And why should I give a token bit of respect to an organization like the WTO to whom I have never elected any representatives, and seems to do far more harm than good in this world?
The representatives you elected signed the treaty, which gives it the force of US law. World bodies gain their power from domestic legislation and even the US Constitution. If you have a problem with treaties superseding American domestic law, then ask your elected representatives to withdraw from the treaty altogether (which might not be a bad idea in many cases). It is wrong to selectively enforce those provisions of the treaty that are convenient/acceptable to you and to disregard those that aren't.
If he did kill his wife, which is nowhere near certain, and then subsequently chopped up the body, I bet the pieces are of manageable size and spread evenly throughout a wooded area for easy, order-N retrieval...
Because you would be supporting an American company that makes a good solid product. Besides, not everyone has the desire or ability to construct and/or install the downcoverters. I have the ability both build and install the converter, but I went with the RX320D on the strength of several reviews and construction quality. Sure I could have skimped and got a dirt-cheap shortwave receiver and hooked up the converter, but who knows how wide their IF stages are and the quality of the construction? With the 320D, you get the peace of mind that you're purchasing a very good quality product that the company is eager to support.
Since we're talking about Software Defined Radio, I urge everyone with an interest in the subject to look at the GNU Radio project. They have designed a front end board using generic cable TV tuners feeding an FPGA to perform some initial processing, such as decimation and filtering. The data is then transferred over USB to the host, whose software performs the demodulation and decoding. It's a fascinating project and a great stepping stone into the field.
To really get started on SDR, check out the Ten-Tec RX320D shortwave receiver. It outputs a 12 kHz-wide IF signal from the front end to an audio jack, which can then be fed to a PC soundcard. There are a number of packages that can take this data and demodulate it, including DREAM, an open source DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) decoder which allows you to listen to the new digital shortwave transmission standard that many of the world's broadcasters are beginning to experiment with.
I, too, read the Gang of Four book. It is treated at my workplace like a Bible of sorts.
And it's all a bunch of bullshit.
If you want to make your code slow and bulky at the expense of maybe being 5% more maintainable, this is the book for you. However, in the real world, where customers want their software to run fast and use a minimum amount of system memory, these techniques, while instructive, are ultimately utterly worthless.
The poster is absolutely right in saying that it's all just OO banging. Kids these days are taught the benefit of a signleton and a bridge pattern, but can't tell you the meaning of priority inversion or when you need to use a spinlock versus a regular sync object.
...but in President Commander Coo-Coo Bananas' US, where emphasis in schools is shifting from science and math to ridiculous concepts like 'intelligent design' and a steady diet of Bible stories, I think the vast majority of fantastic, groundbreaking medical research is going to come from countries where the education system isn't being run by a bunch of Christofascists trying to ensure that fundamentalist principles are forced upon every child in the land.
Congratulations, America. The edge that made you the envy of the world and the leader in science and technology is quickly falling away as math, biology and physics courses are gutted by school systems and replaced with ancient Hebrew, faith healing and courses in speaking in tongues.
'If John has three fish, and Jesus doubles the amount of fish given to the Canaanites, and the Pharisees extract a 20% tax, in silver coins, on the people, then how many disciples will betray our Lord and Saviour?'
Previous articles on this effort have made it clear that the graphics card was not going to have very many 'modern' features at all. Not, of course, that that's a bad thing--I mean, this effort is clearly targetted at hobbyists and other people who like to get 'close to the metal'. But it begs the question why any company would get behind an effort that is only meant to appeal to a very small subset of the consumer base? I'm saddened by the fact that they lost their company backing, but from a pure cost/benefit standpoint, it (sadly) makes sense.
It's very apparent that as religious nuts gain power in the United States, God Almighty as Creator will be the only thing taught to our children in public school. That means there's absolutely no need to study the stars and planets and outer space, since the formation of life on Earth (and the creation of this planet itself) was handled by some divine being.
We may as well disband NASA now and spend the one billion dollars on increasing our military might, because that's the only way the US is going to maintain its world power status in the near future. It sure won't be in the scientific field.
Slashdot Mirror
Google Operating And Time Sharing Environment
Nah, it would be too insecure. It's only got one ring...
The representatives you elected signed the treaty, which gives it the force of US law. World bodies gain their power from domestic legislation and even the US Constitution. If you have a problem with treaties superseding American domestic law, then ask your elected representatives to withdraw from the treaty altogether (which might not be a bad idea in many cases). It is wrong to selectively enforce those provisions of the treaty that are convenient/acceptable to you and to disregard those that aren't.
There's no light in Thailand? Have they fallen afoul of the sun or something?
'No light for you! Come back one summer solstice!'
If he did kill his wife, which is nowhere near certain, and then subsequently chopped up the body, I bet the pieces are of manageable size and spread evenly throughout a wooded area for easy, order-N retrieval...
At least the New Yorker didn't denormal him...
Whoops. Too much of the grog tonight.
Your comment deserves a better fact than 1, Offtopic. Kudos, mon ami.
We'll lick these toxic toads one way or another.
Why spend that much ($350+)
Because you would be supporting an American company that makes a good solid product. Besides, not everyone has the desire or ability to construct and/or install the downcoverters. I have the ability both build and install the converter, but I went with the RX320D on the strength of several reviews and construction quality. Sure I could have skimped and got a dirt-cheap shortwave receiver and hooked up the converter, but who knows how wide their IF stages are and the quality of the construction? With the 320D, you get the peace of mind that you're purchasing a very good quality product that the company is eager to support.
Since we're talking about Software Defined Radio, I urge everyone with an interest in the subject to look at the GNU Radio project. They have designed a front end board using generic cable TV tuners feeding an FPGA to perform some initial processing, such as decimation and filtering. The data is then transferred over USB to the host, whose software performs the demodulation and decoding. It's a fascinating project and a great stepping stone into the field.
To really get started on SDR, check out the Ten-Tec RX320D shortwave receiver. It outputs a 12 kHz-wide IF signal from the front end to an audio jack, which can then be fed to a PC soundcard. There are a number of packages that can take this data and demodulate it, including DREAM, an open source DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) decoder which allows you to listen to the new digital shortwave transmission standard that many of the world's broadcasters are beginning to experiment with.
Mars, bitches.
If [...] a hole exists, our users [...] find it.
Quite appropriate, given the business you're in.
In order to complain to the FCC you must be a customer of BS
That's for fuckin' sure.
I, too, read the Gang of Four book. It is treated at my workplace like a Bible of sorts. And it's all a bunch of bullshit. If you want to make your code slow and bulky at the expense of maybe being 5% more maintainable, this is the book for you. However, in the real world, where customers want their software to run fast and use a minimum amount of system memory, these techniques, while instructive, are ultimately utterly worthless. The poster is absolutely right in saying that it's all just OO banging. Kids these days are taught the benefit of a signleton and a bridge pattern, but can't tell you the meaning of priority inversion or when you need to use a spinlock versus a regular sync object.
...but in President Commander Coo-Coo Bananas' US, where emphasis in schools is shifting from science and math to ridiculous concepts like 'intelligent design' and a steady diet of Bible stories, I think the vast majority of fantastic, groundbreaking medical research is going to come from countries where the education system isn't being run by a bunch of Christofascists trying to ensure that fundamentalist principles are forced upon every child in the land.
Congratulations, America. The edge that made you the envy of the world and the leader in science and technology is quickly falling away as math, biology and physics courses are gutted by school systems and replaced with ancient Hebrew, faith healing and courses in speaking in tongues.
'If John has three fish, and Jesus doubles the amount of fish given to the Canaanites, and the Pharisees extract a 20% tax, in silver coins, on the people, then how many disciples will betray our Lord and Saviour?'
Previous articles on this effort have made it clear that the graphics card was not going to have very many 'modern' features at all. Not, of course, that that's a bad thing--I mean, this effort is clearly targetted at hobbyists and other people who like to get 'close to the metal'. But it begs the question why any company would get behind an effort that is only meant to appeal to a very small subset of the consumer base? I'm saddened by the fact that they lost their company backing, but from a pure cost/benefit standpoint, it (sadly) makes sense.
I imagine it would just be a simple task for most slashdotters to patch their kernels...
I can see my house from here!
The number of pages in the article is probably proportional to the number of PSPs they destroyed in trying to successfully take one apart...
Talk about your OpenBSD (Berkeley Social Data)...
We might end up seeing the SS CowboyNeal, or, worse yet, the SS Goatse! :-)
A good example of a Level 10 mental handicap can be found at this website.
It's very apparent that as religious nuts gain power in the United States, God Almighty as Creator will be the only thing taught to our children in public school. That means there's absolutely no need to study the stars and planets and outer space, since the formation of life on Earth (and the creation of this planet itself) was handled by some divine being.
We may as well disband NASA now and spend the one billion dollars on increasing our military might, because that's the only way the US is going to maintain its world power status in the near future. It sure won't be in the scientific field.
"Hi! It looks like you are watching Fear Factor. Would you like me to help you lower your IQ furthur?"
Given the way you misspelled further, I'd say you've probably watched your fair share of Fear Factor.
A Java database?
Isn't that a little bit like writing a Fast Fourier Transform in LISP?
There are lots of things that Java is perfectly suited for. Databases are not one of those things.