brag about anymore. Practicallyeveryrecentmainstream browser is more stable than Netscape 4.7x. Some of them are faster too.
I am totally convinced there is no way to win in PUTPBAD 2. Either that, or I'm a total idiot and the solution is obvious. Anyway, if it's any consolation, you're not the only one who couldn't figure it out after a few hours.
I love my Turtlelite II. It's got everything you'd expect from an traditional flashlite minus the terrible battery life, yellow light, and fragile bulb. The 2 LEDs and the reflector make it perform quite similarly to a regular flashlight. The best part: I haven't changed the batteries in 18 months since I got it. You can stand it on it's back and light an entire room decently when the power goes out, and it'll last all night and through the next night. It's fairly compact, but not so small as to be unusable for long periods like the little squeezy flashlights, and to top it all off, it floats!
They're a little pricy at $28, but I think it's well worth it. Also, if you have a regular flashlight that you particularly like, they'll sell you a 2 LED "bulb' and a reflector so that you can convert your favorite flashlight...
Better, for all your turning needs you can get non-metal blanks and raw material on eBay for cheap. I just picked up some ultra-low-cost UHMW-PE the other day...
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Convieniently, you left out the rest of the sentence and more than half of the point. What he actually said was:
"Things like the Taplight, the PIC programmer, the circuit board, and the miscellaneous electronic parts have been omitted because they would have brought the total above $50 (and most tinkerers such as myself have these things on hand already)."
Basically, he wanted to spend less than $50, and he did.
This is a great press release reprint. I wasn't aware that the BBC was counting that as journalism now too. Some choice quotes: "Embedded web technology developed by NASA" (and countless bored college students)... "Doesn't contain a computer" (as long as you define computer as an x86 based PC with a VGA monitor). Give me a break. When MIT students internet enabled their soda machines in the early '90s it was an original idea. Now it's been done before, and they're applying it to a fairly non-useful device (you can really only cook one thing in a microwave at a time).
Besides, people have been leaving their stuff in the oven on time-bake for ages, why do we suddenly need to refridgerate it for the whole day before the heat kicks in now? Can't we just have an internet enabled time-bake feature, and skip this silly refridgeration.
It currently typically takes multiple people multiple days to inventory a retail store. Not only would these tags significantly reduce the costs of doing a full inventory, but could keep the inventory more up to date. Many stores only do a full inventory once every 6 months because it's so expensive, which makes something like these tags very desirable.
It is more expensive, heavier
Sheet steel is cheaper than any high grade wood or polymer product you'll find. You'll want the high grade products if you don't want it to look like ass. It also tends to be stronger at any given thickness, so your steel case can potentially be lighter than a wood or polymer case.
Something that has been tried and failed before in the US is stuffing environmental regulation down the people's throats to the detriment of their day to day life. You wouldn't believe the bitching about low-flow toilets - i've heard dozens of people talk about keeping their old toilets so they don't have to use the shitty (no pun intended) new ones that don't flush properly.
You're using that as an example without giving all the information. It isn't necissarily the problem that people don't like having regulations shoved down their throats in this case, but that they don't like having poorly thought out and inflexible regulations stuffed down their throats. Sure, low-flow toilets sound like a good idea, especially if you live in an area where water conservation is important (yes there are areas where it isn't as important), but you can't just tell people to use them without thinking through the details. Speciffically that flushing with less water doesn't push solid waste as far along pipes as the older, higher water usage toilets do. Most houses and septic systems weren't designed with low flow toilets in mind, so in the most benign case, you may have stuff left in your toilet after a flush, and in the worst case your basement could fill up with shit just because you did some work in your bathroom and the law said that you had to change your toilet to one that doesn't move stuff all the way out to the tank. I don't know if you've ever shoveled shit out of your basement, but I have and believe me, it's a good reason to bitch about a poorly thought out regulation.
You've caught The Register's point, but you missed the overall picture. Google is a tool for using the internet. Now, sombody on the internet attached a meaning to a phrase, and sombody wo writes for the New York Times attached a different meaning to that very same phrase. It doesn't make a difference who was first because they both pulled it out of their asses. Regardless of how popular the New York Times is in the real world, the other usage had a greater impact on internet publishers, and Google is accuratly reflecting that. This isn't a change in our language as El purports-to-be-a-tech-rag Reg suggests, since both usages are less than a few months old, and they're both acceptable analogies for different concepts. This whole discussion is basically the equivalent of Milhouse on the Simpsons saying "Hey, that's my thing. I say Radical." Grow up, learn to play nice and don't loose sight of what you're trying to do (protest a war) because somebody else "stole" your catch phrase. When you support the minority side of a cause you need to learn to deal with the disadvantages that come with supporting that side. You're not going to win supporters by fighting these other silly little battles.
Under GNU, do you have to release any private encryption keys you may have used with the code?
That's irrelevant. If you negotiate a seperate licence with the copyright holder, you are not bound to the terms of the GPL, regardless of what they are.
I'm pretty sure that Bush will be the runner for the republicans come 2004
There will still be a primary, even if Bush is practically guaranteed the win...
Members of the BSA report higher software piracy rates than companies who are not members. Obviously this means that joining the BSA causes your software to pe pirated more!
I don't think that Hollywood and the movie studios care so much about the outcome of the trial as long as the process is scaring the shit out of other potential code writers.
I'm scared, but not scared to write code, only to put my name on code I release. There's lots of developers that think similarly. If I want a piece of code that doesn't exist and may make somebody with a lot of money unhappy, I'll still write it and I'll still release it, but I won't tell anybody it was me who did it.
I had that attitude before all this DeCSS stuff started though. I stopped putting my name on stuff when some video game ROM manipulation tools I wrote showed up on a warez site after I gave them to a friend who was helping me write software for a multi-cart. Even if you are well intentioned and not planning on breaking any laws, and even if you're not planning on distributing something you create widely, you still become legaly responsible for what you distribute, and may someday be asked to pay for what other people do with your stuff when the next rediculous law gets passed. These scare tactics are nothing new, and they only seperate the stupid from the careful. If you're careful enough not to get noticed there's no reason to stop writing code, and these lawsuits are teaching more and more people how to be careful.
Load them up in two tabs in mozilla and switch between the two. You're right that the boy was removed from the second one, but he was added to the first one. Either that, or he is transparent to light, and emits a funky darkness haze in front him and under his arm...
Are you sure it was made by IBM, and not Quanta?
Another victim of interface fundamentalism. ... Spatial orientation is a good paradigm. It is not, however, the be-all and end-all of interface design.
I think the article's flaw is on a different level. It's not that he wants spacial representation, but that he wants a specific spacial representation that he happens to be familliar with. He says "there must be a one to one relationship between folders and windows." This is not the only way to create a coherent spacial relationship, it's just the one he's used to. He's so convinced that he's right that he came up with this argument, wrote a multi-page article about it, and didn't think it through with the open mind he asked of his readers. A spacial interface, by his definition, only needs a uniform spacial representation for files and folders. The relationship between windows and folders he insists on was the result of a logical leap he made because it seemed obvious to him. He never justified it beyond saying that it was how MacOS 9 and earlier did it, and it never occured to him that there were other posibilities. There is no way he'll ever convince me that he's come up with the perfect spacial interface when he's shown that he's too short sighted to see more than one possibility.
yet the IBM PC is not dead, there is a market for them
The IBM PC is dead. IBM no longer manufactures PCs (However they do rebrand other company's machines in limited quantities with practically no margin). The IBM compatible PC clone business didn't just "not help" IBM's PC business, it killed it. People seem to forget that when they start ranting about Apple not allowing clones. If there are clones, increasing Mac market share doesn't necissarily help Apple. There isn't a lot of money to be made from selling huge software suites for $120, and Apple can't get away with charging Microsoft sized prices unless they become Microsoft sized.
If you're a musician, there's a VERY cool one called Electronic Projects for Musicians by Craig Anderton.
I second this recommendation. The second project I ever built, and the first board I ever etched was his four channel mixer. The author does a very good job at making the projects inviting to beginners.
Also, if anybody in the Sin Lab down at WPI happens to be reading this, I want my copy back!
Besides, how would a cashless society hurt the richest of the rich?
It wouldn't. It would hurt their perception of sability of the currency. They would switch to a currency they consider safer. Their financial lives would go on, and the US economy would tank.
Never underestimate human stupidity.
You're talking about a country that's afraid to change the pictures on the back of it's coinage because it may destabilize the economy. Nobody, no matter how stupid they are, will be making sudden drastic changes to the US currency.
Despite the many many nay-sayers, HDTV is here, now.
There are so many nay-sayers because you have either a different definition of 'here', or a different definition of 'now' than manufacturers that want to make money and the majority of consumers that put price before quality (probably because they have a puny paycheck compared to you). When you can get a 20" or larger HDTV with HD tuner for $170, HDTV will be here. Until then it's a high end toy for technology junkies, no matter how good it looks.
Don't bet on it. Mass hystaria my grip the like of Joe sixpack, but the people with the most money aren't buying it. The dissapearance of US currency as a printed bill would cause the richest of the rich to loose faith in the US dollar and take their currency business to Europe. You think our economy is bad now? The people running the show at the federal reserve aren't stupid enough to let that happen.
You had A/C in your dorm room?
You have no idea how jealous I am.
You've got two things going for you when you burn paper with a magnifying glass that you don't have while heating a chip lead. Paper combusts spontaniously, and paper is a poor conductor of heat compared to copper, tin, and lead. This means that you can heat a tiny spot on a piece of paper to over 400F more easily than a spot of copper because the energy you're putting into the paper isn't being carried away so fast, and that you only have to set a tiny spot of paper on fire for the whole sheet to burn. My guess would be that your magnifying glass wouldn't be able to heat a chip lead up that much because the heat would get carried elsewhere almost as quickly as you were putting it in, and even if it didn't, you'd have to pump a lot more heat into the chip lead since it's got to be completely heated to get the job done instead of having just a tiny spot heated.
I care more about...stability...which is I why I use Netscape 4.7
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
<gasp>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You may not be aware of this, but Netscape crashing only once a day isn't something to brag about anymore. Practically every recent mainstream browser is more stable than Netscape 4.7x. Some of them are faster too.
PUTPBAD 2 is driving me mad
I am totally convinced there is no way to win in PUTPBAD 2. Either that, or I'm a total idiot and the solution is obvious. Anyway, if it's any consolation, you're not the only one who couldn't figure it out after a few hours.
The best LED flashlight (and just plain LED anything) reviews I've seen are at The LED Museum.
I love my Turtlelite II. It's got everything you'd expect from an traditional flashlite minus the terrible battery life, yellow light, and fragile bulb. The 2 LEDs and the reflector make it perform quite similarly to a regular flashlight. The best part: I haven't changed the batteries in 18 months since I got it. You can stand it on it's back and light an entire room decently when the power goes out, and it'll last all night and through the next night. It's fairly compact, but not so small as to be unusable for long periods like the little squeezy flashlights, and to top it all off, it floats!
They're a little pricy at $28, but I think it's well worth it. Also, if you have a regular flashlight that you particularly like, they'll sell you a 2 LED "bulb' and a reflector so that you can convert your favorite flashlight...
Better, for all your turning needs you can get non-metal blanks and raw material on eBay for cheap. I just picked up some ultra-low-cost UHMW-PE the other day...