Nope. It is hard because. 1. Programming is hard. 2. System's programming is even harder. 3. Kernel code is mission critical code which is really hard. 4. When you are the new person it takes time before people trust that you know what you are doing.
In other words it is just like everything else. The difference is that if you want to make changes to your Kernel you can. If you want to put up a site with your patches you can. If you want your code adopted in the "official" kernel you have to play by the rules and write good code. So it works exactly as it should and really can not work any other way.
In the US it is 21. I work with a group of teenagers. I can tell you that I see a huge difference between the kids that are 16 and the kids that are 18. At my age two years is nothing but from what I have seen at that age two years is a good percentage of their life and a lot of experience.
I would say yes. I am a big fan of Java but on a small device like a phone I would think native code would be best for some applications. On the other hand I can see the logic to keeping applications on a JVM so that locking up the device is less of an issue. I have not really looked at the SDK yet so maybe it is all that and a bag of chips. What I don't like is that I can not use it outside of the emulator. I would like to try it out as a Netbook Distro:) Seems like it could be good for some small screened devices that are a little bigger than a phone.
Okay it was written by Google but I just didn't think it was all that special. It was not as open as I would have liked. It only ran in an emulator. You have to write you applications in Java. Which I do know but is some what limiting. And the UI was just... Okay. I will have to see what comes of it but so far it is just ok.
"I am also an immigrant and my skin color differs from the locals. " What color are you green? Yes I know that decriminalization isn't dead in the US yet but there are locals of every color. I would think of all places NY would be one where that would be most true. Of course if you are from the Middle East then yes I can see how that could be a bit iffy. It is too bad but it is reality. I ran into the same thing when I visited my family in Northern Ireland. When I got stopped at the boarder I got asked my name, where I was from in the US, and why I was going. I got through with my rental car with no problem. My family informed my that if my name had been Patrick O'Flannery and if I was from say Boston and not Florida they would have probably taken my car apart looking for guns. But since my last name was German and I was Florida it was no big deal.
Sorry I missed one other thing. Oil from water and air. I would use a zero carbon source for the energy like Nuclear, Fusion "I really want to see more about the Polywell reactor", Solar, Geothermal, or take your pick. I for the life of me can not figure out why Iceland is wasting it's time playing with Hydrogen! With all that free electricity they should just make oil and keep the existing infrastructure. Heck if their power is cheap enough they could possibly export "carbon neutral" oil products.
1 Yes oil from air and water is endothermic. I said it takes a lot of power to make. The key here is that I am not thinking of hydrocarbons as an energy source but as a storage and transport medium. As such it beats the daylights out of batteries. You will never make an electric 747. 2. GMs products and Ford for that matter don't suck. Take a look at JD Powers and or Consumer Reports. A lot of GMs cars are getting ratings as good as Toyota and Honda. Over all Toyota and Honda make more cars with good ratings but the new vehicles from GM and Ford are getting just as good ratings. The concept that GM and Ford unreliable cars is outdated. The Ford Fusion actually beat the Camery for reliability for a year or two. I think Toyota may have matched it now but they are still neck and neck. When I was buying a car I ended up with a Mazda 3 not because it was made in Japan and it was but because it was the best combination of price, millage, and features for me. The real key for me was that it was a hatchback and for some reason they don't sell well in the US. But if I had decided to go with the slightly bigger car the Ford Fusion/Milan would have probably been my choice. Great car, very safe, and a good price. The millage is about the same as the Toyota as well. I didn't buy anything from GM because frankly I didn't like their cars. It wasn't the quality as much as the styling and some of the trade offs. I don't think I would buy the Volt. Not because it is made by GM but because it looks like it comprises visibility for styling. But then that is one of my big complaints about the Xb from Toyota as well. What is it with these mail slot windows! I want glass and lots of it. You can not avoid what you can not see.
All I can say is an as adult the idea of a 16 year old girl going out to a night club and drinking scares the daylights out of me. Now back when I was 16 it sounds like I would have loved to be living in NZ.
You have a point. immature is the wrong word. Just because something isn't Adult doesn't mean that it is immature. But what you are missing is that yes the primary target for most FPS are young males between the ages of 16-25. And in the largest markets for those games there isn't any age limitation. All the games you mentioned can be purchased by any 16 year old. In the US it is totally legal to sell any game to anyone since the age restrictions are totaly voluntary.
And my wife and I play Quake. We also like to drive go carts but I wouldn't put classify go carts as mature or Adult.
One should call a spade a spade a not try to put a fake name on it. They are violent video games or FPSs. There is nothing mature or adult about them. Nothing wrong with that. A little immature fun now and then is fine.
"(if you can make it out of air and water, apply for a patent)" Can't is old tech and pretty basic chemistry. Oil is a hydrocarbon. Split the hydrogen from the water and the Carbon from CO2 in the atmosphere. Combine the Hydrogen and Carbon into chains and you have oil. Soybeans have been doing it for a long time. The problem is it takes a lot of energy to do it but it isn't anything new. NASA was planing on using atmospheric CO2 and H2 to make Methane for a Mars return mission. Methane is can be converted into Gasoline or Diesel.
I hate to tell you this but all your rants where said back in the 70s and as soon as gas dropped people stopped caring about saving gas. I fear that it will happen again. As far as not wanting to buy a Volt because it is made by GM is frankly just EVIL. 1. GM pays their employees well and provides very good benefits and do most of their manufacturing in the US. 2. The quality and reliability of their cars have gone way up. 3. GM invented most of the current emission controls that are on modern automobiles today. 4. Here is GM trying to build a very fuel efficient car with world class tech and JUST because it is GM you refuse to buy it? Nice. I am not going to buy a crappy car from an American company but I am sure not going to dismiss a US company out of hand.
Why do people keep making the mistake of calling Violent video games Adult oriented? Most adults are not male between the ages of 12 and 25. Most of the Adults I know tend to play casual games and Ultra Mega Bloodfest IV. Also please get over it. Resident Evil, Bully, Hitman, and Manhunt all are violent games like this one which we are speaking of.
We live in the world where media targeting 16 year old boys is label "Mature" or "Adult" content.
And that was all said in the 70s just the dates changed. Yes Oil out of the ground will reach a maximum production rate. But you can make it out of coal, and out of air and water if you have enough cheap electricity. But that isn't the hype part. They over hyped part is the people converting their own cars to EVs. Just this one story is massively over hyped. As I said the far more intersting story is the number of people that are signing up to get Volts. That is important. People converting cars themselves? Been there done that. Had a friend in High School whose father converted an old Renault to EV in 81. Old, over hyped news. And just wait. I predict that once alternative fuels start coming online and EVs are just about to reach the market Oil will drop like a rock and you will see gas in the US at about $2.10 a gallon and people will be over joyed to pay it. And in less than five years they will be buying big pickups and SUVs again. But I could be wrong.
People have been doing this since the 70s. Popular Mechanics even had some projects back in the 70s and 80s. Let me know when anybody is doing more than a thousand conversions a year. Until then it just the same as it ever was. A few will spend a lot of money on EVs and then the price of oil will drop. And yes oil does drop. Around 2000 gas was cheaper per gallon after inflation than it was in 60s! Look up the oil glut of the 80s for another example. It might not this time but if you asked anybody in 77 if the price of oil was going to drop they would have also said "Never"! This is not a comment about EVs as much as this is just an over hyped news story that really means next to nothing. Now the number of people that are signing up to by the Volt is a lot more interesting.
It was an OSX box. I forget which one but it was OSX which is why I had no problems with it. The point is even OSX sometimes requires a little knowledge. If not why have the genus bar?
Some friends of mine got an iMac a few years ago. They called me to help them get it on the Internet. They where using dial up at the time and I had never used a Mac for any length of time in my life. I had used Windows and Linux a lot so yes it took me all of 20 minutes to get it working but that was only because the software Earthlink really sucked. So yes they need a techie friend. And not it wasn't that hard or that different.
The big question is can it climb stairs. I mean how can you conquer the Universe if you can't even climb stairs. I have to say that this really creeps me out.
I don't know if you could run Trixbox on a Gumstix since I am not sure that there is a version of Centos for the Xscale. Now could you? Well you would probably know a lot better than I would.
Well for model rockets it isn't as bad as you might think. http://rcsource.hobbypeople.net/calendar.htm And if you decide to go the rocket route here is a payload that is right up your ally. http://www.gumstix.com/ Maybe you could build a war rocket or RC plane and look for open waps:) Or build a really fast and high PBX:)
Actually model rockets are totally legal in most states. Heck our Walmart carries them. Nothing too cool mind you but they have them. Mail order is easy also for Estes class "1/4A-D". Yes you may have to scale back to mini-brutes or use an A instead of a C6-5 but it is still possible. Of course I am a little ticked that I lost my field because they tore down a nice empty field used for soccer and of all things Cricket here and put up a High School. So maybe you will have to make a day of it with your kids. Find a field and go. Do a Google or find a local hobby store that carries rockets and ask where they fly.
Why can't they? You can still buy balsa models and hotstuff. You can even buy balsa wood and find plans or create your own. The only thing stopping your kids is them. Oh and maybe the lack of open space which is the real issue.
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Nope.
It is hard because.
1. Programming is hard.
2. System's programming is even harder.
3. Kernel code is mission critical code which is really hard.
4. When you are the new person it takes time before people trust that you know what you are doing.
In other words it is just like everything else. The difference is that if you want to make changes to your Kernel you can. If you want to put up a site with your patches you can.
If you want your code adopted in the "official" kernel you have to play by the rules and write good code.
So it works exactly as it should and really can not work any other way.
Funny but that doesn't describe any of the parks around where I live.
In the US it is 21.
I work with a group of teenagers. I can tell you that I see a huge difference between the kids that are 16 and the kids that are 18. At my age two years is nothing but from what I have seen at that age two years is a good percentage of their life and a lot of experience.
I would say yes. I am a big fan of Java but on a small device like a phone I would think native code would be best for some applications. :) Seems like it could be good for some small screened devices that are a little bigger than a phone.
On the other hand I can see the logic to keeping applications on a JVM so that locking up the device is less of an issue.
I have not really looked at the SDK yet so maybe it is all that and a bag of chips.
What I don't like is that I can not use it outside of the emulator. I would like to try it out as a Netbook Distro
Maybe you should have stuck with kits? Sounds like your rocket wasn't stable.
Okay it was written by Google but I just didn't think it was all that special.
It was not as open as I would have liked. It only ran in an emulator.
You have to write you applications in Java. Which I do know but is some what limiting.
And the UI was just... Okay.
I will have to see what comes of it but so far it is just ok.
"I am also an immigrant and my skin color differs from the locals. "
What color are you green?
Yes I know that decriminalization isn't dead in the US yet but there are locals of every color. I would think of all places NY would be one where that would be most true.
Of course if you are from the Middle East then yes I can see how that could be a bit iffy. It is too bad but it is reality.
I ran into the same thing when I visited my family in Northern Ireland. When I got stopped at the boarder I got asked my name, where I was from in the US, and why I was going. I got through with my rental car with no problem.
My family informed my that if my name had been Patrick O'Flannery and if I was from say Boston and not Florida they would have probably taken my car apart looking for guns.
But since my last name was German and I was Florida it was no big deal.
Sorry I missed one other thing.
Oil from water and air. I would use a zero carbon source for the energy like Nuclear, Fusion "I really want to see more about the Polywell reactor", Solar, Geothermal, or take your pick.
I for the life of me can not figure out why Iceland is wasting it's time playing with Hydrogen! With all that free electricity they should just make oil and keep the existing infrastructure. Heck if their power is cheap enough they could possibly export "carbon neutral" oil products.
1 Yes oil from air and water is endothermic. I said it takes a lot of power to make. The key here is that I am not thinking of hydrocarbons as an energy source but as a storage and transport medium. As such it beats the daylights out of batteries. You will never make an electric 747.
2. GMs products and Ford for that matter don't suck. Take a look at JD Powers and or Consumer Reports. A lot of GMs cars are getting ratings as good as Toyota and Honda. Over all Toyota and Honda make more cars with good ratings but the new vehicles from GM and Ford are getting just as good ratings. The concept that GM and Ford unreliable cars is outdated. The Ford Fusion actually beat the Camery for reliability for a year or two. I think Toyota may have matched it now but they are still neck and neck.
When I was buying a car I ended up with a Mazda 3 not because it was made in Japan and it was but because it was the best combination of price, millage, and features for me. The real key for me was that it was a hatchback and for some reason they don't sell well in the US.
But if I had decided to go with the slightly bigger car the Ford Fusion/Milan would have probably been my choice. Great car, very safe, and a good price. The millage is about the same as the Toyota as well.
I didn't buy anything from GM because frankly I didn't like their cars. It wasn't the quality as much as the styling and some of the trade offs.
I don't think I would buy the Volt. Not because it is made by GM but because it looks like it comprises visibility for styling. But then that is one of my big complaints about the Xb from Toyota as well. What is it with these mail slot windows!
I want glass and lots of it. You can not avoid what you can not see.
All I can say is an as adult the idea of a 16 year old girl going out to a night club and drinking scares the daylights out of me.
Now back when I was 16 it sounds like I would have loved to be living in NZ.
You have a point.
immature is the wrong word. Just because something isn't Adult doesn't mean that it is immature.
But what you are missing is that yes the primary target for most FPS are young males between the ages of 16-25.
And in the largest markets for those games there isn't any age limitation. All the games you mentioned can be purchased by any 16 year old. In the US it is totally legal to sell any game to anyone since the age restrictions are totaly voluntary.
And my wife and I play Quake. We also like to drive go carts but I wouldn't put classify go carts as mature or Adult.
One should call a spade a spade a not try to put a fake name on it. They are violent video games or FPSs. There is nothing mature or adult about them.
Nothing wrong with that. A little immature fun now and then is fine.
"(if you can make it out of air and water, apply for a patent)"
Can't is old tech and pretty basic chemistry.
Oil is a hydrocarbon.
Split the hydrogen from the water and the Carbon from CO2 in the atmosphere. Combine the Hydrogen and Carbon into chains and you have oil.
Soybeans have been doing it for a long time.
The problem is it takes a lot of energy to do it but it isn't anything new. NASA was planing on using atmospheric CO2 and H2 to make Methane for a Mars return mission. Methane is can be converted into Gasoline or Diesel.
I hate to tell you this but all your rants where said back in the 70s and as soon as gas dropped people stopped caring about saving gas. I fear that it will happen again.
As far as not wanting to buy a Volt because it is made by GM is frankly just EVIL.
1. GM pays their employees well and provides very good benefits and do most of their manufacturing in the US.
2. The quality and reliability of their cars have gone way up.
3. GM invented most of the current emission controls that are on modern automobiles today.
4. Here is GM trying to build a very fuel efficient car with world class tech and JUST because it is GM you refuse to buy it?
Nice.
I am not going to buy a crappy car from an American company but I am sure not going to dismiss a US company out of hand.
Why do people keep making the mistake of calling Violent video games Adult oriented? Most adults are not male between the ages of 12 and 25. Most of the Adults I know tend to play casual games and Ultra Mega Bloodfest IV.
Also please get over it. Resident Evil, Bully, Hitman, and Manhunt all are violent games like this one which we are speaking of.
We live in the world where media targeting 16 year old boys is label "Mature" or "Adult" content.
And that was all said in the 70s just the dates changed. Yes Oil out of the ground will reach a maximum production rate. But you can make it out of coal, and out of air and water if you have enough cheap electricity.
But that isn't the hype part. They over hyped part is the people converting their own cars to EVs. Just this one story is massively over hyped.
As I said the far more intersting story is the number of people that are signing up to get Volts.
That is important. People converting cars themselves? Been there done that. Had a friend in High School whose father converted an old Renault to EV in 81.
Old, over hyped news. And just wait. I predict that once alternative fuels start coming online and EVs are just about to reach the market Oil will drop like a rock and you will see gas in the US at about $2.10 a gallon and people will be over joyed to pay it. And in less than five years they will be buying big pickups and SUVs again.
But I could be wrong.
People have been doing this since the 70s. Popular Mechanics even had some projects back in the 70s and 80s.
Let me know when anybody is doing more than a thousand conversions a year. Until then it just the same as it ever was. A few will spend a lot of money on EVs and then the price of oil will drop. And yes oil does drop. Around 2000 gas was cheaper per gallon after inflation than it was in 60s!
Look up the oil glut of the 80s for another example.
It might not this time but if you asked anybody in 77 if the price of oil was going to drop they would have also said "Never"!
This is not a comment about EVs as much as this is just an over hyped news story that really means next to nothing.
Now the number of people that are signing up to by the Volt is a lot more interesting.
It was an OSX box.
I forget which one but it was OSX which is why I had no problems with it. The point is even OSX sometimes requires a little knowledge.
If not why have the genus bar?
Some friends of mine got an iMac a few years ago. They called me to help them get it on the Internet. They where using dial up at the time and I had never used a Mac for any length of time in my life.
I had used Windows and Linux a lot so yes it took me all of 20 minutes to get it working but that was only because the software Earthlink really sucked.
So yes they need a techie friend. And not it wasn't that hard or that different.
The big question is can it climb stairs. I mean how can you conquer the Universe if you can't even climb stairs.
I have to say that this really creeps me out.
I don't know if you could run Trixbox on a Gumstix since I am not sure that there is a version of Centos for the Xscale.
Now could you? Well you would probably know a lot better than I would.
umm....
Cooking Momma anybody?
Well for model rockets it isn't as bad as you might think. :) :)
http://rcsource.hobbypeople.net/calendar.htm
And if you decide to go the rocket route here is a payload that is right up your ally.
http://www.gumstix.com/
Maybe you could build a war rocket or RC plane and look for open waps
Or build a really fast and high PBX
Actually model rockets are totally legal in most states. Heck our Walmart carries them. Nothing too cool mind you but they have them. Mail order is easy also for Estes class "1/4A-D". Yes you may have to scale back to mini-brutes or use an A instead of a C6-5 but it is still possible. Of course I am a little ticked that I lost my field because they tore down a nice empty field used for soccer and of all things Cricket here and put up a High School.
So maybe you will have to make a day of it with your kids. Find a field and go. Do a Google or find a local hobby store that carries rockets and ask where they fly.
Well if you want to reverse that that. :)
http://www.dars.org/jimz/rp00.htm
Knock yourself out
Why can't they?
You can still buy balsa models and hotstuff.
You can even buy balsa wood and find plans or create your own.
The only thing stopping your kids is them. Oh and maybe the lack of open space which is the real issue.