Okay, anyone who knows me at all knows that I am about as far from Republican as you can get...
Your a communist, Wil?
Just kidding, but some people believe that communism IS the ultimate enemy of Republican ideals. (McCarthy anyone?)
Actually, I am a Republican (one of those rare open-minded type Republicans), and I find this action extremely offensive. To be honest, I figured him a Democrat when I first saw the story. (After all, Al Gore did invent the internet.) Boy was I shocked.
Trust me when I say that I will be contacting some people regarding this guy. Free enterprise or not, EVERYONE should see spam as a wrong, abusive thing to do that costs people money, either directly or indirectly.
If it ever came down in my area to a Republican spammer and a Democratic candidate, the Democrat would get my vote on principle, even if the rest of his politics aren't what I agree with.
I've found that there are moderators out there who, if they disagree with you politically, are jealous of the display of intellect you show on a particular post, or just plain don't like you, the following happens:
They click on your user info page, and mark down all your last few comments when they have moderator points, thus wrecking your karma, and destroying the visibility of your posts.
There was someone who did that to me, because he didn't like my perfectly valid (if opinionated) post.
Thus, abuse of the moderation system.
Of course, this post will be marked offtopic, even though deep-nested comments should NEVER be marked offtopic due to the fact that normal discussion almost always goes off in other directions than the topic, but, I digress...
I would have marked you back up had I not already spent my moderator points.
Glad I have an 89 now. The contrast never needs to be changed no matter the battery level. That, and the screen is _much_ nicer to read. (We won't get into the math features, that's OT...)
The 89 does get pretty long life off the AAAs... I've done about 2.5 terms on the last set (Duracells(R)), and just put in a new set.
The other nice thing about the '89 is that the battery level can be directly checked. My BATT indicator wasn't on yet (the batteries probably had another week or two left), but a program called tictex (from tict.ticalc.org) showed they were getting low.
Sure enough, I took 'em out, and the little powercheck thingies wouldn't change color at all.
To take a tangent, those built-in battery checkers are one of THE coolest things battery manufacturers have come up with.
That's true... the one Mac I have prints to my LaserJet via the Linux box using LPRng and gs, so that problem is solved with my setup. It's an older Mac anyway (6300-series), so it's not running X.
I would like an M-series LaserJet, though... they probably are a bit more reliable than gs for certain jobs that gs fails to interpret.
As a side note, I can't get foomatic to properly drive my LaserJet 5L... the PJL code spits out on a page before the job... doesn't do that on my DesktJet, and the Windows boxen don't have a problem either. I've tried all sorts of settings. Oh well.
I've got a couple of these Lantronix MPS servers and they work great. Support for LPD, AppleTalk, and LanManager. All your network printing needs in one tiny little device.
And no, I don't work for them, I'm just a very happy customer.
P.S. I just noticed on my preview page the aqua-colored 3d-ish looking gradient bars instead of normal slashdot green. I don't like them.
That was not a mere "paranoid ranting." It's an opinion formed by my observation over the past many years.
I never said his sole motivation is a mad desire for personal fame. Nice try. His motivations are control, and gaining support for his social-political ideas. I have a lot of respect for some of the things he's trying to do, and I think the GPL is a great idea (once you strip out the preamble), but his quest for control over software via the GPL is a bit worrysome.
He won't claim a bit of credit for anyone's hard work but his own, but he'll still be in control of it, at least if you look at the point of view that YOU have no control, and his organization is the bigger guy.
Don't think that RMS is not a big bully, either. The whole GNU/Linux thing was bullying (and didn't get far with most people), and so was the whole KDE/QT thing.
It may have been mentioned before, but the real reason is that RMS can't stand to not have the FSF in charge of anything that has the GPL as a license and is also successful.
This is NOT flamebait, it's the truth, at least as I see it. When a GPL'd project is unsuccessful or new, RMS dismisses it along the lines of "this will substitute until we finish" whatever. When it becomes successful he's right there trying to claim it. Such as the whole GNU/Linux thing. I hate to break it, but GNU got a boost with Linux, not Linux a boost with GNU. It could have just as been the BSD tools that ended up in the first Linux distros, and there are still people working toward a "low-GPL" linux distro.
What RMS is looking for here is a merge, or a way to give the edge to GNOME.
Don't get me wrong, GNOME is a great project, but so is KDE, and we NEED this competition. It's necessary for innovation, and we should NOT let RMS mangle KDE into one of the FSF's projects.
My question is, when he fails to get control of KDE in this way, will he instead insist on calling it GNU/KDE because it builds on top of GNU tools?
Don't moderate me flamebait because you disagree with my opinion. You'd do better to rebut my argument instead.
I was a field artillery forward observer (MOS 13F) and got to observe for an AC-130U... awesome plane... incredible accuracy considering what it does. Wish our the artillery was that accurate the first time.
Write a just-in-time compiler for an emulator. You can't do this in Java, or any other "secure" language that doesn't let you write directly to memory, access it via pointers, and use pointers to functions in that memory.
You will NEVER see fast, efficient emulators or just-in-time compilers written in any so-called "secure" language. Instead, you need a language like C, or assembler... or both.
In the 80s my grandma used to take me to a place called "The Robot Restaurant" in Pasadena, California. The had robots there that took your orders and brought you food.
I'm sure they didn't do much autonomous thinking, and were probably more like rolling tape recorders than "robots", it was cool, and the operator could take control from the back room and play tic-tac-toe via the robot with an unsuspecting kid.
It was all very impressive to an 8-year old.:)
There's not that much novelty in being served by robots, at least to me!
I agree wholly. The biggest advantages to a dead-tree book is indexing speed. (At least, for me, I can turn to the index, quickly scan and find the right thing faster than navigating hyperlinks). The other issue is, if you have multiple books open, you can keep them open and still have the thing you are working on right in front of you, whether or not that happens to be what's on the computer monitor.
It's also a lot easier to take a paper book to bed when your significant other rolls over and goes to sleep right away.:)
Would you really be weightless, or would the centripital force created by the rotation of the Earth (and hence, transferred to the cable) be enough to keep you pinned to the cieling when you get to the top?
Hey, you know, I've seen one of those X-ray machines in an antique store... pretty cool.
I was curious about the Earth's magnetic field, because I am not sure how much energy is there... So that answers my question, thanks. I am working on a CS degree, and so don't know much outside of that.
Now... if there were a way we could cause it to alternate... bingo... free power for a good long time!
--Mike
P.S. I wasn't quite sure Crispin was a real name or not.
If the Earth's magnetic field alternated its polarity 60 times a second, do you think ALL of the flourescent lighting in the world would glow?
From what I understand, from an article in Discover magazine years back (I know... biased and questionable... but...) which discussed magnetic fields around high-voltage power lines, and also electric blankets, the chief problem is the frequency of the field in question. The article states that the danger from a D.C. current is negligable no matter the voltage, but that 60 (and 50) hz A.C. can cause damage, in theory.
Me personally, I like electricity. A.C., D.C.... doesn't matter, just as long as my gadgets run.
Oh, and as far as I am concerned, it's not theft of service to tap inductively into high voltage lines that run over your property... It should be considered payment for the risk of cancer that some people think is there.
Last October, days before its planned maiden voyage, Chinese military communications experts discovered numerous high-tech listening devices planted inside the plane, according to Chinese and Western sources, who said they had been told of this by Chinese military officers and aviation officials. The plane was grounded and has not been flown since it was delivered.
Ahh... let's see... Chinese and Western sources heard it from some Chinese military officers and aviation officials.
Definitely must be the truth.
I'm not saying they didn't find them, but I haven't seen any pictures, or anything other than hearsay.
Remember, this is being put out by the same government that did wonderful things like the Tiananmen Square massacre, countless human-rights violations, more executions than all other countries combined last year, and other fine things.
Personally, I hope we've got listening devices planted everywhere we can in their government.
for a couple of dollars so I could go through my old collection of stuff. I used to program assembly on the Apple II, and was writing a CP/M-like OS for the 6502, which promptly got scrapped when I got my '286 way back when.
I want to see what I was up to then, so I got the IIc.
Only problem is, some of the memory is bad... need to get some replacements... unfortunately, soldering them into the board isn't going to be fun at all.
Sorry, you are in error. The definition of arrest (noun) on that website says:
2 : the taking or detaining in custody by authority of law
- under arrest : in legal custody
When you are merely detained, you are NOT taken into legal custody by the police, at least, not in the united states. You can only be arrested under probable cause circumstances.
What you and everyone else seems to understand is, under most circumstances, you do NOT have to cooperate with the police until you are arrested or if they have probable cause to believe you have committed an infraction or crime.
When I've ever been asked "randomly" by police for I.D., it was always "Can I see your ID?" Same with other people. Always a question unless you comitted an infraction or a suspected of a crime.
Believe it or not, here in the U.S., you can say "no" if it's a question.
If they push the issue, you ask why they want to see it, they have to tell you. If they push it, with no legal ground to stand on, you have a right to complain to his/her supervisor.
The problem is, that most people out there seem to think that when the police play the "hard way" that you MUST show I.D. This is simply not true. That's merely the police relying on your ignorance to get what they want.
You want the definition of arrest here in Oregon?
Here you go:
ORS 133.005 Definitions for ORS 131.655 and certain provisions of ORS 133.005 to 133.381 and 133.410 to 133.450. As used in ORS 131.655 and 133.005 to 133.381 and 133.410 to 133.450, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Arrest" means to place a person under actual or constructive restraint or to take a person into custody for the purpose of charging that person with an offense. A ?stop? as authorized under ORS 131.605 to 131.625 is not an arrest.
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I never claimed my posts were "wonderfully intellectual," what I claimed was, that they are "perfectly valid (if opinionated)."
... going to be modded down into oblivion, and they wind up getting modded up to +4 or +5.
:)
Karma-whoring at it's lowest
Damnit, meant "You're..." I even used the preview button.
Okay, anyone who knows me at all knows that I am about as far from Republican as you can get...
Your a communist, Wil?
Just kidding, but some people believe that communism IS the ultimate enemy of Republican ideals. (McCarthy anyone?)
Actually, I am a Republican (one of those rare open-minded type Republicans), and I find this action extremely offensive. To be honest, I figured him a Democrat when I first saw the story. (After all, Al Gore did invent the internet.) Boy was I shocked.
Trust me when I say that I will be contacting some people regarding this guy. Free enterprise or not, EVERYONE should see spam as a wrong, abusive thing to do that costs people money, either directly or indirectly.
If it ever came down in my area to a Republican spammer and a Democratic candidate, the Democrat would get my vote on principle, even if the rest of his politics aren't what I agree with.
I've found that there are moderators out there who, if they disagree with you politically, are jealous of the display of intellect you show on a particular post, or just plain don't like you, the following happens:
They click on your user info page, and mark down all your last few comments when they have moderator points, thus wrecking your karma, and destroying the visibility of your posts.
There was someone who did that to me, because he didn't like my perfectly valid (if opinionated) post.
Thus, abuse of the moderation system.
Of course, this post will be marked offtopic, even though deep-nested comments should NEVER be marked offtopic due to the fact that normal discussion almost always goes off in other directions than the topic, but, I digress...
I would have marked you back up had I not already spent my moderator points.
Glad I have an 89 now. The contrast never needs to be changed no matter the battery level. That, and the screen is _much_ nicer to read. (We won't get into the math features, that's OT...)
The 89 does get pretty long life off the AAAs... I've done about 2.5 terms on the last set (Duracells(R)), and just put in a new set.
The other nice thing about the '89 is that the battery level can be directly checked. My BATT indicator wasn't on yet (the batteries probably had another week or two left), but a program called tictex (from tict.ticalc.org) showed they were getting low.
Sure enough, I took 'em out, and the little powercheck thingies wouldn't change color at all.
To take a tangent, those built-in battery checkers are one of THE coolest things battery manufacturers have come up with.
That's true... the one Mac I have prints to my LaserJet via the Linux box using LPRng and gs, so that problem is solved with my setup. It's an older Mac anyway (6300-series), so it's not running X.
I would like an M-series LaserJet, though... they probably are a bit more reliable than gs for certain jobs that gs fails to interpret.
As a side note, I can't get foomatic to properly drive my LaserJet 5L... the PJL code spits out on a page before the job... doesn't do that on my DesktJet, and the Windows boxen don't have a problem either. I've tried all sorts of settings. Oh well.
I've got a couple of these Lantronix MPS servers and they work great. Support for LPD, AppleTalk, and LanManager. All your network printing needs in one tiny little device.
And no, I don't work for them, I'm just a very happy customer.
P.S. I just noticed on my preview page the aqua-colored 3d-ish looking gradient bars instead of normal slashdot green. I don't like them.
Damn that's a good idea. Maybe you should have been running Digital Convergance... they could have marketed that to gaming companies.
I'd mod you up but I don't have any moderator points.
That was not a mere "paranoid ranting." It's an opinion formed by my observation over the past many years.
I never said his sole motivation is a mad desire for personal fame. Nice try. His motivations are control, and gaining support for his social-political ideas. I have a lot of respect for some of the things he's trying to do, and I think the GPL is a great idea (once you strip out the preamble), but his quest for control over software via the GPL is a bit worrysome.
He won't claim a bit of credit for anyone's hard work but his own, but he'll still be in control of it, at least if you look at the point of view that YOU have no control, and his organization is the bigger guy.
Don't think that RMS is not a big bully, either. The whole GNU/Linux thing was bullying (and didn't get far with most people), and so was the whole KDE/QT thing.
It may have been mentioned before, but the real reason is that RMS can't stand to not have the FSF in charge of anything that has the GPL as a license and is also successful.
This is NOT flamebait, it's the truth, at least as I see it. When a GPL'd project is unsuccessful or new, RMS dismisses it along the lines of "this will substitute until we finish" whatever. When it becomes successful he's right there trying to claim it. Such as the whole GNU/Linux thing. I hate to break it, but GNU got a boost with Linux, not Linux a boost with GNU. It could have just as been the BSD tools that ended up in the first Linux distros, and there are still people working toward a "low-GPL" linux distro.
What RMS is looking for here is a merge, or a way to give the edge to GNOME.
Don't get me wrong, GNOME is a great project, but so is KDE, and we NEED this competition. It's necessary for innovation, and we should NOT let RMS mangle KDE into one of the FSF's projects.
My question is, when he fails to get control of KDE in this way, will he instead insist on calling it GNU/KDE because it builds on top of GNU tools?
Don't moderate me flamebait because you disagree with my opinion. You'd do better to rebut my argument instead.
I was a field artillery forward observer (MOS 13F) and got to observe for an AC-130U... awesome plane... incredible accuracy considering what it does. Wish our the artillery was that accurate the first time.
If they were to combine such technology with a Realdoll!
She doesn't cook, she doesn't clean, but she will bear your children!
Write a just-in-time compiler for an emulator. You can't do this in Java, or any other "secure" language that doesn't let you write directly to memory, access it via pointers, and use pointers to functions in that memory.
You will NEVER see fast, efficient emulators or just-in-time compilers written in any so-called "secure" language. Instead, you need a language like C, or assembler... or both.
In the 80s my grandma used to take me to a place called "The Robot Restaurant" in Pasadena, California. The had robots there that took your orders and brought you food.
:)
I'm sure they didn't do much autonomous thinking, and were probably more like rolling tape recorders than "robots", it was cool, and the operator could take control from the back room and play tic-tac-toe via the robot with an unsuspecting kid.
It was all very impressive to an 8-year old.
There's not that much novelty in being served by robots, at least to me!
I agree wholly. The biggest advantages to a dead-tree book is indexing speed. (At least, for me, I can turn to the index, quickly scan and find the right thing faster than navigating hyperlinks). The other issue is, if you have multiple books open, you can keep them open and still have the thing you are working on right in front of you, whether or not that happens to be what's on the computer monitor.
:)
It's also a lot easier to take a paper book to bed when your significant other rolls over and goes to sleep right away.
I meant to insert "the apparent centrifugal force caused by the inertia of the cable due to", but hit submit before I did that.
Would you really be weightless, or would the centripital force created by the rotation of the Earth (and hence, transferred to the cable) be enough to keep you pinned to the cieling when you get to the top?
... to hide from the general public.
Wonder what that could be? Maybe: Price gouging? Security problems? Bloating problems?
Guess we'll never know unless we read the court transcripts.
Hey, you know, I've seen one of those X-ray machines in an antique store... pretty cool.
I was curious about the Earth's magnetic field, because I am not sure how much energy is there... So that answers my question, thanks. I am working on a CS degree, and so don't know much outside of that.
Now... if there were a way we could cause it to alternate... bingo... free power for a good long time!
--Mike
P.S. I wasn't quite sure Crispin was a real name or not.
One minor problem... we were talking about induction, not direct contact.
:)
Of course direct contact would do some damage
Since you claim to be a Ph.D...
If the Earth's magnetic field alternated its polarity 60 times a second, do you think ALL of the flourescent lighting in the world would glow?
From what I understand, from an article in Discover magazine years back (I know... biased and questionable... but...) which discussed magnetic fields around high-voltage power lines, and also electric blankets, the chief problem is the frequency of the field in question. The article states that the danger from a D.C. current is negligable no matter the voltage, but that 60 (and 50) hz A.C. can cause damage, in theory.
Me personally, I like electricity. A.C., D.C.... doesn't matter, just as long as my gadgets run.
Oh, and as far as I am concerned, it's not theft of service to tap inductively into high voltage lines that run over your property... It should be considered payment for the risk of cancer that some people think is there.
Last October, days before its planned maiden voyage, Chinese military communications experts discovered numerous high-tech listening devices planted inside the plane, according to Chinese and Western sources, who said they had been told of this by Chinese military officers and aviation officials. The plane was grounded and has not been flown since it was delivered.
Ahh... let's see... Chinese and Western sources heard it from some Chinese military officers and aviation officials.
Definitely must be the truth.
I'm not saying they didn't find them, but I haven't seen any pictures, or anything other than hearsay.
Remember, this is being put out by the same government that did wonderful things like the Tiananmen Square massacre, countless human-rights violations, more executions than all other countries combined last year, and other fine things.
Personally, I hope we've got listening devices planted everywhere we can in their government.
for a couple of dollars so I could go through my old collection of stuff. I used to program assembly on the Apple II, and was writing a CP/M-like OS for the 6502, which promptly got scrapped when I got my '286 way back when.
I want to see what I was up to then, so I got the IIc.
Only problem is, some of the memory is bad... need to get some replacements... unfortunately, soldering them into the board isn't going to be fun at all.
I think it might depend on the DVD player... as far as I know, it just has to play them once at disc insertion to meet the MPAA's requirements.
Some players might do it every time you press play, however, or every time you go to the main menu.
I could be wrong, though.
Sorry, you are in error. The definition of arrest (noun) on that website says:
2 : the taking or detaining in custody by authority of law
- under arrest : in legal custody
When you are merely detained, you are NOT taken into legal custody by the police, at least, not in the united states. You can only be arrested under probable cause circumstances.
What you and everyone else seems to understand is, under most circumstances, you do NOT have to cooperate with the police until you are arrested or if they have probable cause to believe you have committed an infraction or crime.
When I've ever been asked "randomly" by police for I.D., it was always "Can I see your ID?" Same with other people. Always a question unless you comitted an infraction or a suspected of a crime.
Believe it or not, here in the U.S., you can say "no" if it's a question.
If they push the issue, you ask why they want to see it, they have to tell you. If they push it, with no legal ground to stand on, you have a right to complain to his/her supervisor.
The problem is, that most people out there seem to think that when the police play the "hard way" that you MUST show I.D. This is simply not true. That's merely the police relying on your ignorance to get what they want.
You want the definition of arrest here in Oregon?
Here you go:
ORS 133.005 Definitions for ORS 131.655 and certain provisions of ORS 133.005 to 133.381 and 133.410 to 133.450. As used in ORS 131.655 and 133.005 to 133.381 and 133.410 to 133.450, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Arrest" means to place a person under actual or constructive restraint or to take a person into custody for the purpose of charging that person with an offense. A ?stop? as authorized under ORS 131.605 to 131.625 is not an arrest.
By the way, what country are you from?