Ok, so this is written in Squeak, which is a branch of smalltalk. The last time I ran it, (and mind you that was WAY back), I had to download a new environment that ran on my existing desktop. Now I have to wonder if there are too many layers between the hardware and croquet for it to really function well performance or otherwise as an operating system. Does corquet need to be a little more independant? Programmers out there, please enlighten me.
I think that 3D environments are only worse than 2D when you are using 2D input controls. I think that 3D environments will be better, but our control interfaces need to improve along with our visual interface.
I honestly thought I'd sen the last of them. After the last time they came up on slashdot I couldn't find ANYTHING from them other than a VERY out dated release.
I honestly think they are the best implimentation of a 3D desktop environment to date. I like the idea of gateways and their ideas for networking seem to be well ahead of current technology.
My only fear is that they will not get major backing. People will consider them to far in the future and too different to lend them support. A program like this needs backing akin to KDE or Gnome. They could also use corporate backing. (Hey sun, drop mad hatter, your quasi 3D environment and pick up something that might become the evolution of computing).
What do people who only watch movies do? Personally, I don't own cable. I'm a bit tight for money so try to keep down repeating expenses. To live in England, I would have to pay 15/month or whatever so that I could go get Sgt. Bilko from Blockbuster on Friday night. (They only had VHS. At least with a computer you could use that as your dvd player.
It seems if they wanted to at least attempt to give people the option of choise, they would make the fee on the digital tuner and let it be a separate add in to tv's. They can leave the RCA jacks for vcr/dvd player input.
Reguardless of the BBC's opinion bias, their bias as to what they consider top news is very large. If you read their world service page, they report almost nothing from eastern asia and very little from russia. They report a reasonable amount from the middle east. None from South America, none from Africa that isn't directly connected to the US or UK. But man, they'll report michael jackson's court case as 'top news' on a world level. They really need to stop reporting some US and UK only things as top world news and deligate more news to South America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
I agree. I think it is a fair tradeoff in most cases anyway. most hobbiests see the microcontroller as a means to an end and want to only learn about it in the context of their project.
That said, are there good free compilers and beginners kits (interface boards, beginner documentation, etc), for simple pic's or avr's?
I agree with other posters in that an RFID card is a bad idea. The main reason is that it is accessable w/o the explicit action of the user. You can walk by a scanner and have your card read. Possibly reprogrammed (though I don't know how technically feasable that is).
On the other hand a smart card would be ok depending on the type of info on it. I don't see anything wrong w/ having a smart card that holds the data no my drivers license so I can insert it in somethign instead of holding it while the casher tries to figure out where the "date" field is to see if I'm ok to buy the beer. My first worry on this front is that the data on the smart card would be too trusted. People would assume that because it is electronic and possibly encrypted it would be more valid than the info on the front of the card. The other worry is that power hungry law makers and law enforcement would want to store more data on the card just because they had the additional space that is much less visible than the printed front. I don't care if my card has digitally stored anything that is on the front or back of the drivers license in human understandable format, but if my drivers license now carries, say, my fingerprint, my mental health, my criminal record, etc, then I would be strictly against it.
How does this effect the hobyist? I know Parallax stamp chips are wonderful for small projects. They have compilers on board, they are VERY simple to interface hardware with, etc. Can these 32bit offerings provide the same type of DIY play? I hope so as it would allow complex designs for little money from home-users.
Someone Modded me Troll?! I work for the MDA which contains the program office for the ABL so I would have at least a bit of an idea about shooting with a laser. I hope a metamod gets a shot at that.
Hopefully they can find some middle ground where users can download their email to outlook. And can upload replies and forwards back to hotmail, but then are required to write the actual reply or forward in hotmail.
I would hire them for pen-testing of clients and security evaluations of hardware because they had proven they have a combination of knowledge of networked systems and inginuity and creativity to find such vulnerabilities in the past.
I think you greatly misjudge the capacity of otherwise impoverished countries such as NK to not only maintain stable missile systems but develop longer range systems. (Countries like NK don't need a misssile with accuracy, they need one with range.)
Exactly like you said, NK will implode. Time is on our side, not theirs. The more time we have the more advanced and numberious our missile defense becomes. Plus space and missile defense command has this humvee laser that can shoot down artillery shells which is pretty cool.
Iran though time is distinctly NOT on our side. Plus their influence in Iraq would only grow in boldness should they become a nuclear power.
The problem was people not wanting to spend a lot, and not really sure if it was worth it to be able to make video and they know little Jimmy wants to play video games but don't know if they have the money to get him that. Those are decisions they need to make.
Pakistan and India have a history of 50 years of conflict. They're both nuclear powers. Yet they haven't used those arms.
Thats misleading. They have only been nuclear powers for 3 or 4 years (seems like it was 2001 they conducted their tests).
The justification that no-one will use nuclear weapons because they don't want to lose their country only applies to people who are not going to lose their country in another way or even have a country. NK could easily give a nuke to someone without a country. And as Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated, people lose their countries for reasons other than using nuclear weapons, (and more over nuclear proliferation coupld effectively keep any country from causing regime change anywhere under the fear of a nuclear retaliation from the soon-to-be countryless. Also, it would only take one country acting irrationally to set off a large nuclear war. And it's my opinion that smaller countries are more likely to act irrationally.
I used to sell computers. Being knowledgable for a long time I tried to just inform the consumer about the computers and let them pick what fit them. I quickly found out that was way too much for them. So I went to offering them 2 computers based on what they told me. I'd say, "if you want your sun to be able to play games or you feel you may want to edit video and movies, I suggest you get this more expensive one. If you are only going to work on documents and surf the web, then you probably will be fine spending less money and getting this one". And you know what? 90% of customers would leave completely confused about what they should buy. They wanted someone to say, "buy this computer" w/o any reason to. Or maybe something like, "it's got colorstream for better quality picture!" but they couldn't give 2 shits about the technology they were actually getting or what it was truely capable of and suited for.
First, Lucas is only releasing the DVDs because he wants to release them before someone just takes VHS tapes, cleans them, and burns them to DVD.
Second, Lucas cares nothing for his consumers. ZERO. NONE. NADA. As stated above, the only reason he is making this is to A. make money, and B. get HIS version out there before someone releases the real thing. He did nothing because of his consumers. In fact he somewhat happily states he ignores them. Honestly, that single interview makes me never want to purchase anything in any way related to star wars just for the sole purpose of never giving money to such an arrogant ass.
At least he gives us a reprieve by saying he will be taking his crap to TV and leave the last 3 movies to someone else to do. We can only hope.
In closing, I predict someone is going to take the VHS tapes, clean them up and sell pirated DVD's of the actual movie. And that they will be fairly successful because, despite lucas's understanding of economics, consumers vote with their money and they will vote for what they want not what they are given. Personally, I'd be happy to buy pirated DVDs of the original series as long as the money never see's Lucas's claws.
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Ok, so this is written in Squeak, which is a branch of smalltalk. The last time I ran it, (and mind you that was WAY back), I had to download a new environment that ran on my existing desktop. Now I have to wonder if there are too many layers between the hardware and croquet for it to really function well performance or otherwise as an operating system. Does corquet need to be a little more independant? Programmers out there, please enlighten me.
I think that 3D environments are only worse than 2D when you are using 2D input controls. I think that 3D environments will be better, but our control interfaces need to improve along with our visual interface.
I honestly think they are the best implimentation of a 3D desktop environment to date. I like the idea of gateways and their ideas for networking seem to be well ahead of current technology.
My only fear is that they will not get major backing. People will consider them to far in the future and too different to lend them support. A program like this needs backing akin to KDE or Gnome. They could also use corporate backing. (Hey sun, drop mad hatter, your quasi 3D environment and pick up something that might become the evolution of computing).
It seems if they wanted to at least attempt to give people the option of choise, they would make the fee on the digital tuner and let it be a separate add in to tv's. They can leave the RCA jacks for vcr/dvd player input.
Reguardless of the BBC's opinion bias, their bias as to what they consider top news is very large. If you read their world service page, they report almost nothing from eastern asia and very little from russia. They report a reasonable amount from the middle east. None from South America, none from Africa that isn't directly connected to the US or UK. But man, they'll report michael jackson's court case as 'top news' on a world level. They really need to stop reporting some US and UK only things as top world news and deligate more news to South America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.
That said, are there good free compilers and beginners kits (interface boards, beginner documentation, etc), for simple pic's or avr's?
On the other hand a smart card would be ok depending on the type of info on it. I don't see anything wrong w/ having a smart card that holds the data no my drivers license so I can insert it in somethign instead of holding it while the casher tries to figure out where the "date" field is to see if I'm ok to buy the beer. My first worry on this front is that the data on the smart card would be too trusted. People would assume that because it is electronic and possibly encrypted it would be more valid than the info on the front of the card. The other worry is that power hungry law makers and law enforcement would want to store more data on the card just because they had the additional space that is much less visible than the printed front. I don't care if my card has digitally stored anything that is on the front or back of the drivers license in human understandable format, but if my drivers license now carries, say, my fingerprint, my mental health, my criminal record, etc, then I would be strictly against it.
How does this effect the hobyist? I know Parallax stamp chips are wonderful for small projects. They have compilers on board, they are VERY simple to interface hardware with, etc. Can these 32bit offerings provide the same type of DIY play? I hope so as it would allow complex designs for little money from home-users.
Sorry. Missile Defense Agency and Air Borne Laser.
Someone Modded me Troll?! I work for the MDA which contains the program office for the ABL so I would have at least a bit of an idea about shooting with a laser. I hope a metamod gets a shot at that.
Yeah, and what is your tracking, targeting, and atmospheric compensation hardware?
This is for analog viewing, not digital viewing.
Hopefully they can find some middle ground where users can download their email to outlook. And can upload replies and forwards back to hotmail, but then are required to write the actual reply or forward in hotmail.
I would hire them for pen-testing of clients and security evaluations of hardware because they had proven they have a combination of knowledge of networked systems and inginuity and creativity to find such vulnerabilities in the past.
Would I hire com Adrian Lamo? Yeah.
It depends a lot on the intent of the attack and what was done once it was successful. Also on the personal morals of the individual.
They have proven the ability to run a nuclear power plant reasonably well. Wouldn't that demonstrate the ability to maintain a nuclear warhead?
I think you greatly misjudge the capacity of otherwise impoverished countries such as NK to not only maintain stable missile systems but develop longer range systems. (Countries like NK don't need a misssile with accuracy, they need one with range.)
Iran though time is distinctly NOT on our side. Plus their influence in Iraq would only grow in boldness should they become a nuclear power.
The problem was people not wanting to spend a lot, and not really sure if it was worth it to be able to make video and they know little Jimmy wants to play video games but don't know if they have the money to get him that. Those are decisions they need to make.
Thats misleading. They have only been nuclear powers for 3 or 4 years (seems like it was 2001 they conducted their tests).
The justification that no-one will use nuclear weapons because they don't want to lose their country only applies to people who are not going to lose their country in another way or even have a country. NK could easily give a nuke to someone without a country. And as Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated, people lose their countries for reasons other than using nuclear weapons, (and more over nuclear proliferation coupld effectively keep any country from causing regime change anywhere under the fear of a nuclear retaliation from the soon-to-be countryless. Also, it would only take one country acting irrationally to set off a large nuclear war. And it's my opinion that smaller countries are more likely to act irrationally.
I used to sell computers. Being knowledgable for a long time I tried to just inform the consumer about the computers and let them pick what fit them. I quickly found out that was way too much for them. So I went to offering them 2 computers based on what they told me. I'd say, "if you want your sun to be able to play games or you feel you may want to edit video and movies, I suggest you get this more expensive one. If you are only going to work on documents and surf the web, then you probably will be fine spending less money and getting this one". And you know what? 90% of customers would leave completely confused about what they should buy. They wanted someone to say, "buy this computer" w/o any reason to. Or maybe something like, "it's got colorstream for better quality picture!" but they couldn't give 2 shits about the technology they were actually getting or what it was truely capable of and suited for.
First, Lucas is only releasing the DVDs because he wants to release them before someone just takes VHS tapes, cleans them, and burns them to DVD.
Second, Lucas cares nothing for his consumers. ZERO. NONE. NADA. As stated above, the only reason he is making this is to A. make money, and B. get HIS version out there before someone releases the real thing. He did nothing because of his consumers. In fact he somewhat happily states he ignores them. Honestly, that single interview makes me never want to purchase anything in any way related to star wars just for the sole purpose of never giving money to such an arrogant ass.
At least he gives us a reprieve by saying he will be taking his crap to TV and leave the last 3 movies to someone else to do. We can only hope.
In closing, I predict someone is going to take the VHS tapes, clean them up and sell pirated DVD's of the actual movie. And that they will be fairly successful because, despite lucas's understanding of economics, consumers vote with their money and they will vote for what they want not what they are given. Personally, I'd be happy to buy pirated DVDs of the original series as long as the money never see's Lucas's claws.
I didn't realize that. I though that SAC took place before the puppetmaster incident. Thank you for the correction.
Wait, those numbers are from Cream of the Crop. The over all is 53% (rotten) and 6.1 rating.
It is 73% fresh w/ an average 6.7 rating at Rotten Tomatoes right now.