We might all be working for an American Company owned by a filthy rich person in Redmond, Washington. You wouldn't have to worry about competition or big brother, but just the "man."
His company would be tight with the military and star wars defense system. He would know where your house is. If you do not use his operating system, he will have other ways to control you. Your silence will always be appreciated.
What's wrong with providing hardware for the cheaper computers? I do not quite understand your logic of hating them. Could you explain, or do you have some kind of grudge against Packard Bell?
Is there some paper or article that can explain why companies are buying eachother? Is it for tax reasons? To avoid patent licensing fees? To buy a competitor out? An excuse for layoffs? What is the rationale behind all of this? It seems like a company is a nobody if it isn't considering buying someone these days.
It may be the coop advertising. From what I hear, if you mention NT used in your products, 50% of your advertising being paid by Microsoft can make or break your advantage over competitors. So HP has some NT and Intel featured in their ads and may be getting most generous help. Granted, those advertisements seem like oxymorons to me: "the unstoppable Windows NT!" I have always viewed HP products as bulletproof lab equipment and calculators that retain full value over the decades. You just may have to do a Linux conversion with their computers so they may be useful after the first year.
I suppose you could beam a laser at it to supply power. Lasers come in many wavelengths that might efficiently power a tiny solar cell. It could modulate the reflections to return whatever information it would process.
Another means of transmitting power to it could be microwaves. You could have one of its "antennas" modulated by a quartz crystal to reflect information back too.
If there is energy around, there might be good ways to harness it to power the robot. I suppose you could even make a robot that would be happy in a caustic chemical bath too...
I like the list of rich features Xmms has and made me think of what lacks in x11amp. One of the things I wished x11amp had was a way to run it from a telnet session, without X for those times I just did not have the server fired up. I saw Xmms has key bindings, so I hope there is an easy way to hack it to allow a mpg123 command line mode.
Making a playlist for Xmms is sweet: locate.mp3 > playlist
The possibility of recording... yummy!
Re:While on the subject of X windows...
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Buzzing noise from your mouse into your speakers? You most likely have one of the unused mixer inputs turned up by default. Fire up xmixer and turn down what you are not using, like mic, aux, etc...
Old code is like a classic car, its simple and elegant. Its often has a perfect non-bloated structure for hot rod conversions. It is simple to understand and parts are easy to drop into other projects. Unlike hot rod conversions, rebuilding old code does not scrape the knuckles, or cost money for parts or licensing fees. When compiled, its often very fast and the eye candy at large gatherings of computer enthusiasts. Many people collect old code, keep it in its pristine state or fix it up. Sometimes it is hard to see in a world of hype and marketing, but will always be in style.
But one thing is for sure: old code will never die. There are always people who swear the best old code is GNU, but just has been reborn!
If I fail to decrypt files under arrest for a felony charge, I should be protected by the Fith Amendment.
If there is a problem arresting and punishing people who cause harm towards people and property, why not change the laws in more constructive ways. This attempt seems to violate rights of people. If I stole enough candy bars from the store to qualify for a felony, sent dozens of encrypted emails about it, refused to open them, I could face life in jail?
For the children? This is dishonest. Its worse than faking video testimony in front of the court three times! We are talking about making laws here that are supposed to protect. The opposite will happen. Our lawmakers are spineless and crooked! Its lying and they are doing not a goddamn thing to protect children!
So, we can look at the list who voted for this bill and see the spineless and possibly corrupt. Preventing export of encryption that is designed to exploit children? That has nothing to do with protecting little children in the US and its not honest to say they are voting for our children. Something's fishy.
If one wants to protect little children, there are better ways. This is ignoring a problem and creating a new one.
It says they have pioneered the technology landscape. I would have to disagree as many were involved in shaping and developing the technology market. They just were the best hijackers and exploiters. They put the "R" in Ruthless.
I found it interesting that the US government would deny exporting encryption products if they were designed to exploit little children. What does encryption and little children have to do with each other? Might as well ban cars that are designed to help child molesters. Its nice that the US is watching out for the rest of the world and wanting to play "big brother." I do not feel my taxes should be used in this way.
Restricting encryption puts a damper on free distribution of solid communication tools and operating system distributions.
Not only that, consider all the clever spam that is designed to sneak past industrial strength procmail. Filtering is going to be a game where porn artists are going to win and information content providers will lose. Many legitimate sites will find themselves cut off due to draconian filters. I have seen it happen at work too many times when there was a movement to prevent tittie pictures being viewed by a few morons.
...where I work there was a movement to prevent bad pictures and content on the web and a draconian filter was in place. Many technical sites were banned for reasons I do not know. I guess the information was deemed dangerous and too advanced for our minds. One of the sites blocked was the entire dejanews! Those newsgroups people can say anything and must be offensive... What pissed me off was when I tried finding technical literature for a printer in front of my boss and the site was blocked...
What was interesting is that no gun sites were blocked, so an NRA buddy of mine was having a good ol time in his NRA chatrooms.
I did find a way to get around the blocking software. Going through www.anonymizer.com got around anything.
Blocking software is impersonal, inconsistant, and not very smart. If a kid wants to look at titties, its better to have a person intervene in the disruption than some stupid unproven snake oil blocking software that can only be marketed by hype.
An Linux has packet radio built right into the kernel! Check it out next time you do a make config. I hope there will be enough interest in the next few years to get something like this started in my area.
Why do you feel that's being sarcastic? Its the truth! My sister plays in a tango band in Austin Texas and has released her second CD. She does not get a penny from the RIAA. Its a protection racket supported by our elected officials. I say if the music is good enough, people will pay for it. Entertainers do not need hardball tactics from the RIAA that crush recording technology. Its an offer they can refuse.
You are not the only one that feels that radio stations play crap. I don't even have the patience to listen through the drivel for mp3 ripping. Its a cesspool of junk out there and I'm not sure who's listening. I'm sure they pay the marketing study companies great sums of money to get the results they need for cash. I would imagine many frequency bands would be better served if the public truely owned them and any Joe off the street could lease a frequency to broadcast whatever, regardless of political or entertainment content. Commercial radio is a very interesting business. Too bad the content is not.
About making music on the Apple just by toggling a flip-flop for the speaker: it was incredible! I forgot exactly how to write those little programs, but it was about 22 lines of assembly (I knew all the hex codes and did it by hand!) involving a shift, xor, and a compare in a couple of loops. If I still had that Apple, I would be doing work writing sound effects. Unfortunately, I have not seen any pages on the art of making noise.
Using computers as matchmakers was the rave back in the 80's. The cool uses one could dream of... *sigh*
I'm not sure how you did it, but the only way I can think of distributing the load on simple computers, is to batch out parts of the job to others, and fetch the results and finish the job.
Zaxxon? Castle Wolfenstien? I remember those! Email a copy to me, I will host them for you!
Old gems like those should never be allowed to die.
Re:Have you looked at PBS lately?
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If you have so much against government funding of public interests such as PBS, what do you think about having no government? Surely, you are not suggesting an anarchy. PBS is one of the many services that our government provides in the interest of our society. PBS makes us a better community and seems to be within the purpose of which our government was founded. Should we return to random settlements and villages that lack funded community services? There is a price to pay for services like PBS and it is quite low in my opinion.
The market handles ABC, MSNBC, CBS, and FOX. I have never seen so much shooting, decapitation, mutilation, and disregard for other's civil rights, all from the market you suggest. These are not only on late night shows, but also on Saturday morning cartoons. I don't have anything against freedom of the press and speech, but its just when its *all* crap that I get pissed off. PBS seems to raise the standard of broadcast television and I feel it currently deserves support.
Granted, the government is big brother, and is always trying to justify its ever increasing payrolls to tax our paychecks. 50% of what I make is pretty steep and I see much of it that can be cut. For me, it seems like PBS is doing good maintaining a community focus and is a good value for what I pay.
But that's just my opinion. Taxes are high and it would be a good idea to just cut the crap. I feel I could do a better job at spending that 50% than the government does, but the IRS would disagree with me in a most unpleasant way.
If NSI registers domains under government contract, how can they claim proprietary ownership? For the public good? What kind of rationale is behind this besides greed?
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We might all be working for an American Company owned by a filthy rich person in Redmond, Washington. You wouldn't have to worry about competition or big brother, but just the "man."
His company would be tight with the military and star wars defense system. He would know where your house is. If you do not use his operating system, he will have other ways to control you. Your silence will always be appreciated.
What's wrong with providing hardware for the cheaper computers? I do not quite understand your logic of hating them. Could you explain, or do you have some kind of grudge against Packard Bell?
Is there some paper or article that can explain why companies are buying eachother? Is it for tax reasons? To avoid patent licensing fees? To buy a competitor out? An excuse for layoffs? What is the rationale behind all of this? It seems like a company is a nobody if it isn't considering buying someone these days.
It may be the coop advertising. From what I hear, if you mention NT used in your products, 50% of your advertising being paid by Microsoft can make or break your advantage over competitors. So HP has some NT and Intel featured in their ads and may be getting most generous help. Granted, those advertisements seem like oxymorons to me: "the unstoppable Windows NT!" I have always viewed HP products as bulletproof lab equipment and calculators that retain full value over the decades. You just may have to do a Linux conversion with their computers so they may be useful after the first year.
I suppose you could beam a laser at it to supply power. Lasers come in many wavelengths that might efficiently power a tiny solar cell. It could modulate the reflections to return whatever information it would process.
Another means of transmitting power to it could be microwaves. You could have one of its "antennas" modulated by a quartz crystal to reflect information back too.
If there is energy around, there might be good ways to harness it to power the robot. I suppose you could even make a robot that would be happy in a caustic chemical bath too...
I like the list of rich features Xmms has and made me think of what lacks in x11amp. One of the things I wished x11amp had was a way to run it from a telnet session, without X for those times I just did not have the server fired up. I saw Xmms has key bindings, so I hope there is an easy way to hack it to allow a mpg123 command line mode.
.mp3 > playlist
Making a playlist for Xmms is sweet: locate
The possibility of recording... yummy!
Buzzing noise from your mouse into your speakers? You most likely have one of the unused mixer inputs turned up by default. Fire up xmixer and turn down what you are not using, like mic, aux, etc...
Old code is like a classic car, its simple and elegant. Its often has a perfect non-bloated structure for hot rod conversions. It is simple to understand and parts are easy to drop into other projects. Unlike hot rod conversions, rebuilding old code does not scrape the knuckles, or cost money for parts or licensing fees. When compiled, its often very fast and the eye candy at large gatherings of computer enthusiasts. Many people collect old code, keep it in its pristine state or fix it up. Sometimes it is hard to see in a world of hype and marketing, but will always be in style.
But one thing is for sure: old code will never die. There are always people who swear the best old code is GNU, but just has been reborn!
If I fail to decrypt files under arrest for a felony charge, I should be protected by the Fith Amendment.
If there is a problem arresting and punishing people who cause harm towards people and property, why not change the laws in more constructive ways. This attempt seems to violate rights of people. If I stole enough candy bars from the store to qualify for a felony, sent dozens of encrypted emails about it, refused to open them, I could face life in jail?
For the children? This is dishonest. Its worse than faking video testimony in front of the court three times! We are talking about making laws here that are supposed to protect. The opposite will happen. Our lawmakers are spineless and crooked! Its lying and they are doing not a goddamn thing to protect children!
So, we can look at the list who voted for this bill and see the spineless and possibly corrupt. Preventing export of encryption that is designed to exploit children? That has nothing to do with protecting little children in the US and its not honest to say they are voting for our children. Something's fishy.
If one wants to protect little children, there are better ways. This is ignoring a problem and creating a new one.
It says they have pioneered the technology landscape. I would have to disagree as many were involved in shaping and developing the technology market. They just were the best hijackers and exploiters. They put the "R" in Ruthless.
I found it interesting that the US government would deny exporting encryption products if they were designed to exploit little children. What does encryption and little children have to do with each other? Might as well ban cars that are designed to help child molesters. Its nice that the US is watching out for the rest of the world and wanting to play "big brother." I do not feel my taxes should be used in this way.
Restricting encryption puts a damper on free distribution of solid communication tools and operating system distributions.
Not only that, consider all the clever spam that is designed to sneak past industrial strength procmail. Filtering is going to be a game where porn artists are going to win and information content providers will lose. Many legitimate sites will find themselves cut off due to draconian filters. I have seen it happen at work too many times when there was a movement to prevent tittie pictures being viewed by a few morons.
What problems are you having with Tivoli? It looks to me like you have nothing really to say, but a one-liner's worth of FUD.
...where I work there was a movement to prevent bad pictures and content on the web and a draconian filter was in place. Many technical sites were banned for reasons I do not know. I guess the information was deemed dangerous and too advanced for our minds. One of the sites blocked was the entire dejanews! Those newsgroups people can say anything and must be offensive... What pissed me off was when I tried finding technical literature for a printer in front of my boss and the site was blocked...
What was interesting is that no gun sites were blocked, so an NRA buddy of mine was having a good ol time in his NRA chatrooms.
I did find a way to get around the blocking software. Going through www.anonymizer.com got around anything.
Blocking software is impersonal, inconsistant, and not very smart. If a kid wants to look at titties, its better to have a person intervene in the disruption than some stupid unproven snake oil blocking software that can only be marketed by hype.
An Linux has packet radio built right into the kernel! Check it out next time you do a make config. I hope there will be enough interest in the next few years to get something like this started in my area.
Why do you feel that's being sarcastic? Its the truth! My sister plays in a tango band in Austin Texas and has released her second CD. She does not get a penny from the RIAA. Its a protection racket supported by our elected officials. I say if the music is good enough, people will pay for it. Entertainers do not need hardball tactics from the RIAA that crush recording technology. Its an offer they can refuse.
You are not the only one that feels that radio stations play crap. I don't even have the patience to listen through the drivel for mp3 ripping. Its a cesspool of junk out there and I'm not sure who's listening. I'm sure they pay the marketing study companies great sums of money to get the results they need for cash. I would imagine many frequency bands would be better served if the public truely owned them and any Joe off the street could lease a frequency to broadcast whatever, regardless of political or entertainment content. Commercial radio is a very interesting business. Too bad the content is not.
About making music on the Apple just by toggling a flip-flop for the speaker: it was incredible! I forgot exactly how to write those little programs, but it was about 22 lines of assembly (I knew all the hex codes and did it by hand!) involving a shift, xor, and a compare in a couple of loops. If I still had that Apple, I would be doing work writing sound effects. Unfortunately, I have not seen any pages on the art of making noise.
Using computers as matchmakers was the rave back in the 80's. The cool uses one could dream of... *sigh*
I'm not sure how you did it, but the only way I can think of distributing the load on simple computers, is to batch out parts of the job to others, and fetch the results and finish the job.
Could it be there really is a problem with Microsoft?
Nah... couldn't be!
Zaxxon? Castle Wolfenstien? I remember those! Email a copy to me, I will host them for you!
Old gems like those should never be allowed to die.
If you have so much against government funding of public interests such as PBS, what do you think about having no government? Surely, you are not suggesting an anarchy. PBS is one of the many services that our government provides in the interest of our society. PBS makes us a better community and seems to be within the purpose of which our government was founded. Should we return to random settlements and villages that lack funded community services? There is a price to pay for services like PBS and it is quite low in my opinion.
The market handles ABC, MSNBC, CBS, and FOX. I have never seen so much shooting, decapitation, mutilation, and disregard for other's civil rights, all from the market you suggest. These are not only on late night shows, but also on Saturday morning cartoons. I don't have anything against freedom of the press and speech, but its just when its *all* crap that I get pissed off. PBS seems to raise the standard of broadcast television and I feel it currently deserves support.
Granted, the government is big brother, and is always trying to justify its ever increasing payrolls to tax our paychecks. 50% of what I make is pretty steep and I see much of it that can be cut. For me, it seems like PBS is doing good maintaining a community focus and is a good value for what I pay.
But that's just my opinion. Taxes are high and it would be a good idea to just cut the crap. I feel I could do a better job at spending that 50% than the government does, but the IRS would disagree with me in a most unpleasant way.
If NSI registers domains under government contract, how can they claim proprietary ownership? For the public good? What kind of rationale is behind this besides greed?