And just provide an LCD for the game, so kids could be rewarded for doing sewing. You know, do an hour of sewing, play Pokemon for an hour. Parental control device (key enabled) to activate same.
Man.. that sure sounds like slave labour.
Wait.. Could you imagine implementing that concept into my tech support job?!?! Hrmm....
Not to be evil, but honestly I think we blame the wrong people. Blame congress, not the patent office.
The patent office issues the patents according to the law (both written by congress, and the implications derived from the courts). Wouldn't it then make more sense to get the proper laws written?
Of course, then M$ can lobby for them$elve$. How many Democrat$ can they get? Of course, the Republicans are just as bad there, too. Damn, we just can't win. **sigh**
The Republicans, while for a more corporate US, are very conservative in many areas, including patents.
The Democrats believe that patents should be given to ANYTHING, including some things that redefine "prior art."
IMHO, the patent office simply needs to take their lolly time reviewing things. Yes, some things that are offered can get outdated while the review process happens, but hey, that will probably weed out many bad ones by itself. They do a better job taking their time, and really, the only people that should be irritated with the time would be those who want to slip something by (**ahem, M$**). Also, that will discourage the people with nonsense patents. People with real innovations will be motivated enough to pursue that impossible patent.
I think the best suggestion was "Patent technology under development, not existing software/tech." (paraphrased badly). If that patent passes, then the patent should pass on to the developed product after a review. A double check system for the bad ones, eliminating many the first time around.
You start at level 9... Well, shift your perspective!! If you START at level 9, you call it 1. It is the first level. So when you reach 18th, you call it 9th level. From all of your perspective, it IS the 9th level, just with another name!
God, you gotta love us engineers/nerds.. The world does too revolve around us!!! WE PICK THE COORDINATE SYSTEM!
I don't know how relevant this is, but we just had an article (too lazy to link, sorry) about how the speed of light barrier was broken (by light, ironically). If this is true, doesn't it shoot many physics theories down the drain? And if so, how would if affect this one?
Sure, it doesn't shoot down black holes. But it may possibly shoot down the definition.
I've always wondered, is there a difference in penalty for WILLFUL and UNWILLFUL violations?
Really, I imagine there isn't.. Why can't the courts just come out and issue a Jon Katz like article/post/story/whatever to the general public and finally lay down the legal opinion on this? We all know it's screwed up, let's just get the flaming over with now.
Somehow, I also guess that there will be references to Shadowrunner in there too...
I assume we'll have some english letter translations? For example, ss (or some letter combo) for a symbol like the German ess-stet (or however you spell it.)? That looks like a capitol B, with a long tail on the left... alt-225 for those with ascii working...
If we don't, there will be a lot of people who can't access web pages. HOWEVER, this may be a good thing.. For example, Asians can keep Americans off their sites, and in the same context, we can use some spanish characters and keep them off. Interesting possibilities, but where do we go from here?
Now be it I'm not the most alert person, but why did I see that two of those include Slackware? I thought they'd kinda fallen in the market, and usually going with the best of the market will make you the best of the market in books...
Although, it is nice to see something other than RedHat.. (yes, I run RedHat.. go ahead and flame me, you would either way I had it..)
I have no clue about the hotmail issue at all, but the post made me think of something else: Why do we assume that competition would not own copies of other OS's?
Pick up details that you like from other OS's, drop the bad ones, get an inside look (I guarentee all of those ex-hackers out there are doing something they're good at, and hacking is one of them). Try to make your OS be able to communicate with other OS's, make the filesystems talk to each other (see *nix for great examples..)
It wouldn't surpise me however, to find out that the web servers are running machines of MANY OS's!! A *nix front end, maybe M$'s SQL server, serve the files off of a windows box, stuff like that. Hey, each OS has it's advantages, and every company wants to exploit them as much as possible. How many companies run a *nix server with NT workstations? eh eh?
The running theory seems to be that Kursk was targeting Napster HQ with one of the missles, so that the US would pay more attention to them than Napster for a while... No comment on where that first aimed missle went though...
So now I can watch my cable TV, talk to grandma on the phone, be hooked on the internet, have my am/fm radio at full blast, and find something new to gripe about..
Come on guys, really, what I want is FASTER connections, not MORE connections.
If I recall right, though, it takes an electric discharge, not merely a field to start life. Being under the surface, getting this discharge could be pretty hard.
Not positive about that though, correct me if I'm wrong...
I'd like to see just a general OS tree... not even as specific as this one, but one that relates *nix, basic (apple and commodore versions...), even (grr) MS OSs... even if it leaves out several revisions and what not, I'm sure connections and relations would be very interesting..
Once upon a merry time there was a guy known as Martin Luther (read MP3 creators). He disagreed with the church (read sony/riaAssholes) in many ways, and started to publicly announce that fact (read share files).
The church got really really pissed off. They tried censorship (read ignore it at first with a couple of idle threats). They then tried persecution (read law suits). They tried killing him (read firewall everyone HAHA). But the more people heard about this, the more they jumped on the bandwagon or at least accepted this new radical group.
This group of people is today known as protestants (read Geeks/general public smart^H^H^H^H^H living enough to use napster). Protestants came from PROTEST which means... well duh, and -ANTS which means a member of (roughly). In a sense, we MP3ers are protestants against the RIAA, and are just as ready to start a jihad over our beliefs.
Today those original organizations of protestants are alive and thriving, doing well, and even picking up people (in sony terms, read market share). The church (in this sense the Catholic church) is still around today, as the RIAA will unfortunately probably be after this, but not doing near as well as they used to. The church suffered greatly from the monopolistic tactics, as will the RIAA.
The church, however, saved face by eventually accepting the protestants as another group, and respecting them.
I don't forsee the RIAA ever doing this, but it sure would help them a lot to look in the history books...
(Note: In no way am I knocking Catholics, or trying to degrade them by making a comparison between them and the RIAA, but instead honoring them by saying they eventually made the right choice!)
You make an interesting point here: The good rappers are very intelligent. People who have an obvious control over the words they use: Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Will Smith, Lauren Hill. They may not give the appearance of intelligence (they probably don't want to- a nerd image would not do well for PR) but obviously they are: It takes quite a bit to put the associations together and make them rhyme.
If you take a look at the interviews that these artists do, you will find that while they may not speak perfect english, but what they say is well thought out. And while they may not be on the same side as ours, I'm not offended by what they say usually because they do back up their thoughts with reason (unlike others we know..)
What I want to know, though, is what would Mick Fleetwood say? Have you ever heard him speak? If you have, you know why I ask...
As you have seen the industry change and evolve over the past years, what new things came about that you honestly didn't expect (ie the popularity of Linux, or the savageness of online commerce)? And in the same thought, what turns did you believe technology and computers would take that they haven't? And of course, what future innovations (not in the m$ terms) do you forsee appearing in our lives?
Although many of my favourite bands are RIAA sponsored, I've gone against them.
One label that I like, fortunately, isn't an RIAA member. DivaNation, the producers of the now defunct My Scarlet Life, has several good bands, and actually appreciates their fans.
Check their stuff out @ http://www.DivaNation.com
Offtopic story: My Scarlet Life was a pretty good trip-hop type band. Their stuff is slightly similar to Delerium's Karma album. One day I went looking for their web site, trying to get to another concert. Well, I found out they broke up, and the members had other bands. One of which, Scarlet Life, was rumored to be similar in style to Scarlet Life but definately not the same.
they had a printable discount ticket to the concert on the web site. I clicked the link, it was broken. Seeing no contact info at the time, I called the company, also trying to get more info on the concert. End result of that: I talked to a band member, got 5 tickets mailed to me, and drove 7 hours to see one of the best concerts I ever have. I got to meet all 4 of the bands there (Gaberdine, Breather, Butterfly Child, Scarlet Life- mostly unheard of, but they have a loyal following), got pictures, and couldn't have enjoyed it more. I STRONGLY suggest them because of this, the great treatment I recieved as a fan. Also, while talking with Breather, I found out that they love MP3s, and use them online freely as much as possible. Now that rocks too.
PS- Most of these bands are Chicago based, and don't travel much, but they do have CDs that are well worth checking out.
Ok, so the RIAAssholes got to napster. Somwhere further down this article, Signal 11 posted about 50 links to MP3 related software/sites.
Now let us look at the alternatives: 1. Other MP3 software (for arguments sake, let us say there are only 5 other programs, though any idiot can figure out that's a crock) 2. FTP 3. HTTP 4. IRC 5. (gasp, so sad) AOL 6. Email 7. Snail Mail (burn a cd and send it.. oh well)
So, RIAA attacks #1, gets a few shut down. Then people move to #2. Tag and move and tag and move, even if RIAA somehow limits all of the above (which any idiot knows is next to impossible) then people go down the list. Once you get to #7, more programs are coming out, move back to #1. Endless cycle.
This will be an endless cycle until RIAA stops fighting us, forcing us to "extend and make them embrace" our middle finger. There are more resources out there than ever before, and in case they didn't realize, we can always go back to ole tape and radio (although we won't).
Perhaps the only thing that can stop us is if JonKatz starts posting his entire text to his articles on each of these methods. If that happens, well, there are a lot more things that we have to worry about.
I've never worked with Debian at all. So I may off base here. But I think I have multiple angles on this one.
1. The parent to this mentions the great floods of the Mississippi. Allow me to tell you the story of a town named Lupus, MO. The town has a population of like 20, according to the sign. Before the flood, it was at about 40 people, I'd say, and after back down to 20. We're talking small town. Small enough that I was able to find out that not a single person there would have been able to read this.
Lupus is seperated from the MO river by about 16 feet. A bank along the edge of the river. This town is mostly elderly people, really really nice folks. It's a 45 minute drive to another decent town (because of our hick roads), so you don't often hear about them.
One day, sitting in class, I found out that their bank was about to give to the water pressure. The water was about 4 inches from going over. Someone wanted help, because they didn't have enough people there to work on preparing the town (which was caught by surprise), and our town had a high school of 450 able bodied students.
We were the only school asked. After school, I changed into some mucking clothes and left to help. By the time I got there at around 4:15, there were about 400 volunteers. When I left at around 2 AM, there were probably around 1500. This continued for another several days (our efforts were eventually thwarted).
The best thing is, not a one of us got paid. Many people walked in not knowing other people's names. By the time many people left, they had found friends and many of them. People from rival schools (intense for us- football rivals of two schools that are 15 miles apart, and were on opposite sides of the civil war (which is still held in the grudge)) even became good friends.
The thing is, I can tell you that if they had gone to another school in Missouri plus ours, the turnout would have been massive. Hardly anyone knew the residents, but we're all willing to help. And if it were to happen to another town/city, everyone would help all they could. We heard stories of this up and down both the MO and Mississippi rivers, people banding together from everywhere, not always successful, but that community spirit adds no small victory to the scale. (Off thought: Isn't this what our country was founded on, the banding together of people, reguardless of location, heritage, etc.??)
2. I had a friend while I was in high school. He had autism, as well as MD. The first time I met him I was babysitting a group of second graders. He couldn't talk at all, sat by himself reading the whole night. Halfway through the night, I got called home on a personal emergency. While breifly explaining it to the other helpers, this kid got up, found my keys, and handed them to me before I had gone to get them. (Note: Autistic can't communicate normally, but communicate in their own ways, and are VERY observant.)
At some point I ran into him again. He was playing with Legos, or some blocks. Having a horrid time snapping two of them together. I walked over and tried to help him. At first he relented, but then after another two or so tries handed the two blocks to me. I handed them back together, and he handed me a cookie.
I dunno when I started to take to him, but his parents asked me to babysit more because they noticed I seemed to have some success in controlling his aggravation fits. But I found out, he really was a smart guy, he was a guru at those "find the pattern" games. The kid was curious about things, and could always point out an object without looking (while he could, that is.) He hardly ever said a word, and when he did oddly they eventually made sense. (IE he once said blue when we were walking outside in the cold. It makes a little sense.) You learn though, it's not the name that makes a difference in the world. The kid had emotions, and had his way of expressing them, and ways of telling you things.
You might find it odd that I haven't mentioned his name yet. The Lord bless his soul, but the last word he ever said to me was "Sam".
Wierd how a kid 10 years younger than me damn near made me cry.
Espy, you've touched other people's lives, which is quite an accomplishment without meeting many of them. You have provided us all with something to be sad about, proud of, and inspired by. Congratulations, and God bless.
to know what type of connection they'll use to export the photos. I have a straight old twain device with the cable from the serial port to the nifty looking hole in the camera, you know the routine.
I really like the cameras that allow you to pop out the cartridge and put it in a floppy disk like case.
But something this small?? Could be interesting...
Everyone knows that many of the great cryptography systems came from odd sources (Indian Languages and such), but what I don't know is all of its applications.
Obviously it can be used to secure a transmission in a war, but what are some of the more odd applications of cryptography (obviously in the non-compromising type)? Are there any places where cryptography makes something more efficient, or forms of cryptography that reveal other facts of a document?
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Sounds like the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State...
No patent for you!! Prior Art!
And just provide an LCD for the game, so kids could be rewarded for doing sewing. You know, do an hour of sewing, play Pokemon for an hour. Parental control device (key enabled) to activate same.
Man.. that sure sounds like slave labour.
Wait.. Could you imagine implementing that concept into my tech support job?!?! Hrmm....
Not to be evil, but honestly I think we blame the wrong people. Blame congress, not the patent office.
The patent office issues the patents according to the law (both written by congress, and the implications derived from the courts). Wouldn't it then make more sense to get the proper laws written?
Of course, then M$ can lobby for them$elve$. How many Democrat$ can they get? Of course, the Republicans are just as bad there, too. Damn, we just can't win. **sigh**
The Republicans, while for a more corporate US, are very conservative in many areas, including patents.
The Democrats believe that patents should be given to ANYTHING, including some things that redefine "prior art."
IMHO, the patent office simply needs to take their lolly time reviewing things. Yes, some things that are offered can get outdated while the review process happens, but hey, that will probably weed out many bad ones by itself. They do a better job taking their time, and really, the only people that should be irritated with the time would be those who want to slip something by (**ahem, M$**). Also, that will discourage the people with nonsense patents. People with real innovations will be motivated enough to pursue that impossible patent.
I think the best suggestion was "Patent technology under development, not existing software/tech." (paraphrased badly). If that patent passes, then the patent should pass on to the developed product after a review. A double check system for the bad ones, eliminating many the first time around.
You start at level 9... Well, shift your perspective!! If you START at level 9, you call it 1. It is the first level. So when you reach 18th, you call it 9th level. From all of your perspective, it IS the 9th level, just with another name!
God, you gotta love us engineers/nerds.. The world does too revolve around us!!! WE PICK THE COORDINATE SYSTEM!
I don't know how relevant this is, but we just had an article (too lazy to link, sorry) about how the speed of light barrier was broken (by light, ironically). If this is true, doesn't it shoot many physics theories down the drain? And if so, how would if affect this one?
Sure, it doesn't shoot down black holes. But it may possibly shoot down the definition.
I've always wondered, is there a difference in penalty for WILLFUL and UNWILLFUL violations?
Really, I imagine there isn't.. Why can't the courts just come out and issue a Jon Katz like article/post/story/whatever to the general public and finally lay down the legal opinion on this? We all know it's screwed up, let's just get the flaming over with now.
Somehow, I also guess that there will be references to Shadowrunner in there too...
For a few rare systems, perl did not like to install.. with the new release though, I'm lucky.
Finally, I can start.. err.. learning. (goes and sits in stupid corner..)
Sniff sniff. Now I miss my ABIT BH6 board again. This whole thing brings back memories... (celery300 up to 550, until a lightning storm..)
WHY DO YOU BASTARDS DO THIS TO ME????
I assume we'll have some english letter translations? For example, ss (or some letter combo) for a symbol like the German ess-stet (or however you spell it.)? That looks like a capitol B, with a long tail on the left... alt-225 for those with ascii working...
If we don't, there will be a lot of people who can't access web pages. HOWEVER, this may be a good thing.. For example, Asians can keep Americans off their sites, and in the same context, we can use some spanish characters and keep them off. Interesting possibilities, but where do we go from here?
Now be it I'm not the most alert person, but why did I see that two of those include Slackware? I thought they'd kinda fallen in the market, and usually going with the best of the market will make you the best of the market in books...
Although, it is nice to see something other than RedHat.. (yes, I run RedHat.. go ahead and flame me, you would either way I had it..)
I have no clue about the hotmail issue at all, but the post made me think of something else: Why do we assume that competition would not own copies of other OS's?
Pick up details that you like from other OS's, drop the bad ones, get an inside look (I guarentee all of those ex-hackers out there are doing something they're good at, and hacking is one of them). Try to make your OS be able to communicate with other OS's, make the filesystems talk to each other (see *nix for great examples..)
It wouldn't surpise me however, to find out that the web servers are running machines of MANY OS's!! A *nix front end, maybe M$'s SQL server, serve the files off of a windows box, stuff like that. Hey, each OS has it's advantages, and every company wants to exploit them as much as possible. How many companies run a *nix server with NT workstations? eh eh?
Just think about it. Please.
The running theory seems to be that Kursk was targeting Napster HQ with one of the missles, so that the US would pay more attention to them than Napster for a while... No comment on where that first aimed missle went though...
So now I can watch my cable TV, talk to grandma on the phone, be hooked on the internet, have my am/fm radio at full blast, and find something new to gripe about..
Come on guys, really, what I want is FASTER connections, not MORE connections.
Apparently it's hard for even that.. does slashdot fall there too? :)
If I recall right, though, it takes an electric discharge, not merely a field to start life. Being under the surface, getting this discharge could be pretty hard.
Not positive about that though, correct me if I'm wrong...
I'd like to see just a general OS tree... not even as specific as this one, but one that relates *nix, basic (apple and commodore versions...), even (grr) MS OSs... even if it leaves out several revisions and what not, I'm sure connections and relations would be very interesting..
Once upon a merry time there was a guy known as Martin Luther (read MP3 creators). He disagreed with the church (read sony/riaAssholes) in many ways, and started to publicly announce that fact (read share files).
The church got really really pissed off. They tried censorship (read ignore it at first with a couple of idle threats). They then tried persecution (read law suits). They tried killing him (read firewall everyone HAHA). But the more people heard about this, the more they jumped on the bandwagon or at least accepted this new radical group.
This group of people is today known as protestants (read Geeks/general public smart^H^H^H^H^H living enough to use napster). Protestants came from PROTEST which means... well duh, and -ANTS which means a member of (roughly). In a sense, we MP3ers are protestants against the RIAA, and are just as ready to start a jihad over our beliefs.
Today those original organizations of protestants are alive and thriving, doing well, and even picking up people (in sony terms, read market share). The church (in this sense the Catholic church) is still around today, as the RIAA will unfortunately probably be after this, but not doing near as well as they used to. The church suffered greatly from the monopolistic tactics, as will the RIAA.
The church, however, saved face by eventually accepting the protestants as another group, and respecting them.
I don't forsee the RIAA ever doing this, but it sure would help them a lot to look in the history books...
(Note: In no way am I knocking Catholics, or trying to degrade them by making a comparison between them and the RIAA, but instead honoring them by saying they eventually made the right choice!)
You make an interesting point here: The good rappers are very intelligent. People who have an obvious control over the words they use: Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Will Smith, Lauren Hill. They may not give the appearance of intelligence (they probably don't want to- a nerd image would not do well for PR) but obviously they are: It takes quite a bit to put the associations together and make them rhyme.
If you take a look at the interviews that these artists do, you will find that while they may not speak perfect english, but what they say is well thought out. And while they may not be on the same side as ours, I'm not offended by what they say usually because they do back up their thoughts with reason (unlike others we know..)
What I want to know, though, is what would Mick Fleetwood say? Have you ever heard him speak? If you have, you know why I ask...
As you have seen the industry change and evolve over the past years, what new things came about that you honestly didn't expect (ie the popularity of Linux, or the savageness of online commerce)? And in the same thought, what turns did you believe technology and computers would take that they haven't? And of course, what future innovations (not in the m$ terms) do you forsee appearing in our lives?
Although many of my favourite bands are RIAA sponsored, I've gone against them.
One label that I like, fortunately, isn't an RIAA member. DivaNation, the producers of the now defunct My Scarlet Life, has several good bands, and actually appreciates their fans.
Check their stuff out @ http://www.DivaNation.com
Offtopic story: My Scarlet Life was a pretty good trip-hop type band. Their stuff is slightly similar to Delerium's Karma album. One day I went looking for their web site, trying to get to another concert. Well, I found out they broke up, and the members had other bands. One of which, Scarlet Life, was rumored to be similar in style to Scarlet Life but definately not the same.
they had a printable discount ticket to the concert on the web site. I clicked the link, it was broken. Seeing no contact info at the time, I called the company, also trying to get more info on the concert. End result of that: I talked to a band member, got 5 tickets mailed to me, and drove 7 hours to see one of the best concerts I ever have. I got to meet all 4 of the bands there (Gaberdine, Breather, Butterfly Child, Scarlet Life- mostly unheard of, but they have a loyal following), got pictures, and couldn't have enjoyed it more. I STRONGLY suggest them because of this, the great treatment I recieved as a fan. Also, while talking with Breather, I found out that they love MP3s, and use them online freely as much as possible. Now that rocks too.
PS- Most of these bands are Chicago based, and don't travel much, but they do have CDs that are well worth checking out.
Ok, so the RIAAssholes got to napster. Somwhere further down this article, Signal 11 posted about 50 links to MP3 related software/sites.
Now let us look at the alternatives:
1. Other MP3 software (for arguments sake, let us say there are only 5 other programs, though any idiot can figure out that's a crock)
2. FTP
3. HTTP
4. IRC
5. (gasp, so sad) AOL
6. Email
7. Snail Mail (burn a cd and send it.. oh well)
So, RIAA attacks #1, gets a few shut down. Then people move to #2. Tag and move and tag and move, even if RIAA somehow limits all of the above (which any idiot knows is next to impossible) then people go down the list. Once you get to #7, more programs are coming out, move back to #1. Endless cycle.
This will be an endless cycle until RIAA stops fighting us, forcing us to "extend and make them embrace" our middle finger. There are more resources out there than ever before, and in case they didn't realize, we can always go back to ole tape and radio (although we won't).
Perhaps the only thing that can stop us is if JonKatz starts posting his entire text to his articles on each of these methods. If that happens, well, there are a lot more things that we have to worry about.
I've never worked with Debian at all. So I may off base here. But I think I have multiple angles on this one.
1. The parent to this mentions the great floods of the Mississippi. Allow me to tell you the story of a town named Lupus, MO. The town has a population of like 20, according to the sign. Before the flood, it was at about 40 people, I'd say, and after back down to 20. We're talking small town. Small enough that I was able to find out that not a single person there would have been able to read this.
Lupus is seperated from the MO river by about 16 feet. A bank along the edge of the river. This town is mostly elderly people, really really nice folks. It's a 45 minute drive to another decent town (because of our hick roads), so you don't often hear about them.
One day, sitting in class, I found out that their bank was about to give to the water pressure. The water was about 4 inches from going over. Someone wanted help, because they didn't have enough people there to work on preparing the town (which was caught by surprise), and our town had a high school of 450 able bodied students.
We were the only school asked. After school, I changed into some mucking clothes and left to help. By the time I got there at around 4:15, there were about 400 volunteers. When I left at around 2 AM, there were probably around 1500. This continued for another several days (our efforts were eventually thwarted).
The best thing is, not a one of us got paid. Many people walked in not knowing other people's names. By the time many people left, they had found friends and many of them. People from rival schools (intense for us- football rivals of two schools that are 15 miles apart, and were on opposite sides of the civil war (which is still held in the grudge)) even became good friends.
The thing is, I can tell you that if they had gone to another school in Missouri plus ours, the turnout would have been massive. Hardly anyone knew the residents, but we're all willing to help. And if it were to happen to another town/city, everyone would help all they could. We heard stories of this up and down both the MO and Mississippi rivers, people banding together from everywhere, not always successful, but that community spirit adds no small victory to the scale. (Off thought: Isn't this what our country was founded on, the banding together of people, reguardless of location, heritage, etc.??)
2. I had a friend while I was in high school. He had autism, as well as MD. The first time I met him I was babysitting a group of second graders. He couldn't talk at all, sat by himself reading the whole night. Halfway through the night, I got called home on a personal emergency. While breifly explaining it to the other helpers, this kid got up, found my keys, and handed them to me before I had gone to get them. (Note: Autistic can't communicate normally, but communicate in their own ways, and are VERY observant.)
At some point I ran into him again. He was playing with Legos, or some blocks. Having a horrid time snapping two of them together. I walked over and tried to help him. At first he relented, but then after another two or so tries handed the two blocks to me. I handed them back together, and he handed me a cookie.
I dunno when I started to take to him, but his parents asked me to babysit more because they noticed I seemed to have some success in controlling his aggravation fits. But I found out, he really was a smart guy, he was a guru at those "find the pattern" games. The kid was curious about things, and could always point out an object without looking (while he could, that is.) He hardly ever said a word, and when he did oddly they eventually made sense. (IE he once said blue when we were walking outside in the cold. It makes a little sense.) You learn though, it's not the name that makes a difference in the world. The kid had emotions, and had his way of expressing them, and ways of telling you things.
You might find it odd that I haven't mentioned his name yet. The Lord bless his soul, but the last word he ever said to me was "Sam".
Wierd how a kid 10 years younger than me damn near made me cry.
Espy, you've touched other people's lives, which is quite an accomplishment without meeting many of them. You have provided us all with something to be sad about, proud of, and inspired by. Congratulations, and God bless.
to know what type of connection they'll use to export the photos. I have a straight old twain device with the cable from the serial port to the nifty looking hole in the camera, you know the routine.
I really like the cameras that allow you to pop out the cartridge and put it in a floppy disk like case.
But something this small?? Could be interesting...
Everyone knows that many of the great cryptography systems came from odd sources (Indian Languages and such), but what I don't know is all of its applications.
Obviously it can be used to secure a transmission in a war, but what are some of the more odd applications of cryptography (obviously in the non-compromising type)? Are there any places where cryptography makes something more efficient, or forms of cryptography that reveal other facts of a document?