Interesting link on the voter registration fraud. I knew about a lot of his bad connections, but that one's even worse than most.
Note that basically every site that talks about how bad ACORN is is a site with a known conservative bent. No, I haven't read every site out there, and I don't plan to. I found information on many sites by checking SourceWatch, a site that shows the ties that various online and print news outlets have. They do note that they're a progressive organization, so at least they're being honest. Of course, they also use facts and don't really seem to put much opinion in their synopses. They also cite sources, which lets you check for yourself.
Any site that tells you what to think is probably not worth your time. Sites that don't tell you where they got their information, or what they did with it, are likewise useless or borderline useless.
Did you happen to notice that the domain was registered in February of 2004? It's unlikely that the Obama campaign decided to grab it for this campaign. (actually, this thread shows that it may have been handed over to MySpace in 2006.)
So who knows who decided to point it at the Obama campaign site.
but it's a stretch to claim he supported the telecom immunity aspect of it when he supported all the attempts to remove telecom immunity from it.
How much more "for it" can you be than a YEA vote for a bill which contains it?
As a congress critter, if there is a part of a bill you don't like IT IS YOUR JOB TO VOTE AGAINST THE WHOLE THING!!!!
Well, no, that's not true. As a congress critter, it's your job to try to reach a suitable COMPROMISE with those who disagree with you. If you believe that a bill has 99% good stuff in it and only 1% bad, then it's probably a good bill to vote for. Of course, if that 1% includes something that you absolutely can't live with, then you should vote against it.
That's what the whole "checks and balances" thing is all about.
No it isn't. Checks and balances is about making sure that one person doesn't have the power to change laws, put themselves above the law, etc. Of course, the current administration seems to have forgotten that...
The immunity is unconstitutional (see ex post facto) even without the 4th amendment violations.
Between FISA and the Patriot Act, why even have the 4th amendment any more?
Well, that's a separate question altogether;) It would be nice if we'd get some of our rights back sometime soon.
yes indeed, don't you see that was my point? There were already operating systems, tens of the buggers. The problem was they lacked focus, chasing after each other and trying to trap customers. Go read about the Unix wars, you're history knowledge needs improving. Well, that's not entirely true. There was CP/M, which ran on computers from several vendors (including several different processor families), and provided a common set of OS tools to the programmer. I'm not sure how great that was for end users, but it couldn't have been all that bad.
Vendor lock in was what the Unix wars were all about. Microsoft didn't invent that, they just said 'hey, we have new stuff that's cheaper, and it runs on any pc' They never claimed that other software makers could do better, that didn't make sense back then, co-operation was for losers.. That was true for "large computers", but not for "small computers". Of course it's true that there was a very small market for home computers at the time: Commodore PET, Tandy TRS-80, Atari, Apple, and several smaller players like Exidy and more I can't remember). Also, the phrase "runs on any PC" is kind of misleading, considering where we are today. The IBM PC was the only x86 computer in existence when they released it, and it was not compatible with anything else (though the instruction set is more or less an extension of the Z80->8080->8085). There were no clones of the PC until at least 2-3 years after it was released, IIRC.
Before microsoft you would buy your computing solution, the software would be custom written for that hardware only, and you were locked completelly to one vendor for both hardware and software, they could and did charge what they liked, and if the software was crap? tough. Microsofts greatest hit was not being tied to a specific hardware set, they could sell their stuff to any computer manufacturer they pleased. Well, actually I think MS-DOS only ran on one computer at the time - the new IBM PC. The competitor CP/M was the one that could run on multiple machine types. I don't reember Microsoft ever coming out with a version of MS-DOS for the TRS-80 (probably the most popular business computer at the time).
Yes microsoft has software vendor lock in. They emerged in an era where this was an improvement. Besides, all businesses cared about was that it worked, and would be compatible with what other companies were using. This was another problem in the unix wars. I don't think so. See previous comments about there being only one computer that MS-DOS worked on.
You're making the mistake of taking current events and extrapolating back 20 years, that doesn't work. Yes microsoft aren't so nice now, but have you had a look at what IBM used to get up to? They make microsoft look soft, I'm telling you. Either company wasn't too nice back in the day. That doesn't make it a good thing.
I recently bought a manual Bridgeport milling machine, and am in the process of converting it to CNC.
I will be using Linux EMC to control it. This is a program which uses Linux + either RTAI or RTLinux for realtime. It does 6-axis control, and has pluggable kinematics modules (ie, it can control X-Y-Z milling machines, Stewart platforms (hexapods), radial arm robots (like the PUMA 560), etc).
The G-code interpreter is actually the reference RS274NGC interpreter, originally developed at NIST. There is still some NIST involvement inthe project, but it's mostly community-driven now.
I am also using an FPGA-based step pulse generator made by Pico Systems, and excellent servo drives made by GeckoDrive. (no links to prevent slashdotting) The external step generator isn't necessary, I'm just using it because the step rate I can get from a PC parallel port isn't high enough for my machine. The resolution of my machine is 40000 steps/inch, or 0.000025" per step, and the PC can only generate around 25k-50k pulses per second. Since I want faster rapids than 60 IPM, and I don't want to sacrifice resolution, I Need the faster pulse generation of the external board.
As for cost, EMC is free. Servos are expensive as hell from normal sources, but there are plenty on eBay for $125 - $150 each. The servo drives are $110 each, and the interface board (which also has lots of digital I/O) is $250. Add in an old slow PC (Pentium 333, for example) for $10, and you can do the whole motion control thing in the $1000 range, plus the actual machine.
And if you walk backwards, are you moving backwards through the air, or are you traveling in the opposite direction?
They were saying that the blade has air passing over it from the "back" of the blade toward the "front" of the blade - not that the entire blade was moving in the opposite direction.
It's the same as you turning your back to the wind - even if you're walking forward (slower than the wind) or standing still, you're going backwards through the air.
Sure - OK. It could be an attempt to divert attention from his ethics troubles, but it doesn't even need to be that for him to be a prick.
He's from Texas. The major NASA sites are in Texas. This funding (however much it is - I didn't see an amount in TFA) will go to his home state, so it makes him happy. Pretty much all of the senators/congresspersons try to get as many tax dollars as possible spent in their home districts.
As for the funding levels, remember maintenance. There are a number of ongoing missions (re: Voyager) that take money to run. None of these existed in the early NASA years (though they did have to build facilities, so that may be a wash).
And, as some other posters have pointed out, he's not sending NASA *his* money, he's sending taxpayer money - *mine*.
All this probably sounds like I'm against funding NASA, which isn't true. I would love to have NASA research (and scientific education) funded as far as possible. What I can't stand is the stupid politics that go along with it. ("No Child Left Behind" - sounds great, less funding)
There is exactly one thing that determines how much fuel your car uses: how far you press the gas pedal.
There are various factors that will affect how far you want to push the pedal (wind, hills, desired speed, flat tires, etc.), but ONLY the position of the pedal affects the rate of fuel usage.
The practical message here is that you can reduce fuel usage by not pressing the pedal as far. If you're in stop and go traffic, you will use a lot more fuel if you try to accelerate to 60MPH between each traffic light. If you accelerate slowly, you'll use less fuel.
There is an obvious crossover point when the decreased rate of usage is overshadowed by the longer time needed to geet from point A to point B (obviously, you'll have 0 MPG if you just leave the car idling:) - this is where the major differences in economy usually show themselves.
You can't drag and drop PART of a hierarchy in Windows, unless you first go to the search window, do a search, then copy/paste all the search results into the new location
Usually, claims are made like so: 1) A device to clean shit. 2) A device of claim 1, which further Disinfects; 3) A device of claim 1, which further Deodorizes; 4) A device of claim 1, which both Disinfects and Deodorizes; 5) A device of claim 4, which further Polishes to a high gloss 6) A device to clean piss. 7) A device of claim 6, which further cleans vomit.... (usually limited to 20 or so claims)
So, if you make a shit cleaner, you infringe under claim 1.
If you make a disinfecting shit cleaner, you infringe under claim 2 - claim 1 wouldn't cover it alone, since it's an improvement to claim 1.
etc.
IANAL, but I have helped to write a patent application (which was accepted). I also have had the distinct displeasure of reading patents to try to find infringement.
Uh have you ever read the specs for Artic Silver III?
Thermal conductivity: >9.0 W/mK (Hot Wire Method Per MIL-C-47113)
Extended temperature limits: - 40C to >180C
That doesn't say that their compound meets the MIL spec, it only says that they measured using the same method which is used to test products for that spec.
It's like saying "The military uses a Simpson 235 multimeter to measure voltage, and we do too".
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Actually, you got the math wrong. Also, one of your premises was wrong: it moved 10 feet, not 3. (even though the back of the rover is ~3 feet from the lander, it had to drive the front wheels off the lander, then move far enough so the back rolls across the lander, off the ramp, and another 3 feet beyond)
There are 3600 seconds in an hour, so Spirit would travel (3600/78) * 10 = 461.538 feet, or a little under 1/11 mile per hour. (0.08741, to be more exact)
The propulsion is nuclear, but the technology was largely invented between 1958 and 1965. It's a bomp-propelled ship. Of course, most of the project documents are still classified, because they deal with small size/yield nuclear bombs and their effects.
The original plan was for several ship sizes, the largest being a 10,000-ton ship that could carry a 5300 ton payload (yes - that's 10.6 million pounds) from Earth launch to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit. The transit time would be 258 days each way, with a 454-day stay, for a total trip duration of about 32 months.* And that's a "minimum-energy" plan - the trip could be shorter, or not dependent on the Earth-Mars alignment, if the payload is reduced (ie, more fuel)
There are some engineering issues to work out, but the science is sound.
This plan will be called "No Planet Left Behind". It will be an unfunded mandate that NASA must establish a base on the moon and Mars, or lose its funding.
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This might be a good reason for Pres. Bush to start up the astronaut space program again. Those politicians are always looking for a reason.
Bush would never do that - there's no oil in space, so there's no need to go there.
I wonder if Novell's multiple namespaces would invalidate any of these patents.
Since the very early days (like NetWare 2.x, for the '286), Novell has had the ability to simultaneously serve multiple namespaces. There was initial support for DOS and UNIX (NFS), and later support for Windows, OS/2, and Macintosh were added. There may be others. This has been around since the '80s (with extensions in the '90s).
Remember, movie piracy doesn't just hurt actors, but also camera operators, key grips, makeup artists, and costumers.
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Don't want to enter the issue "but piracing will make movies spend less money" (which I doubt, based on current trend), but I got curious by this part.
This is the only argument that can possibly support the original statement. Only the people at the top level get any residuals - everyone else works for a daily wage and that's it. In fact, most people are working as subcontractors hired for the duration of the project (or their part in it). The grips, production assistants, special effects people, camera assistants, caterers, craft services, drivers, extras... are all essentially self-employed. The unions help by providing health insurance and pension plans, and collective bargaining.
So, the only way that the "bottom of the pack" people get affected is if the industry as a whole goes into a slump because of piracy.
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Interesting link on the voter registration fraud. I knew about a lot of his bad connections, but that one's even worse than most.
Note that basically every site that talks about how bad ACORN is is a site with a known conservative bent. No, I haven't read every site out there, and I don't plan to. I found information on many sites by checking SourceWatch, a site that shows the ties that various online and print news outlets have. They do note that they're a progressive organization, so at least they're being honest. Of course, they also use facts and don't really seem to put much opinion in their synopses. They also cite sources, which lets you check for yourself.
Any site that tells you what to think is probably not worth your time. Sites that don't tell you where they got their information, or what they did with it, are likewise useless or borderline useless.
Did you happen to notice that the domain was registered in February of 2004? It's unlikely that the Obama campaign decided to grab it for this campaign. (actually, this thread shows that it may have been handed over to MySpace in 2006.)
So who knows who decided to point it at the Obama campaign site.
but it's a stretch to claim he supported the telecom immunity aspect of it when he supported all the attempts to remove telecom immunity from it.
How much more "for it" can you be than a YEA vote for a bill which contains it?
As a congress critter, if there is a part of a bill you don't like IT IS YOUR JOB TO VOTE AGAINST THE WHOLE THING!!!!
Well, no, that's not true. As a congress critter, it's your job to try to reach a suitable COMPROMISE with those who disagree with you. If you believe that a bill has 99% good stuff in it and only 1% bad, then it's probably a good bill to vote for. Of course, if that 1% includes something that you absolutely can't live with, then you should vote against it.
That's what the whole "checks and balances" thing is all about.
No it isn't. Checks and balances is about making sure that one person doesn't have the power to change laws, put themselves above the law, etc. Of course, the current administration seems to have forgotten that...
The immunity is unconstitutional (see ex post facto) even without the 4th amendment violations.
Between FISA and the Patriot Act, why even have the 4th amendment any more?
Well, that's a separate question altogether ;) It would be nice if we'd get some of our rights back sometime soon.
Isn't it obvious?
I recently bought a manual Bridgeport milling machine, and am in the process of converting it to CNC.
I will be using Linux EMC to control it. This is a program which uses Linux + either RTAI or RTLinux for realtime. It does 6-axis control, and has pluggable kinematics modules (ie, it can control X-Y-Z milling machines, Stewart platforms (hexapods), radial arm robots (like the PUMA 560), etc).
The G-code interpreter is actually the reference RS274NGC interpreter, originally developed at NIST. There is still some NIST involvement inthe project, but it's mostly community-driven now.
I am also using an FPGA-based step pulse generator made by Pico Systems, and excellent servo drives made by GeckoDrive. (no links to prevent slashdotting) The external step generator isn't necessary, I'm just using it because the step rate I can get from a PC parallel port isn't high enough for my machine. The resolution of my machine is 40000 steps/inch, or 0.000025" per step, and the PC can only generate around 25k-50k pulses per second. Since I want faster rapids than 60 IPM, and I don't want to sacrifice resolution, I Need the faster pulse generation of the external board.
As for cost, EMC is free. Servos are expensive as hell from normal sources, but there are plenty on eBay for $125 - $150 each. The servo drives are $110 each, and the interface board (which also has lots of digital I/O) is $250. Add in an old slow PC (Pentium 333, for example) for $10, and you can do the whole motion control thing in the $1000 range, plus the actual machine.
And if you walk backwards, are you moving backwards through the air, or are you traveling in the opposite direction?
They were saying that the blade has air passing over it from the "back" of the blade toward the "front" of the blade - not that the entire blade was moving in the opposite direction.
It's the same as you turning your back to the wind - even if you're walking forward (slower than the wind) or standing still, you're going backwards through the air.
Sure - OK. It could be an attempt to divert attention from his ethics troubles, but it doesn't even need to be that for him to be a prick.
He's from Texas. The major NASA sites are in Texas. This funding (however much it is - I didn't see an amount in TFA) will go to his home state, so it makes him happy. Pretty much all of the senators/congresspersons try to get as many tax dollars as possible spent in their home districts.
As for the funding levels, remember maintenance. There are a number of ongoing missions (re: Voyager) that take money to run. None of these existed in the early NASA years (though they did have to build facilities, so that may be a wash).
And, as some other posters have pointed out, he's not sending NASA *his* money, he's sending taxpayer money - *mine*.
All this probably sounds like I'm against funding NASA, which isn't true. I would love to have NASA research (and scientific education) funded as far as possible. What I can't stand is the stupid politics that go along with it. ("No Child Left Behind" - sounds great, less funding)
So is "Moron", but they wisely chose not to use that name.
Those robots are friggin cool!!
I'd love to build some of my own (but who has the time?)
There is exactly one thing that determines how much fuel your car uses: how far you press the gas pedal.
:) - this is where the major differences in economy usually show themselves.
There are various factors that will affect how far you want to push the pedal (wind, hills, desired speed, flat tires, etc.), but ONLY the position of the pedal affects the rate of fuel usage.
The practical message here is that you can reduce fuel usage by not pressing the pedal as far. If you're in stop and go traffic, you will use a lot more fuel if you try to accelerate to 60MPH between each traffic light. If you accelerate slowly, you'll use less fuel.
There is an obvious crossover point when the decreased rate of usage is overshadowed by the longer time needed to geet from point A to point B (obviously, you'll have 0 MPG if you just leave the car idling
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Of course.
They announce this just AFTER I purchase an AIT-2 drive on EBay.
Bastards!
ls -l [aA]*.pdf
/e/s *.asm \asmbackups
or, in Windows itself
xcopy
You can't drag and drop PART of a hierarchy in Windows, unless you first go to the search window, do a search, then copy/paste all the search results into the new location
Actually, that's only partially true.
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Usually, claims are made like so:
1) A device to clean shit.
2) A device of claim 1, which further Disinfects;
3) A device of claim 1, which further Deodorizes;
4) A device of claim 1, which both Disinfects and Deodorizes;
5) A device of claim 4, which further Polishes to a high gloss
6) A device to clean piss.
7) A device of claim 6, which further cleans vomit.
(usually limited to 20 or so claims)
So, if you make a shit cleaner, you infringe under claim 1.
If you make a disinfecting shit cleaner, you infringe under claim 2 - claim 1 wouldn't cover it alone, since it's an improvement to claim 1.
etc.
IANAL, but I have helped to write a patent application (which was accepted). I also have had the distinct displeasure of reading patents to try to find infringement.
I'm not sure they look at anything other than the existing patent database.
If they'd look at the Real World (tm), they might notice a bunch of prior art that ISN'T patented.
Your Windows driver is probably better optimized - hence the faster tab switching.
Mozilla is about the same size on both OS(a little bigger on Linux), so the startup speed should be about the same on both OS.
If IE on Windows loaded in the same time as Mozilla on Linux, but Mozilla on Windows was slower, that would be weird, but this isn't.
- Steve
Thermal conductivity: >9.0 W/mK (Hot Wire Method Per MIL-C-47113)
Extended temperature limits: - 40C to >180C
That doesn't say that their compound meets the MIL spec, it only says that they measured using the same method which is used to test products for that spec. It's like saying "The military uses a Simpson 235 multimeter to measure voltage, and we do too".
Actually, you got the math wrong. Also, one of your premises was wrong: it moved 10 feet, not 3. (even though the back of the rover is ~3 feet from the lander, it had to drive the front wheels off the lander, then move far enough so the back rolls across the lander, off the ramp, and another 3 feet beyond)
There are 3600 seconds in an hour, so Spirit would travel (3600/78) * 10 = 461.538 feet, or a little under 1/11 mile per hour. (0.08741, to be more exact)
GDE: Gnome Desktop Environment
The propulsion is nuclear, but the technology was largely invented between 1958 and 1965. It's a bomp-propelled ship. Of course, most of the project documents are still classified, because they deal with small size/yield nuclear bombs and their effects.
The original plan was for several ship sizes, the largest being a 10,000-ton ship that could carry a 5300 ton payload (yes - that's 10.6 million pounds) from Earth launch to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit. The transit time would be 258 days each way, with a 454-day stay, for a total trip duration of about 32 months.* And that's a "minimum-energy" plan - the trip could be shorter, or not dependent on the Earth-Mars alignment, if the payload is reduced (ie, more fuel)
There are some engineering issues to work out, but the science is sound.
* from the book Project Orion
This plan will be called "No Planet Left Behind".
It will be an unfunded mandate that NASA must establish a base on the moon and Mars, or lose its funding.
This might be a good reason for Pres. Bush to start up the astronaut space program again. Those politicians are always looking for a reason.
Bush would never do that - there's no oil in space, so there's no need to go there.
I wonder if Novell's multiple namespaces would invalidate any of these patents.
Since the very early days (like NetWare 2.x, for the '286), Novell has had the ability to simultaneously serve multiple namespaces. There was initial support for DOS and UNIX (NFS), and later support for Windows, OS/2, and Macintosh were added. There may be others. This has been around since the '80s (with extensions in the '90s).
What a bunch of crap.
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Don't want to enter the issue "but piracing will make movies spend less money" (which I doubt, based on current trend), but I got curious by this part.
... are all essentially self-employed. The unions help by providing health insurance and pension plans, and collective bargaining.
This is the only argument that can possibly support the original statement. Only the people at the top level get any residuals - everyone else works for a daily wage and that's it. In fact, most people are working as subcontractors hired for the duration of the project (or their part in it). The grips, production assistants, special effects people, camera assistants, caterers, craft services, drivers, extras
So, the only way that the "bottom of the pack" people get affected is if the industry as a whole goes into a slump because of piracy.