"People forget that Net PC devices were a threat to people whose business depended on the PC model."
Quite right, which is why they were crippled, which of course killed the market. There is a small hobby where people try with varying success to un-cripple some of them:
"The only reason even pro-abortionists are against late term and post-natal abortions is because that's when the child starts looking cute. It's just like those damn baby seals everyone keeps crying about."
Just tell some anti-abortionists that the baby will grow up Gay and they'll be clubbing away like a Newfie on crank.
Slow, tiny, crippled cars aren't much use. I don't want one because I'd be sacrificing performance and agility for no gain. Being a sitting target in a glorified go-kart? Hell no.
If I want high fuel mileage, I'll ride my motorcycle instead. It sits high, so I can see well. It's narrow and agile, so I can use countersteering to turn quickly. If need be I can go offroad. I can do grocery shopping since it has saddle bags and a rack. If I want more cargo space, I can bolt on a sidecar.
I like my BMW R90/6, but if things get really an M1030M1 would be the ticket. 120mpg and hauls arse:
"What better foe than one that absolutely, cannot be defeated?"
We all know the WoT is a codename for the cultural war with Islam. Religions can be defeated. Been to any Aztec or Mayan religious services lately? Breaking the idea of an imaginary celestial friend has been done. Note that the process is violent, messy, not especially well-controlled, high-risk (to put it mildly) and politically incorrect to even speak of.
We also lack anyone ruthless and competent enough for the job, don't have a plan ('cept destabilization and hoping for opportunities) and the conflict hasn't escalated to the point of general public buy-in.
"Actually, this should anger americans as much, because this means their government arbitrarily decided to NOT treat a person who (alledgely) commited crimes on USA soil according to their own law, and that that EU-person got an illegal advantage which no ordinary US citizen gets."
That's as ordinary as plea-bargaining. In the real word situations are not ideal, and a little of something is better than nothing. Given the choice between never punishing a criminal or getting a lesser sentence, it makes perfect sense.
"Even fewer countries which claim to be democratic still practise it, such as...the USA."
Many of us disagree with you about deleting criminals. We, democratically, support killing them and continue to vote for the death penalty. We as voters know that when we vote for the death penalty we are asking the state to use it!
The criminals concerned are primitives that only understand fear, and often not that. They are without value, so we don't value them more than the example they make by dying. They chose to be worthless and forfeit social protection.
The elitist EU has a remarkable fascination with preserving the criminal trash in US prisons. My reaction is that everyone who bootlicks these vermin should volunteer to share cells with a few of them. It would be quite the social science project. Better yet, offer every US citizen facing the death penalty refugee status and a plane ticket, conditional on not returning to the US. Think these folks are blossoms of humanity tragically trampled by the Man? You take 'em.
As an example to other people who think that they are so special and precious that your/my/anyone elses computer they fancy is fair game. "Why go to all this trouble to lock him up?" There are some people who don't "get" this, so we step on a few to send a message.
If he were a burglar who just wanted to look around and fiddle with the premises, he'd still go down for breaking and entering.
Farmers have a strong presence online, and there is lots of information that someone in the less-developed world can use.
For example, developed-world farmers fab a lot of their own equipment, including converting old buses and trucks into effective tractors. A new tractor may be just a dream for a poor farmer, but bobbing a truck chassis and adding hydraulics driven from the power steering pump might be doable.
OLPC is for helping people who really leverage information. Most will probably go to waste, but that does not matter! It's about reaching the few (it's always a "few") who will learn and act on their newfound knowledge.
"the absurdity of rejecting science while depending on it so heavily is just lost on these people."
Their contemptible level of superstition is armor against logic.
What this tells us is that in order to make headway against them, we need to relentlessly attack their nonsense with even more logic and evidence. This is not to convince the religious, who are only fit to be ruled the the Karl Roves of the world, but to sow resistance among the young and the freethinkers who are not American Taliban. Every person we can encourage to doubt religion is a small victory.
We can't change the ignorant masses, but the people who embrace science and technology are often in position to influence and rule lesser humans. We shouldn't scorn what NeoCons do with the mob. We should learn from it.
You can also Ghost or dd an image of the CF card to load more systems or as backup.
I partitioned my CF card so I could Ghost the OS partition easily. The CF card adapter is mounted in an old IDE swap rack. Pull rack, pull card, copy Ghost image using a card reader in another box.
"We need a mixture of the two. We need a setup of buttons, nobs, etc that the developer can tweek."
Bingo!
That's why aircraft cockpits are designed with a mix of manual switches (with positive DETENTS you can feel for position), analog guages (easier to read for general information), Heads Up Displays, and MFDs (Multi-Functional Displays) whose switches can have different functions depending on the page selected and "tweakable" br reprogramming.
Controls or displays that take your concentration away from vehicle operation are dangerous.
"That is simply not true. Did the poor in the 1950s have access to the kind of healthcare that someone on Medicare has to now? Did they drive better cards? Did they have access to the kind of technology ppl have access to today?"
Americans are brainwashed by media propaganda idealizing the 1950s as a better time. Well, maybe if everything was just like the sanitized boolshite Hollywood puts out, but it wasn't. Health care and emergency medicine were primitive, cars and trucks were pretty but unsafe (watch Signal 30 on YouTube for what crashes looked like!), racism was normal, etc.
"In the late 1950s, the overall poverty rate for individuals in the United States was 22 percent, representing 39.5 million poor persons. Between 1959 and 1969, the poverty rate declined dramatically and steadily to 12.1 percent. As a result of a sluggish economy, the rate increased slightly to 12.5 percent by 1971. In 1972 and 1973, however, it began to decrease again. In 1973, the poverty rate was 11.1 percent. At that time roughly 23 million people were poor.
In 1975 the poverty rate increased to 12.3 percent. It then oscillated around 11.5 percent for the next few years. After 1978, however, the rate rose steadily, reaching 15.2 percent in 1983. Thereafter it remained mostly higher than 13 percent. In 1993 it reached a new high of 15.1 percent, and then began to fall slowly. In 2000, 31 million people were poor (11.3 percent of the population). In 2001 the number of poor and the poverty rate both rose as economic difficulties moved into recession, and the rate has continued to rise; in 2003, 35.8 million people were poor by the official measure of poverty. By 2005, the number had risen to 37 million people (12.6 percent of the population)."
Good to hear USAA treats their people well. That fits their corporate reputation. They've been my insurance company since 1985 when I was a young E-4, and were always easy to deal with.
When you get a helpful tech, do ask how to contact their supervisor in order to praise their professionalism. Even if their boss does nothing for them, the praise will help them get through the stress brought on by the more "difficult" customers.
"What does software have to do with a hardware warranty?"
Not a damn thing after I wipe the drive and claim the both the actual malfunction and "my computar no bootee".
When I do a warranty return, whatever I send back is dead, not injured or intermittent.
I want a replacement, end of story.
Not that I would suggest anyone obtain a cheap gas grill piezo igniter and hang a couple of leads off it, but such a device leaves no burn marks and would in theory be great for bricking all sort of gear. (Makes a dandy spark plug tester too!)
No, but adding it to the existing, plentiful collection of anti-Diebold info then sending it as a letter to the editor at your local paper can put the spotlight on the issue!
My FNEOs (love the acronym!) are techno-illiterate, but they don't want to look stupid in public.
Slashdot Mirror
Actual "Plumbers Crack" is more like it.
"People forget that Net PC devices were a threat to people whose business depended on the PC model."
t raBoard.pl
Quite right, which is why they were crippled, which of course killed the market.
There is a small hobby where people try with varying success to un-cripple some of them:
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/Ul
"What a mouth you've got (or keyboard)." by pottymouth (61296)
I'm laughing so hard I think I damaged something...
"The only reason even pro-abortionists are against late term and post-natal abortions is because that's when the child starts looking cute. It's just like those damn baby seals everyone keeps crying about."
Just tell some anti-abortionists that the baby will grow up Gay and they'll be clubbing away like a Newfie on crank.
Slow, tiny, crippled cars aren't much use. I don't want one because I'd be sacrificing performance and agility for no gain. Being a sitting target in a glorified go-kart? Hell no.
If I want high fuel mileage, I'll ride my motorcycle instead.
It sits high, so I can see well.
It's narrow and agile, so I can use countersteering to turn quickly. If need be I can go offroad.
I can do grocery shopping since it has saddle bags and a rack.
If I want more cargo space, I can bolt on a sidecar.
I like my BMW R90/6, but if things get really an M1030M1 would be the ticket. 120mpg and hauls arse:
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bikes.html (scroll down)
www.m1030.com/
"What better foe than one that absolutely, cannot be defeated?"
We all know the WoT is a codename for the cultural war with Islam. Religions can be defeated.
Been to any Aztec or Mayan religious services lately? Breaking the idea of an imaginary celestial friend has been done.
Note that the process is violent, messy, not especially well-controlled, high-risk (to put it mildly) and politically incorrect to even speak of.
We also lack anyone ruthless and competent enough for the job, don't have a plan ('cept destabilization and hoping for opportunities) and the conflict hasn't escalated to the point of general public buy-in.
It's gonna be an interesting century!
"Actually, this should anger americans as much, because this means their government arbitrarily decided to NOT treat a person who (alledgely) commited crimes on USA soil according to their own law, and that that EU-person got an illegal advantage which no ordinary US citizen gets."
That's as ordinary as plea-bargaining. In the real word situations are not ideal, and a little of something is better than nothing.
Given the choice between never punishing a criminal or getting a lesser sentence, it makes perfect sense.
"Even fewer countries which claim to be democratic still practise it, such as...the USA."
Many of us disagree with you about deleting criminals. We, democratically, support killing them and continue to vote for the death penalty.
We as voters know that when we vote for the death penalty we are asking the state to use it!
The criminals concerned are primitives that only understand fear, and often not that. They are without value, so we don't value them more than the example they make by dying. They chose to be worthless and forfeit social protection.
The elitist EU has a remarkable fascination with preserving the criminal trash in US prisons. My reaction is that everyone who bootlicks these vermin should volunteer to share cells with a few of them. It would be quite the social science project. Better yet, offer every US citizen facing the death penalty refugee status and a plane ticket, conditional on not returning to the US. Think these folks are blossoms of humanity tragically trampled by the Man? You take 'em.
As an example to other people who think that they are so special and precious that your/my/anyone elses computer they fancy is fair game.
"Why go to all this trouble to lock him up?"
There are some people who don't "get" this, so we step on a few to send a message.
If he were a burglar who just wanted to look around and fiddle with the premises, he'd still go down for breaking and entering.
"In fact, the only environmentally friendly thing we could really do is to bury ourselves and become fertilizer."
We don't even do that in the "developed" world. Embalming and cremation are hardly enviro-friendly.
Farmers have a strong presence online, and there is lots of information that someone in the less-developed world can use.
For example, developed-world farmers fab a lot of their own equipment, including converting old buses and trucks into effective tractors.
A new tractor may be just a dream for a poor farmer, but bobbing a truck chassis and adding hydraulics driven from the power steering pump might be doable.
OLPC is for helping people who really leverage information. Most will probably go to waste, but that does not matter! It's about reaching the few (it's always a "few") who will learn and act on their newfound knowledge.
"the absurdity of rejecting science while depending on it so heavily is just lost on these people."
Their contemptible level of superstition is armor against logic.
What this tells us is that in order to make headway against them, we need to relentlessly attack their nonsense with even more logic and evidence. This is not to convince the religious, who are only fit to be ruled the the Karl Roves of the world, but to sow resistance among the young and the freethinkers who are not American Taliban. Every person we can encourage to doubt religion is a small victory.
We can't change the ignorant masses, but the people who embrace science and technology are often in position to influence and rule lesser humans.
We shouldn't scorn what NeoCons do with the mob. We should learn from it.
"absolutely ridiculous to focus on the 'tech side' like you are doing. absolutely dumb."
Slashdhot is about tech. Try Jerry Springer.
"what about the piracy that porn producers use against the actors?"
What about you support your assertions?
"Emotionally distraut" eH? This sounds more like Fundie anti-porn industry propaganda.
Runs well off a CF card, as does m0n0wall, etc.
You can also Ghost or dd an image of the CF card to load more systems or as backup.
I partitioned my CF card so I could Ghost the OS partition easily.
The CF card adapter is mounted in an old IDE swap rack. Pull rack, pull card, copy Ghost image using a card reader in another box.
"We need a mixture of the two. We need a setup of buttons, nobs, etc that the developer can tweek."
Bingo!
That's why aircraft cockpits are designed with a mix of manual switches (with positive DETENTS you can feel for position), analog guages (easier to read for general information), Heads Up Displays, and MFDs (Multi-Functional Displays) whose switches can have different functions depending on the page selected and "tweakable" br reprogramming.
Controls or displays that take your concentration away from vehicle operation are dangerous.
It should not be crippled either, or it will end up among the Ipaq-tastic curiosities on the I-Appliance BBS:
t raBoard.pl?Session=
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/Ul
Define "poor" as you see it.
Attacking the government definition without providing an example of your better definition and why it IS better is a "poor" argument.
"That is simply not true. Did the poor in the 1950s have access to the kind of healthcare that someone on Medicare has to now? Did they drive better cards? Did they have access to the kind of technology ppl have access to today?"
Americans are brainwashed by media propaganda idealizing the 1950s as a better time. Well, maybe if everything was just like the sanitized boolshite Hollywood puts out, but it wasn't.
Health care and emergency medicine were primitive, cars and trucks were pretty but unsafe (watch Signal 30 on YouTube for what crashes looked like!), racism was normal, etc.
Poverty stats:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq3.htm
"In the late 1950s, the overall poverty rate for individuals in the United States was 22 percent, representing 39.5 million poor persons. Between 1959 and 1969, the poverty rate declined dramatically and steadily to 12.1 percent. As a result of a sluggish economy, the rate increased slightly to 12.5 percent by 1971. In 1972 and 1973, however, it began to decrease again. In 1973, the poverty rate was 11.1 percent. At that time roughly 23 million people were poor.
In 1975 the poverty rate increased to 12.3 percent. It then oscillated around 11.5 percent for the next few years. After 1978, however, the rate rose steadily, reaching 15.2 percent in 1983. Thereafter it remained mostly higher than 13 percent. In 1993 it reached a new high of 15.1 percent, and then began to fall slowly. In 2000, 31 million people were poor (11.3 percent of the population). In 2001 the number of poor and the poverty rate both rose as economic difficulties moved into recession, and the rate has continued to rise; in 2003, 35.8 million people were poor by the official measure of poverty. By 2005, the number had risen to 37 million people (12.6 percent of the population)."
Good to hear USAA treats their people well. That fits their corporate reputation.
They've been my insurance company since 1985 when I was a young E-4, and were always easy to deal with.
Floppy drive to load RAID drivers?
Try slipstreaming instead. nlite makes it even easier.
When you get a helpful tech, do ask how to contact their supervisor in order to praise their professionalism. Even if their boss does nothing for them, the praise will help them get through the stress brought on by the more "difficult" customers.
"What does software have to do with a hardware warranty?"
Not a damn thing after I wipe the drive and claim the both the actual malfunction and "my computar no bootee".
When I do a warranty return, whatever I send back is dead, not injured or intermittent.
I want a replacement, end of story.
Not that I would suggest anyone obtain a cheap gas grill piezo igniter and hang a couple of leads off it, but such a device leaves no burn marks and would in theory be great for bricking all sort of gear. (Makes a dandy spark plug tester too!)
No, but adding it to the existing, plentiful collection of anti-Diebold info then sending it as a letter to the editor at your local paper can put the spotlight on the issue!
My FNEOs (love the acronym!) are techno-illiterate, but they don't want to look stupid in public.
I'd prefer the 49% solution:
The ideal date turns into a six-pack and a pizza when you are done.
A seat cover and lamb chops ain't half-bad!
Distinguishing and following blood trails would be easier. Tracking people is quite like tracking animals, and while it sounds gory, this matters.
While it doesn't get much mention nowadays (being very un-PC), blood trails were followed by both sides when tracking each other in Viet Nam.
"I want to see them get smacked down, and HARD."
:)
So do many of us, and now we have a nice example of corporate conduct to bring up should our local governments want to buy their stuff.