I was very Christian growing up, Sunday school every week, Church (what a bore) every so often. My dad being in the Air Force and always moving elsewhere. Conflicting views were expressed while attending these, more so on the East and West coast of the US, but I'd shine it on.
It wasn't until I was in the Army and had my first "religious group talk", one "fact" I brought up (this from a church in Texas) was shot down so soundly I rethought this Jesus thing, never before had I any doubt about what I was being told or taught.
I became enlightened you could say, if you really think about it, it becomes obvious.
I feel it's what the Muslims and Christians are afraid of, any deviation from what they believe, that Mohammad and Jesus respectively have the ear of God. keeping the two from being gods themselves is the first commandment.
Christian: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Muslim: Say, "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited to you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with Him, and to parents, good treatment, and do not kill your children out of poverty; We will provide for you and them. And do not approach immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed] except by [legal] right. This has He instructed you that you may use reason."
From a link on microbial lifeforms found on Earth http://www.astrobio.net/news-e... "What’s more, MISS have remained unchanged over the last 3 billion years" MISS: microbially-induced sedimentary structure.
Says a lot really, it's considered a fact you will get cancer (a mutation of the a cell) if you live long enough.
"A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances: mutations can never be absolutely avoided, because they are an inescapable consequence of fundamental limitations on the accuracy of DNA replication" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo...
3 billion years and little if any mutations in a microbe life or it's off spring. “But it also raised the question: why are they so identical?” she adds. “And what does that mean about the organisms that created them?”
I know this is Slashdot, and asking someone to read the article is a bit much, but nobody is removing projects or any IP from Github. They are demanding that Google remove the links from their search results. From the article, emphasis added:
Several Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints filed to Google by companies representing various porn companies in the last month alone have resulted in dozens of legitimate GitHub URLs being removed from the search engine's results, TorrentFreak first reported.
The exact same text appears in the summary at the top of this page. You do not even have to read the article, just the summary!
The article itself is a bit misleading, as in the case of : "Janczuk’s URL, “https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge,” was apparently too close to The Edge, a 2001 movie made by Adam & Eve, for the company’s liking."
Janczuk is still up, Googling for: Janczuk github and there they are, the article by not mentioning this infers they were also taken down, cause you know, nobody reads the links:)
It's the fact that take down notices are being sent over keywords, phrases and mayhaps a bit of code. I had thought the Google vs Java case was to of prevented this, it was the biggest fear of a majority of the post about the case if Java had won.
Yet as LordLucless above points out: "There is no punishment for making a take down request against materials that do not infringe."
MAME is a nice application but the problem is that most games were not designed for fun but to make you lose as fast as possible. Simply speaking, a cabinet game will be a lot harder than the same game for console or PC. When I was young, playing cabinet games was fun partly because I did not have a lot of money.
I've done my share of arcades, they sprang up all over the place at one time, even the 7-11's had at least one. Many times my pockets were full of quarters in the event I ran across Donkey Kong or Defender.
Gummy Worms and video games quite the combination, like they were made for each other:).
They are made to make you lose but when you do beat an arcade game, your going to get your next quarters worth. The Atari 2600 was awful for this "made to make you lose" and you owned the damn thing, just a simple game that kept getting faster if you beat it, and then even faster...
In MAME, I can just play a few minutes, die, insert a "free" coin and continue the game to die even faster... Boring!
MAME is still interesting for people trying to beat their high-score but not for casual gaming.
Gotta admit with MAME I don't play a game for long, normally switching to another. You can't beat a stand up arcade game, with it's controllers and in your face display, with the cell phone/tablet controls be it touch screen or keys can get a bit boring but keeps me occupied at times, and you can't beat the lack of ads, or your e-mail, contacts or photos being sent to some company while playing their game.
I refused to install one Play Store game as it was sent who I was talking to if busy. If busy? I took that as time for the collected data to be sent and it couldn't. Was listed as one of the most downloaded programs of 2014. The requested areas of access was also a bit too much for what it was.
MAME4droid just ask you to send any error reports you encounter and only if you feel like it - and this by e-mailing the author.
If your not aware the program MAME will load the ROMs of the old arcade games
I should add if you wish to play these arcade games on your tablets or cell phone you would just need to download the "MAME_0.149_ROMs" file. It's got the game ROM that would be required for you systems emulator, there are 28,510 different games (ROMs) within that file so should keep you occupied.
Ya, I think it was called ZZT. I remember playing it myself (at least starting it up a few times), wasn't all that impressed mostly due to it's graphics.
I posted of the MAME collection: "I downloaded the entire MAME library from them" ZZT isn't included, but then I wouldn't of thought it becoming an arcade game.
I fairly sure it's their entire library, was getting updates from the Usenet but god was that ever slow going.
MAME_0.149_CHDs_A-B MAME_0.149_CHDs_C MAME_0.149_CHDs_D-G MAME_0.149_CHDs_H-N MAME_0.149_CHDs_P-S MAME_0.149_CHDs_U-Z MAME_0.149_EXTRAs MAME_0.149_ROMs These are game disk images http://fileinfo.com/extension/...
I added up the files (torrents) and I've got 308 Gigs worth of games, most of which I'll pry never load let alone play.
If your not aware the program MAME will load the ROMs of the old arcade games, so you can play your old favs. MAME has been ported to most tablets and cell phones, not that they all work that well. "Moon Patrol" is a great cell phone game for me as there are only 4 keys that you use, fairly fun to play and it's great bathroom throne material.
"MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era." http://mamedev.org/
the jpeg "fullsize" is actually not, it's about 9kx4k. The original fullsize mosaic is nearly 70k by 20k, you only get that if you bother to download off the magnet link.
Now that's odd, I was going to the download section for each picture to download. The last two I downloaded from the jpeg thumbnail (at the time it was faster than going my downloaded area at the time) both were being sent at the same size as I had downloaded earlier (max size and different area). Mayhaps they were being pulled from the cache.
I stopped at the Amiga 3, still have my 500, and 2000; at that time they were still 790K*, but talk of increasing them, and they aren't special disk but normal 3.5's
All I ever bought were 1.4K 3.5" I know there was a program to increase this size but it was for the PC which I didn't have at the time. Nor did I use the program as I thought it would cause problems when I did acquire a PC (just to play DOOM, my start in the PC world).
If the densities have been increased I've been unaware of it.
"The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost nobody—including Commodore's marketing department—could fully articulate what it was all about. Today, it's obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days it was derided as a game machine because few people grasped the importance of advanced graphics, sound, and video. Nine years later, vendors are still struggling to make systems that work like 1985 Amigas. — Byte Magazine, August 1994
In the 70's they had the SRA learning cards. Read one side. Answer the questions on the other side. Did poor? grab the extra help card. Else move to the next card. Now it is on a computer. The new waste of time and money. Replace the teacher with a system. Only way to bleed the system for cash.
Apple strived to be a major part of the education system, with computer discounts or however they could.
I worked for awhile installing phone systems and installing cat5 cable. We worked at all of the local schools, It was during this time the Apple purge was going on; rooms full of Apple hardware that was on the way out, each school was the same.
While a good idea at the time, it just didn't work out.
When the poo hits the fan and "civilization" collapses, they'll be good feed stock (as in dinner) for those of us who know how to actually do things.
I've thought of this for quite awhile, if and when "civilization" collapses, garbage dumps could become the new gold mines. If you've ever walked a garbage dump as I did a few times as a kid, taking home others "discarded junk". you'd be more aware that a garbage dump is much more than paper, plastic and food scraps.
Note: I'd walk a portion of the dump when we took our trash to the dump itself, which was mostly in the fall and had tree limbs to dispose of.
You're proving the lecturer's point. Ifixit.com is filling the small gap left by the complete abandonment by product manufacturers of any sort of repair instructions or spare parts supply.
Ifixit.com showed me how to take apart my Motorola Xoom tablet, and there are tricks to taking off the back cover.
A blown power transistor? You whippersnappers don't remember the "good old days" of vaccuum tubes!
Vacuum tube T.V's are where I got my start in electronics. First look for the ones not glowing, take them to Radio Shack and use their tester to check if the tube was bad, heck there were even tube testers in some supermarkets.
A fairly new T.V. of ours quit working, checking it out the flyback transformer wasn't working. Changed out the power transistor fixed it right up, and looking good to my better half at the time.
How do you know if a flyback transformer is working? You find yourself in the next room if you touch it:} almost put me through a wall (a vacuum tube setup).
I restore old motorcycles which means parts are generally not available at all. So you have to fix what you have. JB weld is the saviour of sooooo many plastic tanks that have cracked.
JB Weld can't be beat. My motorcycle's aluminum brake assembly broke almost in half (where the leaver, pushes the brake pads out) I used JB Weld to join both pieces and it worked; holding up to all the stress while braking. but I did ride differently than before, just in case.
I always have JB Weld on hand, I don't trust any other Epoxy to work as well.
You can flip the ignition switch ON, OFF three times and it will print the error code on the odometer.
That's sweet, mine the "service engine light" blinks out the codes stored in it's computer, between each code is a pause twice the time between each blink. I had to take a video of it to decipher. Lots of codes as the wire to ground erasing any stored codes doesn't.
One auto parts store here (there may be more) will hook a reader to your car giving you a print out of any codes for free. Of course there is the problem of getting a vehicle there, if it doesn't run.
Electronics, however, are a different matter. You often have no more than 2-3 chips doing the heavy work and they're wave-soldered to the board, So lots of luck there. I did have to heave a perfectly good TV set with excellent picture though because apparently a 15-cent low-voltage capacitor managing the vertical height went sour and there were no available schematics.
I have the shop manuals for all my vehicles, my truck came with 5 books, one being the wire diagrams.
One of the speakers quit working so I made the mistake of removing the radio only to find the power to the radio is routed to many other systems including the dash lights, I drove around at night with no clue how fast I was going, gas, or able to view any other gauge.
I treated it old school, being the radio had a separate power supplied. Then took the time to look at the wire diagram, thinking damn it would of been better to of left the speaker alone.
At this time all the illuminated dashboard lights (clock, heater, etc) now go off when I turn on the head lights, just back ass-wards, It appears to be the dimmer switch which I haven't replaced or even looked at yet, yes power is supplied by the radio which is installed now; but the speaker works...
And landed men on the moon, sent the first probes to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Invented the transistor and IC, created Unix and C and managed to turn Japan in to democratic nation and kept Europe for burning to the the ground... And we have nukes.
The United States is a "melting pot" consisting of all (?) nationalities and religions. The BBS Commentary series "The Planets" shows a lot of interviews of what it was like getting to the Moon; many interviews were people of obvious past India nationalities, be it their families moved to the United States or they became US citizens.
While the United States has a lot to be proud of, it has taken many previous "foreigners" to help it happen.
I'm 16, I fix things quite often. I fix broken computers, I fix broken tractors, I fix broken power tools, I fix furniture. I can sew, knit, weave, spin, and work with leather and wood.
My Mom taught me to crochet and knit one day, when my Dad came home he had a fit I guess it was too girlish for him.
I can or like to think I can fix anything, but wood work (building something from wood) I always (always) screw up (over 50).
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I was very Christian growing up, Sunday school every week, Church (what a bore) every so often. My dad being in the Air Force and always moving elsewhere. Conflicting views were expressed while attending these, more so on the East and West coast of the US, but I'd shine it on.
It wasn't until I was in the Army and had my first "religious group talk", one "fact" I brought up (this from a church in Texas) was shot down so soundly I rethought this Jesus thing, never before had I any doubt about what I was being told or taught.
I became enlightened you could say, if you really think about it, it becomes obvious.
I feel it's what the Muslims and Christians are afraid of, any deviation from what they believe, that Mohammad and Jesus respectively have the ear of God. keeping the two from being gods themselves is the first commandment.
Christian: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Muslim: Say, "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited to you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with Him, and to parents, good treatment, and do not kill your children out of poverty; We will provide for you and them. And do not approach immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed] except by [legal] right. This has He instructed you that you may use reason."
From a link on microbial lifeforms found on Earth http://www.astrobio.net/news-e... "What’s more, MISS have remained unchanged over the last 3 billion years" MISS: microbially-induced sedimentary structure.
Says a lot really, it's considered a fact you will get cancer (a mutation of the a cell) if you live long enough.
"A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances: mutations can never be absolutely avoided, because they are an inescapable consequence of fundamental limitations on the accuracy of DNA replication" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo...
3 billion years and little if any mutations in a microbe life or it's off spring.
“But it also raised the question: why are they so identical?” she adds. “And what does that mean about the organisms that created them?”
I know this is Slashdot, and asking someone to read the article is a bit much, but nobody is removing projects or any IP from Github. They are demanding that Google remove the links from their search results. From the article, emphasis added:
The exact same text appears in the summary at the top of this page. You do not even have to read the article, just the summary!
The article itself is a bit misleading, as in the case of :
"Janczuk’s URL, “https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge,” was apparently too close to The Edge, a 2001 movie made by Adam & Eve, for the company’s liking."
Janczuk is still up, Googling for: Janczuk github and there they are, the article by not mentioning this infers they were also taken down, :)
cause you know, nobody reads the links
It's the fact that take down notices are being sent over keywords, phrases and mayhaps a bit of code. I had thought the Google vs Java case was to of prevented this, it was the biggest fear of a majority of the post about the case if Java had won.
Yet as LordLucless above points out: "There is no punishment for making a take down request against materials that do not infringe."
MAME is a nice application but the problem is that most games were not designed for fun but to make you lose as fast as possible. Simply speaking, a cabinet game will be a lot harder than the same game for console or PC. When I was young, playing cabinet games was fun partly because I did not have a lot of money.
I've done my share of arcades, they sprang up all over the place at one time, even the 7-11's had at least one. Many times my pockets were full of quarters in the event I ran across Donkey Kong or Defender.
Gummy Worms and video games quite the combination, like they were made for each other :).
They are made to make you lose but when you do beat an arcade game, your going to get your next quarters worth. The Atari 2600 was awful for this "made to make you lose" and you owned the damn thing, just a simple game that kept getting faster if you beat it, and then even faster...
In MAME, I can just play a few minutes, die, insert a "free" coin and continue the game to die even faster ... Boring!
MAME is still interesting for people trying to beat their high-score but not for casual gaming.
Gotta admit with MAME I don't play a game for long, normally switching to another. You can't beat a stand up arcade game, with it's controllers and in your face display, with the cell phone/tablet controls be it touch screen or keys can get a bit boring but keeps me occupied at times, and you can't beat the lack of ads, or your e-mail, contacts or photos being sent to some company while playing their game.
I refused to install one Play Store game as it was sent who I was talking to if busy. If busy? I took that as time for the collected data to be sent and it couldn't. Was listed as one of the most downloaded programs of 2014. The requested areas of access was also a bit too much for what it was.
MAME4droid just ask you to send any error reports you encounter and only if you feel like it - and this by e-mailing the author.
If your not aware the program MAME will load the ROMs of the old arcade games
I should add if you wish to play these arcade games on your tablets or cell phone you would just need to download the "MAME_0.149_ROMs" file.
It's got the game ROM that would be required for you systems emulator, there are 28,510 different games (ROMs) within that file so should keep you occupied.
Ya, I think it was called ZZT. I remember playing it myself (at least starting it up a few times), wasn't all that impressed mostly due to it's graphics.
I posted of the MAME collection: "I downloaded the entire MAME library from them"
ZZT isn't included, but then I wouldn't of thought it becoming an arcade game.
I fairly sure it's their entire library, was getting updates from the Usenet but god was that ever slow going.
MAME_0.149_CHDs_A-B
MAME_0.149_CHDs_C
MAME_0.149_CHDs_D-G
MAME_0.149_CHDs_H-N
MAME_0.149_CHDs_P-S
MAME_0.149_CHDs_U-Z
MAME_0.149_EXTRAs
MAME_0.149_ROMs
These are game disk images http://fileinfo.com/extension/...
I added up the files (torrents) and I've got 308 Gigs worth of games, most of which I'll pry never load let alone play.
If your not aware the program MAME will load the ROMs of the old arcade games, so you can play your old favs. MAME has been ported to most tablets and cell phones, not that they all work that well. "Moon Patrol" is a great cell phone game for me as there are only 4 keys that you use, fairly fun to play and it's great bathroom throne material.
"MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era."
http://mamedev.org/
Ha, wrong link I hit the third link which reported the infringements which itself has the links of quoted used.
My bad, ignore
The copyrighted infringement items removed and links supplied.
Less than a page of text it must of been a huge article with the infringements included.
the jpeg "fullsize" is actually not, it's about 9kx4k. The original fullsize mosaic is nearly 70k by 20k, you only get that if you bother to download off the magnet link.
Now that's odd, I was going to the download section for each picture to download. The last two I downloaded from the jpeg thumbnail (at the time it was faster than going my downloaded area at the time) both were being sent at the same size as I had downloaded earlier (max size and different area). Mayhaps they were being pulled from the cache.
Actually, 880K and 1.76MB.
I stopped at the Amiga 3, still have my 500, and 2000; at that time they were still 790K*, but talk of increasing them, and they aren't special disk but normal 3.5's
All I ever bought were 1.4K 3.5" I know there was a program to increase this size but it was for the PC which I didn't have at the time. Nor did I use the program as I thought it would cause problems when I did acquire a PC (just to play DOOM, my start in the PC world).
If the densities have been increased I've been unaware of it.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... - claims 720 kB for the Amiga maybe they were they were, I've always thought 790K
"The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost nobody—including Commodore's marketing department—could fully articulate what it was all about. Today, it's obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days it was derided as a game machine because few people grasped the importance of advanced graphics, sound, and video. Nine years later, vendors are still struggling to make systems that work like 1985 Amigas.
— Byte Magazine, August 1994
"fast facts" of both the new picture and IR picture
Read it wrong, it happens, it's only of the new picture it was the IR at the bottom that threw me.
I don't think the comparison image is from Hubble. It's got six spikes on the stars, Hubble only has four spider vanes.
Here's the "fast facts" of both the new picture and IR picture http://hubblesite.org/newscent...
Yes they're from Hubble.
Where can we download the full image ?
I just downloaded the linked pictures, they download at the maximum size available.
In the 70's they had the SRA learning cards. Read one side. Answer the questions on the other side. Did poor? grab the extra help card. Else move to the next card.
Now it is on a computer.
The new waste of time and money.
Replace the teacher with a system. Only way to bleed the system for cash.
Apple strived to be a major part of the education system, with computer discounts or however they could.
I worked for awhile installing phone systems and installing cat5 cable. We worked at all of the local schools, It was during this time the Apple purge was going on; rooms full of Apple hardware that was on the way out, each school was the same.
While a good idea at the time, it just didn't work out.
When the poo hits the fan and "civilization" collapses, they'll be good feed stock (as in dinner) for those of us who know how to actually do things.
I've thought of this for quite awhile, if and when "civilization" collapses, garbage dumps could become the new gold mines. If you've ever walked a garbage dump as I did a few times as a kid, taking home others "discarded junk". you'd be more aware that a garbage dump is much more than paper, plastic and food scraps.
Note: I'd walk a portion of the dump when we took our trash to the dump itself, which was mostly in the fall and had tree limbs to dispose of.
"hey've rented and ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FIX THINGS! If you're not allowed even to put holes in the wall"
LOL, you think it's better in a condo!?? You "own" that, but can't do squat!
So you purchase a house without reading the covenants, which could disallow just about anything.
On the other hand I've gone against our neighborhood covenant by planting a tree, yet not a word was/has been said, and it's huge now.
You're proving the lecturer's point. Ifixit.com is filling the small gap left by the complete abandonment by product manufacturers of any sort of repair instructions or spare parts supply.
Ifixit.com showed me how to take apart my Motorola Xoom tablet, and there are tricks to taking off the back cover.
This is why there are no forums full of information of how to replace the screen on your phone or tablet. This is why ifixit.com doesn't exist.
Oh yes it does exist, I'm reminded almost daily by the e-mail they send out.
A blown power transistor? You whippersnappers don't remember the "good old days" of vaccuum tubes!
Vacuum tube T.V's are where I got my start in electronics. First look for the ones not glowing, take them to Radio Shack and use their tester to check if the tube was bad, heck there were even tube testers in some supermarkets.
A fairly new T.V. of ours quit working, checking it out the flyback transformer wasn't working. Changed out the power transistor fixed it right up, and looking good to my better half at the time.
How do you know if a flyback transformer is working? You find yourself in the next room if you touch it :} almost put me through a wall (a vacuum tube setup).
JB Weld is your friend for these types of jobs.
I restore old motorcycles which means parts are generally not available at all. So you have to fix what you have. JB weld is the saviour of sooooo many plastic tanks that have cracked.
JB Weld can't be beat. My motorcycle's aluminum brake assembly broke almost in half (where the leaver, pushes the brake pads out) I used JB Weld to join both pieces and it worked; holding up to all the stress while braking. but I did ride differently than before, just in case.
I always have JB Weld on hand, I don't trust any other Epoxy to work as well.
You can flip the ignition switch ON, OFF three times and it will print the error code on the odometer.
That's sweet, mine the "service engine light" blinks out the codes stored in it's computer, between each code is a pause twice the time between each blink. I had to take a video of it to decipher. Lots of codes as the wire to ground erasing any stored codes doesn't.
One auto parts store here (there may be more) will hook a reader to your car giving you a print out of any codes for free. Of course there is the problem of getting a vehicle there, if it doesn't run.
Electronics, however, are a different matter. You often have no more than 2-3 chips doing the heavy work and they're wave-soldered to the board, So lots of luck there. I did have to heave a perfectly good TV set with excellent picture though because apparently a 15-cent low-voltage capacitor managing the vertical height went sour and there were no available schematics.
I have the shop manuals for all my vehicles, my truck came with 5 books, one being the wire diagrams.
One of the speakers quit working so I made the mistake of removing the radio only to find the power to the radio is routed to many other systems including the dash lights, I drove around at night with no clue how fast I was going, gas, or able to view any other gauge.
I treated it old school, being the radio had a separate power supplied. Then took the time to look at the wire diagram, thinking damn it would of been better to of left the speaker alone.
At this time all the illuminated dashboard lights (clock, heater, etc) now go off when I turn on the head lights, just back ass-wards, It appears to be the dimmer switch which I haven't replaced or even looked at yet, yes power is supplied by the radio which is installed now; but the speaker works...
And landed men on the moon, sent the first probes to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Invented the transistor and IC, created Unix and C and managed to turn Japan in to democratic nation and kept Europe for burning to the the ground...
And we have nukes.
The United States is a "melting pot" consisting of all (?) nationalities and religions. The BBS Commentary series "The Planets" shows a lot of interviews of what it was like getting to the Moon; many interviews were people of obvious past India nationalities, be it their families moved to the United States or they became US citizens.
While the United States has a lot to be proud of, it has taken many previous "foreigners" to help it happen.
I'm 16, I fix things quite often. I fix broken computers, I fix broken tractors, I fix broken power tools, I fix furniture. I can sew, knit, weave, spin, and work with leather and wood.
My Mom taught me to crochet and knit one day, when my Dad came home he had a fit I guess it was too girlish for him.
I can or like to think I can fix anything, but wood work (building something from wood) I always (always) screw up (over 50).