ESR, Perens, and the others at the O'Reilly gathering tried to create a better name for free software, one which was more descriptive (as RMS continually has to say, "Free software means free speech, not free beer"). They succeeded, in "Open Source". Unfortunately, you create an unenforcable trademark when you try to make it descriptive, as we (OSI) found to our chagrin. -russ
Modify xeyes so that it spits out (on stdout) the byte sequences necessary to control the servos.
Use stty to set the baud rate on the correct/dev/ttyS*, and redirect xeyes >/dev/ttyS*.
So now, Obi-Wan points to the cursor on my screen. I don't run it all the time because I didn't bother to hook up a power supply, and besides sucking batteries, it's very distracting to have a Jedi Knight brandishing a light saber at my screen. -russ
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Because it's no fun to read a book that sucks. Because it's no fun to review a book that sucks. Because it's no fun to see your book reviewed that way. -russ
Maybe think about it this way: that you cannot use Open Source without experiencing freedom. It is this experience which will affect your thinking, rather than your thinking (about freedom) which will affect your experience. -russ
Theo's dead?? You would have thought it would have hit all the news. I mean, he's the founder of OpenBSD! If he really is dead, I have dibs on his bicycle.
Probably 80% of the eastern indians died without ever seeing a white man. They were killed by their own people who had contracted European diseases. In total, those diseases had a 95% attrition rate. Far and away the worst epidemic ever to hit the world. Worse by far than the Black Death. But also completely unavoidable, given our lack of knowledge about the spread of disease.
Yes, we did the western and southern indians a bad deal, but that was by NOT respecting private property rights, as any good capitalist should be expected to do. To the extent that they suffered, it was not capitalism's fault. It was plain old theft and fraud.
Even if you force people to use a free[dom] operating system, you are not advancing freedom. You're right about societies changing slowly, and a gift of freedom from a government is no gift. -russ
Sorry, but Socialism, even the democratic kind, cannot optimize social welfare. Without accurate prices that reflect costs, you lose too much efficiency. -russ
First, Americans did not kill millions of Native peoples. Smallpox did that, and there was nothing that anybody could have done to stop it, at the time.
Second, you're forgetting the Cultural Revolution.
Third, I do not believe that millions of African lives were lost. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps. -russ
Yes, this is technically an excellent set. It has a large number of, and wide variety of, parts. Even if you have no Lego Technics parts at all, this set serves as an excellent starter, equipping you with at least a pair of everything you might need to build a machine.
And best of all, there are plenty of Linux-related resources at http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics/ -russ
There is the seen -- the dead people produced by Nazism -- and the unseen -- the lack of wealth and opportunity produced by socialism. As so often happens, you are not seeing what is not there, and then thinking that its absence is of no matter. -russ
People view themselves as members of a community, and they make policy accordingly
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
Businesses essentially compelled children to work to work for peanuts.
First, children have always worked. Second, add up the hours that children work in school, and after school on homework. Ten- to twelve-hour days are commonplace.
The average American lived in squalid poverty while greedy businesses and crooked politicians exploited their misfortune.
The average American lived in squalid poverty before the businesses came along. How can they be said to have caused that poverty?
They want the benefits and security that government provides, but they don't want taxes any restrictions.
If you ask Libertarians, they'll tell you that they don't want the benefits and security that government provides either. Such benefits and security always come at a price.
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ESR, Perens, and the others at the O'Reilly gathering tried to create a better name for free software, one which was more descriptive (as RMS continually has to say, "Free software means free speech, not free beer"). They succeeded, in "Open Source". Unfortunately, you create an unenforcable trademark when you try to make it descriptive, as we (OSI) found to our chagrin.
-russ
SPI should start defending it, then. Otherwise it will "lose" it (although how you can lose something you never owned, I'll never know).
-russ
- Rig up two hobby servo motors so they control rotation and elevation of a Phantom Menace Obi-Wan toy wielding a light saber.
- Control them with a RS-232 servo motor controller.
- Modify xeyes so that it spits out (on stdout) the byte sequences necessary to control the servos.
- Use stty to set the baud rate on the correct
/dev/ttyS*, and redirect xeyes >/dev/ttyS*.
So now, Obi-Wan points to the cursor on my screen. I don't run it all the time because I didn't bother to hook up a power supply, and besides sucking batteries, it's very distracting to have a Jedi Knight brandishing a light saber at my screen.-russ
You mean "all assembly required". :)
-russ
Because it's no fun to read a book that sucks.
Because it's no fun to review a book that sucks.
Because it's no fun to see your book reviewed that way.
-russ
Do you also think we only need one programming language?
-russ
Maybe think about it this way: that you cannot use Open Source without experiencing freedom. It is this experience which will affect your thinking, rather than your thinking (about freedom) which will affect your experience.
-russ
Theo's dead?? You would have thought it would have hit all the news. I mean, he's the founder of OpenBSD! If he really is dead, I have dibs on his bicycle.
(let's see if we can start a rumor here).
-russ
... when he threatened to mailbomb me.
-russ
Probably 80% of the eastern indians died without ever seeing a white man. They were killed by their own people who had contracted European diseases. In total, those diseases had a 95% attrition rate. Far and away the worst epidemic ever to hit the world. Worse by far than the Black Death. But also completely unavoidable, given our lack of knowledge about the spread of disease.
Yes, we did the western and southern indians a bad deal, but that was by NOT respecting private property rights, as any good capitalist should be expected to do. To the extent that they suffered, it was not capitalism's fault. It was plain old theft and fraud.
Don't believe me, try doing some research.
-russ
I chose ESR. You got a problem with that?
-russ
You silly twit, this announcement is about the communist government *forcing* its citizens to use Linux. That's not choice.
-russ
Even if you force people to use a free[dom] operating system, you are not advancing freedom. You're right about societies changing slowly, and a gift of freedom from a government is no gift.
-russ
Sorry, but Socialism, even the democratic kind, cannot optimize social welfare. Without accurate prices that reflect costs, you lose too much efficiency.
-russ
First, Americans did not kill millions of Native peoples. Smallpox did that, and there was nothing that anybody could have done to stop it, at the time.
Second, you're forgetting the Cultural Revolution.
Third, I do not believe that millions of African lives were lost. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps.
-russ
Yes, this is technically an excellent set. It has a large number of, and wide variety of, parts. Even if you have no Lego Technics parts at all, this set serves as an excellent starter, equipping you with at least a pair of everything you might need to build a machine.
And best of all, there are plenty of Linux-related resources at http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics/
-russ
It could be like Aladdin Ghostscript, where it's free as long as it's free, but if you use it to make money, you have to license it.
-russ
Hey, I like Built-In Operating System. It's a heck of a lot catchier than Basic I/O System.
-russ
Wow. This was a boring article. Nearly half of it was about Marlen.
-russ
Last post (it's a new trend).
-russ
Trample Hemos, Trample Hemos! And take his and Rob's picture! They love posing for pictures!
-russ
Bernstein will save us.
-russ
We're still suffering from McCarthyism and Cold War lies about forms of government.
But Hollywood *was* infested by communists. McCarthy was right.
There is the seen -- the dead people produced by Nazism -- and the unseen -- the lack of wealth and opportunity produced by socialism. As so often happens, you are not seeing what is not there, and then thinking that its absence is of no matter.
-russ
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
Businesses essentially compelled children to work to work for peanuts.
First, children have always worked. Second, add up the hours that children work in school, and after school on homework. Ten- to twelve-hour days are commonplace.
The average American lived in squalid poverty while greedy businesses and crooked politicians exploited their misfortune.
The average American lived in squalid poverty before the businesses came along. How can they be said to have caused that poverty?
They want the benefits and security that government provides, but they don't want taxes any restrictions.
If you ask Libertarians, they'll tell you that they don't want the benefits and security that government provides either. Such benefits and security always come at a price.