Or alternatively, perhaps your job isn't the most important thing in your life. Perhaps you have kids going through school, perhaps you have friends you want to stay in touch with, perhaps your dear old mum needs a hand...
These are all luxuries of a highly refined caste which are ill-afforded the majority of the human popluation. Do you not see the emergency? Then this is not your story.
The poignancy, sweet and pungent, of Indian companies recruiting Americans, is that there are at least a million qualified individuals in the neighborhood, for every 100 bussed-in 'lucky person from country X', and its only the language of the caste which allows this to occur. Ironic, because language doesn't always nourish, it often feeds..
Globalization is a reality. If you are still thinking that your local country offers the only market for your job, you are probably watching too much TV and consuming too much sugary fat, and in my opinion not travelling often, nor far and wide, enough.
My advice to the new globalist thinker: Travel far and wide and don't bother fooling yourself into thinking you ever actually 'own' a house (it owns you). Go nomad.
Whats needed in this day and age are people who step across language boundaries, and state borders, to work with each other, a functional group doing business who put this ideal of working together above personal posession and consumption. High-risk is not even half of it. It is far too riskier to pander to high and often mighty ideals of statehood in some parts of the world..
What part of "How do You Manage a Product Based on Linux?" do you not understand?
He's not asking for help.. he's interested in the ways/.'ers are maintaining their linux-based products, perhaps (naively) hoping that the peanut gallery might provide an interesting result. This does not necessarily mean he wants help with his lame system; read closely, and you might realize that Ryan seems quite happy with his approach so far.. but this is still an interesting topic worth objective attention. Its not a screaming/crying/spoiled-brat cry for help that some of the similarly inclined responses have implied, anyway..
Me, I've been building linux-based systems for my own use since the days of the minix-list (and before that, RISCOS distimages). My current approach is quite simple, old-fashioned, but workable nevertheless. I simply apply the following general guide-lines for sysbuilding: complete source-control (using SVN/whatever-the-package-maintainer-uses), avoid cross-compiling, build everything on-board, one Makefile to tie together whatever components are required (linux-kernel/base-image/sysbins/libs/my_app), 'cscope -R' at the root tree when something needs to be worked out, and set it all up so that you can just type 'make' and watch the bootable.img form.. Fortunately the more you do this, the less you need to worry about package maintenance, but of course if the 'final deliverable' is a simple, plain sysimage containing all software onboard required for your embedded app, then package maintenance isn't such an issue. Its kind of fun to have a "single-image deliverable" too..
WLAN on the GP2X? Absolutely no sweat, whatsoever. Done. I made my own cables (easy), and have two GP2X's with their own zd1211 USB WLAN sticks, among other things, often hanging on it.. You *will* need a GP2X->USB cable, or a Breakout box, either developer-version (available now) or next months "consumer" docking-station version.
Point is: GP2X does networking as an accessory (like it does many things, such as Powermate, Dance-pad, TV, etc.) In case you don't get it: the GP2X is the *most* accessory-friendly games machine on the market.. once you get past that EXT->USB barrier, heh heh.
(I've got a small fleet of gp2x's now, I think another fleet will be my next 'powerbook' upgrade..)
Were you like me and had to have electroplankton even though you knew it was a rip-off for $30? It's pretty amazingly awesome, but like ten more plankton or so, or the ability to mix them or SOMETHING, would've made me feel better about buying it. It plays like a demo due to its limitations.
Yes, I had to have it.. I only bought the DSLite so I could play/demo elektroplankton.. But now I'll try out a few other DS titles. I just wish there were more music-oriented games/apps being coded for it, its such a lovely little platform for such things..
None of this was a limitation of the DS's power since it was hardly better graphics-wise than the original version of Worms. I hope they make a second DS Worms that is more along the lines of Worms 2.
eerrggh.. i hate that.. seems like they just held back on the content or something.
speaking of non- versus open- content creation-based game systems.. hmm. do the WiFi-ntendo game engines promote the players ability to construct content in any way, or is it pretty much just disposable-'avatar' style stuff? in sum, how much 'storage' are we talking about in these game-worlds, do you figure the average player can acrue?
I got a DS just so I could play Elektroplankton, and as I'm an avid GP2X coder I've sort of ignored all the latest DS games.. what would the slashdot crowd recommend for other must-have DS (Lite) titles that'll show off the thing? Right now its mostly gathering dust until I can get a Flash-cart setup for it, and pitch in on DSLinux or so.. anything out there thats really superlative in terms of fun-factor that I might be missing out on..?
hey, my girlfriend would come along and bring her little macbook and camerabag too.. i think the 'linux nerds get no girls' is a definitely holdover from a different era.. in fact, every linux geek i know has a steady and lovely girlfriend, while the windows nerds spend a lot (a lot) of time in the bars looking hungry and destitute.. honest!
cripes, its not just an old joke, its a practical operating state for many decent ops centers who empirically measure their backups in the 'spare safeguard bandwidth' category as well..
Telling a cop you know the law better than they do (whether you do or not) will not earn their respect. It will challenge their ego and most of them have some serious issues with control which is one of the reasons they become cops
If you want to change the perpetuation of 'control freaks becoming cops' for society, then do, indeed, seek to understand your rights as a citizen, and their duties as a cop. For sure, 100%, stand up for your rights. Most definitely, a society where people understand (through history) that cops are busted when they're bad, is one that keeps the cop persona where it ought to be: square in the limelight.
Going along with 'control freaks becoming cops' as a concept in society, just for a little bit, is just making excuses. Don't make excuses for police crimes. To do so is, indeed, to perpetuate a police state.
.. I saw, about a year ago, which has the sole purpose of dissecting modern hardware into component costs and listing them for all and sundry to see.. anyone know that site I'm talking about? I've tried to find it again, but I can't for the life of me wrangle Google into the corner..
So why are we not seeing paper after paper highlighting the amazing telepathic ability of their test subjects which were conducted in harmonious settings, surrounded by other believers?
Because if its true, it changes everything, and there are a whole lotta people with a whole lotta investment in everything who don't want it to be true. Thus, it isn't.
I, too, adore vi, and use it to write code for OSX/Darwin, and Linux, the former for 5 years, and the latter for 14 years.. its a rock-solid tool in my hands, and I have no need to go to any other editor.
And it is fatally flawed and contains some form of experimental bias, or it comes back with exactly the result you would expect - indistinguishable from random chance.
Yes, it is flawed. In fact I believe that modern telepathy research is Terminally Flawed. You can't produce telepathy in an environment which doubts it is possible. Plain and simple.
Telepathy is a spiritual condition which describes communication between two spiritual entities. So far, the Scientific world has denied the existence, over and over, of a Spiritual World, and continues to do so. We are all just plain ol' meat, and nothing more than plain ol' meat. But if telepathy were proven, that would undo all that clever thinking, wouldn't it?
Would you expect to be able to produce a fire out of raw materials in a rainstorm? All the doubt and disbelief that telepathy can exist as a functional reality of our existence, precludes the condition from existing. Because, frankly, it would change everything we hold (collectively) to be 'True' about our spiritual existence: that it is a consequence of the physical universe, and not the other way around.
Remove the 'need to prove', and you can produce the condition. This doesn't mean don't be scientific and methodical about it; it does mean, prepare the environment for the condition you wish to occur. You can't build a fire in the rain.
Also, I would have to say, that so far all those who have 'seriously' researched telepathy seek to weaponize it. This can't be good for the spiritual principle, which states that there is a universe outside of the one in which bombs are the most powerful device in the universe for controlling mankinds destiny.
Because every single human alive has something to hide, and the 'proof' of such a skill existing would bring abject fear and terror into the hearts of every single human alive. There is no single human being alive today pure enough to admit that, were telepathy a reality of life, they wouldn't be terrified of it.
You won't see a rational approach to this subject from science, or those who profess to have put their lives in the hands of science. To do so would be to admit that all you know about the universe is not only wrong, but has not served you well.. after all, if Telepathy is a reality, surely science would have delivered it by now..
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Are you some kind of nutcase?
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If I were some kind of nutcase, would it be in a caste higher or lower than your own?
The Western tendency to label as "insane" anything which doesn't jive with their TV-fed white-bread culture is a caste system, duh
Or alternatively, perhaps your job isn't the most important thing in your life. Perhaps you have kids going through school, perhaps you have friends you want to stay in touch with, perhaps your dear old mum needs a hand...
..
These are all luxuries of a highly refined caste which are ill-afforded the majority of the human popluation. Do you not see the emergency? Then this is not your story.
The poignancy, sweet and pungent, of Indian companies recruiting Americans, is that there are at least a million qualified individuals in the neighborhood, for every 100 bussed-in 'lucky person from country X', and its only the language of the caste which allows this to occur. Ironic, because language doesn't always nourish, it often feeds
Globalization is a reality. If you are still thinking that your local country offers the only market for your job, you are probably watching too much TV and consuming too much sugary fat, and in my opinion not travelling often, nor far and wide, enough.
..
My advice to the new globalist thinker: Travel far and wide and don't bother fooling yourself into thinking you ever actually 'own' a house (it owns you). Go nomad.
Whats needed in this day and age are people who step across language boundaries, and state borders, to work with each other, a functional group doing business who put this ideal of working together above personal posession and consumption. High-risk is not even half of it. It is far too riskier to pander to high and often mighty ideals of statehood in some parts of the world
PS- Unix runs everywhere.
What part of "How do You Manage a Product Based on Linux?" do you not understand?
.. he's interested in the ways /.'ers are maintaining their linux-based products, perhaps (naively) hoping that the peanut gallery might provide an interesting result. This does not necessarily mean he wants help with his lame system; read closely, and you might realize that Ryan seems quite happy with his approach so far .. but this is still an interesting topic worth objective attention. Its not a screaming/crying/spoiled-brat cry for help that some of the similarly inclined responses have implied, anyway ..
.img form .. Fortunately the more you do this, the less you need to worry about package maintenance, but of course if the 'final deliverable' is a simple, plain sysimage containing all software onboard required for your embedded app, then package maintenance isn't such an issue. Its kind of fun to have a "single-image deliverable" too ..
He's not asking for help
Me, I've been building linux-based systems for my own use since the days of the minix-list (and before that, RISCOS distimages). My current approach is quite simple, old-fashioned, but workable nevertheless. I simply apply the following general guide-lines for sysbuilding: complete source-control (using SVN/whatever-the-package-maintainer-uses), avoid cross-compiling, build everything on-board, one Makefile to tie together whatever components are required (linux-kernel/base-image/sysbins/libs/my_app), 'cscope -R' at the root tree when something needs to be worked out, and set it all up so that you can just type 'make' and watch the bootable
WLAN on the GP2X? Absolutely no sweat, whatsoever. Done. I made my own cables (easy), and have two GP2X's with their own zd1211 USB WLAN sticks, among other things, often hanging on it
Point is: GP2X does networking as an accessory (like it does many things, such as Powermate, Dance-pad, TV, etc.) In case you don't get it: the GP2X is the *most* accessory-friendly games machine on the market
(I've got a small fleet of gp2x's now, I think another fleet will be my next 'powerbook' upgrade
Were you like me and had to have electroplankton even though you knew it was a rip-off for $30? It's pretty amazingly awesome, but like ten more plankton or so, or the ability to mix them or SOMETHING, would've made me feel better about buying it. It plays like a demo due to its limitations.
.. I only bought the DSLite so I could play/demo elektroplankton .. But now I'll try out a few other DS titles. I just wish there were more music-oriented games/apps being coded for it, its such a lovely little platform for such things..
Yes, I had to have it
None of this was a limitation of the DS's power since it was hardly better graphics-wise than the original version of Worms. I hope they make a second DS Worms that is more along the lines of Worms 2.
eerrggh.. i hate that.. seems like they just held back on the content or something.
speaking of non- versus open- content creation-based game systems.. hmm. do the WiFi-ntendo game engines promote the players ability to construct content in any way, or is it pretty much just disposable-'avatar' style stuff? in sum, how much 'storage' are we talking about in these game-worlds, do you figure the average player can acrue?
I got a DS just so I could play Elektroplankton, and as I'm an avid GP2X coder I've sort of ignored all the latest DS games
.. does he still foment a wonderfully wilde frontier among his compatriates .. ?
hey, my girlfriend would come along and bring her little macbook and camerabag too .. i think the 'linux nerds get no girls' is a definitely holdover from a different era .. in fact, every linux geek i know has a steady and lovely girlfriend, while the windows nerds spend a lot (a lot) of time in the bars looking hungry and destitute .. honest!
cripes, its not just an old joke, its a practical operating state for many decent ops centers who empirically measure their backups in the 'spare safeguard bandwidth' category as well
yeah, i second that .. i think the iSight was a smart move and some nice componentry ..
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of course another nice smart move would be if i could plug my lumix fz5 in and just stream from that, but hey
Guess what? Elected Officials are representative of the general populace. Its a Democracy.
All this is fine and good, but we're still putting up with the !#@$# Finder on OSX ..
.. making, 2 years ago.
i think you mean it was threadjacked by the christian monk..
This is lousy advice.
It is not lousy advice.
Telling a cop you know the law better than they do (whether you do or not) will not earn their respect. It will challenge their ego and most of them have some serious issues with control which is one of the reasons they become cops
If you want to change the perpetuation of 'control freaks becoming cops' for society, then do, indeed, seek to understand your rights as a citizen, and their duties as a cop. For sure, 100%, stand up for your rights. Most definitely, a society where people understand (through history) that cops are busted when they're bad, is one that keeps the cop persona where it ought to be: square in the limelight.
Going along with 'control freaks becoming cops' as a concept in society, just for a little bit, is just making excuses. Don't make excuses for police crimes. To do so is, indeed, to perpetuate a police state.
.. I saw, about a year ago, which has the sole purpose of dissecting modern hardware into component costs and listing them for all and sundry to see .. anyone know that site I'm talking about? I've tried to find it again, but I can't for the life of me wrangle Google into the corner ..
.. where, if yours isn't the fingerprint its used to, it explodes a la 'robbery ink' packages they put in the cash drawers ..
So why are we not seeing paper after paper highlighting the amazing telepathic ability of their test subjects which were conducted in harmonious settings, surrounded by other believers?
Because if its true, it changes everything, and there are a whole lotta people with a whole lotta investment in everything who don't want it to be true. Thus, it isn't.
I, too, adore vi, and use it to write code for OSX/Darwin, and Linux, the former for 5 years, and the latter for 14 years.. its a rock-solid tool in my hands, and I have no need to go to any other editor.
Have you added cscope to yours yet?
And it is fatally flawed and contains some form of experimental bias, or it comes back with exactly the result you would expect - indistinguishable from random chance.
Yes, it is flawed. In fact I believe that modern telepathy research is Terminally Flawed. You can't produce telepathy in an environment which doubts it is possible. Plain and simple.
Telepathy is a spiritual condition which describes communication between two spiritual entities. So far, the Scientific world has denied the existence, over and over, of a Spiritual World, and continues to do so. We are all just plain ol' meat, and nothing more than plain ol' meat. But if telepathy were proven, that would undo all that clever thinking, wouldn't it?
Would you expect to be able to produce a fire out of raw materials in a rainstorm? All the doubt and disbelief that telepathy can exist as a functional reality of our existence, precludes the condition from existing. Because, frankly, it would change everything we hold (collectively) to be 'True' about our spiritual existence: that it is a consequence of the physical universe, and not the other way around.
Remove the 'need to prove', and you can produce the condition. This doesn't mean don't be scientific and methodical about it; it does mean, prepare the environment for the condition you wish to occur. You can't build a fire in the rain.
Also, I would have to say, that so far all those who have 'seriously' researched telepathy seek to weaponize it. This can't be good for the spiritual principle, which states that there is a universe outside of the one in which bombs are the most powerful device in the universe for controlling mankinds destiny.
Just thought you might like to know: GPH are no longer violationg the GPL.
Make a Games Machine Like This!!!
.. then there might be hope. But until you up the cool, no chance ..
Make a Laptop Like This!!!!
Make the two work together (hint: they could use the same OS)
Why exactly couldn't telepathy exist?
.. after all, if Telepathy is a reality, surely science would have delivered it by now ..
Because every single human alive has something to hide, and the 'proof' of such a skill existing would bring abject fear and terror into the hearts of every single human alive. There is no single human being alive today pure enough to admit that, were telepathy a reality of life, they wouldn't be terrified of it.
You won't see a rational approach to this subject from science, or those who profess to have put their lives in the hands of science. To do so would be to admit that all you know about the universe is not only wrong, but has not served you well