That might carry a little weight, if I could believe that it wasn't also your favorite political party. Then again, if you actually have a favorite, what can I say? You understand nothing of importance, and whether you realize it or not, you're mostly happy with the way things are (except that its not a democrat in ).
Never worry. Whoever really is in control of the Republocrat Party will soon decide that its time for a new puppet face, and we can have 8 or maybe even 12 years with a democratic president.
If you mean taking it apart, into discrete components, then yes of course it works. Circuit board companies wash them in water after the soldering is done. Some advice though, all pcb's need to be dried with a hair dryer when you do this.
Things like hard drives need to be wiped clean, very carefully, with a cloth.
Plastic pieces can be drip-dried in the dish drainer.
Make damn sure everything is BONE dry when re-assembling.
So, if you do spill soda, dive to the outlet and pull the plug out quick. If there is no power running, nothing can short. Soda is caustic, but will take a day or two to cause lasting, unpowered damage.
I'll be upfront. I am as rabid a Bush hater as you are ever likely to hear from.
Here is my opinion. Whether or not this movie meets any of the technical definitions of a documentary, I consider the point moot. Maybe it is, but if so, documents at least as much of Moore as it does Dubya. What if it is a documentary of Moore's absurd opinions? What then, would you be hairsplitting about that too?
Oh, by the way, I hate Moore also.
Neither has a bit of integrity, and whether we pay enough attention to it to notice or not, we're all suffering for it. We have serious problems as a nation, and no one that has a chance of winning *any* office, presidential or congressional, cares to really adress them, let alone knows how to do so.
Moore is pissed his favorite political party isn't in control. Boo hoo, as if they are some sports team. Bush (and Gore, for that matter) used judicial/political short-circuting to screw up an election. If both had said "I'm confident I've won, and that the nation can stand another week of counting", we'd know for sure, wouldn't we? Not that it matters, their parties can surely be bipartisan when it comes to the issue of making sure only their two parties can play a part.
Worse, somehow, they've covertly destroyed any sensible third parties before they ever happen. There are machinations in place, so that if you or I hear of a third party, you can be sure that it's some nutjob organization.
Moore is just another distraction, lest you wake up and see the Republocratic party for what it is.
PS Moore's movie is about as truthful as the statement "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction". Leftist bullshit, rightist bullshit... neither are true.
Statistical sampling is not guessing. Take a completely random sample of people in various random places throughout africa. Assuming you do it correctly, and have an approximate total population, you can indeed come up with a number that resembles the truth.
But assume that you don't. Let's figure that there are only half as many with HIV in africa, or even only a third. That's still a big fucking number. And it ignores the possibility that they've *underestimated* how many infected people there are.
There is also no end of AIDS-like symptons in africa. Guess what? Those that are tested always seem to have HIV, and those that are without symptons always seem to be HIV negative. There is a correlation. Maybe they have the details wrong, but HIV is not something you want. If it's so harmless, why don't you try to infect yourself with it?
But enough with the sig-bashing. If there is no such thing as being enviromentally unsound, then why is my intuition sending off critical alarms every microsecond? Why does it feel like that things might take a turn for the worse in my own lifetime?
I myself would be quite encouraged by this seemingly enlightened copyright "policy"...
Except that I don't see anyone ever believing it will happen for say, Spiderman 2. That being the case, exactly why do you think it is?
I answered that very question, but moderators thought it would be better you don't see that answer. Mind you, I only described the movie, I didn't call Moore any names (not a hard thing to do though). I won't repeat it here, you might have to browse at -1, if you want to know...
Commercial software, doesn't count. They licensed this from microsoft, microsoft made it more expensive than just buying extra machines, then they changed the API enough to kill it. I've seen it a few places, but something other than its usefulness (or lack thereof) was causing it to languish in the marketplace. Remember, I'm not a conspiracy theorist if the villain is M$ (haha).
There are enough bootleg copies of Visual Studio floating around, and microsoft exposes enough of the API to make it thinkable (hardware vendors need as much for their drivers). Easy? Ok, so maybe I was laying it on a bit thick there, but there are enough windows enthusiasts, if you will forgive me perverting that word, that it might have been done by now. Someone even sold a 2 seat version for win95 (believe it used a custom ISA card for extra kb/mice), but that's not really practical unless you can segregate user processes, I would think.
I dare someone to do it with XP home edition, or 2k pro... the EFF won't make it to you in time to stop the carnage.
Could it be that windows doesn't support multiple monitors? No.
Or that it can't support 4 different users on them (as opposed to 1 user getting a big display)? Probably not, at the very least, it would be hackable.
Maybe it can't support multiple keyboards, or mice? Again, the most it would need is some hacking.
Or maybe, just maybe, if you posted a webpage, telling someone how to use a single windows license for 4 users, M$ legal would go apeshit on you, and stomp you into a tiny, tiny greasestain? BINGO!!
And that solves any of our problems, how exactly? If companies just bothered to spend a little more time on the remotes, rather than skimping on them in favor of the tv/stereo, we'd have no need of jini. Matter of fact, we still have no need of it, even now.
More generic buttons, a learning feature, or hell, maybe industry standard IR codes. Or, we could just overengineer it, put little arm7 cpu's in everything, and release new software versions every 3 weeks, so that nothing you have ever quite interoperates. I think I know where your vote is.
Who is trying to get directv, dishnet, C band, and FTA Kuband setup, already has basic cable (and is busy hacking digital cable), not to mention that I've getting things ready for broadcast (finally putting out a decent antenna)... let me say that this is just stupid BS.
Then again, since I'm not paying for any of the above (cable maybe, I do have cable internet), this won't do anything to alleviate the concerns of media marketdroids. Oh well.
Reading the signal isn't good enough, this remote doesn't have any generic buttons. So if RS hasn't thought of the button, too bad, nothing to assign it to. Unless, perhaps, you want to sacrifice the volume buttons for it...
Congratulations, you've just been promoted to management/marketing.
I have a better idea, let's have them use the 802.11 to download new firmware from the web! The websites that host new firmware will never be down! And we can code the software to not allow you to override or ignore the "can't reach firmware host" error message! And we can put big ornate 11" color LCDs on them, so that consumers have to buy new batteries every 30 minutes! And java really is too weak here, maybe we can go with.NET.
Details: Tivo, Sony Universal remote that doesn't do Tivo.
I have the packard bell IR remote reciever connected to my linux server with about 25' of cat5. Custom shell script recieves the input (Sony thinks it is talking to a VCR) and pumps it back out to the Tivo via another serial. Also works for a RCA directv reciever, which the sony remote only partially implements (some menu buttons are gone, etc). Dishnet is a problem, they don't have external serial ports, and even hacking inside doesn't work, seems to be nothing for it in firmware.
Now I just need a 4way (or better) svideo switch, that speaks serial (since we damn well know that even if I got that $70 remote controlled one, my universal remote can't speak that). Think if I got one of those manual button ones, that I could use a PIC or atmel and a few transistors?
PS. The trouble with even the learning remotes, is that they don't have enough generic buttons. Waiting for one that has a "tivo" button isn't the solution, put a few "A", "B", "C" buttons on it, for godsake.
What plugins are needed? The whole idea of making a browser mime aware, is that it can pass a file to the appropriate handler. Movies, music... neither are particularly dangerous nor do they require plugins. Even games fall under the one (hopefully temporary) exception, Macromedia Flash. SVG threatens to take over in that respect, too.
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Idiot, he seems to be anti-hippy to me. Can't you even troll properly?
That might carry a little weight, if I could believe that it wasn't also your favorite political party. Then again, if you actually have a favorite, what can I say? You understand nothing of importance, and whether you realize it or not, you're mostly happy with the way things are (except that its not a democrat in ).
Never worry. Whoever really is in control of the Republocrat Party will soon decide that its time for a new puppet face, and we can have 8 or maybe even 12 years with a democratic president.
Today's floppies are DVDs. You can smear peanut butter on them, toss them in the dishwasher, and they work fine afterwards.
;-)
Cool story though, all the same.
If you mean taking it apart, into discrete components, then yes of course it works. Circuit board companies wash them in water after the soldering is done. Some advice though, all pcb's need to be dried with a hair dryer when you do this.
Things like hard drives need to be wiped clean, very carefully, with a cloth.
Plastic pieces can be drip-dried in the dish drainer.
Make damn sure everything is BONE dry when re-assembling.
So, if you do spill soda, dive to the outlet and pull the plug out quick. If there is no power running, nothing can short. Soda is caustic, but will take a day or two to cause lasting, unpowered damage.
On that note, I think I actually like the movie. Now where's our 2 hour attack against electing Kerry? What do you mean, we only get the one?
I'll be upfront. I am as rabid a Bush hater as you are ever likely to hear from.
Here is my opinion. Whether or not this movie meets any of the technical definitions of a documentary, I consider the point moot. Maybe it is, but if so, documents at least as much of Moore as it does Dubya. What if it is a documentary of Moore's absurd opinions? What then, would you be hairsplitting about that too?
Oh, by the way, I hate Moore also.
Neither has a bit of integrity, and whether we pay enough attention to it to notice or not, we're all suffering for it. We have serious problems as a nation, and no one that has a chance of winning *any* office, presidential or congressional, cares to really adress them, let alone knows how to do so.
Moore is pissed his favorite political party isn't in control. Boo hoo, as if they are some sports team. Bush (and Gore, for that matter) used judicial/political short-circuting to screw up an election. If both had said "I'm confident I've won, and that the nation can stand another week of counting", we'd know for sure, wouldn't we? Not that it matters, their parties can surely be bipartisan when it comes to the issue of making sure only their two parties can play a part.
Worse, somehow, they've covertly destroyed any sensible third parties before they ever happen. There are machinations in place, so that if you or I hear of a third party, you can be sure that it's some nutjob organization.
Moore is just another distraction, lest you wake up and see the Republocratic party for what it is.
PS Moore's movie is about as truthful as the statement "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction". Leftist bullshit, rightist bullshit... neither are true.
Statistical sampling is not guessing. Take a completely random sample of people in various random places throughout africa. Assuming you do it correctly, and have an approximate total population, you can indeed come up with a number that resembles the truth.
But assume that you don't. Let's figure that there are only half as many with HIV in africa, or even only a third. That's still a big fucking number. And it ignores the possibility that they've *underestimated* how many infected people there are.
There is also no end of AIDS-like symptons in africa. Guess what? Those that are tested always seem to have HIV, and those that are without symptons always seem to be HIV negative. There is a correlation. Maybe they have the details wrong, but HIV is not something you want. If it's so harmless, why don't you try to infect yourself with it?
But enough with the sig-bashing. If there is no such thing as being enviromentally unsound, then why is my intuition sending off critical alarms every microsecond? Why does it feel like that things might take a turn for the worse in my own lifetime?
No one can dispute that. Which really makes one wonder what happened to the french of the late 1700s. Maybe they all emigrated here?
That's what I told myself, but I disagree.
I myself would be quite encouraged by this seemingly enlightened copyright "policy"...
Except that I don't see anyone ever believing it will happen for say, Spiderman 2. That being the case, exactly why do you think it is?
I answered that very question, but moderators thought it would be better you don't see that answer. Mind you, I only described the movie, I didn't call Moore any names (not a hard thing to do though). I won't repeat it here, you might have to browse at -1, if you want to know...
One: He is an artist, and is extremely flattered anyone would want to watch his movie. Quentin Tarentino likely falls into this category.
Two: His movie is worthless political propagands, not so unlike an infomercial.
Anyone want to guess which it is?
Commercial software, doesn't count. They licensed this from microsoft, microsoft made it more expensive than just buying extra machines, then they changed the API enough to kill it. I've seen it a few places, but something other than its usefulness (or lack thereof) was causing it to languish in the marketplace. Remember, I'm not a conspiracy theorist if the villain is M$ (haha).
There are enough bootleg copies of Visual Studio floating around, and microsoft exposes enough of the API to make it thinkable (hardware vendors need as much for their drivers). Easy? Ok, so maybe I was laying it on a bit thick there, but there are enough windows enthusiasts, if you will forgive me perverting that word, that it might have been done by now. Someone even sold a 2 seat version for win95 (believe it used a custom ISA card for extra kb/mice), but that's not really practical unless you can segregate user processes, I would think.
I dare someone to do it with XP home edition, or 2k pro... the EFF won't make it to you in time to stop the carnage.
Mirc, until just recently, did this. Not that you should be clicking on links posted in a channel, but sure as hell not with IE.
Could it be that windows doesn't support multiple monitors? No.
Or that it can't support 4 different users on them (as opposed to 1 user getting a big display)? Probably not, at the very least, it would be hackable.
Maybe it can't support multiple keyboards, or mice? Again, the most it would need is some hacking.
Or maybe, just maybe, if you posted a webpage, telling someone how to use a single windows license for 4 users, M$ legal would go apeshit on you, and stomp you into a tiny, tiny greasestain?
BINGO!!
Maybe so. Lack of subscription revenue on my part isn't helping them, either.
And that solves any of our problems, how exactly? If companies just bothered to spend a little more time on the remotes, rather than skimping on them in favor of the tv/stereo, we'd have no need of jini. Matter of fact, we still have no need of it, even now.
More generic buttons, a learning feature, or hell, maybe industry standard IR codes. Or, we could just overengineer it, put little arm7 cpu's in everything, and release new software versions every 3 weeks, so that nothing you have ever quite interoperates. I think I know where your vote is.
Who is trying to get directv, dishnet, C band, and FTA Kuband setup, already has basic cable (and is busy hacking digital cable), not to mention that I've getting things ready for broadcast (finally putting out a decent antenna)... let me say that this is just stupid BS.
Then again, since I'm not paying for any of the above (cable maybe, I do have cable internet), this won't do anything to alleviate the concerns of media marketdroids. Oh well.
Reading the signal isn't good enough, this remote doesn't have any generic buttons. So if RS hasn't thought of the button, too bad, nothing to assign it to. Unless, perhaps, you want to sacrifice the volume buttons for it...
Congratulations, you've just been promoted to management/marketing.
.NET.
I have a better idea, let's have them use the 802.11 to download new firmware from the web! The websites that host new firmware will never be down! And we can code the software to not allow you to override or ignore the "can't reach firmware host" error message! And we can put big ornate 11" color LCDs on them, so that consumers have to buy new batteries every 30 minutes! And java really is too weak here, maybe we can go with
Details: Tivo, Sony Universal remote that doesn't do Tivo.
I have the packard bell IR remote reciever connected to my linux server with about 25' of cat5. Custom shell script recieves the input (Sony thinks it is talking to a VCR) and pumps it back out to the Tivo via another serial. Also works for a RCA directv reciever, which the sony remote only partially implements (some menu buttons are gone, etc). Dishnet is a problem, they don't have external serial ports, and even hacking inside doesn't work, seems to be nothing for it in firmware.
Now I just need a 4way (or better) svideo switch, that speaks serial (since we damn well know that even if I got that $70 remote controlled one, my universal remote can't speak that). Think if I got one of those manual button ones, that I could use a PIC or atmel and a few transistors?
PS. The trouble with even the learning remotes, is that they don't have enough generic buttons. Waiting for one that has a "tivo" button isn't the solution, put a few "A", "B", "C" buttons on it, for godsake.
Any chinese nationals worried about this sort of thing are invited to my own network. We're even working on a steg tunnel... want to test?
SVG isn't anywhere near that point yet, but I can see it getting that far someday. Maybe 5 years from now.
What plugins are needed? The whole idea of making a browser mime aware, is that it can pass a file to the appropriate handler. Movies, music... neither are particularly dangerous nor do they require plugins. Even games fall under the one (hopefully temporary) exception, Macromedia Flash. SVG threatens to take over in that respect, too.
Thanks. Where are you from? I'm still offering invitations to people outside the USA.