Impressive home rocketry project. I'd like to read your book or book drafts. Do you have it on your web-site in HTML or PDF form? Can they use an injunction to stop you from publishing about your project and your experiences, or do they have strong "freedom of speech" laws in NZ?
And as for KimDotCom, you already know what NZ would do: bow to the wishes of the MPAA/RIAA speaking through the government of the USA's DOJ and military branches as the communiqu(e-accented)s via the USA embassy in NZ show the complicity of the US govt in the raid on KimDotCom.
I am not sure that I can agree with your conclusion, but you could be right considering that the crapware is named "Enhanced Experience". (Maybe there is a way to copy the drivers that "EE3" installs.) You currently have two situtations:
-- (1) fresh restore install "(with crapware)"
-- (2) clean Windows install
What you're not noticing is that (1) may have the correct drivers installed for your hardware while (2) may have working drivers but not the correct drivers that (1) had. Also, you need to test two more conditions to be able to say ``it runs "better" with the crapware'':
(3) fresh restore install, then with crapware manually removed
(4) clean Windows install, with correct drivers (copy from (1) to usb-stick, then install in this episode of have-i-optimized-my-laptop-yet)
Only if (3) is slower than (1) can you correctly state that: the computer runs "better" with the crapware, because if boot-up time is slower with (3) than with (1), then removing the crap-ware does slow down your system.
If, however, the EE3 actually needs to be a running process in the background (rather than being just a circuitous route for installing the correct proprietary drivers) for your hardware features to work, then your conclusion is probably correct, and you're screwed. Either way, I deplore the preinstalled crapware in most system restore partitions/disks. I like to optimize my install, then save the setup as a compressed image which I can restore as needed. Or use a live-run system like Knoppix which I can always start from a fresh clean known state.
Craig Venter also did this in the not-so-distant past after working on the Human Genome Project. It was called the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOSE) which was an ocean exploration genome project.
GOSE also aimed to trawl the bio-diversity of marine life in order to perform
metagenomics analysis and find out about the diversity of marine genetic material. All of the data was put into UC-San-Diego's division of Cal-I-T2 (a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_for_Telecommunications_and_Information_Technology>California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
That's interest to read about Eisenhower. Where is that particular document found? Wasn't he the "The Buck Stops Here" president? That' would make sense. It does say a lot about him that he's willing to own up to and take responsibility for his actions, whether the outcome is good or bad.
And why is it funny? Someone made a mistake not because they prepared for an option, but because they ran with the option prematurely and incorrectly. Kinda like the Al Haig "I am in charge here!" or the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline.
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Hell, even Truman made fun of the newspapers for incorrectly predicting his loss to Dewey: "Dewey Defeats Truman" said the headline, and there's a picture of a grinning Truman laughing at the headline! If the president-elect can laugh at a newspaper's premature prognostications, then certainly we can too.
Even if the only reason that the web-site became live was so that the site-designer could crow to his/her mom(s): "Hey Ma, look what I did! And they didn't even bother doing their part and win even though I did my part to make the website!"
Don't read a book on how to ride a bike! You've got to ride a bike to learn how to ride a bike!
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Some people learn just by reading. Others learn even better and get deeper comprehension by learning about the derivation or how the system was developed. This is where history of science becomes useful. This is where people who want to build up their own box with Linux frm Scratch learn a hell of a lot more about what the intricate bits of the gnu and linux world are and how and where they interact and where the little config+rc files all can go.
You can learn linux distro sysadmin by reading a book or by running your own system and adminning it yourself: create new users, learn about restrictions, set up sshh, put in restrictions or quotas on disk usage, learn to put partitions different places to see what's disastrous and what isn't.
Sounds like the same with virtual machines: you can read all about it, or since there are so many opportunities to run some free/opensource versions (instances?) of virtual machines, why not actually build one, install an operating system from scratch, and see what the whistles and bells are in it?
Different people learn different ways. No-one learns to ride a bike by reading about it. No-one learns to swim just by reading about it. Some activities are easier learned by doing.
So conversely, having one fan right now means I not a female? And my gender-status will change once the number of fans I have changes? I know some people like to believe that gender is mutable, but sheesh, that really takes the cake! And I don't have any cake left!
re: "Other times they would saddle a company with debt, charge it exorbitant "consulting fees", and let it go into bankruptcy once there was nothing left to loot..."
How is this different from if a person got a credit card and ran up bills and then refused to pay and went into bankruptcy? I think most people would call someone who did that "immoral'' and ''a crook" if they charged things which they had no intention of paying off... It's almost like corporate identity theft done with the intention of looting the good-na,me and credit of the company you buy out. Yet, if you do that with a company that's called a good business tactic to maximize profit; if you do it as an individual it's called immoral and "stealing from the credit card company".
Potemkin village: I like you analysis of Romney and Bain. Makes sense to think of Bain as Pump and Dump, but doesn't that usually mean elevating the stock prices and selling the shares before you collapse it? I thought Bain acted more vampirishly and sucked the blood out and sucked the companies dry of any of their valuable assets and buying whatever they could on unsecured credit and then taking the bankruptcy-walk-o-shame away with pocket-ful of cash and loot. Or did I misread the Tim e magazine article?;>)
Don't have to. Romney promised that he was going to get rid of FEMA once he got elected. That phrase certainly haunted him this last week prior to election day as Sandy's aftermath led almost all reporters to keep asking Romney about his FEMA comments. (!)
True friendship requires reflexive symmetric friending by both parties.
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Strangely, "friend"ing is not a symmetric/reflexive property on Slashdot/FB/most-other-social-or-sociallyinept-website. A friending is a one-way directed arrow. Which is closer to real life. I can claim "B" as my friend, by "B' may disclaim me and say that I am not a friend of hers. "A" Alice may claim that she considers me to be her friend, but I may claim that "A" is not my friend. So really, claiming that you consider someone to be a friend is different from the reflexive property of "being friends" where both "A=friendof(B) and B=friendof(A)".
Luckily,/. distinguishes this by labeling people as fans when they have friended you. It also provides transitive links to FOAF (friends of all friends) and FkOAFk (freaks of all freaks). Shouldn't the enemies of those who consider me an enemy be merged into my friends? And how does "Love means never having to say you're sorry" fit into this scheme/schema?;>p
Well, it's probaby so that they can say that they tested the system with the same type of latency-lag that an Earth-ISSorbit / Earth-Space telcom link would have. Of course, they could have done the same demo with everything on Earth just by introducing the lag into the telcom lines anyway. But hey, it's talking to space! Just like all of the new fangled patents and inventions that say we'll do XXyyZZ on the internets as if changing the telcom medium really changes it. C'est la vie.
The FCC also requires every cable provider to give you a set-top box (STB) that gives unencrypted access via a firewire (IEEE 1394) port. Look it up. Write down the requirement number. Call up your provider and tell them to give you a box with IEEE-1394 access to an unencrypted feed.
If you get the Roku player, you also have to register it online even if you don't intend to use any online streaming. And the TivO works the same way: it needs to call the mothership for subscription/program guide data in order to keep functioning viably.
Damn it, I don't know my blood group. Do I just need to cut my finger and sign the alternate paperform version with blood and send it in to MS directly? Isn't that how you're supposed to sign deals with the devil?
It's easier to manipulate perception than to manipulate reality; it's easier to make people believe you're going to or already have fixed the problem than it is to actually work on the problem itself. The sad sad outrageous part is that they then spend (a large integer) times the amount of money on manipulating perception than the amount of money that they might have needed to address the problem.
The "focus on the numbers" and "fix the perception so we look like we're winning" is the same as:
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Lowering your cholesterol number by taking a drug like Lipitor. Instead of fixing the problem with diet (eat better food, stop eating the junky fatty food, eat only as much food as needed) and exercise (exercise more, don't sit down in front of the tv so much), people have found a magic pill that lowers your cholesterol reading but does not do anything to actually make your health better.
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Yes, the drug lowers your cholesterol number, but it doesn't decrease your risk of heart attacks or the risk of any of the bad diseases associated with high cholesterol. Hmmm... So it makes you feel better by giving you a better score? Hey, let's give everybody an "A" so they're all smarter! Hey, let's give everybody an award for being on the softball team instead of actaully giving awards for real achievement.
If you've already got a population that's willing to accept
-- fake awards without earning/deserving them and to accept
-- fakey medical test results that don't really improve their health, then that's the kind of population that will believe anything you tell them in order to get them to vote for you.
Thanks for your answer. I did read the FA; I must have missed that point. I didn't realize that voter registries were public information. Are you required to give your phone-number? That must be how people get all of the robo-call spams for elections...
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Can you refuse to give a phone number when you register? (I'm not registered; I'm not old enough yet. My parents tend to think that they're always required to give out stuff like their own email and phone numbers; they pretty much do it at almost every cash-register person who asks.)
re: determining factors were basics like age, sex, race, neighborhood and voting record .
Voting record? I thought we had secret ballots in this country and that no one is supposed to have access to individual voters' voting records? Do they mean simply registration records and if they voted in a particular election?
And it seemed worrisome that the government would tabulate this infomation on us so they outlawed it; then they found the loophole that while the gov't couldn't compile the data, private companies could, and then the gov't can look at the private companies' data and still proclaim they never broke the law. "Brave New World", indeed...
San Diego used to have a radio-modem internet access service called Ricochet, offered by a company called metricom. Their radio-modems broadcast with one-watt of power over the unlicensed 900 MHz frequency. There's even a wiki-page about the hardware at http://ricochet.wikispaces.com/
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Maybe there's a way to use amateur radio instead of wifi for the medium to long hops from your fiber-access to the town and then set up a wifi base station there for the customers. I don't know about the licensing issues with going up over 1-watt transmission though.
I think that the answer may lie in your second sentence: "It seems that two local districts vote in the place I went this morning, so a guy at the door routed voters to table A or table B depending on our street addresses."
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I am guessing that the booths tabulated results for two different voting precincts/districts, and that the routing/sorting of voters as they entered was based upon which distrist contains their address.
This answer would make sense if the voting occured in the booth electronically. If, however, your booths were just privacy zones where you could fill out your ballot, and then the ballots for A and B were inserted into the same box/optical scanner/tabulator afterwards, then in that case you are right about the ladies throwing hissy fits and being territorial about their table turf!
Emacs also good for prototyping postscript pages and running postscript code while inside emacs with postscript mode inserting macros/subroutines/font selections as needed; c-code writing; lisp macro but also writing lisp code and eval-ing it without leaving the editor.
Nano is on knoppix live-boot stuff and that's where i play with it. Didn't know about pico... Of course, go older and use "ed" or "cat >" into files too, eh?
And Stephen Hawking, a real physicist with impeccable credentials, is used to become part of the fictional worlds of "The Big Bang Theory", Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Simpsons, and Futurama. So that's another case where they use a real scientist to lie about a fake fictional world. It's part of entertainment; and the fact that someone like Hawking can become part of the mass culture and reach to people who may have to ask people like "us" who that person is. Seriously, Hawking on "Big Bang Theory" is pretty cool beans.
Yeah, I agree with you about paper ballots. About the costs though, I believe the number about the cost being over $1billionUSA is about the campaigning costs by the two major parties. I think the media campaigns and commercials and radio spots have actually cost closer to $1.6\times10^9 dollarsUSA, and that is just the two major candidates' costs for the presidential election. I think another $1billion was spent on congressional, senate, and state level election campaigning. I believe the cost of the election is borne by the population being taxed and paid for at the state, county, and city levels, but I could be wrong about that.
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I've always wondered why it is that the state government pays the cost of the Republican and Democratic primary runoff elections when it would make more sense for the parties to pay for the expenses, especially considering the fact that they can ignore these primaries when it comes to the Nominating Convention anyway. It's silly to make the state pay the expenses of a sham election; it's kind of like the silly TSA security theater. Does anyone know why the primary runoff election costs are not fully paid for by the parties that sponsor these candidates?
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A capon is a rooster that has been castrated to improve the quality of its flesh for food I just hope you meant just the castrated part, and not that they also sliced and diced you for a tastier meal afterwards, mate! ;)
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Impressive home rocketry project. I'd like to read your book or book drafts. Do you have it on your web-site in HTML or PDF form? Can they use an injunction to stop you from publishing about your project and your experiences, or do they have strong "freedom of speech" laws in NZ?
And as for KimDotCom, you already know what NZ would do: bow to the wishes of the MPAA/RIAA speaking through the government of the USA's DOJ and military branches as the communiqu(e-accented)s via the USA embassy in NZ show the complicity of the US govt in the raid on KimDotCom.
-- (1) fresh restore install "(with crapware)"
-- (2) clean Windows install
What you're not noticing is that (1) may have the correct drivers installed for your hardware while (2) may have working drivers but not the correct drivers that (1) had. Also, you need to test two more conditions to be able to say ``it runs "better" with the crapware'':
(3) fresh restore install, then with crapware manually removed
(4) clean Windows install, with correct drivers (copy from (1) to usb-stick, then install in this episode of have-i-optimized-my-laptop-yet)
Only if (3) is slower than (1) can you correctly state that: the computer runs "better" with the crapware, because if boot-up time is slower with (3) than with (1), then removing the crap-ware does slow down your system.
If, however, the EE3 actually needs to be a running process in the background (rather than being just a circuitous route for installing the correct proprietary drivers) for your hardware features to work, then your conclusion is probably correct, and you're screwed. Either way, I deplore the preinstalled crapware in most system restore partitions/disks. I like to optimize my install, then save the setup as a compressed image which I can restore as needed. Or use a live-run system like Knoppix which I can always start from a fresh clean known state.
GOSE also aimed to trawl the bio-diversity of marine life in order to perform metagenomics analysis and find out about the diversity of marine genetic material. All of the data was put into UC-San-Diego's division of Cal-I-T2 (a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_for_Telecommunications_and_Information_Technology>California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
That's interest to read about Eisenhower. Where is that particular document found? Wasn't he the "The Buck Stops Here" president? That' would make sense. It does say a lot about him that he's willing to own up to and take responsibility for his actions, whether the outcome is good or bad.
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Hell, even Truman made fun of the newspapers for incorrectly predicting his loss to Dewey: "Dewey Defeats Truman" said the headline, and there's a picture of a grinning Truman laughing at the headline! If the president-elect can laugh at a newspaper's premature prognostications, then certainly we can too.
Even if the only reason that the web-site became live was so that the site-designer could crow to his/her mom(s): "Hey Ma, look what I did! And they didn't even bother doing their part and win even though I did my part to make the website!"
;>p
Some people learn just by reading. Others learn even better and get deeper comprehension by learning about the derivation or how the system was developed. This is where history of science becomes useful. This is where people who want to build up their own box with Linux frm Scratch learn a hell of a lot more about what the intricate bits of the gnu and linux world are and how and where they interact and where the little config+rc files all can go.
You can learn linux distro sysadmin by reading a book or by running your own system and adminning it yourself: create new users, learn about restrictions, set up sshh, put in restrictions or quotas on disk usage, learn to put partitions different places to see what's disastrous and what isn't.
Sounds like the same with virtual machines: you can read all about it, or since there are so many opportunities to run some free/opensource versions (instances?) of virtual machines, why not actually build one, install an operating system from scratch, and see what the whistles and bells are in it?
Different people learn different ways. No-one learns to ride a bike by reading about it. No-one learns to swim just by reading about it. Some activities are easier learned by doing.
So conversely, having one fan right now means I not a female? And my gender-status will change once the number of fans I have changes? I know some people like to believe that gender is mutable, but sheesh, that really takes the cake! And I don't have any cake left!
How is this different from if a person got a credit card and ran up bills and then refused to pay and went into bankruptcy? I think most people would call someone who did that "immoral'' and ''a crook" if they charged things which they had no intention of paying off... It's almost like corporate identity theft done with the intention of looting the good-na,me and credit of the company you buy out. Yet, if you do that with a company that's called a good business tactic to maximize profit; if you do it as an individual it's called immoral and "stealing from the credit card company".
Potemkin village: I like you analysis of Romney and Bain. Makes sense to think of Bain as Pump and Dump, but doesn't that usually mean elevating the stock prices and selling the shares before you collapse it? I thought Bain acted more vampirishly and sucked the blood out and sucked the companies dry of any of their valuable assets and buying whatever they could on unsecured credit and then taking the bankruptcy-walk-o-shame away with pocket-ful of cash and loot. Or did I misread the Tim e magazine article? ;>)
Is it possible to reflash a Roku and put a new useful/useable OS on it?
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Don't have to. Romney promised that he was going to get rid of FEMA once he got elected. That phrase certainly haunted him this last week prior to election day as Sandy's aftermath led almost all reporters to keep asking Romney about his FEMA comments. (!)
:>)
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Strangely, "friend"ing is not a symmetric/reflexive property on Slashdot/FB/most-other-social-or-sociallyinept-website. A friending is a one-way directed arrow. Which is closer to real life. I can claim "B" as my friend, by "B' may disclaim me and say that I am not a friend of hers. "A" Alice may claim that she considers me to be her friend, but I may claim that "A" is not my friend. So really, claiming that you consider someone to be a friend is different from the reflexive property of "being friends" where both "A=friendof(B) and B=friendof(A)".
Luckily, /. distinguishes this by labeling people as fans when they have friended you. It also provides transitive links to FOAF (friends of all friends) and FkOAFk (freaks of all freaks). Shouldn't the enemies of those who consider me an enemy be merged into my friends? And how does "Love means never having to say you're sorry" fit into this scheme/schema? ;>p
Well, it's probaby so that they can say that they tested the system with the same type of latency-lag that an Earth-ISSorbit / Earth-Space telcom link would have.
Of course, they could have done the same demo with everything on Earth just by introducing the lag into the telcom lines anyway. But hey, it's talking to space! Just like all of the new fangled patents and inventions that say we'll do XXyyZZ on the internets as if changing the telcom medium really changes it. C'est la vie.
:>)
Reference: 1394 interface as defined in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate for a functional 1394 interface in the STB
1394 Trade Association sez : http://www.1394ta.org/press/TAPress/2010_0622.html
If you get the Roku player, you also have to register it online even if you don't intend to use any online streaming. And the TivO works the same way: it needs to call the mothership for subscription/program guide data in order to keep functioning viably.
Damn it, I don't know my blood group. Do I just need to cut my finger and sign the alternate paperform version with blood and send it in to MS directly? Isn't that how you're supposed to sign deals with the devil?
;>)
The "focus on the numbers" and "fix the perception so we look like we're winning" is the same as:
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Lowering your cholesterol number by taking a drug like Lipitor. Instead of fixing the problem with diet (eat better food, stop eating the junky fatty food, eat only as much food as needed) and exercise (exercise more, don't sit down in front of the tv so much), people have found a magic pill that lowers your cholesterol reading but does not do anything to actually make your health better.
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Yes, the drug lowers your cholesterol number, but it doesn't decrease your risk of heart attacks or the risk of any of the bad diseases associated with high cholesterol. Hmmm... So it makes you feel better by giving you a better score? Hey, let's give everybody an "A" so they're all smarter! Hey, let's give everybody an award for being on the softball team instead of actaully giving awards for real achievement.
If you've already got a population that's willing to accept
-- fake awards without earning/deserving them and to accept
-- fakey medical test results that don't really improve their health, then that's the kind of population that will believe anything you tell them in order to get them to vote for you.
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Can you refuse to give a phone number when you register? (I'm not registered; I'm not old enough yet. My parents tend to think that they're always required to give out stuff like their own email and phone numbers; they pretty much do it at almost every cash-register person who asks.)
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Voting record? I thought we had secret ballots in this country and that no one is supposed to have access to individual voters' voting records? Do they mean simply registration records and if they voted in a particular election?
And it seemed worrisome that the government would tabulate this infomation on us so they outlawed it; then they found the loophole that while the gov't couldn't compile the data, private companies could, and then the gov't can look at the private companies' data and still proclaim they never broke the law. "Brave New World", indeed...
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Maybe there's a way to use amateur radio instead of wifi for the medium to long hops from your fiber-access to the town and then set up a wifi base station there for the customers. I don't know about the licensing issues with going up over 1-watt transmission though.
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I am guessing that the booths tabulated results for two different voting precincts/districts, and that the routing/sorting of voters as they entered was based upon which distrist contains their address.
This answer would make sense if the voting occured in the booth electronically. If, however, your booths were just privacy zones where you could fill out your ballot, and then the ballots for A and B were inserted into the same box/optical scanner/tabulator afterwards, then in that case you are right about the ladies throwing hissy fits and being territorial about their table turf!
Nano is on knoppix live-boot stuff and that's where i play with it. Didn't know about pico... Of course, go older and use "ed" or "cat >" into files too, eh?
And Stephen Hawking, a real physicist with impeccable credentials, is used to become part of the fictional worlds of "The Big Bang Theory", Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Simpsons, and Futurama. So that's another case where they use a real scientist to lie about a fake fictional world. It's part of entertainment; and the fact that someone like Hawking can become part of the mass culture and reach to people who may have to ask people like "us" who that person is. Seriously, Hawking on "Big Bang Theory" is pretty cool beans.
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I've always wondered why it is that the state government pays the cost of the Republican and Democratic primary runoff elections when it would make more sense for the parties to pay for the expenses, especially considering the fact that they can ignore these primaries when it comes to the Nominating Convention anyway. It's silly to make the state pay the expenses of a sham election; it's kind of like the silly TSA security theater. Does anyone know why the primary runoff election costs are not fully paid for by the parties that sponsor these candidates?