Hve the decency to admit that the opposition to doing something about Saddam is based on pure intellectual dishonesty
And if Saddam being in power isn't what the protesters wanted, then what on earth DID they want? WE all knew the UN sanctions weren't ever going to work, and that they were only starving his subjects. We all knew he wasn't going to step down of his own accord. And we all knew the UN wasn't going to oust him so long as most of the Security Council had a vested interest in keeping him there. So what's left?
PC104 is NOT a good bus for hard real time applications. It hasn't got enough bandwidth or interrupt support. Couldn't they at least go PCI or CPCI?
Maybe it's not so bad. It sounds like all the mission critical I/O is on the CPU board, so it doesn't go through that damn bus. But even so, it makes me wonder about their thought processes. Maybe it'll work. But if it does, it won't be because of PC104. It'll be despite it.
PC104+ is a stupid kluge. Adapting an architecture from the IBM PC-AT to a class of applications it was never intended for. PC104+ is to hardware what Windows CE is to operating systems.
Okay, that metric conversion thing could have been easily avoided if they'd just use MKS units throughout. That was boneheaded. But all those other failed missions...
Listen, this stuff is hard. A design feedback loop measured in months can be a killer. Simulators aren't enough for a problem this complex. I'm not whining. I'm just pointing it out.
Disclosure: I don't work for NASA, but I do hard real time programming for robotic systems. I can imagine what these people are dealing with. I have to extrapolate, but I can imagine it.
He sure acted guilty. Some say he didn't have them, but he thought he did. could be the same deal here.
They've already written off your future business.
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They've clearly given up on getting people to buy their product. Their new business model is FUD for hire by means of litigation.
This isn't the way to hurt them. They have nothing left to lose on that front. The way to hurt them is to find out all of what they were up to, get the proof, and then put the bastards in jail.
Can't check now, but I recall reading they were using a PC104 stack. They really ought to use a platform more suited to a real time control system. For this sort of thing you need lots of interrupt lines, preferably level triggered.
Seriously. I once had a Soundblaster of some sort with this feature. I could hook it up to the stereo and I was in business with a *real* sound system.
I suppose you could also try your luck with the headphone jack. But you may run into a ground loop problem.
If their sales go down, for any reason, they'll blame file sharing. The notion that people just don't want their crap will never occur to them.
What we need is for artists and consumers to bypass the IP oligarchs entirely. Don't sign that contract! Give away free samples over the Internet, of low fidelity. Sell tickets for live performances. Works for the Dead.
This could be the dorkiest name since Windows Me. Or Volkswagen Golf. Fahrfergnugen, man.
Europe got culture?
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Oh, boy. I am such a redneck. I need to put on a Kraftwerk CD and read some gibberish by Derrida. And then maybe go out and pogrom a few Jews. Then I'll be suave and sophisticated.
And now is the time on Sprockets where we go on about how much more culture we have than the Americans.
Okay, I'll grant Europe had a fine culture, once. Operas and architecture and symphonies and everything. But that was a gosh-darn long time ago. Let's just face it. Europe has been in decline, culturally and politically, for about a century now.
I can get Beethoven, Mozart and Sibelius on CD. I can get the Dutch masters in high quality reproduction. I can even get the worthless crap the French are passing off as philosophy these days, though there's not much point. Who needs Europe anymore? It's all used up.
Nowadays, someone mentions European culture, and what comes to mind is the topless aerobics in that Chevy Chase movie. Just think, honey. They've been doing this for eons!
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how he can get rich quick while enlarging his penis and getting high legally.
And if Saddam being in power isn't what the protesters wanted, then what on earth DID they want? WE all knew the UN sanctions weren't ever going to work, and that they were only starving his subjects. We all knew he wasn't going to step down of his own accord. And we all knew the UN wasn't going to oust him so long as most of the Security Council had a vested interest in keeping him there. So what's left?
Note that the nations who most supported him are the very ones that opposed the war.
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I thought it was the shareholders' money. At least in theory.
Lumping me in with the ambulance chasers. The code I write isn't nearly as convoluted as the code lawyers write, and it actually does useful work.
Now if I worked for Microsoft, the shoe might fit...
Or else I'll have to start calling them virusen just to teach you a lesson. Or maybe virusi.
Upload both ways!
And I think it's a cute and handy little scripting language. Think of it as BASIC done better.
Although, all things considered, I would have preferred curly brackets. Slightly. It's not something I feel passionate about, but there it is.
Watch for Microsoft operating systems to be more prone to virii in the future.
PC104 is NOT a good bus for hard real time applications. It hasn't got enough bandwidth or interrupt support. Couldn't they at least go PCI or CPCI?
Maybe it's not so bad. It sounds like all the mission critical I/O is on the CPU board, so it doesn't go through that damn bus. But even so, it makes me wonder about their thought processes. Maybe it'll work. But if it does, it won't be because of PC104. It'll be despite it.
PC104+ is a stupid kluge. Adapting an architecture from the IBM PC-AT to a class of applications it was never intended for. PC104+ is to hardware what Windows CE is to operating systems.
Oh well. At least they're not using Windows CE.
Okay, that metric conversion thing could have been easily avoided if they'd just use MKS units throughout. That was boneheaded. But all those other failed missions...
Listen, this stuff is hard. A design feedback loop measured in months can be a killer. Simulators aren't enough for a problem this complex. I'm not whining. I'm just pointing it out.
Disclosure: I don't work for NASA, but I do hard real time programming for robotic systems. I can imagine what these people are dealing with. I have to extrapolate, but I can imagine it.
He sure acted guilty. Some say he didn't have them, but he thought he did. could be the same deal here.
They've clearly given up on getting people to buy their product. Their new business model is FUD for hire by means of litigation.
This isn't the way to hurt them. They have nothing left to lose on that front. The way to hurt them is to find out all of what they were up to, get the proof, and then put the bastards in jail.
Supporting mass-murdering thugs the world over.
Berkeley is full of hypocritical assholes. Never confuse press releases with reality.
let `em friggin' pay the rates.
What if you get a ruling in your favor, and they just decide to ignore it? How do you collect your money?
It's given that they're using a computer for control. So they should use the right computer.
Can't check now, but I recall reading they were using a PC104 stack. They really ought to use a platform more suited to a real time control system. For this sort of thing you need lots of interrupt lines, preferably level triggered.
Seriously. I once had a Soundblaster of some sort with this feature. I could hook it up to the stereo and I was in business with a *real* sound system.
I suppose you could also try your luck with the headphone jack. But you may run into a ground loop problem.
If they can do whatever they want, then what's their excuse for wanting to do this?
Do you also enjoy being spanked by a fat girl in leather while you're coding?
Anyway, as has been pointed out elsewhere, this isn't quite Thoreau's notion of civil disobedience that we're talking about.
motivates them, rather than cement-headed greed.
If their sales go down, for any reason, they'll blame file sharing. The notion that people just don't want their crap will never occur to them.
What we need is for artists and consumers to bypass the IP oligarchs entirely. Don't sign that contract! Give away free samples over the Internet, of low fidelity. Sell tickets for live performances. Works for the Dead.
Three times fast: GNU/Linux GNU/Linux GNU/Linux.
This could be the dorkiest name since Windows Me. Or Volkswagen Golf. Fahrfergnugen, man.
Oh, boy. I am such a redneck. I need to put on a Kraftwerk CD and read some gibberish by Derrida. And then maybe go out and pogrom a few Jews. Then I'll be suave and sophisticated.
And now is the time on Sprockets where we go on about how much more culture we have than the Americans.
Okay, I'll grant Europe had a fine culture, once. Operas and architecture and symphonies and everything. But that was a gosh-darn long time ago. Let's just face it. Europe has been in decline, culturally and politically, for about a century now.
I can get Beethoven, Mozart and Sibelius on CD. I can get the Dutch masters in high quality reproduction. I can even get the worthless crap the French are passing off as philosophy these days, though there's not much point. Who needs Europe anymore? It's all used up.
Nowadays, someone mentions European culture, and what comes to mind is the topless aerobics in that Chevy Chase movie. Just think, honey. They've been doing this for eons!