You're separating user from tool in an attempt to say that "it doesn't matter", and I agree with you because any single thing in the universe can be used to kill. Anything. What matters is intent.
And the intent of directed energy weapons is to produce nothing but subservience. I'd rather face bullets, than machines and technology designed to turn me into a slave.
As for your faith in legislation, well... yeah. PATRIOT ACT bitten you on the ass lately?
My buddy started a company that specializes in custom applications of sound design... one of the things they did was stock-market 'audio interfaces' so that you could listen to stock and other financial data instead of having to watch it all the time. I can't find the link for the details on this project, but at the time it seemed like they were making real progress on this kind of interface...
I dunno. There's that humvee-mounted microwave energy weapon thats apparently tunable down from 'irritate' all the way up to 'screaming agony'. Thats a lot of leeway.
I could imagine nefarious types installing these things in public buildings and using them to 'scare away pigeons'. I could imagine them being used as 'sublime control' on busy streets and subways.
I just don't think we should be so accepting of these kinds of super-intrusive technologies without considering the impact on society. How do we, as a society, protect against directed energy, invisible to most citizens, being used in nefarious ways?
I don't actually give a crap 'what' the effect will be, all I'm saying is that weapons like this, in the hands of heartless pscyho-criminals like the ones the U.S. War Machine is producing, would be a bad thing, whatever the use.
Justify it however you want, but the U.S. is producing stupider and stupider humans faster than it is producing smarter and smarter weapons.
You don't want them to have non-lethal weapons, but you're happy with them carrying guns?
Yes. Guns produce clear evidence of abuse.
Energy weapons - especially the 'invisible death ray' kind - produce very little evidence.
I want my government to not use its weapons, which I paid for them to develop, on me. Ever.
A bullet implies a degree of responsibility for the effect. Give the U.S. Torturers these styles of weapons, and whats gonna happen... they'll only use them nicely?
The idea that a government can produce one weapon that is 'nicer' than another weapon is preposterous.
Heck I just compiled a 2.6.7 kernel today and some modules barfed on install to the point where I had no modules.dep file to mkinitrd with! I still don't understand why!
I've used wxWidgets for 7 projects, and I can't say I've ever had problems with bugs that I couldn't just fix myself, and contribute back to the main source tree.
Try that with MFC...
As for the docs, you must need a lot of hand-holding if you think the wxWidgets docs are incomplete. I'd sure like to know what you found lacking...
i know this might sound dumb, considering i have no clue if such a thing even exists, but why not just get a firewire case thats capable of housing 5 or 8 or so disks, and using that instead?
seems to me someone has to have made that kinda mammoth firewire enclosure by now...
I've been using Wireless services for a few years now, am a big user of WLAN, had the first Ricochet modem setup in my area when it was released, etc. I've been wirelessly connected to the 'net now for almost 10 years.
I have come to love WLAN. With my current setup, I can go sit in the park across the road, tiBook in hand, enjoy the outside fresh air and do my e-mail under a tree. After work I can drive up for a quick 'mail sweep' outside my front door, connect to my net with my sl5500, download my latest messages, and go into the city for a coffee with friends, where there are countless open WLAN's I can use as well.
I wouldn't say its 'revolutionized' my computing life, but when I first went wireless, it definitely changed the way I felt about, and used, computers. I always had a rigorous 'anchored to the desk' feeling about scheduling any time on the computer, but now I just take one with me, and use it as a true accessory to my lifestyle, rather than it becoming the central object of -The- Lifestyle.
I've lately developed a very strong aversion to the 'chained to the desktop boat-anchor' feeling of computing, after almost 30 years of computer use. WLAN makes it far easier for me to approach computer use as a user now, not a slave. Computers go where I go, I no longer have a 'PC hovel' like so many other plugged-in users...
Eh? Why does this qualify him for 'nut job' label? Just because he's doing it "outside the established scientific order"?
If you really think that someone independently investigating para-normal activity, without kow-towing to the 'powers that be' who have already failed to provide sufficient answers to these things (yes, cow mutiliation is real, no, nobody knows why it happens), then you, sir, are the nut job.
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Rubbish. The BeBox's are still operational. They still work. Why shouldn't they at least have a target for the BeBox - since they -are- so old, the driver work to support them should've/would've been done years ago.
It really ought to be a simple TARGET=BeBox scenario by now.
This uncaring attitude for hardware that is 'old' or 'antiquated' is really a detriment to constructive computing. My BeBox still has lots of life left in it.
You think the Linux kernel shouldn't target 386's? I can still build a fast, light, sweet and pure 386 kernel, you know... because of work that has long since been grandfathered.
I did not know that. Since I moved to Europe, I haven't been able to keep up with my junk-media needs...
Looking forward to the day, though, when I can get the complete Farscape series, plus these new mini-series, on DVD and watch them myself. I loved Farscape the times I actually caught it on TV, its one of those shows you just kick yourself for not paying more attention to.
There's an 'eery mysticism' to the show that really casts it in interesting light. Gave me chills after my first watching... which was the episode where they're stuck on some slave asteroid and have to make enough money just to get out of the hole... great story line, great characters, interesting plot.
hey now, a Dalek PC case is something I would enjoy owning immensely. wonder if such a thing already exists?
i've had "build own dalek" on my 'retirement:todo' list for years, but since thats far, far away and getting further by the day, i guess i'd be happy to just buy a pre-fab dalek case.. especially if i could put a PC in it...
Any idea why we haven't seen more software ported to Be? Is it not port-friendly or something?
I think its that classic "nobody uses it" situation. Those who do use BeOS are the ones doing all the porting already... and yes, it is 'port-friendly'... in a similar way to OSX, actually.
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note, also, that i've intentionally avoided getting into a debate with you over the so-called 'documentation' for some of the other API's mentioned
You're separating user from tool in an attempt to say that "it doesn't matter", and I agree with you because any single thing in the universe can be used to kill. Anything. What matters is intent.
And the intent of directed energy weapons is to produce nothing but subservience. I'd rather face bullets, than machines and technology designed to turn me into a slave.
As for your faith in legislation, well
Really, this is an example of blaming the tool rather than the user.
You can't have one without the other.
Last I checked, the UN wasn't the ones designing directed energy weapons specifically for use against its own civilian population.
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Okay, maybe they are, but I guess they're smarter about not letting on, eh
Whoah, stop right there. Got any evidence to back that up? A half-dozen prison guards out of 135,000 soldiers does not constitute general psychosis.
One Defense Secretary Getting Away With It While The General Population Changes The Channel == GRAND PSYCHOSIS.
My buddy started a company that specializes in custom applications of sound design ... one of the things they did was stock-market 'audio interfaces' so that you could listen to stock and other financial data instead of having to watch it all the time. I can't find the link for the details on this project, but at the time it seemed like they were making real progress on this kind of interface...
I dunno. There's that humvee-mounted microwave energy weapon thats apparently tunable down from 'irritate' all the way up to 'screaming agony'. Thats a lot of leeway.
I could imagine nefarious types installing these things in public buildings and using them to 'scare away pigeons'. I could imagine them being used as 'sublime control' on busy streets and subways.
I just don't think we should be so accepting of these kinds of super-intrusive technologies without considering the impact on society. How do we, as a society, protect against directed energy, invisible to most citizens, being used in nefarious ways?
I don't actually give a crap 'what' the effect will be, all I'm saying is that weapons like this, in the hands of heartless pscyho-criminals like the ones the U.S. War Machine is producing, would be a bad thing, whatever the use.
Justify it however you want, but the U.S. is producing stupider and stupider humans faster than it is producing smarter and smarter weapons.
You don't want them to have non-lethal weapons, but you're happy with them carrying guns?
... they'll only use them nicely?
Yes. Guns produce clear evidence of abuse.
Energy weapons - especially the 'invisible death ray' kind - produce very little evidence.
I want my government to not use its weapons, which I paid for them to develop, on me. Ever.
A bullet implies a degree of responsibility for the effect. Give the U.S. Torturers these styles of weapons, and whats gonna happen
The idea that a government can produce one weapon that is 'nicer' than another weapon is preposterous.
yeah, i realized that after i re-read his post and saw the 2.6.7 kernel bit, but it was too late, shoulda used preview ...
Heck I just compiled a 2.6.7 kernel today and some modules barfed on install to the point where I had no modules.dep file to mkinitrd with! I still don't understand why!
did you 'make dep'?
I've used wxWidgets for 7 projects, and I can't say I've ever had problems with bugs that I couldn't just fix myself, and contribute back to the main source tree.
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Try that with MFC
As for the docs, you must need a lot of hand-holding if you think the wxWidgets docs are incomplete. I'd sure like to know what you found lacking
And/Or some of the other interesting OSS API's ...
Your list will get bigger, though you might have to shuffle a few things around.
i know this might sound dumb, considering i have no clue if such a thing even exists, but why not just get a firewire case thats capable of housing 5 or 8 or so disks, and using that instead?
...
seems to me someone has to have made that kinda mammoth firewire enclosure by now
I've been using Wireless services for a few years now, am a big user of WLAN, had the first Ricochet modem setup in my area when it was released, etc. I've been wirelessly connected to the 'net now for almost 10 years.
I have come to love WLAN. With my current setup, I can go sit in the park across the road, tiBook in hand, enjoy the outside fresh air and do my e-mail under a tree. After work I can drive up for a quick 'mail sweep' outside my front door, connect to my net with my sl5500, download my latest messages, and go into the city for a coffee with friends, where there are countless open WLAN's I can use as well.
I wouldn't say its 'revolutionized' my computing life, but when I first went wireless, it definitely changed the way I felt about, and used, computers. I always had a rigorous 'anchored to the desk' feeling about scheduling any time on the computer, but now I just take one with me, and use it as a true accessory to my lifestyle, rather than it becoming the central object of -The- Lifestyle.
I've lately developed a very strong aversion to the 'chained to the desktop boat-anchor' feeling of computing, after almost 30 years of computer use. WLAN makes it far easier for me to approach computer use as a user now, not a slave. Computers go where I go, I no longer have a 'PC hovel' like so many other plugged-in users
Eh? Why does this qualify him for 'nut job' label? Just because he's doing it "outside the established scientific order"?
If you really think that someone independently investigating para-normal activity, without kow-towing to the 'powers that be' who have already failed to provide sufficient answers to these things (yes, cow mutiliation is real, no, nobody knows why it happens), then you, sir, are the nut job.
Here's a book you should read, Obedient Peon. Happy Authoritarian Day!
Rubbish. The BeBox's are still operational. They still work. Why shouldn't they at least have a target for the BeBox - since they -are- so old, the driver work to support them should've/would've been done years ago.
... because of work that has long since been grandfathered.
It really ought to be a simple TARGET=BeBox scenario by now.
This uncaring attitude for hardware that is 'old' or 'antiquated' is really a detriment to constructive computing. My BeBox still has lots of life left in it.
You think the Linux kernel shouldn't target 386's? I can still build a fast, light, sweet and pure 386 kernel, you know
Do I have to get a PSP?
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Nope. Get a TapWave instead. Its available now, has 3D acceleration, doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and has an OS that is remarkably simple to write applications for
I did not know that. Since I moved to Europe, I haven't been able to keep up with my junk-media needs ...
... which was the episode where they're stuck on some slave asteroid and have to make enough money just to get out of the hole... great story line, great characters, interesting plot.
Looking forward to the day, though, when I can get the complete Farscape series, plus these new mini-series, on DVD and watch them myself. I loved Farscape the times I actually caught it on TV, its one of those shows you just kick yourself for not paying more attention to.
There's an 'eery mysticism' to the show that really casts it in interesting light. Gave me chills after my first watching
If you liked Blake7, check out Farscape. Chances are you'll find yourself getting that old sci-fi show chill factor again.
*sigh* Farscape.
Why do they always cancel the good shows?
I knew someone would correct me on that, which is why I didn't bother to be 100% accurate, but yeah. General Products. Persons' Puppeteers.
Seems like Phoebe would be a pretty good place to find a puppeteer or two, anyway...
hey now, a Dalek PC case is something I would enjoy owning immensely. wonder if such a thing already exists?
.. especially if i could put a PC in it ...
i've had "build own dalek" on my 'retirement:todo' list for years, but since thats far, far away and getting further by the day, i guess i'd be happy to just buy a pre-fab dalek case
I dunno. It doesn't look so Orac to me ... well, in that Orac is a transparent plexi-glass box, and this is also a transparent plexi-glass box, okay ... they're similar.
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But this thing still looks like a rice-box PC. A true Blake7 fan wouldn't have stuck to PC form-factor in an imitation of Orac, in my opinion
Any idea why we haven't seen more software ported to Be? Is it not port-friendly or something?
... and yes, it is 'port-friendly' ... in a similar way to OSX, actually.
I think its that classic "nobody uses it" situation. Those who do use BeOS are the ones doing all the porting already
Sad, but I can't think of anything 'replacing BeOS' or 'taking up where BeOS left off' without insisting that it run on BeBox hardware.