When I last looked at that project it only seemed to apply to Europe and maybe the U.K. All because our crankass digital TV providers (DirecTV and various Digital Cable providers) are too tightass to allow computers to decode their encrypted signal legally. So instead we have to use external tuners and LiRC or break the law if we want to have computer based PVRs. Pathetic, isn't it?
OK. Maybe I'm just old, but I read that synopsis and all I could picture anytime they mentioned "Dino" was the purple pet dinosaur that the Flinstones had. So you'll have to excuse the fact that I nearly spit out my drink on my monitor when I read "...he's Dino, he gets whatever he wnats whenever he wants it";P
The relationship between the advertiser, the producer and the consumer has become so hopelessly damaged and the internet is only making it worse. as soon as some tool that enables a consumer to control the flow of advertising, someone else freaks out about how this is bad for business. We have the asshats in the television industry bemoaning TiVO and other devices that allow you to skip commercials. They even go so far as to claim that you agreed to a contract when you bought your TV that you WILL watch commercials. Then of course at the very extreme end of the asshat spectrum, you have spammers. Anything that is anti-spam is unfairly killing their "business model". Here's a clue, GET ANOTHER FUCKING BUSINESS MODEL. And soon we are sure to have some people who want to break or weaken any software that allows a user to control online ads. I really wish I had access to that gaint/etc/hosts file in the sky so I could redirect ALL ad hosts to 127.0.0.1 permanently.
Getting back on track here... it's simple Mr. Advertiser. If I want to buy a product, I will. You don't need to MAKE me buy it with your ad, you just need to get it into my head that it might do what I want. If I don't choose to buy it, TOO BAD!! Stop trying to justify your existence by pouring money into advertising and marketing and put that money into research and development to make a better product. Remember, the real hierarchy of the consumer/advertiser/producer relationship is this:
1. The producer only exists to serve the consumer 2. The advertiser is simply a notification agent (hmmm... could be replaced with a small shell script) 3. The consumer is the monarch in this relationship and should have little to do other than make a decision about where to spend their money. 4. The stockholders are the least important as they should be happy to even get a cent from this deal.
But it's all screwed up today and people are slowly being zombified by the current corrupted version of capitalism. Resist folks. Resist. You'll be better off for it.
Oh there is focusing alright. It's not active, it has to do with where the focal point lies. I noticed this when I scanned some 3d objects and elements that were about 1/8" off of the glass bed where in much sharper focus than those directly on it. This can't be corrected with software or drivers. It has to be tuned at the factory. The cheap scanners are just "good enough". The best scanners are tuned to be precise. When you couple "good enough" with a kludge to scan negatives on a flatbed, you are guaranteed to have poor results.
Hehehe... that's like taking a camcorder into a movie theater and recording the entire movie from a seat far back in the room and then pressing it to DVD because DVD is a high quality medium. In other words, garbage in/garbage out.;P
Parent is asbolutely right. You need a real slide/negative scanner with much higher resolution and better optics/focus. The Umax cheapy scanner I bought in 1998 (Vista S12) can't even focus well on a photograph let alone even trying to scan a negative. When it comes down to doing something right, you need the right hardware. If you can find a negative scanner that works under Linux, then you will be halfway there. The rest of the time will be applied learning the software tools (which as less important than the hardware).
Hey, frogs could grow claws and live in toilets too!
Cool! That would be akin to my lifelong dream of an asteroid passing the planet and infecting all bears with some kind of mutation that would make them as big as godzilla and give them a taste for people filled buildings. Life is too boring without that kind of thing happening more often.
In other news... didn't Jobs market the Mac as being anti-suit, anti-corporate, anti-business, anti-IBM originally? Oh well, if we had republicans voting for Kerry and deomcrats voting for Bush this past election, ANYTHING is possible.
...just like driving a car. Of course licensed drivers that suck (speeders, tail gaters, drunks) are on the road today too, so... that won't work now will it? Oh well, back to my Doom III game.;P
Working 80 hours a week is detrimental to your health. The real problem is that people put the value of money over their own life. That's the failure that capitalism has succumbed to. Without some good controls over how people are treated within the system, capitalism can do some really horrible things to people. Sure, turning tricks can make a lot of money for women and gay street hustlers, but would you want your sister, mother or daughter doing that? It's the same thing.
Wow. That's amazing. I wonder if the AC poster has any connection to that whole flap. I also wonder why this isn't front page news on Slashdot? Oh yeah, I forgot. It's no longer "Stuff that matters", it's "Stuff that pays the bills".
Let the insane neocons come out of the wood work babbling about this being "the cost of doing business" in their twisted way. If there's anything I hate, it's the fucking neocons.
I don't think the AC was being serious. I mean come on...
1. Note the mention of Alienware and neon kits 2. Note the mention of PPC While it's a great chip, it's still doesn't have large market share. The idea that Alienware would ever make a PPC based system is a tad unlikely. 3. Not the mention of MorphOS. Again, an interesting alternative OS, but very little market share and I believe they are having financial trouble now.
I could be wrong, but that just sounds liek the set up for a joke to me. Not to mention, who would seriously chant for neon kits?
...is at yafro.com. That nightmare hellshow over there gives you a pretty good idea what combining something like Slashdot (which is really just a glorified blog) with photo capabilities. Which means that you know that MS will censor posts... Yeah. The Internet is sure the "great liberator" of the people. Right.
I've often thought that I would wind up being ousted from IT before I reach retirement age. The factory workers were getting decent pay after WW II through about the late 60s/early 70s. Then their jobs got killed off and their pay dropped off considerably. Believe it or not, there was a time when people actually WANTED to be factory workers in order to improve their lives. Same thing with IT. We're really data custodians.
But what about all the helpless umbilicle cords that have been slaughtered for generations by uncaring, unthinking evildoers who want to separate the mother from the child? What about all the evil male circumcisions that have marred young male children for centuries? Who will cry for them? Oh my god this is all so terrible! Boo hoo hoo!;P
Hey holmes. What exactly IS the point? What are we talking about here? (Keep in mind that I've got a bumper sticker that says "Science is not a Crime")
...we made batteries!!! It's basic, but it's fun and it's cool:
Materials: 1. Bleach 2. Baking Soda 3. Copper stranded wire 4. Aluminium Foil 5. Wax Paper or other nonconductive surface that will survive immersion in bleach 5. Glass container or old canning/jelly jar 6. LEDs or old fashioned screw in flashlight bulb with fixture (can you even find those anymore?) 7. Alligator clips
Instructions: 1. Take the foil and form a cup with a tail (sort of like a laddle) so that 1/3 of the bottom of the glass container is lined with foil and the the tail hangs over the outside edge of the glass. 2. Place a piece of wax paper that is cut to line the foil into the foil cup. 3. Strip the copper stranded wire and unstrand a good amount in order to form a ball of copper that will fill the wax paper lined foil cup without any of the copper touching the foil. 4. Strip the other end of the copper wire and attach an alligator clip to it. 5. Tie on another piece of copper wire to the foil's tail and attach an alligator clip to the other end as well. 6. Connect the alligator clips to your flashlight bulb or LED. (I think the copper ball end is the positive (+) end. I can't remember for sure.) 7. Pour in enough bleach to submerse the ball of copper and the foil. 8. Your light source should light up. Congrats you've made a battery. 9. You can add baking soda to the bleach and the light should brighten for a bit.
It's also a lesson in chemistry. AND... in the event of a "terra" attack, you now know how to make batteries to power your flashlight in complete "Macguyver" style.:)
His mention of Levaquin reminded me of another user's JE on yeast infections. Some good stuff there. Not to mention that quinolones (PDF link) have an anecdotal history of being some nasty stuff.
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When I last looked at that project it only seemed to apply to Europe and maybe the U.K. All because our crankass digital TV providers (DirecTV and various Digital Cable providers) are too tightass to allow computers to decode their encrypted signal legally. So instead we have to use external tuners and LiRC or break the law if we want to have computer based PVRs. Pathetic, isn't it?
Remember kids, science is NOT a crime.
Nope. Just your envelope. ;P
OK. Maybe I'm just old, but I read that synopsis and all I could picture anytime they mentioned "Dino" was the purple pet dinosaur that the Flinstones had. So you'll have to excuse the fact that I nearly spit out my drink on my monitor when I read "...he's Dino, he gets whatever he wnats whenever he wants it" ;P
The relationship between the advertiser, the producer and the consumer has become so hopelessly damaged and the internet is only making it worse. as soon as some tool that enables a consumer to control the flow of advertising, someone else freaks out about how this is bad for business. We have the asshats in the television industry bemoaning TiVO and other devices that allow you to skip commercials. They even go so far as to claim that you agreed to a contract when you bought your TV that you WILL watch commercials. Then of course at the very extreme end of the asshat spectrum, you have spammers. Anything that is anti-spam is unfairly killing their "business model". Here's a clue, GET ANOTHER FUCKING BUSINESS MODEL. And soon we are sure to have some people who want to break or weaken any software that allows a user to control online ads. I really wish I had access to that gaint /etc/hosts file in the sky so I could redirect ALL ad hosts to 127.0.0.1 permanently.
Getting back on track here... it's simple Mr. Advertiser. If I want to buy a product, I will. You don't need to MAKE me buy it with your ad, you just need to get it into my head that it might do what I want. If I don't choose to buy it, TOO BAD!! Stop trying to justify your existence by pouring money into advertising and marketing and put that money into research and development to make a better product. Remember, the real hierarchy of the consumer/advertiser/producer relationship is this:
1. The producer only exists to serve the consumer
2. The advertiser is simply a notification agent (hmmm... could be replaced with a small shell script)
3. The consumer is the monarch in this relationship and should have little to do other than make a decision about where to spend their money.
4. The stockholders are the least important as they should be happy to even get a cent from this deal.
But it's all screwed up today and people are slowly being zombified by the current corrupted version of capitalism. Resist folks. Resist. You'll be better off for it.
YES!!! I loved the rat myself. Used to play it a lot on an Atari Lynx.
...the Barracuda Spam Firewall. It's easy to set up, and it "just works". There is also ASSP. I don't have the linkage right now though...
Oh there is focusing alright. It's not active, it has to do with where the focal point lies. I noticed this when I scanned some 3d objects and elements that were about 1/8" off of the glass bed where in much sharper focus than those directly on it. This can't be corrected with software or drivers. It has to be tuned at the factory. The cheap scanners are just "good enough". The best scanners are tuned to be precise. When you couple "good enough" with a kludge to scan negatives on a flatbed, you are guaranteed to have poor results.
Hehehe... that's like taking a camcorder into a movie theater and recording the entire movie from a seat far back in the room and then pressing it to DVD because DVD is a high quality medium. In other words, garbage in/garbage out. ;P
Parent is asbolutely right. You need a real slide/negative scanner with much higher resolution and better optics/focus. The Umax cheapy scanner I bought in 1998 (Vista S12) can't even focus well on a photograph let alone even trying to scan a negative. When it comes down to doing something right, you need the right hardware. If you can find a negative scanner that works under Linux, then you will be halfway there. The rest of the time will be applied learning the software tools (which as less important than the hardware).
Cool! That would be akin to my lifelong dream of an asteroid passing the planet and infecting all bears with some kind of mutation that would make them as big as godzilla and give them a taste for people filled buildings. Life is too boring without that kind of thing happening more often.
In other news... didn't Jobs market the Mac as being anti-suit, anti-corporate, anti-business, anti-IBM originally? Oh well, if we had republicans voting for Kerry and deomcrats voting for Bush this past election, ANYTHING is possible.
...just like driving a car. Of course licensed drivers that suck (speeders, tail gaters, drunks) are on the road today too, so... that won't work now will it? Oh well, back to my Doom III game. ;P
Working 80 hours a week is detrimental to your health. The real problem is that people put the value of money over their own life. That's the failure that capitalism has succumbed to. Without some good controls over how people are treated within the system, capitalism can do some really horrible things to people. Sure, turning tricks can make a lot of money for women and gay street hustlers, but would you want your sister, mother or daughter doing that? It's the same thing.
Wow. That's amazing. I wonder if the AC poster has any connection to that whole flap. I also wonder why this isn't front page news on Slashdot? Oh yeah, I forgot. It's no longer "Stuff that matters", it's "Stuff that pays the bills".
Let the insane neocons come out of the wood work babbling about this being "the cost of doing business" in their twisted way. If there's anything I hate, it's the fucking neocons.
I don't think the AC was being serious. I mean come on...
1. Note the mention of Alienware and neon kits
2. Note the mention of PPC While it's a great chip, it's still doesn't have large market share. The idea that Alienware would ever make a PPC based system is a tad unlikely.
3. Not the mention of MorphOS. Again, an interesting alternative OS, but very little market share and I believe they are having financial trouble now.
I could be wrong, but that just sounds liek the set up for a joke to me. Not to mention, who would seriously chant for neon kits?
Mine works in the basement, but I'm getting really tired walking in an arc from one end of the room to the other with a halogen trouble light. ;P
...is at yafro.com. That nightmare hellshow over there gives you a pretty good idea what combining something like Slashdot (which is really just a glorified blog) with photo capabilities. Which means that you know that MS will censor posts... Yeah. The Internet is sure the "great liberator" of the people. Right.
I've often thought that I would wind up being ousted from IT before I reach retirement age. The factory workers were getting decent pay after WW II through about the late 60s/early 70s. Then their jobs got killed off and their pay dropped off considerably. Believe it or not, there was a time when people actually WANTED to be factory workers in order to improve their lives. Same thing with IT. We're really data custodians.
Oy. I hope no one takes offence at that.
But what about all the helpless umbilicle cords that have been slaughtered for generations by uncaring, unthinking evildoers who want to separate the mother from the child? What about all the evil male circumcisions that have marred young male children for centuries? Who will cry for them? Oh my god this is all so terrible! Boo hoo hoo! ;P
Seriously dude. Get a grip.
Hey holmes. What exactly IS the point? What are we talking about here? (Keep in mind that I've got a bumper sticker that says "Science is not a Crime")
...we made batteries!!! It's basic, but it's fun and it's cool:
:)
Materials:
1. Bleach
2. Baking Soda
3. Copper stranded wire
4. Aluminium Foil
5. Wax Paper or other nonconductive surface that will survive immersion in bleach
5. Glass container or old canning/jelly jar
6. LEDs or old fashioned screw in flashlight bulb with fixture (can you even find those anymore?)
7. Alligator clips
Instructions:
1. Take the foil and form a cup with a tail (sort of like a laddle) so that 1/3 of the bottom of the glass container is lined with foil and the the tail hangs over the outside edge of the glass.
2. Place a piece of wax paper that is cut to line the foil into the foil cup.
3. Strip the copper stranded wire and unstrand a good amount in order to form a ball of copper that will fill the wax paper lined foil cup without any of the copper touching the foil.
4. Strip the other end of the copper wire and attach an alligator clip to it.
5. Tie on another piece of copper wire to the foil's tail and attach an alligator clip to the other end as well.
6. Connect the alligator clips to your flashlight bulb or LED. (I think the copper ball end is the positive (+) end. I can't remember for sure.)
7. Pour in enough bleach to submerse the ball of copper and the foil.
8. Your light source should light up. Congrats you've made a battery.
9. You can add baking soda to the bleach and the light should brighten for a bit.
It's also a lesson in chemistry. AND... in the event of a "terra" attack, you now know how to make batteries to power your flashlight in complete "Macguyver" style.
Ummm... isn't that 3C501 from 3Com? I believe there is a Linux driver for that. ;)
His mention of Levaquin reminded me of another user's JE on yeast infections. Some good stuff there. Not to mention that quinolones (PDF link) have an anecdotal history of being some nasty stuff.
It's a nice ideal to have. Just like it's good to strive for perfection. Even if you can't achieve it, it still keeps up the quality of your endeavor.