Still, it's unlikely that such a device can appear on the market before several years."
And many, many years before they are common.
As someone who has moved almost all standalone devices to rechargeables, I'm sensitive to what little incentive the battery manufacturers have to scale down their business. Outside of specialty battery stores, a computer store and Target the only place I've seen "standard size" rechargeables sold is SuperAmerica and I give them credit for that.
Doesn't surprise me coming from an academic background. Business in the last few decades has had a lot of gall saying colleges have to learn to be lean like they are. I know in our state money to the state colleges has been stagnant for years after a year of significant decline. You might think your tuition pays to keep a college running but it doesn't. Working at a couple private colleges I have become acutely aware that they are charities and walking through a private college campus in particular is like walking through a mausoleum. Every building, every rock garden or artwork, heck, probably every TREE is in memory of some dead person. It isn't surprising when you see even a state-subsidized college or university taking the initiative on something like this because their intellectual talents _are_ their most fluid assets. And making due with the hardware they can afford. If it bothers you and you are a Sam Houston grad, I suggest making a dedicated donation to your alumni association.
so the answer is probably something like a qemu cylinder running DOS.
An intro programming solution might be the structure of FreePascal Turbo Pascal 7 clone with 32-bit goodness and the option of expanding into Lazarus. I don't see why simple Pascal programs should present barriers over simple BASIC programs.
Actually read a book. Dictionaries are the lazy man's knowledge. If you get a specialization in any field you will realize that even good common dictionaries are inadequate. Philosophy, for instance, has several dictionaries because common definitions of words like "art", "reality", "truth" and "virtue" are grossly simplistic.
If you read Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by historian Kevin Passmore you find that he has some difficulty defining what fascism is by exploring history. Romania, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere all seem to have developed different "fascisms" from different roots. There aren't even defining theoretical texts like Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto to hold "fascism" together. An overly lengthy whine called "My Struggle"? Poor baby. Give me a break. Which leads Passmore to return to his opening quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset from 1927:
"Fascism has an enigmatic countenance because in it appears the most counterpoised contents. It asserts authoritarianism and organises rebellion. It fights against contemporary democracy and, on the other hand, does not believe in the restoration of any past rule. It seems to pose itself as the forge of a strong State, and uses means most conducive to its dissolution, as if it were a destructive faction or a secret society. Whichever way we approach fascism we find that is is simultaneously one thing and the contrary, it is A and Not A..."
If one likes one sentence definitions perhaps one could say fascism is the irrational paradox of liberation through absolute obedience as a cog in the masses directed toward a national goal. But how helpful is that? Were the Khmer Rouge fascists or totalitarian communists?
So you see, if you want to be _analytical_, if you want to categorize governments through the lens of political science fascism is difficult. When you have something as historically different in their various origins and often not very formalized goals as the recognized "fascisms", something like Ebenstein's list is valuable as a foundation for recognizing commonalities.
From where did this "Islamofascist" expression came? I'm not a native english speaker, and this expression makes absolute no sense
You may not realize how right you are. It makes "absolutely no sense" and that's what they are hoping to achieve.
What I was taught in political science is that fascism is a "post-industrial" form of government. It is also a merging of government and industry. It makes no sense to apply the term to religions or pre-democratic societies or pre-industrial agrarian societies. They can be authoritarian, dictatorial or even crazy -- but not fascist.
What is fascist is a government that exhibits:
1. "A distrust of reason": think creationism, think eliminating a science member on the cabinet, think changing scientists' reports on web sites or making them ask permission to speak at conferences or to reporters.
2. "Denial of basic human equality": think gay rights, think abortion rights if you believe a woman has a right to decide what happens to her body, think torturing the crap out of somebody indefinitely on the executive's say-so (citizen or not).
3. "Code of behavior based on lies and violence": WMDs and Iraq anyone? Saddam and the elusive al Quida link?
4. "Government by elite": George II anyone?
5. "Totalitarianism": What we are talking about here with total wiretapping.
6. "Racialism and imperialism": New Orleans and the conquest of the Middle East anyone?
7. "Opposition to international law and order": Appointing John "Who-me-anger-management-issues" Bolton to the U.N. And how many international treaties have we decided we don't have to comply with in the last few years?
You see, it is pure Orwell. They are making the word "fascist" _mean_ nothing. If someone tried to give a reasoned argument that the Bush regime is fascist, the typical American will only receive "angry bark, angry bark" because he has been conditioned to understand that "fascist" is just a biased partisan retort like "icky". It is quite ingenious actually -- at least as such things pass in politics.
[Incidentally, the seven points above are from an old edition of Ebenstein's Today's Isms: Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism, Fifth Edition, p 115.]
Yes. Attending a science fiction convention discussion group in a farming state a few years ago, we readily had experience among the group (including someone whose college job was "grain inspector" to rather quickly suspect that cross-pollination (and other contamination) are virtual certainties. Standards do not, and practically probably cannot, adequately segregate GM crops in the field and there are multiple opportunites for grains to intermix and spill in transport. For instance:
"Bees [think pollination] forage over large expanses of area: 8000-25000 acres."
For the benefit of the city slickers, a square mile is 640 acres. Unless you are free-grazing cattle in Montana or the like, even 8000 acres is a seriously large family farm. And I'm not sure that bees respect property lines.
I know what he means. V..19 on my file server and watching it from another room with mplayer. Web interface: TV->recorded programs. Click on the program image in Mozilla. Even if you say "open with mplayer" it downloads the entire program to/tmp before starting. It isn't really how I would define "streaming" either.
I second the Fedora (and I have four other Debian machines). As I responded to the story the other day, I found the best setup documentation revolved around Fedora. Documentation, and as you say the convenient atrpms, made all the difference for me.
Blatently "unethical". But bless his heart, now that he's done it there's nothing stopping a sociologist from talking about it anecdotally.:) Even getting close to a subject by fraud and retaining the subject's anonymity can be unethical. Google the classic controversy surrounding Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade for historical background.
It would be interesting to keep a comparative record of what ratio of a country's population is considered suspected terrorists. 5,000 means about one in every 12,000 people in Britian is considered a suspected terrorist. Is that realistic? Seems really hard to believe for a first-world country but I don't actually know. I imagine at least one in every 12,000 is a malcontent. So when does it become an Orwellian fishing expedition to root out discontent? For countries that will release a number like this, let's see what sort of countries they are and become.
I felt the same as you do for several weeks and I also consider myself pretty well acquainted with linux. And, contrary to some of the testimonials I'm reading, KnoppMyth did not do it for me and my pcHDTV 3000 card.
Now I'm in pretty good shape with a simple, single broadcast tuner system. I'm not using MythGame, MythFlix, or MythPhone but I am using MythStream, have all the other modules working whether I'll use some of them or not, and have only one significant bug to squash (for which I _do_ have leads) before I would declare my setup perfect for open source.
If I could put my finger on one key to success, I would say documentation. I blew away the KnoppMyth and installed Fedora 4 because a guy who has used various versions of MythTV with various versions of Fedora has the best documentation I found on the net. But not _comprehensive_ documentation. All-in-all, I have an expandible two-ring cover binding about an inch of hints, tips and other documentation printed single- and double-sided. Whether that is encouraging or discouraging depends upon the reader I guess. It _can_ be done. Some key links from my bookmarks:
With that kind of market share, Microsoft's at long last trying to leverage its monopoly power by raising prices.
"at long last"? "AT LONG LAST"?? People have noted for YEARS that the value/price of Microsoft software has been abysmal compared to the value/price of improving hardware.
If anything, you wonder whether there will be some Microsoft "retirements" and whether any of those will complain that their predecessors put them in an untenable position by keeping prices jacked until the bubble burst on these guys.
Yeah. Talk about the Beliot College "You know you are old" list. Not just before DVDs. Before VCRs. It was a whole different world. On a tangental note, I got an Avengers set a few years ago and there was one I know I had never seen. From the liner notes, I could figure it was the Friday night I went on one of my first dates. Freakish. Whole different world with PVRs. A lot of Startrek was also originally aired on Friday evening so if you weren't nerd enough that you actually had someplace to go, you might have missed it. I'm also sure that I watched almost all original broadcasts in black and white on my bedroom 19" vacuum tube set because my parents wouldn't have known what to make of it. Gives you an idea of how ahead of its time the show was.
I don't even want to read the responses you get because I bet you've stirred a lot of nerd passion. But I'm on your wavelength. Janeway is highly underrated and Sisco is highly overrated.
The disadvantage is to those companies developing for Vista, because the market for their products will be delayed; I don't think the letter-writers meant that all USERS of XP/Vista will be harmed.
Doesn't say just developers:
"This effectively means that the commission's actions are endangering the ability of European business to compete globally," they added.
Without Vista it sounds like the end of European civilization.
Whatever. It is a terribly pathetic post in heart and mind. How embarrassing a lack of heart shown to the world that Americans could so easily be indocrinated into the idea that their way of life depends upon giving the President the powers of Saddam Hussein to imprison and torture people forever on his say-so. In the span of history, a commoner's right to habeas corpus is barely 400 years old in Britsh tradition. What a precious thing to discard so unthinkingly. What do people think the president is vowing to uphold when he takes the oath of office?
You want to talk numbers? You want to talk "millions"? 9/11 was about a year and a half of pedestrain traffic fatalities in the U.S. You can say that most people who join the military do so with an image in their minds of protecting their family and friends. But I believe more than a few do so because they believe in our form of government and its foundation in the constitution and the bill of rights. Now think of the, literally, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have died for America. When someone says "Everything changed after 9/11. Freedoms don't matter anymore." he is spitting on the grave of every soldier who died for principle.
As weak as it is in heart, it's equally weak in mind. How easily the American people accepted that giving up freedom was a necessary first step. Apparently more important than, say, inspecting cargo -- or some other "real" proactive effort.
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Still, it's unlikely that such a device can appear on the market before several years."
And many, many years before they are common.
As someone who has moved almost all standalone devices to rechargeables, I'm sensitive to what little incentive the battery manufacturers have to scale down their business. Outside of specialty battery stores, a computer store and Target the only place I've seen "standard size" rechargeables sold is SuperAmerica and I give them credit for that.
Doesn't surprise me coming from an academic background. Business in the last few decades has had a lot of gall saying colleges have to learn to be lean like they are. I know in our state money to the state colleges has been stagnant for years after a year of significant decline. You might think your tuition pays to keep a college running but it doesn't. Working at a couple private colleges I have become acutely aware that they are charities and walking through a private college campus in particular is like walking through a mausoleum. Every building, every rock garden or artwork, heck, probably every TREE is in memory of some dead person. It isn't surprising when you see even a state-subsidized college or university taking the initiative on something like this because their intellectual talents _are_ their most fluid assets. And making due with the hardware they can afford. If it bothers you and you are a Sam Houston grad, I suggest making a dedicated donation to your alumni association.
so the answer is probably something like a qemu cylinder running DOS.
An intro programming solution might be the structure of FreePascal Turbo Pascal 7 clone with 32-bit goodness and the option of expanding into Lazarus. I don't see why simple Pascal programs should present barriers over simple BASIC programs.
Actually read a book. Dictionaries are the lazy man's knowledge. If you get a specialization in any field you will realize that even good common dictionaries are inadequate. Philosophy, for instance, has several dictionaries because common definitions of words like "art", "reality", "truth" and "virtue" are grossly simplistic.
If you read Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by historian Kevin Passmore you find that he has some difficulty defining what fascism is by exploring history. Romania, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere all seem to have developed different "fascisms" from different roots. There aren't even defining theoretical texts like Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto to hold "fascism" together. An overly lengthy whine called "My Struggle"? Poor baby. Give me a break. Which leads Passmore to return to his opening quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset from 1927:
"Fascism has an enigmatic countenance because in it appears the most counterpoised contents. It asserts authoritarianism and organises rebellion. It fights against contemporary democracy and, on the other hand, does not believe in the restoration of any past rule. It seems to pose itself as the forge of a strong State, and uses means most conducive to its dissolution, as if it were a destructive faction or a secret society. Whichever way we approach fascism we find that is is simultaneously one thing and the contrary, it is A and Not A..."
If one likes one sentence definitions perhaps one could say fascism is the irrational paradox of liberation through absolute obedience as a cog in the masses directed toward a national goal. But how helpful is that? Were the Khmer Rouge fascists or totalitarian communists?
So you see, if you want to be _analytical_, if you want to categorize governments through the lens of political science fascism is difficult. When you have something as historically different in their various origins and often not very formalized goals as the recognized "fascisms", something like Ebenstein's list is valuable as a foundation for recognizing commonalities.
From where did this "Islamofascist" expression came? I'm not a native english speaker, and this expression makes absolute no sense
You may not realize how right you are. It makes "absolutely no sense" and that's what they are hoping to achieve.
What I was taught in political science is that fascism is a "post-industrial" form of government. It is also a merging of government and industry. It makes no sense to apply the term to religions or pre-democratic societies or pre-industrial agrarian societies. They can be authoritarian, dictatorial or even crazy -- but not fascist.
What is fascist is a government that exhibits:
1. "A distrust of reason": think creationism, think eliminating a science member on the cabinet, think changing scientists' reports on web sites or making them ask permission to speak at conferences or to reporters.
2. "Denial of basic human equality": think gay rights, think abortion rights if you believe a woman has a right to decide what happens to her body, think torturing the crap out of somebody indefinitely on the executive's say-so (citizen or not).
3. "Code of behavior based on lies and violence": WMDs and Iraq anyone? Saddam and the elusive al Quida link?
4. "Government by elite": George II anyone?
5. "Totalitarianism": What we are talking about here with total wiretapping.
6. "Racialism and imperialism": New Orleans and the conquest of the Middle East anyone?
7. "Opposition to international law and order": Appointing John "Who-me-anger-management-issues" Bolton to the U.N. And how many international treaties have we decided we don't have to comply with in the last few years?
You see, it is pure Orwell. They are making the word "fascist" _mean_ nothing. If someone tried to give a reasoned argument that the Bush regime is fascist, the typical American will only receive "angry bark, angry bark" because he has been conditioned to understand that "fascist" is just a biased partisan retort like "icky". It is quite ingenious actually -- at least as such things pass in politics.
[Incidentally, the seven points above are from an old edition of Ebenstein's Today's Isms: Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism, Fifth Edition, p 115.]
Count!
As Stalin said.
Yes. Attending a science fiction convention discussion group in a farming state a few years ago, we readily had experience among the group (including someone whose college job was "grain inspector" to rather quickly suspect that cross-pollination (and other contamination) are virtual certainties. Standards do not, and practically probably cannot, adequately segregate GM crops in the field and there are multiple opportunites for grains to intermix and spill in transport. For instance:
f #search=%22bees%20forage%20area%22
"Bees [think pollination] forage over large expanses of area: 8000-25000 acres."
http://lubbock.tamu.edu/ahb/docs/FactsAboutAHB.pd
For the benefit of the city slickers, a square mile is 640 acres. Unless you are free-grazing cattle in Montana or the like, even 8000 acres is a seriously large family farm. And I'm not sure that bees respect property lines.
If the story gets to print, they have already lost. They need to intimidate sources more like we do:
Tailrank - FBI Acknowledges: Journalists' Phone Records are Fair Game
I know what he means. V. .19 on my file server and watching it from another room with mplayer. Web interface: TV->recorded programs. Click on the program image in Mozilla. Even if you say "open with mplayer" it downloads the entire program to /tmp before starting. It isn't really how I would define "streaming" either.
Don't forget the unofficial MythStream plugin, From the couch I can go from local HiDef news to streaming ugh-def BFM 24-hour news out of Paris.
Me too. At v .20, I think we are in for quite a ride.
I already want to see MythSecurity, MythAutomation for X10, and MythVideoConference.
I'm just afraid I won't live long enough for MythHolodeck.
I second the Fedora (and I have four other Debian machines). As I responded to the story the other day, I found the best setup documentation revolved around Fedora. Documentation, and as you say the convenient atrpms, made all the difference for me.
Blatently "unethical". But bless his heart, now that he's done it there's nothing stopping a sociologist from talking about it anecdotally. :) Even getting close to a subject by fraud and retaining the subject's anonymity can be unethical. Google the classic controversy surrounding Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade for historical background.
It would be interesting to keep a comparative record of what ratio of a country's population is considered suspected terrorists. 5,000 means about one in every 12,000 people in Britian is considered a suspected terrorist. Is that realistic? Seems really hard to believe for a first-world country but I don't actually know. I imagine at least one in every 12,000 is a malcontent. So when does it become an Orwellian fishing expedition to root out discontent? For countries that will release a number like this, let's see what sort of countries they are and become.
I felt the same as you do for several weeks and I also consider myself pretty well acquainted with linux. And, contrary to some of the testimonials I'm reading, KnoppMyth did not do it for me and my pcHDTV 3000 card.
t mlD aily_Uses @mythtv.org/1654163.htmls /170450
Now I'm in pretty good shape with a simple, single broadcast tuner system. I'm not using MythGame, MythFlix, or MythPhone but I am using MythStream, have all the other modules working whether I'll use some of them or not, and have only one significant bug to squash (for which I _do_ have leads) before I would declare my setup perfect for open source.
If I could put my finger on one key to success, I would say documentation. I blew away the KnoppMyth and installed Fedora 4 because a guy who has used various versions of MythTV with various versions of Fedora has the best documentation I found on the net. But not _comprehensive_ documentation. All-in-all, I have an expandible two-ring cover binding about an inch of hints, tips and other documentation printed single- and double-sided. Whether that is encouraging or discouraging depends upon the reader I guess. It _can_ be done. Some key links from my bookmarks:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#hw
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php
http://www.irblaster.info/
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMySQL.h
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/mythtv-user
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/user
$25 special for a 1 gig drive at my local computer store this week
So I guess that means something like:
$20 for the movie
$5 for the DVD software and packaging
Yawn.
Sort of -- a gas giant transit might be impressive if not actually an eclipse?
With that kind of market share, Microsoft's at long last trying to leverage its monopoly power by raising prices.
"at long last"? "AT LONG LAST"?? People have noted for YEARS that the value/price of Microsoft software has been abysmal compared to the value/price of improving hardware.
If anything, you wonder whether there will be some Microsoft "retirements" and whether any of those will complain that their predecessors put them in an untenable position by keeping prices jacked until the bubble burst on these guys.
Yeah. Talk about the Beliot College "You know you are old" list. Not just before DVDs. Before VCRs. It was a whole different world. On a tangental note, I got an Avengers set a few years ago and there was one I know I had never seen. From the liner notes, I could figure it was the Friday night I went on one of my first dates. Freakish. Whole different world with PVRs. A lot of Startrek was also originally aired on Friday evening so if you weren't nerd enough that you actually had someplace to go, you might have missed it. I'm also sure that I watched almost all original broadcasts in black and white on my bedroom 19" vacuum tube set because my parents wouldn't have known what to make of it. Gives you an idea of how ahead of its time the show was.
I don't even want to read the responses you get because I bet you've stirred a lot of nerd passion. But I'm on your wavelength. Janeway is highly underrated and Sisco is highly overrated.
The disadvantage is to those companies developing for Vista, because the market for their products will be delayed; I don't think the letter-writers meant that all USERS of XP/Vista will be harmed.
Doesn't say just developers:
"This effectively means that the commission's actions are endangering the ability of European business to compete globally," they added.
Without Vista it sounds like the end of European civilization.
With a name like "udderly" is this a troll post?
Whatever. It is a terribly pathetic post in heart and mind. How embarrassing a lack of heart shown to the world that Americans could so easily be indocrinated into the idea that their way of life depends upon giving the President the powers of Saddam Hussein to imprison and torture people forever on his say-so. In the span of history, a commoner's right to habeas corpus is barely 400 years old in Britsh tradition. What a precious thing to discard so unthinkingly. What do people think the president is vowing to uphold when he takes the oath of office?
You want to talk numbers? You want to talk "millions"? 9/11 was about a year and a half of pedestrain traffic fatalities in the U.S. You can say that most people who join the military do so with an image in their minds of protecting their family and friends. But I believe more than a few do so because they believe in our form of government and its foundation in the constitution and the bill of rights. Now think of the, literally, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have died for America. When someone says "Everything changed after 9/11. Freedoms don't matter anymore." he is spitting on the grave of every soldier who died for principle.
As weak as it is in heart, it's equally weak in mind. How easily the American people accepted that giving up freedom was a necessary first step. Apparently more important than, say, inspecting cargo -- or some other "real" proactive effort.
As a pre-Reagan, pre-"Government is EVIL!" adult, I find the double think of this post fascinating:
The free market is EXACTLY how this should be fixed....
Less protection of corporations, and more market forces, would fix this problem.
So who _regulates_ the corporations to ensure that market forces _can_ work -- God?
Windows has no users. It has hostages.
Yeah. But most of them have Stockholm syndrome so they're happy.
Doesn't anyone that remotely cares already have the DVD?
I suspect the hope is that they haven't.
Firefly II!!!
Firefly II!!!
Firefly II!!!
Firefly II!!!