Folks, he's a kid. In the U.S. and Canada children (<18) have a different set of laws that apply to them. Check out this site, where I found the following:
Generally, the maximum prison sentence for a young offender is two years. It goes up to a maximum ofthree years for offences that could be punishable (for an adult) by life imprisonment, and for first degree murder it is now ten years, up to six years of which can be in an institution, with the remainder served in the community under supervision. For second degree murder, the total sentence can be up to seven years, with up to four years of it being served in the institution.
The idea is that a kid gets leeway because he's not mature enough to understand the consequnces of his actions. So stop wringing your hands about how he got off light, all kids get off light unless they're tried as adults.
The message to script kiddies is simple: Do it while you're young! Don't wait until your 18th birthday!
I don't disagree, I think it's an incredible accomplishment... it's just that the headline is misleading. The RCX is a computer, it's hooked to sensors and motors that do the manipulation, but it's marching orders come from an entirely separate PC.
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Um, Lego *is* a noun.
Um, no it isn't. You're using it as a noun, and you can use a Palm Pilot as a hammer for all I care, but a Palm isn't a hammer, no matter how hard you pound.
Ignoring a rule doesn't make it go away.
Look at how people use the word, in order to understand it.
Marvelous idea. Since "lego" isn't an english word, you should look to it's origins, and how the native speakers use it.
Pedantry is for geeks. Oh, right...
Guilty as charged. Now don't get me started about female dwarves and beards...
I can only imagine how you'll react to the news that there is no Santa Claus.
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With an 'S'. Its a plural.
If the word "lego" were a noun, you'd be on to something. However, it's a adjective. Saying "I have a lot of Legos" is like saying "I have a lot of wets".
The machine isn't make of Legos, it's made of bricks. Lego bricks.
All the Lego machine does is manipulate the cube according to instructions from a PC which works out the actual solution. From the article:
Two RCXs are used to manipulate the cube and implement the solution. The solution is generated by scanning each face of the cube in turn with the video camera from Vision Command, calculating a solution onboard a PC, and then downloading the move sequence for the solution to an array in the top RCX.
Sorta like a trained monkey following instructions from a human.
I know it's always fun to whip PHMs, but...
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There is usually a tradeoff between quality and expediancy.
I agree entirely - but I don't think it's fair to lay this completely at the feet of management. IMHO there are a couple of major drivers here:
1) Users are used to shitty software. I know it's becoming gauche to rag on MS here at/., but think about it... how many really decent operating systems and applications have the users experienced? As long as expectations of quality are low other factors (cost, ship date) will take precedence.
2) There's no liability for software publishers. Just look at your average shrink-wrap agreement - would you buy a house or a car or a bridge if you had to agree that total failure of same was just tough titty for you, and the manufacturer had no liability? Of course not.
I think the industry (software) is still too young to have worked out all the bugs - er, so to speak. I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of certification or licensing come about for programmers, after a time. It's just a matter of how many people wind up dead due to fault software.
You're right. It must have been those secular humanist atheists who convinced the President of the United States to restrict stem cell research funding.
Well, I guess all those chip manufacturers will be a little ticked that they spent all that money on extremely-well calibrated factories...
Another reason why the U.S. will NEVER go metric! We'd have to scrap billions and billions of dollars worth of fabrication plants! Clearly the metric system is a COMMIE PLOT to destroy our economy!
Frankly, I think that termination problems with SCSI has had more to do with its demise in high-end consumer PCs than any other factor.
Generally I don't see termination as being any stickier than the master/slave/solo jumpering you do with IDE... but then you occasionally run across some sticky little SOB that's determined to be a pain.
How's this for termination hell: I bought (at a good price) a large (read: full height) 10G SCSI drive in it's own external case w/ power supplet et al. Great, except it was terminated, it wasn't going to be the last thing on my chain, and the only way to turn off the termination was to open the case and void the manufacturer's warranty.
Anyway.. Does anyone know if tivo or any of the other devices will work with Digital Cable (from Adelphia@home if that matters)?
I'm not sure how you mean "work with" - I've got Time/Warner digital cable (which sucks IMHO) in the Akron OH area, it hooks up to that just fine. It uses an "IR blaster" (LED on the end of a wire) to change channels on the digital cable box, and it's not much harder to hook up than a VCR (add phone line, essentially). More info at www.replaytv.com.
Here's a PDF User's Guide for the Replay if you're really interested.
Another thing that it said it can do is just fast forward by 30 second slices, which would be nice, and there really isnt' a way to get around that..
It's better than that, there's an undocumented "feature" that let's you jump "n" minutes forward (press numbers, then Quick Skip - 5+QS = 5 minute jump fwd), or to jump to any point in the show (23+Jump = jump to minute 23). If you get a Replay (or I imagine a Tivo) be sure and check the web for cool backdoor stuff.
So you're saying that if there was 1 water company, and they had a screwy contract for me to sign, AND there were no other alternatives...if I signed it in order to get my water (which I need to live) then I'm not evolutionarily fit to live? What the hell else am I supposed to do?
No, I'm saying that if you equate broadband internet access to indoor plumbing you're an idiot.
What the hell else am I supposed to do?
Lay down and die, like a good Darwin candidate, since you can't seem to figure it out. Thank you for your cooperation.
However they are utilizing your community's streets and telephone poles to run their cable.
Who is the community?
I'm old enough to remember a time before remote contols (gasp!) when cable TV was a New and Wonderful thing. At the time the old Rota-Tenna could pull in maybe a dozen channels, with 5 of them full of snow.
When cable companies came along and offered a few dozen snow-free channels the community (== the people) went nuts over it, and forced their politicos (democracy in action!) into entering contracts that basically allowed those companies to rape the community.
And we loved it.
Who's responsible? How many channels do you have?
It is my experience that people will happily pick what gives them immediate gratification over what makes sense in the long term (USA centric POV). I rack this up to the fact that the USA hasn't had to actually stuggle for a couple (few?) generations.
Who gets to draw the line that says that one service is essential?
YOU do. It's called being a grown-up. Hope this helps. Welcome to Capitalism. Enjoy your stay.
Ok, maybe that was flippant - but if your life revolves around "x", it's YOUR responsibility to make sure you have a ready supply of "x". Whether that's broadband, caviar or heroin, whatever. It's not the provider's reponsibility, it's not the government's, it's not mine. You want it - you get it.
And the very idea of comparing broadband to electricity, or indoor plumbing... OK, I guess I'm showing my age, but I can remember a time when there W A S N O I N T E R N E T !!!! Hell, we put a man on the fscking moon without the internet! And yet here's Slashdot, equating it with Free Speech and Electricity.
Yeah, and I walked uphill 2.35 miles everday to school uphill both ways, but Damn! I'm beginning to realize why the rest of the world goofs on us.
And terms of service or no, lest you forget, at issue here is punishment for an alleged illegal activity
WRONG. Illegal == Government. Punishment == Government. The Government did not enter in to this. If it's illegal, where are the police? If there's punishment, where is the judge and jury?
The ISP decided to stop providing server AS WAS THEIR PEROGATIVE. There is NOTHING illegal, nor immoral (assuming the user understood the bargain with the devil they were entering in to) about this.
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Currently, according to the CEA, there are 20,235,574 DVD players in the market (as of 9/18/01 - U.S. only. Divx included.
Both of them?
Name one thing that simpsons on merchandise hasnt sold well...
Those Ned Flanders prophylactics never really took off.
Folks, he's a kid. In the U.S. and Canada children (<18) have a different set of laws that apply to them. Check out this site, where I found the following:
Generally, the maximum prison sentence for a young offender is two years. It goes up to a maximum ofthree years for offences that could be punishable (for an adult) by life imprisonment, and for first degree murder it is now ten years, up to six years of which can be in an institution, with the remainder served in the community under supervision. For second degree murder, the total sentence can be up to seven years, with up to four years of it being served in the institution.
The idea is that a kid gets leeway because he's not mature enough to understand the consequnces of his actions. So stop wringing your hands about how he got off light, all kids get off light unless they're tried as adults.
The message to script kiddies is simple: Do it while you're young! Don't wait until your 18th birthday!
They've evacuated Wall Street, according to the radio.
This is going to be very, very bad.
I don't disagree, I think it's an incredible accomplishment... it's just that the headline is misleading. The RCX is a computer, it's hooked to sensors and motors that do the manipulation, but it's marching orders come from an entirely separate PC.
Um, Lego *is* a noun.
Um, no it isn't. You're using it as a noun, and you can use a Palm Pilot as a hammer for all I care, but a Palm isn't a hammer, no matter how hard you pound.
Ignoring a rule doesn't make it go away.
Look at how people use the word, in order to understand it.
Marvelous idea. Since "lego" isn't an english word, you should look to it's origins, and how the native speakers use it.
Pedantry is for geeks. Oh, right...
Guilty as charged. Now don't get me started about female dwarves and beards...
I can only imagine how you'll react to the news that there is no Santa Claus.
With an 'S'. Its a plural.
If the word "lego" were a noun, you'd be on to something. However, it's a adjective. Saying "I have a lot of Legos" is like saying "I have a lot of wets".
The machine isn't make of Legos, it's made of bricks. Lego bricks.
Didn't somebody produce a 'cube knockoff with all the same colored stickers - so it was always "solved"?
If not - dibs on the idea!
All the Lego machine does is manipulate the cube according to instructions from a PC which works out the actual solution. From the article:
Two RCXs are used to manipulate the cube and implement the solution. The solution is generated by scanning each face of the cube in turn with the video camera from Vision Command, calculating a solution onboard a PC, and then downloading the move sequence for the solution to an array in the top RCX.
Sorta like a trained monkey following instructions from a human.
There is usually a tradeoff between quality and expediancy.
/., but think about it... how many really decent operating systems and applications have the users experienced? As long as expectations of quality are low other factors (cost, ship date) will take precedence.
I agree entirely - but I don't think it's fair to lay this completely at the feet of management. IMHO there are a couple of major drivers here:
1) Users are used to shitty software. I know it's becoming gauche to rag on MS here at
2) There's no liability for software publishers. Just look at your average shrink-wrap agreement - would you buy a house or a car or a bridge if you had to agree that total failure of same was just tough titty for you, and the manufacturer had no liability? Of course not.
I think the industry (software) is still too young to have worked out all the bugs - er, so to speak. I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of certification or licensing come about for programmers, after a time. It's just a matter of how many people wind up dead due to fault software.
Or are YOU assuming 'Bill' refers to Bill Gates?
I assumed "Bill" == Clinton. In case he needed to get out of town really fast.
You're right. It must have been those secular humanist atheists who convinced the President of the United States to restrict stem cell research funding.
"No public funds used for" <> "Restrict".
Well, I guess all those chip manufacturers will be a little ticked that they spent all that money on extremely-well calibrated factories...
Another reason why the U.S. will NEVER go metric! We'd have to scrap billions and billions of dollars worth of fabrication plants! Clearly the metric system is a COMMIE PLOT to destroy our economy!
</sarcasm>
Frankly, I think that termination problems with SCSI has had more to do with its demise in high-end consumer PCs than any other factor.
Generally I don't see termination as being any stickier than the master/slave/solo jumpering you do with IDE... but then you occasionally run across some sticky little SOB that's determined to be a pain.
How's this for termination hell: I bought (at a good price) a large (read: full height) 10G SCSI drive in it's own external case w/ power supplet et al. Great, except it was terminated, it wasn't going to be the last thing on my chain, and the only way to turn off the termination was to open the case and void the manufacturer's warranty.
It's enough to make you go IDE...
Which chapter has the instructions for sacrificing the goat?
They have over 900 horse power! Holy Crow!
This whole thing sorta reminds me of the Spinal Tap guitar amp that goes to 11.
I'll second that recomendation. A truly hilarious parody, if a bit dated.
How about posting a book review for _adults_?
OK, you first. Here's a few adult titles you can start off with;
"Dirty Anal Kelly in Rome"
"Sluts Butts Housewives "
"Filthy First Timers"
Looking forward to your reviews!
Only the wierd smelly guys at the bookstore read this shit.
Were you talking about Tolkien or Slashdot?
Anyway.. Does anyone know if tivo or any of the other devices will work with Digital Cable (from Adelphia@home if that matters)?
I'm not sure how you mean "work with" - I've got Time/Warner digital cable (which sucks IMHO) in the Akron OH area, it hooks up to that just fine. It uses an "IR blaster" (LED on the end of a wire) to change channels on the digital cable box, and it's not much harder to hook up than a VCR (add phone line, essentially). More info at www.replaytv.com.
Here's a PDF User's Guide for the Replay if you're really interested.
Another thing that it said it can do is just fast forward by 30 second slices, which would be nice, and there really isnt' a way to get around that..
It's better than that, there's an undocumented "feature" that let's you jump "n" minutes forward (press numbers, then Quick Skip - 5+QS = 5 minute jump fwd), or to jump to any point in the show (23+Jump = jump to minute 23). If you get a Replay (or I imagine a Tivo) be sure and check the web for cool backdoor stuff.
Gad, I love my Replay.
So you're saying that if there was 1 water company, and they had a screwy contract for me to sign, AND there were no other alternatives...if I signed it in order to get my water (which I need to live) then I'm not evolutionarily fit to live? What the hell else am I supposed to do?
No, I'm saying that if you equate broadband internet access to indoor plumbing you're an idiot.
What the hell else am I supposed to do?
Lay down and die, like a good Darwin candidate, since you can't seem to figure it out. Thank you for your cooperation.
However they are utilizing your community's streets and telephone poles to run their cable.
Who is the community?
I'm old enough to remember a time before remote contols (gasp!) when cable TV was a New and Wonderful thing. At the time the old Rota-Tenna could pull in maybe a dozen channels, with 5 of them full of snow.
When cable companies came along and offered a few dozen snow-free channels the community (== the people) went nuts over it, and forced their politicos (democracy in action!) into entering contracts that basically allowed those companies to rape the community.
And we loved it.
Who's responsible? How many channels do you have?
It is my experience that people will happily pick what gives them immediate gratification over what makes sense in the long term (USA centric POV). I rack this up to the fact that the USA hasn't had to actually stuggle for a couple (few?) generations.
Short 'n sweet:
Who gets to draw the line that says that one service is essential?
YOU do. It's called being a grown-up. Hope this helps. Welcome to Capitalism. Enjoy your stay.
Ok, maybe that was flippant - but if your life revolves around "x", it's YOUR responsibility to make sure you have a ready supply of "x". Whether that's broadband, caviar or heroin, whatever. It's not the provider's reponsibility, it's not the government's, it's not mine. You want it - you get it.
And the very idea of comparing broadband to electricity, or indoor plumbing... OK, I guess I'm showing my age, but I can remember a time when there W A S N O I N T E R N E T !!!! Hell, we put a man on the fscking moon without the internet! And yet here's Slashdot, equating it with Free Speech and Electricity.
Yeah, and I walked uphill 2.35 miles everday to school uphill both ways, but Damn! I'm beginning to realize why the rest of the world goofs on us.
And terms of service or no, lest you forget, at issue here is punishment for an alleged illegal activity
WRONG. Illegal == Government. Punishment == Government. The Government did not enter in to this. If it's illegal, where are the police? If there's punishment, where is the judge and jury?
The ISP decided to stop providing server AS WAS THEIR PEROGATIVE. There is NOTHING illegal, nor immoral (assuming the user understood the bargain with the devil they were entering in to) about this.