Obvious it isn't, but IP isn't the ideal protocol for home automation. Not even close, at least directly. Ideally, you'd have a small (deck of cards or smaller) computer that speaks IP, that controls not only the relay for switching the light on and off, but a photosensor for feedback, and maybe a few other things too. (For instance, also controls the ceiling fan speed and direction, along with sensors to identify problems)
There will be those who say that with miniaturization, just build this into the light bulb itself, but why thow the damn thing away every time a light bulb goes out?
So, even now, I've probably halfed the number of IPs you need.
To be honest, fusion power never really made sense to me either. I mean, OK, so we're running out of oil and we need more... but as more and more companies are turning to hybrid vehicles instead of using gasoline-only cars, some gasoline is being freed up, and it looks to me like there is still a huge number of oil reserves out there.
But assuming we really do need more energy, why fusion? Why the power that fuels the sun, instead of say, the electrical energy produced when you bite into wintergreen lifesavers? Why build the ITER, which (mostly) does what a coal plant does, when coal plants are extensible enough to support cool stuff that hadn't been thought of when electricity was invented (e.g. TV, air conditioning), and hook it into our grid? What's the deal with zero carbon dioxide emissions?
Going with the assumption that the problem really is as bad as people say it is (China has a gazillion people and more of them are using modern energy, and it'd be great if I could run my AC in summer more often than every other day... I'm not convinced that fusion is the right solution to the problem. It just seems to be the only solution anyone has offered, and a lot of money has been spent bringing it closer to reality.
So, convince me: why is fusion the right answer to the problem?
Answer for both your stupid question, and for my own half-assed parody. Nothing less scales. You don't spend billions of dollars in research and deployment on something that will only meet your needs for a short time after research is ended. If you have to have bigger incompatible addresses, what's an extra 8 bytes cost (the difference between 64-128)? If you have to invent super-matierals and exotic phsyics, why waste it on an expensive solar panel that is 60% efficient when it can't possibly scale up as well as industrial-sized fusion plants? IPv6 has lots of problems, but you didn't touch on a single one. Installing a NIC driver by going through the windows autorun wizard does not qualify you to have an opinion on IPv6.
1. Greasemonkey 2. Download Statusbar (which should be the default download manager, imo) 3. Favicon Picker (though I can't find a decent 16x16 dilbert icon to save my life, and what's the point of using the generic one which the bookmarks bar never seems to keep? Gotta love just dropping the text, I can fit 50 icons across the front.)
Extension Developer and DOM Inspector are also important. And Adblock/Flashblock are indispensable. Also loved Session Saver, until it broken in deerpark.
Yes. They just want it to work. But wanting things to work without being willing to understand even the simplest issues is stupid for every other tool imaginable.
Customer: I just want it to work! Mechanic: You haven't changed the oil in 3 years. It's had no maintenance. The air filter has the density of a hard cheese. If you were my 16-yr-old, I'd beat your ass.
But you think that just because a large contingency of ingrained illiteracy is present, that we have the obligation to not rock the boat? Fuck that.
Admitting that hackers with no clue to the internals can make drivers just as well as the company can for windows (both are buggy and crash), and yet you want to side with the faction that insists on keeping things closed, when they'll never improve their quality? Fuck that.
I side with the guys that reverse-engineer buggy drivers. In the long run, they'll manage it, help or not.
Are we so zealous that we want to keep these pieces of hardware from working with Linux?
No, rather we aren't so willing to be total sluts and spread the kernel's legs to every third-rate hardware company that wants to crank out ill-concieved sprockets and not bother making the source code available. Make this possible, and at least a few companies who have been forced to release (even drivers not as good as the windows binary) open source drivers will close them back up for sprocket v2.0.
And yet you want us to do this, to satisfy the computer-illiterate demands of screaming gamers? No thank you.
One last thing, if you still aren't convinced. When we insist on open source drivers, we aren't just being philosophically pure, we're standing up for every other alternative OS besides linux that is waiting on drivers. The minute we have the source code available, BeOS can use it too, BSD can. Hell, OSX probably can, supposing the company didn't bother to do that one. And alot of other computers/OSes that a good majority of people reading this comment are just too mouth-breathingly ignorant to know of.
When I did support, I loved helping people in general, especially those with interesting problems. Couldn't always do it, but if you weren't an asshole, and we weren't getting the smackdown with calls on hold, I'd do my best.
Besides, if I really wanted to experimental shit with RH, I'd put up a standard server too, and use it for failover. Source code access isn't a liability, it adds options. Well, unless it was microsoft code, in which case it probably only can lead to nightmares.
I think the point is that he claims that the energy state we assume to be the lowest is not actually that. In which case, if you cajole it into going downward more, you produce energy.
I don't buy it myself. People have been testing for deviations in this for decades, someone would have stumbled upon it before him, even without the help of his ridiculous theory. But the thing that galls me the most, is that even if it is somehow true... fuck the hydrino powerplant. Let's start mass-producing hydrino-ated deuterium... it would make fusion all that much easier. It might make all the difference in a few schemes.
But even if he wasn't, he's worried about the piddly energy released by the process? H with electrons orbiting closer would make fusion that much easier. Hydrino-ated deuterium might make all the difference in quite a few schemes. If he had a prototype that was really working, he'd be on the news demonstrating it right now, millions of housewives would be pissed as the soap operas were pre-empted.
The real thing would be raking in literally billions, right now. It wouldn't be fucking around with $5 million this, and $19 million that. That sounds like a nice haul for a con artist, but someone who just obseleted the oil industry shouldn't be worried about anything less than 3/4 of a trillion...
Realdoll requires sculpting a pleasant feminine shape, and building a cast to pour the silicone into. Much more art and chemistry than CNC or machining.
The world economy couldn't handle this? Of course it could, this would be patented. No need to worry about Brazil or Nigeria or Cambodia building one of these, if they tried. we'd use WIPO to castrate them economically.
Extending patents to 50 years would soon ensue, and it would grandfather in the cheap fusion patent, no doubt.
No, the energy companies don't assassinate people who can do this stuff, they buy them up and exploit it. I have doubts that they've ever needed to so far.
But haven't you heard? We no longer need hard to generate muons, we'll simply turn the hydrogen into hydrinos! The electrons orbit the proton at a much smaller distance, making fusion that much easier to achieve. Hydrino-catalyzed fusion is the wave of the future.
Breakeven wouldn't be possible if you were burning H with oxygen to produce energy. This is the idea of fusing it with another element. Even though usually people think of 2 hydrogen atoms fusing into helium, fusion is possible right up until you get somewhere around iron (though it gets less efficient the farther you go). While H+B would be a bit less efficient, a side effect is that it produces some high energy electrons that can be converted directly to eletricity. This is different from H+H which produces usable energy in the form of heat, which has to turn water into steam.
Burning H releases modest energy, fusing it (or just about anything else) releases metric shitloads of energy.
I'm not smart enough to explain it, but I can give you some examples that show it's not totally insane. The inside of a CRT is something like 100,000F. But it doesn't melt the glass and then 3 nanoseconds later the faces of everyone watching it.
What, you must mean apps? Well, I doubt someone will bother redoing firefox in GORM, but even for those KDE and gnome apps that you just must use, get a gnustepish theme. Gtk2step (gnome) and newstep (kde) both come to mind. Much nicer than the fugly widgets they have by default. I've even been working on an opera skin, myself.
Future projects of mine: patches for gimp/inkscape (ala gimpshop) that will move vertical scrollbars to the left, and replace file dialogs with Next-styled ones.
And for those that want things just a bit more OSXish than NeXTish, try out skippy (exposé) and kxdocker (OSX dock). Both work well in windowmaker (kxdocker needs you to upgrade to the latest windowmaker and you have to edit the configuration manually). My desktop looks somewhat weird, what with the NeXT dock on the left side for dockapps, and kxdocker at the bottom to lauch apps (had 4 minidocks at one point). Heh, and the orange on black xterms so that they look like old monochrome amber terminals...
I think the real "what's the point?" question is, will they bother to enforce standards on irc.blah.mobi?
How about on ftp.blah.mobi, or mail.blah.mobi? Wish I could bitchslap the fools.
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I think they will continue to move, even as they become skeletal. Even the new remake... they suffered unbelievable damage, and kept moving. For instance, blood loss so profound, that the heart itself can't be beating. That means no oxygen is necessary for cell metabolism, nor are any nutrients. Where ever they're getting energy from... there appears to be no reason why it couldn't continue well into stages of decomp that are downright absurd.
Without having a zombie in a proper lab, it's impossible to say, but I'd expect that there are alot more calories being used than can be accounted for by either the hapless victims they ingest (if they're even being digested) or their own tissue being consumed.
I'd like to say that at some point decomp would be so bad as to render them "dead", or even at least "ineffective" (something born out in the remake with the animated face/head found in the cooler... so there may be some hope), but it's not entirely inconcievable that even a bleached white skeleton with some sinew tissue and nothing else could continue to hobble around. You can't be certain that there's not some supernatural force acting on the joints moving them, and it's not really clear how their own muscles could be the cause of motion.
That the process can fail (leaving twitchers) offers some hope that even if supernatural, that there are at least rules, that it may be understandable to a deeper level than any of the characters of the movie manage. That they can be disabled (killed?) with severe brain trauma is even more interesting, but fails to prove that this is a natural organic phenomenon. There are quite a few mystical beliefs regarding the organ, not the least of which that it is the seat of the human soul... which is either missing in these zombies, or some manner of cancerous that's quite disturbing to contemplate. If the soul leaves when we die, and absence of a soul makes you a corpse, do they have souls? Are they partial souls? If so, how can a partial soul animate a body that a complete soul has to exit? Are they malfunctioning souls that refuse to exit a non-working body? Are they even the original souls, or is it some sort of possession by a demon? If so, why are they so shallow? Are these the equivalent of demon bacteria, incapable of intelligence or consciousness? How does this account for the infectious nature? Linda Blair tossed the guy out of a window, but he doesn't stand back up with his smashed head and start snarling, he's just gone.
Perhaps this is why the non-cheesy movies always avoided trying to explain it.
Ah. I know that you're not using lynx instead, so it must be IE that you consider the less crash-prone software.
See on linux, even if it did do these things, I'd still have to use it, there's not much else. You on the other hand, you're just looking for an excuse to go back to IE. Isn't that so?
PS Yes, I've been trying konq and opera more, mostly to test against a website I'm working on. Konqueror is much more tolerable, now that I've got the newstep theme working... god the default widgets are fugly.
PPS Still working on my own opera skin to replicate the nextstep/afterstep/gnustep look.
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Obvious it isn't, but IP isn't the ideal protocol for home automation. Not even close, at least directly. Ideally, you'd have a small (deck of cards or smaller) computer that speaks IP, that controls not only the relay for switching the light on and off, but a photosensor for feedback, and maybe a few other things too. (For instance, also controls the ceiling fan speed and direction, along with sensors to identify problems)
There will be those who say that with miniaturization, just build this into the light bulb itself, but why thow the damn thing away every time a light bulb goes out?
So, even now, I've probably halfed the number of IPs you need.
To be honest, fusion power never really made sense to me either. I mean, OK, so we're running out of oil and we need more... but as more and more companies are turning to hybrid vehicles instead of using gasoline-only cars, some gasoline is being freed up, and it looks to me like there is still a huge number of oil reserves out there.
But assuming we really do need more energy, why fusion? Why the power that fuels the sun, instead of say, the electrical energy produced when you bite into wintergreen lifesavers? Why build the ITER, which (mostly) does what a coal plant does, when coal plants are extensible enough to support cool stuff that hadn't been thought of when electricity was invented (e.g. TV, air conditioning), and hook it into our grid? What's the deal with zero carbon dioxide emissions?
Going with the assumption that the problem really is as bad as people say it is (China has a gazillion people and more of them are using modern energy, and it'd be great if I could run my AC in summer more often than every other day... I'm not convinced that fusion is the right solution to the problem. It just seems to be the only solution anyone has offered, and a lot of money has been spent bringing it closer to reality.
So, convince me: why is fusion the right answer to the problem?
Answer for both your stupid question, and for my own half-assed parody. Nothing less scales. You don't spend billions of dollars in research and deployment on something that will only meet your needs for a short time after research is ended. If you have to have bigger incompatible addresses, what's an extra 8 bytes cost (the difference between 64-128)? If you have to invent super-matierals and exotic phsyics, why waste it on an expensive solar panel that is 60% efficient when it can't possibly scale up as well as industrial-sized fusion plants? IPv6 has lots of problems, but you didn't touch on a single one. Installing a NIC driver by going through the windows autorun wizard does not qualify you to have an opinion on IPv6.
My favorites are:
1. Greasemonkey
2. Download Statusbar (which should be the default download manager, imo)
3. Favicon Picker (though I can't find a decent 16x16 dilbert icon to save my life, and what's the point of using the generic one which the bookmarks bar never seems to keep? Gotta love just dropping the text, I can fit 50 icons across the front.)
Extension Developer and DOM Inspector are also important. And Adblock/Flashblock are indispensable. Also loved Session Saver, until it broken in deerpark.
Yes. They just want it to work. But wanting things to work without being willing to understand even the simplest issues is stupid for every other tool imaginable.
Customer: I just want it to work!
Mechanic: You haven't changed the oil in 3 years. It's had no maintenance. The air filter has the density of a hard cheese. If you were my 16-yr-old, I'd beat your ass.
But you think that just because a large contingency of ingrained illiteracy is present, that we have the obligation to not rock the boat? Fuck that.
!!!!FALLACY ALERT!!!!
(sirens)
Admitting that hackers with no clue to the internals can make drivers just as well as the company can for windows (both are buggy and crash), and yet you want to side with the faction that insists on keeping things closed, when they'll never improve their quality? Fuck that.
I side with the guys that reverse-engineer buggy drivers. In the long run, they'll manage it, help or not.
Are we so zealous that we want to keep these pieces of hardware from working with Linux?
No, rather we aren't so willing to be total sluts and spread the kernel's legs to every third-rate hardware company that wants to crank out ill-concieved sprockets and not bother making the source code available. Make this possible, and at least a few companies who have been forced to release (even drivers not as good as the windows binary) open source drivers will close them back up for sprocket v2.0.
And yet you want us to do this, to satisfy the computer-illiterate demands of screaming gamers? No thank you.
One last thing, if you still aren't convinced. When we insist on open source drivers, we aren't just being philosophically pure, we're standing up for every other alternative OS besides linux that is waiting on drivers. The minute we have the source code available, BeOS can use it too, BSD can. Hell, OSX probably can, supposing the company didn't bother to do that one. And alot of other computers/OSes that a good majority of people reading this comment are just too mouth-breathingly ignorant to know of.
When I did support, I loved helping people in general, especially those with interesting problems. Couldn't always do it, but if you weren't an asshole, and we weren't getting the smackdown with calls on hold, I'd do my best.
Besides, if I really wanted to experimental shit with RH, I'd put up a standard server too, and use it for failover. Source code access isn't a liability, it adds options. Well, unless it was microsoft code, in which case it probably only can lead to nightmares.
Apparently no Animated Series, either. That's more of a deal-breaker. And what, no e-books of at least the classic novels?
Sounds like Berman and Braga's idea of the ultimate collection.
Muahhahaha. Muahahha. *sob*
I think the point is that he claims that the energy state we assume to be the lowest is not actually that. In which case, if you cajole it into going downward more, you produce energy.
I don't buy it myself. People have been testing for deviations in this for decades, someone would have stumbled upon it before him, even without the help of his ridiculous theory. But the thing that galls me the most, is that even if it is somehow true... fuck the hydrino powerplant. Let's start mass-producing hydrino-ated deuterium... it would make fusion all that much easier. It might make all the difference in a few schemes.
But even if he wasn't, he's worried about the piddly energy released by the process? H with electrons orbiting closer would make fusion that much easier. Hydrino-ated deuterium might make all the difference in quite a few schemes. If he had a prototype that was really working, he'd be on the news demonstrating it right now, millions of housewives would be pissed as the soap operas were pre-empted.
The real thing would be raking in literally billions, right now. It wouldn't be fucking around with $5 million this, and $19 million that. That sounds like a nice haul for a con artist, but someone who just obseleted the oil industry shouldn't be worried about anything less than 3/4 of a trillion...
Realdoll requires sculpting a pleasant feminine shape, and building a cast to pour the silicone into. Much more art and chemistry than CNC or machining.
The world economy couldn't handle this? Of course it could, this would be patented. No need to worry about Brazil or Nigeria or Cambodia building one of these, if they tried. we'd use WIPO to castrate them economically.
Extending patents to 50 years would soon ensue, and it would grandfather in the cheap fusion patent, no doubt.
No, the energy companies don't assassinate people who can do this stuff, they buy them up and exploit it. I have doubts that they've ever needed to so far.
But haven't you heard? We no longer need hard to generate muons, we'll simply turn the hydrogen into hydrinos! The electrons orbit the proton at a much smaller distance, making fusion that much easier to achieve. Hydrino-catalyzed fusion is the wave of the future.
Breakeven wouldn't be possible if you were burning H with oxygen to produce energy. This is the idea of fusing it with another element. Even though usually people think of 2 hydrogen atoms fusing into helium, fusion is possible right up until you get somewhere around iron (though it gets less efficient the farther you go). While H+B would be a bit less efficient, a side effect is that it produces some high energy electrons that can be converted directly to eletricity. This is different from H+H which produces usable energy in the form of heat, which has to turn water into steam.
Burning H releases modest energy, fusing it (or just about anything else) releases metric shitloads of energy.
I'm not smart enough to explain it, but I can give you some examples that show it's not totally insane. The inside of a CRT is something like 100,000F. But it doesn't melt the glass and then 3 nanoseconds later the faces of everyone watching it.
What, you must mean apps? Well, I doubt someone will bother redoing firefox in GORM, but even for those KDE and gnome apps that you just must use, get a gnustepish theme. Gtk2step (gnome) and newstep (kde) both come to mind. Much nicer than the fugly widgets they have by default. I've even been working on an opera skin, myself.
Future projects of mine: patches for gimp/inkscape (ala gimpshop) that will move vertical scrollbars to the left, and replace file dialogs with Next-styled ones.
And for those that want things just a bit more OSXish than NeXTish, try out skippy (exposé) and kxdocker (OSX dock). Both work well in windowmaker (kxdocker needs you to upgrade to the latest windowmaker and you have to edit the configuration manually). My desktop looks somewhat weird, what with the NeXT dock on the left side for dockapps, and kxdocker at the bottom to lauch apps (had 4 minidocks at one point). Heh, and the orange on black xterms so that they look like old monochrome amber terminals...
I think the real "what's the point?" question is, will they bother to enforce standards on irc.blah.mobi?
How about on ftp.blah.mobi, or mail.blah.mobi? Wish I could bitchslap the fools.
I think they will continue to move, even as they become skeletal. Even the new remake... they suffered unbelievable damage, and kept moving. For instance, blood loss so profound, that the heart itself can't be beating. That means no oxygen is necessary for cell metabolism, nor are any nutrients. Where ever they're getting energy from... there appears to be no reason why it couldn't continue well into stages of decomp that are downright absurd.
Without having a zombie in a proper lab, it's impossible to say, but I'd expect that there are alot more calories being used than can be accounted for by either the hapless victims they ingest (if they're even being digested) or their own tissue being consumed.
I'd like to say that at some point decomp would be so bad as to render them "dead", or even at least "ineffective" (something born out in the remake with the animated face/head found in the cooler... so there may be some hope), but it's not entirely inconcievable that even a bleached white skeleton with some sinew tissue and nothing else could continue to hobble around. You can't be certain that there's not some supernatural force acting on the joints moving them, and it's not really clear how their own muscles could be the cause of motion.
That the process can fail (leaving twitchers) offers some hope that even if supernatural, that there are at least rules, that it may be understandable to a deeper level than any of the characters of the movie manage. That they can be disabled (killed?) with severe brain trauma is even more interesting, but fails to prove that this is a natural organic phenomenon. There are quite a few mystical beliefs regarding the organ, not the least of which that it is the seat of the human soul... which is either missing in these zombies, or some manner of cancerous that's quite disturbing to contemplate. If the soul leaves when we die, and absence of a soul makes you a corpse, do they have souls? Are they partial souls? If so, how can a partial soul animate a body that a complete soul has to exit? Are they malfunctioning souls that refuse to exit a non-working body? Are they even the original souls, or is it some sort of possession by a demon? If so, why are they so shallow? Are these the equivalent of demon bacteria, incapable of intelligence or consciousness? How does this account for the infectious nature? Linda Blair tossed the guy out of a window, but he doesn't stand back up with his smashed head and start snarling, he's just gone.
Perhaps this is why the non-cheesy movies always avoided trying to explain it.
Strongbad
Install the flashblock extension, and you can keep from seeing any flash unless you actually want to.
That's why.
Ah. I know that you're not using lynx instead, so it must be IE that you consider the less crash-prone software.
See on linux, even if it did do these things, I'd still have to use it, there's not much else. You on the other hand, you're just looking for an excuse to go back to IE. Isn't that so?
PS Yes, I've been trying konq and opera more, mostly to test against a website I'm working on. Konqueror is much more tolerable, now that I've got the newstep theme working... god the default widgets are fugly.
PPS Still working on my own opera skin to replicate the nextstep/afterstep/gnustep look.
Where's the G5 PPC cpu card?
"Instant" channel changes? Hardly. Unless you're streaming all 10,000 channels over the customer's DSL2 line... which can't happen.
Sounds nice though, doesn't it?
Wrong browser.
Uh, not porn retard. And for those with an above 4th grade vocabulary, it was hinted to be just what it was.
Check out the gynecological model.