While maybe not at age three, (seven though) this is being done every day here in the Good Old U.S. of A. and all over the world by the World Scouting Organizations under which all the nations Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts, and similar organizations of other names in other nations all provide character building, values in personal fitness, and skills in the outdoors.
Yet another article that attempts to portray a reality in the US that is not.
Nice try. Pesticide and herbicide are commonly accepted terms in the speak of agriculture and it's wares. Stretching to make herbs pests is just that, a stretch, but actually more just plain wrong. You'll never hear a farmer or ag professional walk into a farm supply center and say, "Hey Marv, give me 200 acres worth of that new pesticide that kills plants and not animals." Sorry. Won't happen.
My point in replying was because there are huge chemical differences to animal life with regards to herbicides versus pesticides. Pesticides are almost all highly toxic to almost all forms of animal life. Many of them work on nervous system function, and most animals have similar nervous systems. Herbicides not so much. This fact is known in the industry, and accidentally switching the terms can lead to a belief that they are equal in toxicity.
While I don't disagree with your assertions, presenting roundup as a pesticide is false. Pesticides in general are much more harmful to humans, small animals, etc. than most all herbicides.
With this home server coupled to what I know about Vista, how it works, and it's licensing stipulations, I have arrived at a conclusion as to what Microsoft wants you to think in regards to computer hardware and it's use in the future.
Knowing that Vista's licensing currently allows limited hardware alterations before requiring a new license, this server is almost a necessity. It seems to me that Microsoft wishes to alter the traditional role of the Personal Computer from it's current form, an upgradeable freely chosen conglomeration of hardware designed to function as a unit, user customizable based on what the user deems is necessary or desirable to a format where content is stored on this home server, and fed to your new box that is practically disposable. This server coupled with Vista is in my opinion what Microsoft thinks the world should have, rather than an all powerful PC with it's potential for upgrades. It looks like they want to close the gap between what a game console and a PC is to the home user. If they could do this I can imagine many marketing positives in this regard. Likely the biggest is a single product line gets all new engineering time.
That said, this might be a positive thing in the future, if hardware technology is released at a faster and faster rate, it may be a good thing to create a nearly disposable PC, except for the environmental concerns (which isn't a small issue).
I have many non-hardware-enthusiast friends who usually buy a cheaper big name PC with the thought that within a year or two they can upgrade to an exponentially better PC for similar money or less, in the end saving likely 50% of buying that real smoking PC the first time around. It works for them, and they always have a newer PC.
Imagine that, a business trying to conduct business to make a profit...Unfathomable.
While I will admit that there are many issues we can all pick to pieces with the way these corporations require certain "licensing" or usage requirements; this anti-corporate rhetoric is just another misguided thought process similar to the idea that the drug companies shouldn't be alowed to recoop their costs of development.
I'm not being funny here, I'm sure it's because they have lab mice in good supply, but imagine the strength to weight of these machines if they used ant muscle. Of course I suppose ant muscle doesn't work too well without the exoskeletal mechanical advantage.
First of all, since a vibrating string is probably the most simple to understand analog signal, this is basically a guitar with pickups that have an extra set of coils (This isn't the first HEX pickup in the least) to detect string height and an AD convertor or two. Or perhaps twelve. Not too difficult to design, but certainly difficult to implement in a sonically usable manner. Kudos to Gibson if it works well!
Most likely this is the patented pickup: http://makeashorterlink.com/?U47833293
For one example of a so called "digital" guitar there is of course the Line 6 Variax. http://www.line6.com/Variax/home.html
But that wasn't the first to meld guitar and digital conversion.
There are many previous designs, one involving pressure sensitive fretboard sections that would close switches and cause signal processing changes.
Even the Gibson design seen in this post isn't radically different than any past MIDI guitar.
It's all semantics as to what kind of signal you create or whether you performed AD to DA conversion inside or outside the guitar or on each string or the entire signal together or whatever.
Here's a very well done approach to a guitar type instrument that has since been discontinued, but is used by many famous artists. Allan Holdsworth to name one. http://www.hollis.co.uk/john/synthaxe.html
If given the opportunity, most everyone I know with any interest at all in technology would definitely go on a space mission.
Certainly, losing scientists and pilots and engineers and productive citizens is terrible and more than unfortunate, but these people know the risks and have weighed them personally and socially, against the consequences of not going into space.
Most of your arguement lies with the ridiculous price tag on the ISS. The ISS is a boondoggle to end all boondoggles and should not have progressed to such a horrible cost.
Shuttle launches are comparatively cheaper.
It is my opinion that NASA should get their act together in the PR department. A media rich All NASA All The Time cable channel would be a great start.
Imagine a NASA version of the History Channel combined with live mission footage and engineering / design stories. I'd watch it.
Something like this is necessary to educate the public as to the progress being made, as well as the dangers being risked. Perhaps news and broadcasting like that would result in the next big innovation in space travel due to capturing the minds of the next generation of engineers and astronauts.
I've long wondered why nobody has basically done exactly this with wireless capability, allowing free access into a separate drive or partition or even a separate firewalled "server" PC within wireless range.
Imagine universities or dorms or apartment complexes or even neighborhoods all with this wireless short to medium range peer to peer connectivity.
I'm not a networking expert or anything, so perhaps this has been done or is possible with current technology.
I'm also not fully knowledgeable in any laws that might come into play, but still I think it would revolutionize everything.
"The forthcoming Bounty Hunter game for the Playstation 2 lets players take over the role of Jango Fett in a story set just before the events of Episode II - Attack of the Clone."
Wouldn't most of his time before then be spent in a clinic exam room making "genetic material" with a small dish and a porno mag?
I happened to be in a Computer Renaissance store the other day and saw a couple PPC UMAX Pc's for sale there. Quite cheap. $100 apiece (Old too, not new Power PC's of course.)
Uhhh... I take it you've never been on a ranch with 100 years of broken farm machinery occupying an acre or so of land near the barns and storage sheds, eh?
Of course I have, I live in a state where that used to occur quite often, and still does in some places. That is an issue entirely solved by local governments and enforcing laws most likely already on the books that outlaw eyesores of machinery and useless structures.
Myth number one of the anti-conservation movement: private land is better cared for from a a conservation perspective than our National Forests, Parks, or rangeland.
The difference there is you are being forced to pay federal or state government employees to make this clean and nice by gunpoint when you pay your taxes. Don't tell me you think this is a cost effective way of performing conservation efforts.
Forgotten fact number one: the Taylor Act was passed at the request of ranchers themselves (if you don't know what it is or why it's important, look it up).
The Taylor Act has little to do with my arguement other than the fact that it illustrates a period in history where there was a willingness of non property owners to regulate grazing and misuse of resources on property that wasn't theirs. Congratulations to them. Too bad more industries don't do that.
It is also too bad that the problem with erosion and desertification had to happen in such a magnitude that the wheels of the Federal Government had to be implimented to get this issue fixed.
Really, if you fly, the idea is to land somewhere.
The fact that you most likely travel in a straight line would serve to reason that you will be crossing over other small bits of civilization before you reach your destination since things like roads etc. will also take the shortest reasonable path.
Fly off in some random direction say in North Central North Dakota or something. When you run out of gas and land on the prairie let us know how many signs of civilization you came across.
Who else cares more about land and conservation and capping pollution than an owner of the property?
How many public parks and public nature areas do you see needing a continuous clean up effort to keep them free of litter? The reason for this is that the fact that nobody owns them, a good majority of the people that use the areas feel less inclined to keep things properly clean.
All in all this article is journalistic trash.
Eliminating two of the largest unpopulated land masses from the equation is simply ridiculous and illustrates clearly the political aims the article is seeking to achieve.
First, if someone has 8 other OS's don't you think at least one of them would have been another Linux distro and therefore the shot about Mandrake not supporting his camera either would have been already known, or he would know the RPM's existed to get the thing to work?
Also, since when does the average internet user use 800x600 ?! This is clearly not the case. I do but thats only because I have a small 14" piece of crap monitor that only supports 800x600.
Personally I find the partitioning tool very intuitive. What's more simple that selecting the drive to work with on a tab, and clicking create and sliding a slider to make the partition the size you wish? I guess he prefers FDISK...
Also, the mouse config tool works fine for me every time. I can't find fault in his review there, since it is possible he had problems for whatever reason.
The update packages part of the install works just fine if you include all the necessary information. At least on a dialup. He doesn't say that he did his best on configuring his internet connection so that this feature would work properly.
On the XFS issue he raises, I could swear that I have all my partitions as XFS with no/boot and it works fine. I could be wrong.
Automobile Magazine did a similar test illustrating the effect of high powered spotlights versus law enforcement laser speed detection. Their findings were if I remember correctly, that with a pair of standard off-road type spotlights (most likely 50 to 100 watts or more each) you could blind the laser speed gun until you reached a closeness of a couple hundred yards or less. (Surely enough time to lower your speed.) To eliminate blasting other drivers retinas and making a sure spectacle of yourself the article placed simple plastic filters over the lenses that allowed only IR light through I believe. These lights could be hidden behind grilles or other light allowing accessories and you could wire them up to your ignition so as to not worry about draining your battery.
I can't think of a project that would make me hate getting up and going to work more.
Imagine realizing that your entire small programming team's reason for existance is simply because someone above you thinks that there is value in creating a service based on the fact that the average user is too damned lazy to create and remember proper passwords.
Do you suppose Microsoft creates worthless things like this just to get the open source community to waste time on them?
I don't think this is the case, but why does the open source world insist on always doing things "Because Microsoft has it!"
We should all be happy that each developer thinks they can do better then the next. In the open source world pride is the main driving force to improve the things that already work, where in the non open source world the almighty ching drives most innovation.
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Maybe cat loving ladies have this parasite and they give it to their cats instead.
While maybe not at age three, (seven though) this is being done every day here in the Good Old U.S. of A. and all over the world by the World Scouting Organizations under which all the nations Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts, and similar organizations of other names in other nations all provide character building, values in personal fitness, and skills in the outdoors.
Yet another article that attempts to portray a reality in the US that is not.
Nice try. Pesticide and herbicide are commonly accepted terms in the speak of agriculture and it's wares.
Stretching to make herbs pests is just that, a stretch, but actually more just plain wrong. You'll never hear a farmer or ag professional walk into a farm supply center and say, "Hey Marv, give me 200 acres worth of that new pesticide that kills plants and not animals." Sorry. Won't happen.
My point in replying was because there are huge chemical differences to animal life with regards to herbicides versus pesticides.
Pesticides are almost all highly toxic to almost all forms of animal life. Many of them work on nervous system function, and most animals have similar nervous systems. Herbicides not so much.
This fact is known in the industry, and accidentally switching the terms can lead to a belief that they are equal in toxicity.
That's no where near the truth.
While I don't disagree with your assertions, presenting roundup as a pesticide is false. Pesticides in general are much more harmful to humans, small animals, etc. than most all herbicides.
With this home server coupled to what I know about Vista, how it works, and it's licensing stipulations, I have arrived at a conclusion as to what Microsoft wants you to think in regards to computer hardware and it's use in the future.
Knowing that Vista's licensing currently allows limited hardware alterations before requiring a new license, this server is almost a necessity. It seems to me that Microsoft wishes to alter the traditional role of the Personal Computer from it's current form, an upgradeable freely chosen conglomeration of hardware designed to function as a unit, user customizable based on what the user deems is necessary or desirable to a format where content is stored on this home server, and fed to your new box that is practically disposable. This server coupled with Vista is in my opinion what Microsoft thinks the world should have, rather than an all powerful PC with it's potential for upgrades. It looks like they want to close the gap between what a game console and a PC is to the home user. If they could do this I can imagine many marketing positives in this regard. Likely the biggest is a single product line gets all new engineering time.
That said, this might be a positive thing in the future, if hardware technology is released at a faster and faster rate, it may be a good thing to create a nearly disposable PC, except for the environmental concerns (which isn't a small issue).
I have many non-hardware-enthusiast friends who usually buy a cheaper big name PC with the thought that within a year or two they can upgrade to an exponentially better PC for similar money or less, in the end saving likely 50% of buying that real smoking PC the first time around. It works for them, and they always have a newer PC.
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Imagine that, a business trying to conduct business to make a profit...Unfathomable.
While I will admit that there are many issues we can all pick to pieces with the way these corporations require certain "licensing" or usage requirements; this anti-corporate rhetoric is just another misguided thought process similar to the idea that the drug companies shouldn't be alowed to recoop their costs of development.
I'm not being funny here, I'm sure it's because they have lab mice in good supply, but imagine the strength to weight of these machines if they used ant muscle. Of course I suppose ant muscle doesn't work too well without the exoskeletal mechanical advantage.
First of all, since a vibrating string is probably the most simple to understand analog signal, this is basically a guitar with pickups that have an extra set of coils (This isn't the first HEX pickup in the least) to detect string height and an AD convertor or two. Or perhaps twelve. Not too difficult to design, but certainly difficult to implement in a sonically usable manner. Kudos to Gibson if it works well!
Most likely this is the patented pickup:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U47833293
For one example of a so called "digital" guitar there is of course the Line 6 Variax.
http://www.line6.com/Variax/home.html
But that wasn't the first to meld guitar and digital conversion.
There are many previous designs, one involving pressure sensitive fretboard sections that would close switches and cause signal processing changes.
Even the Gibson design seen in this post isn't radically different than any past MIDI guitar.
It's all semantics as to what kind of signal you create or whether you performed AD to DA conversion inside or outside the guitar or on each string or the entire signal together or whatever.
Here's a very well done approach to a guitar type instrument that has since been discontinued, but is used by many famous artists. Allan Holdsworth to name one.
http://www.hollis.co.uk/john/synthaxe.html
If given the opportunity, most everyone I know with any interest at all in technology would definitely go on a space mission.
Certainly, losing scientists and pilots and engineers and productive citizens is terrible and more than unfortunate, but these people know the risks and have weighed them personally and socially, against the consequences of not going into space.
Most of your arguement lies with the ridiculous price tag on the ISS. The ISS is a boondoggle to end all boondoggles and should not have progressed to such a horrible cost.
Shuttle launches are comparatively cheaper.
It is my opinion that NASA should get their act together in the PR department. A media rich All NASA All The Time cable channel would be a great start.
Imagine a NASA version of the History Channel combined with live mission footage and engineering / design stories. I'd watch it.
Something like this is necessary to educate the public as to the progress being made, as well as the dangers being risked. Perhaps news and broadcasting like that would result in the next big innovation in space travel due to capturing the minds of the next generation of engineers and astronauts.
Imagine universities or dorms or apartment complexes or even neighborhoods all with this wireless short to medium range peer to peer connectivity.
I'm not a networking expert or anything, so perhaps this has been done or is possible with current technology.
I'm also not fully knowledgeable in any laws that might come into play, but still I think it would revolutionize everything.
From the article:
"The forthcoming Bounty Hunter game for the Playstation 2 lets players take over the role of Jango Fett in a story set just before the events of Episode II - Attack of the Clone."
Wouldn't most of his time before then be spent in a clinic exam room making "genetic material" with a small dish and a porno mag?
I happened to be in a Computer Renaissance store the other day and saw a couple PPC UMAX Pc's for sale there. Quite cheap. $100 apiece (Old too, not new Power PC's of course.)
I fully agree with you.
I do not include corporate owners in the arguement. Simply because of the fact that they are disfunctional in respect to anything that costs capital.
The corporate environment is pro anything that is cost saving.
Corporate owned land is in effect the same as public owned land because there is no outside influence on the corporation to do the right thing.
There is simply internal influence to do anything that creates capital.
I believe in the capitalist theory, grudginly, but there are issues that could be overhauled and this is one of them.
Uhhh ... I take it you've never been on a ranch with 100 years of broken farm machinery occupying an acre or so of land near the barns and storage sheds, eh?
Of course I have, I live in a state where that used to occur quite often, and still does in some places. That is an issue entirely solved by local governments and enforcing laws most likely already on the books that outlaw eyesores of machinery and useless structures.
Myth number one of the anti-conservation movement: private land is better cared for from a a conservation perspective than our National Forests, Parks, or rangeland.
The difference there is you are being forced to pay federal or state government employees to make this clean and nice by gunpoint when you pay your taxes. Don't tell me you think this is a cost effective way of performing conservation efforts.
Forgotten fact number one: the Taylor Act was passed at the request of ranchers themselves (if you don't know what it is or why it's important, look it up).
The Taylor Act has little to do with my arguement other than the fact that it illustrates a period in history where there was a willingness of non property owners to regulate grazing and misuse of resources on property that wasn't theirs. Congratulations to them. Too bad more industries don't do that.
It is also too bad that the problem with erosion and desertification had to happen in such a magnitude that the wheels of the Federal Government had to be implimented to get this issue fixed.
It basically proves my point.
Really, if you fly, the idea is to land somewhere.
The fact that you most likely travel in a straight line would serve to reason that you will be crossing over other small bits of civilization before you reach your destination since things like roads etc. will also take the shortest reasonable path.
Fly off in some random direction say in North Central North Dakota or something. When you run out of gas and land on the prairie let us know how many signs of civilization you came across.
Who else cares more about land and conservation and capping pollution than an owner of the property?
How many public parks and public nature areas do you see needing a continuous clean up effort to keep them free of litter? The reason for this is that the fact that nobody owns them, a good majority of the people that use the areas feel less inclined to keep things properly clean.
All in all this article is journalistic trash.
Eliminating two of the largest unpopulated land masses from the equation is simply ridiculous and illustrates clearly the political aims the article is seeking to achieve.
Also, please replace any instance of "he" with "she". Not that it matters in my statements.
And my monitor is 80 pounds... Doesn't kick well.
/boot and it works fine. I could be wrong.
First, if someone has 8 other OS's don't you think at least one of them would have been another Linux distro and therefore the shot about Mandrake not supporting his camera either would have been already known, or he would know the RPM's existed to get the thing to work?
Also, since when does the average internet user use 800x600 ?! This is clearly not the case. I do but thats only because I have a small 14" piece of crap monitor that only supports 800x600.
Personally I find the partitioning tool very intuitive. What's more simple that selecting the drive to work with on a tab, and clicking create and sliding a slider to make the partition the size you wish? I guess he prefers FDISK...
Also, the mouse config tool works fine for me every time. I can't find fault in his review there, since it is possible he had problems for whatever reason.
The update packages part of the install works just fine if you include all the necessary information. At least on a dialup. He doesn't say that he did his best on configuring his internet connection so that this feature would work properly.
On the XFS issue he raises, I could swear that I have all my partitions as XFS with no
Automobile Magazine did a similar test illustrating the effect of high powered spotlights versus law enforcement laser speed detection. Their findings were if I remember correctly, that with a pair of standard off-road type spotlights (most likely 50 to 100 watts or more each) you could blind the laser speed gun until you reached a closeness of a couple hundred yards or less. (Surely enough time to lower your speed.) To eliminate blasting other drivers retinas and making a sure spectacle of yourself the article placed simple plastic filters over the lenses that allowed only IR light through I believe. These lights could be hidden behind grilles or other light allowing accessories and you could wire them up to your ignition so as to not worry about draining your battery.
Where do you think your spent Mountain Dew goes on those long flights?
I thought Mac's did all that already...
At least that's what Apple's marketing led me to believe.
Hmm... Must be like MicroSoft's Windows Movie Maker... Just doesn't quite cut the mustard.
Who'd fight Darth Vader then?
Is it just me or is Jon Katz posing as the normal story posters?
There seems to be an excess of "Imagine a beowulf..." type stories lately.
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I can't think of a project that would make me hate getting up and going to work more.
Imagine realizing that your entire small programming team's reason for existance is simply because someone above you thinks that there is value in creating a service based on the fact that the average user is too damned lazy to create and remember proper passwords.
Do you suppose Microsoft creates worthless things like this just to get the open source community to waste time on them?
I don't think this is the case, but why does the open source world insist on always doing things "Because Microsoft has it!"
We should all be happy that each developer thinks they can do better then the next. In the open source world pride is the main driving force to improve the things that already work, where in the non open source world the almighty ching drives most innovation.