I see where the FCC rules tell the manufacturers to afix that label. But I don't see where the modification of a radio set is actually illegal. It is certainly vague with respect to an individual making modifications. I read 15.121 through a couple of times; it is a strange requirement about that label. Clearly, manufacturing a radio to receive cellular signals is illegal. And it's clear that if you modify one, you can't sell it: section 2(d). Only in section 2(b) is there a hint that having such a radio might be illegal: "Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, scanning receivers shall reject any signals..."
The so-called facts were worked them out with false data and an agenda to "prove" the causation. The models don't work when given real data. Show me one, that given real data from the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's can predict what happened in the 90's and 2000's. There isn't one without fudging the inputs. The old principal of garbage in, garbage out applies here in spades. To make any kind of serious decision based on what has been done so far is just plain idiotic. Real science was never properly done and as many have said on here already, the debates don't happen anymore (which isn't really a truth - there are some who care enough not to just shut up and go away) because those that have tried to do it were shouted down and publicly ostracised for their views. Fuding was cut because they were coming up with the "wrong" answer. I'm not even saying one way or the other about AGW, but I've come to the conclusion that anyone who truly believes it's all settled and done is a complete mental moron.
About the EPA, what we can draw from this is knowledge that they are NOT a science based organization. They are political and will concur with whoever is funding them. In all of this discussion, follow the money. Why is anyone surprised that this is all driven by greed. Greed just decimated the entire US economy - greedy people don't care about truth.
I am neither poor or disadvantaged and I don't have cable or satellite TV. I have in the past, but I find we don't really miss them; even glad to be rid of it in some ways. I ended up without cable when Comcast screwed up moving me a few years ago. I found I get all the digital channels in my area with a rabbit ears antenna. The picture and sound are superb. Do I see myself ever going back to forking out $700+ a year for TV? Not likely. The money I saved on cable more than paid for replacing all my old analog sets with nice new DTVs (we have 3 in the house).
I had a job with this kind of schedule. Loved it. Working an extra hour a day is no big deal. I didn't really notice it in my off-work personal life. If you're salaried, you probably already do that quite often, anyways. My boss always respected it (even if he didn't like it). We were an R&D engineering group, so if no one came in to work (thus potentially creating a crisis), there wasn't any reason anyone ever got pulled in on their off Fridays.
In the winter, every other Friday was Ski-Friday and in the summer, every other Friday was camp-Friday. Beat the crowds both ways.
I did work with one guy who didn't like being around his family and wanted to go back to the 10/80 schedule.
I've literally used many hundreds of oscopes, maybe a thousand, going back to the old tek 7000 series (with polaroid cameras) and had my hands on one of Lecroys first (before they made scopes, they made CAMAC based digitizers and I used the first of those). I've used HP, Agilent, Philips, Tektronix, Lecroy, and several off brands too. User interface is interesting, but you get used to whatever you have. Data capture depth is important, but most capture enough for most apps. And all are readable with computer software and talk pretty much the same language: SCPI. The _most_ important thing is: can you capture the waveform you are interested in? That is primarily a function of the scope's trigger. Now, it's been a couple of years since I had the opportunity to compare them all, but I can say, for the past 30+ years, no one has a better trigger than Tektronix. That was true back in the 70's, true in the 80's, true in the 90's and still true today. My personal scope at home is a $5000 Tek. I would never recommend anything else.
Apparently, the Academy 20 School District System in Colorado Springs, CO agrees with you in their latest
Grading Task Force
"The reporting of class rank on transcripts should be eliminated" because it "Eliminates unhealthy behavior associated with competition for class valedictorian"
Makes me want to cry 'cause my son goes to one of their High Schools.
I'm not sure why you can't use proprietary software on Fedora. I do. I've bought and installed several programs that run just fine on my Fedora box. (Visual slickedit and Eagle electronics design to name a couple). I also work for a company that distributes Fedora with proprietary add-ons seperately (because of hardware NDAs). Nothing in Fedora has prevented us from doing that.
It seems that people want Redhat or someone to foot the bill for whatever proprietary packages are the basis of this particular stink and make them part of fedora for free. Huh? No, Fedora is great being 100% free as is.
We use Oracle's application server for the timecard system where I work. I would like to not have a windows box in my office and use my Fedora Core box, but no way - the stupid thing requires windows, so I have a single task windows box!. So does oracle know linux? I don't think they really do. They managed to break Java and HTML on Linux. Have I ever had anything from Redhat that requires windows? No. So who would I trust for Linux know how? Certainly not Oracle.
What a despicable tagline. Anyone who advocates murder and calls it patriotic should be watched closely by the government. I think you intend to be some high and mighty liberty proponent and at the same time urge the ultimate denial of the liberties of people who don't necessarily agree with you. How lame can one get.
This is what I have always done and continue to do since it is the only way to get accurate pdfs. If I use the pdf export, I get strange pdfs with missing figures and stuff. Print to ps then ps2pdf works excellent and I'll continue to do it that way until the pdf export works as well as ps2pdf.
Engineering is a respected profession which requires certification. If a programmer wants to be an engineer and use the title engineer in texas, then they should pass their EIT and P&P tests. If they pass, they can be registered and call themselves engineers. If not then stick with software dude. An engineer can pass the test. (The tests require understanding all engineering disciplines, EE's must know some structural stuff, ME's must know what an electron is, etc.)
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My experiences with linuxcad were bad. Real bad. My opinion is that it stinks. I wonder why they added that clause after I wrote-up my experiences.
I _really_ want a TiVo, but I'm waiting for a future generation one with more horsepower and networking, that would play games and allow for interactive use with X windows and all the hacking tools. As configurable and changeable as most any Linux systems are. Even if it allows someone to write a program to usurp the TiVo service. That would mean they need to make their service and control application worth what it costs so people would buy it by choice. And most probably will. It's their application running to begin with.
This would allow the TiVo computer to compete simultaneously with the other DVR manufacturers and with the xbox. Running other apps would increase the incentive to buy. I know there are Linux tools to do this kind of thing right now. They are not for most peoples living rooms, though. A system out of the box, nicely packaged, running a very marketable program, a DVR, and a useable Linux installation is much more desirable. Certainly to me.
There are already a lot of apps that would fit nicely in an entertainment system. MP3 players, X10 controllers, web browsers. These all exist today. Will an Xbox do these things? Or Replay?
Increasing the market for Loki games would be a good thing, too. If those games sell, more will get ported to Linux and we all win.
Playing TuX Racer on my TV would be cool. Doing so while recording a TV show someone wants to watch later is even cooler.
There are a lot of hackers that would write code for this thing if they had one. There's no telling where it would lead.
And yes, some people would figure out how to copy movies from Direct TV and distribute them over the internet. They would distribute the code and probably be sued by some industry group. Others will be sued for telling where to get the code.
I wouldn't call it mind games. More like on the job training. You are oversimplifying a complicated situation (and justifying it by claiming it is complicated). You sound very naive.
This is a straight A student since kindergarten, too. Still is.
I thought the composition was pretty good. But, he had been instructed specifically, on more than one occasion, no violent subjects. No guns or bombs or people getting decapitated.
If we had time to home school, we probably would do that. I'm somewhat anti-public schools anyway. I believe my son learns more about math, science, and computers at home than he ever will at school. And I'm far from convinced that the other stuff he learns is always good. Especially the "social skills" he learns on the playground. (Some of the guns, bombs and decapitations might be justifiable:).
The real value of the rating system is not that it prevents stores from selling the games to minors. Kids that want them will get them, if they are allowed to, I have no doubt about that. What the ratings do, at least around here, is define, upfront, a limit on which games are acceptable and which are not. When the line is drawn that only "E" games will be acceptable, it makes it easier on the child because he's not told No over and over and easier on the parent who doesn't have to say No over and over. That reduces stress around here:).
You don't end up with unacceptable games on christmas lists (and grandparents buy that stuff without looking at the ratings). Then you've got to exchange it (with an argument about why he can't play it first). The ratings define a useful line in the sand and I hope they stay, at least here. I don't live in BC and they're free to do as they wish.
As for the money, he does have the money to buy a game occassionally. Grandparents give him money and I pay him to mow the lawn and do a few other chores so he will have his own money. Yes, we do control how he spends it, to some extent, but that goes back to the stress issue:
Son: I want QIII.
Dad: No! (blood pressure starts to rise)
Son: It's my money! (blood pressure starts to rise)
Dad: No! (blood pressure goes up a bit more)
Son: Why can't I spend my money how I want? I earned it! (son gets angry)
Dad: No! (blood pressure goes up a bit more)
No, the ratings are not a perfect solution. The ratings themselves aren't always correct. But it's an attempt to do it right and it's better than nothing.
It really did happen the way I wrote it. To start with, I didn't believe the games were the influencing factor. Even after his behaviour changed, I didn't believe it. There are many other people that argue the games don't cause adverse behaviour, too.
My son _really_ wanted his games back. I don't know if you are a parent, but if you are you know that kids can be very persuasive (from your posting I doubt you are). And one thing I have learned as a parent is just how little I knew about being a parent.
The "proof", to me at least, wasn't conclusive until the second time around. It's not like we were experimenting with rat poison (hey, it killed the first kid, let's try it on the next one just to make sure it was the poison).
I have a (now) 9 year old son. I used to believe that it didn't matter what was in the games he played, he would be who he was, he knew right from wrong, and reality from fantasy.
In the third grade (8yo), he was given several very violent games which he quickly mastered and played as much as he could. He also started getting in trouble at school with fighting and writing violent compositions. As a test, we took the violent games away. Within a few weeks, the violent behaviour ceased, too.
Some months later I convinced my wife to try again, to see if he went back to acting violently if we gave him his games back. It only took a week and he was in trouble at school again. We took the games away and guess what? The violent behaviour went away.
I'm not sure at what age a persons personality is fixed, but it certainly isn't for youngsters. I back the ratings systems. We rely on them. I think BC is making a mistake.
Congrats to IBM, but, this will get much more interesting when client software for traders and average investors (like my Dad) is available as part of a Linux desktop solution. Then masses can switch, not just a few institutions (not to minimize the import of this, but getting to the user's desktops is _my_ real concern). This is a critical piece of the desktop stranglehold microsoft has at this time.
True, a majority is more than 50%. You got me there. But if you look, you'll see that the GPL gets chosen much more often than any other single license. And I find you're calling me a lemming rather offensive.
Slashdot Mirror
Very, very bad!
I see where the FCC rules tell the manufacturers to afix that label. But I don't see where the modification of a radio set is actually illegal. It is certainly vague with respect to an individual making modifications. I read 15.121 through a couple of times; it is a strange requirement about that label. Clearly, manufacturing a radio to receive cellular signals is illegal. And it's clear that if you modify one, you can't sell it: section 2(d). Only in section 2(b) is there a hint that having such a radio might be illegal: "Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, scanning receivers shall reject any signals..."
The so-called facts were worked them out with false data and an agenda to "prove" the causation. The models don't work when given real data. Show me one, that given real data from the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's can predict what happened in the 90's and 2000's. There isn't one without fudging the inputs. The old principal of garbage in, garbage out applies here in spades. To make any kind of serious decision based on what has been done so far is just plain idiotic. Real science was never properly done and as many have said on here already, the debates don't happen anymore (which isn't really a truth - there are some who care enough not to just shut up and go away) because those that have tried to do it were shouted down and publicly ostracised for their views. Fuding was cut because they were coming up with the "wrong" answer. I'm not even saying one way or the other about AGW, but I've come to the conclusion that anyone who truly believes it's all settled and done is a complete mental moron.
About the EPA, what we can draw from this is knowledge that they are NOT a science based organization. They are political and will concur with whoever is funding them. In all of this discussion, follow the money. Why is anyone surprised that this is all driven by greed. Greed just decimated the entire US economy - greedy people don't care about truth.
I am neither poor or disadvantaged and I don't have cable or satellite TV. I have in the past, but I find we don't really miss them; even glad to be rid of it in some ways. I ended up without cable when Comcast screwed up moving me a few years ago. I found I get all the digital channels in my area with a rabbit ears antenna. The picture and sound are superb. Do I see myself ever going back to forking out $700+ a year for TV? Not likely. The money I saved on cable more than paid for replacing all my old analog sets with nice new DTVs (we have 3 in the house).
I had a job with this kind of schedule. Loved it. Working an extra hour a day is no big deal. I didn't really notice it in my off-work personal life. If you're salaried, you probably already do that quite often, anyways. My boss always respected it (even if he didn't like it). We were an R&D engineering group, so if no one came in to work (thus potentially creating a crisis), there wasn't any reason anyone ever got pulled in on their off Fridays.
In the winter, every other Friday was Ski-Friday and in the summer, every other Friday was camp-Friday. Beat the crowds both ways.
I did work with one guy who didn't like being around his family and wanted to go back to the 10/80 schedule.
I've literally used many hundreds of oscopes, maybe a thousand, going back to the old tek 7000 series (with polaroid cameras) and had my hands on one of Lecroys first (before they made scopes, they made CAMAC based digitizers and I used the first of those). I've used HP, Agilent, Philips, Tektronix, Lecroy, and several off brands too. User interface is interesting, but you get used to whatever you have. Data capture depth is important, but most capture enough for most apps. And all are readable with computer software and talk pretty much the same language: SCPI. The _most_ important thing is: can you capture the waveform you are interested in? That is primarily a function of the scope's trigger. Now, it's been a couple of years since I had the opportunity to compare them all, but I can say, for the past 30+ years, no one has a better trigger than Tektronix. That was true back in the 70's, true in the 80's, true in the 90's and still true today. My personal scope at home is a $5000 Tek. I would never recommend anything else.
I know I'm being pedantic, but wouldn't you expect one of microsoft's "most senior executives" to know the difference between e.g. and i.e?
Apparently, the Academy 20 School District System in Colorado Springs, CO agrees with you in their latest Grading Task Force
"The reporting of class rank on transcripts should be eliminated" because it "Eliminates unhealthy behavior associated with competition for class valedictorian"
Makes me want to cry 'cause my son goes to one of their High Schools.
I'm not sure why you can't use proprietary software on Fedora. I do. I've bought and installed several programs that run just fine on my Fedora box. (Visual slickedit and Eagle electronics design to name a couple). I also work for a company that distributes Fedora with proprietary add-ons seperately (because of hardware NDAs). Nothing in Fedora has prevented us from doing that.
It seems that people want Redhat or someone to foot the bill for whatever proprietary packages are the basis of this particular stink and make them part of fedora for free. Huh? No, Fedora is great being 100% free as is.
We use Oracle's application server for the timecard system where I work. I would like to not have a windows box in my office and use my Fedora Core box, but no way - the stupid thing requires windows, so I have a single task windows box!. So does oracle know linux? I don't think they really do. They managed to break Java and HTML on Linux. Have I ever had anything from Redhat that requires windows? No. So who would I trust for Linux know how? Certainly not Oracle.
What a despicable tagline. Anyone who advocates murder and calls it patriotic should be watched closely by the government. I think you intend to be some high and mighty liberty proponent and at the same time urge the ultimate denial of the liberties of people who don't necessarily agree with you. How lame can one get.
Yes:
Printer
EPROM programmer
PROM-ICE (accelerated by using parallel)
All use parallel port. I won't buy a PC without one (same for serial port - gotta have it)
Robert
ps2pdf compiles with cygwin, so it is perfectly good cross platform solution.
This is what I have always done and continue to do since it is the only way to get accurate pdfs. If I use the pdf export, I get strange pdfs with missing figures and stuff. Print to ps then ps2pdf works excellent and I'll continue to do it that way until the pdf export works as well as ps2pdf.
get xclip http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/, install, then
$ ls | xclip -i
does what you'd expect.
Engineering is a respected profession which requires certification. If a programmer wants to be an engineer and use the title engineer in texas, then they should pass their EIT and P&P tests. If they pass, they can be registered and call themselves engineers. If not then stick with software dude. An engineer can pass the test. (The tests require understanding all engineering disciplines, EE's must know some structural stuff, ME's must know what an electron is, etc.)
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My experiences with linuxcad were bad. Real bad. My opinion is that it stinks. I wonder why they added that clause after I wrote-up my experiences.
If everyone that has thought about buying a game from Loki went and did so today, maybe they'd stay in business.
This would allow the TiVo computer to compete simultaneously with the other DVR manufacturers and with the xbox. Running other apps would increase the incentive to buy. I know there are Linux tools to do this kind of thing right now. They are not for most peoples living rooms, though. A system out of the box, nicely packaged, running a very marketable program, a DVR, and a useable Linux installation is much more desirable. Certainly to me.
There are already a lot of apps that would fit nicely in an entertainment system. MP3 players, X10 controllers, web browsers. These all exist today. Will an Xbox do these things? Or Replay?
Increasing the market for Loki games would be a good thing, too. If those games sell, more will get ported to Linux and we all win.
Playing TuX Racer on my TV would be cool. Doing so while recording a TV show someone wants to watch later is even cooler.
There are a lot of hackers that would write code for this thing if they had one. There's no telling where it would lead.
And yes, some people would figure out how to copy movies from Direct TV and distribute them over the internet. They would distribute the code and probably be sued by some industry group. Others will be sued for telling where to get the code.
I will buy one the day it hits the market.
I wouldn't call it mind games. More like on the job training. You are oversimplifying a complicated situation (and justifying it by claiming it is complicated). You sound very naive.
Who's calling the games evil? You made that up.
I totally with you, but.....
:).
This is a straight A student since kindergarten, too. Still is.
I thought the composition was pretty good. But, he had been instructed specifically, on more than one occasion, no violent subjects. No guns or bombs or people getting decapitated.
If we had time to home school, we probably would do that. I'm somewhat anti-public schools anyway. I believe my son learns more about math, science, and computers at home than he ever will at school. And I'm far from convinced that the other stuff he learns is always good. Especially the "social skills" he learns on the playground. (Some of the guns, bombs and decapitations might be justifiable:).
The real value of the rating system is not that it prevents stores from selling the games to minors. Kids that want them will get them, if they are allowed to, I have no doubt about that. What the ratings do, at least around here, is define, upfront, a limit on which games are acceptable and which are not. When the line is drawn that only "E" games will be acceptable, it makes it easier on the child because he's not told No over and over and easier on the parent who doesn't have to say No over and over. That reduces stress around here
You don't end up with unacceptable games on christmas lists (and grandparents buy that stuff without looking at the ratings). Then you've got to exchange it (with an argument about why he can't play it first). The ratings define a useful line in the sand and I hope they stay, at least here. I don't live in BC and they're free to do as they wish.
As for the money, he does have the money to buy a game occassionally. Grandparents give him money and I pay him to mow the lawn and do a few other chores so he will have his own money. Yes, we do control how he spends it, to some extent, but that goes back to the stress issue:
Son: I want QIII.
Dad: No! (blood pressure starts to rise)
Son: It's my money! (blood pressure starts to rise)
Dad: No! (blood pressure goes up a bit more)
Son: Why can't I spend my money how I want? I earned it! (son gets angry)
Dad: No! (blood pressure goes up a bit more)
No, the ratings are not a perfect solution. The ratings themselves aren't always correct. But it's an attempt to do it right and it's better than nothing.
It really did happen the way I wrote it. To start with, I didn't believe the games were the influencing factor. Even after his behaviour changed, I didn't believe it. There are many other people that argue the games don't cause adverse behaviour, too.
My son _really_ wanted his games back. I don't know if you are a parent, but if you are you know that kids can be very persuasive (from your posting I doubt you are). And one thing I have learned as a parent is just how little I knew about being a parent.
The "proof", to me at least, wasn't conclusive until the second time around. It's not like we were experimenting with rat poison (hey, it killed the first kid, let's try it on the next one just to make sure it was the poison).
I have a (now) 9 year old son. I used to believe that it didn't matter what was in the games he played, he would be who he was, he knew right from wrong, and reality from fantasy.
In the third grade (8yo), he was given several very violent games which he quickly mastered and played as much as he could. He also started getting in trouble at school with fighting and writing violent compositions. As a test, we took the violent games away. Within a few weeks, the violent behaviour ceased, too.
Some months later I convinced my wife to try again, to see if he went back to acting violently if we gave him his games back. It only took a week and he was in trouble at school again. We took the games away and guess what? The violent behaviour went away.
I'm not sure at what age a persons personality is fixed, but it certainly isn't for youngsters. I back the ratings systems. We rely on them. I think BC is making a mistake.
Congrats to IBM, but, this will get much more interesting when client software for traders and average investors (like my Dad) is available as part of a Linux desktop solution. Then masses can switch, not just a few institutions (not to minimize the import of this, but getting to the user's desktops is _my_ real concern). This is a critical piece of the desktop stranglehold microsoft has at this time.
True, a majority is more than 50%. You got me there. But if you look, you'll see that the GPL gets chosen much more often than any other single license. And I find you're calling me a lemming rather offensive.
More people use the GPL than any other license.