cell phones are unrelated to this discussion. The lowest frequency they use is around 800Mhz, and thi highest used by access BPL is around 100. The 2nd harmonic will be fairly low-level.
Dude (and all others using amateur radio for backcountry emergency contingency)... two words - "wilderness protocol". 146.520Mhz, FM, simplex, from the top of the hour to 5 after, 7AM to 10PM localtime. That's when to listen for distress calls (of course, any time is ok), and that's the time to call when you're most likely to be heard. Out here in the Rockies, hams try to listen at the right times when they're hiking, so they can relay or directly help. Some with homes in wilderness areas are set up for LitZ (long tone zero) detection, so you can call off-time (some need it all time), so if you don't get an answer, try holding down the "0" key (if you have DTMF) for a few seconds, then repeating your call. In the unlikely event that you're a ham without 2M fm capability, try 446 simplex or 52.525 simplex, same way.
What do you want to do with it? If you want local conversations - maybe 70 mile radius range, a 2 meter rig using a good local repeater will put you in touch with the locals, maybe let you use IRLP for worldwide communications (not full coverage, but spots all over the world). Add 70cm (dual-banders are commonly insignificantly more than a single-bander) and you can operate remote bases, if anyone is offering one locally. If you want to be able to dabble in everything the service can do, go for one of the "do-all" rigs. I personally use a Yaesu FT-817, which gives me all bands up to 70cm except for 1-1/4 meters, all modes, but with a maximum output power of 5W. It lets me go battery power, and it was cheap for the coverage - USD650, and I heard they were selling them for USD500 at the Dayton HamVention this year. If you don't want to operate portable, you might prefer an FT-100, or the ICOM equivalent, the IC-706mkIIg, both 100W rigs with the capability of the FT-817.
That said, you don't really know whether you will actually enjoy it (don't discount the possibility, the world is riddled with never-active hams). Most of us would like for everybody to be in the hobby.
<DIGRESSION> That was actually a theme of my senior comprehensive exams (required to graduate from Wabash). I was asked what I would do if I could do one thing for the world. My answer was to get as many people as possible active as hams in all countries, on the grounds that it is hard to go to war against someone you know personally. The internet actually realizes a small part of that vision, but it affords few opportunities for meeting someone you wouldn't have already sought out on your own. Hell, mostly now it's people emailing other people they already now... that, and looking at pr0n.</DIGRESSION> Seek out your local club. You need to find out when/where the exams are anyway. Let it be known that you're wanting to check it out, but are leery of committing large cash against an unknown. Chances are that if you do in fact follow up, learn, and get the license, someone will be able to loan you an HT to get on the repeater, maybe even an HF rig. Sometimes you'll get used to, and fall in love with, the rig, and want to buy it off the guy who lent it to you, and sometimes, that's part of what he's hoping for. Regardless, the big hope is to create another ham. Everyone wants you to succeed. Even if nobody has something to lend, the local club probably has a station. Dues are usually in the USD20/y range, and include access to whatever the club has - a station, autopatch on the repeater (it's cool to call somebody on the phone when nobody else can get a signal on their cell phones), remote base access... I don't know what's offered in your area.
Once you find your niche (and if you don't decide it's all bogus), you can start looking for the sort of equipment you want to own (or build), AND you'll know what you're looking for.
If you can't connect with a local community, just get a do-all rig and start fucking around.
Umm... Ok, if only appliance operators count, then you're right. On the other hand, you can build and operate station for less than USD20 (I am counting the crystal). I admit, I use mostly my FT-817, as I like to have all frequencies and modes at my fingertips, but I love the challenge of working minimalist.
Live with my wife and two kids, who, despite resembling me strongly, are very good looking... The kids, not the wife. She's good looking too, but not on the order of our products.
A: I'm guessing it wasn't illegal, just unpopular among the mindless lemmings like you.
B: That's just the kind of language I'd expect from an AC. Look at my uid, look it up at the FCC, and you can drive right up to my house... In fact, please do, and try to break in, while you're at it.
Excellent. And then, we can ask people to build their own HF radios, or maybe ask manufacturers to design and build them, then wait for people to buy them, then wait for them to learn to use them, then wait for them to build decent antenna systems, then wait for them to form networks for the purpose of passing information. 11 years after they shoot down the satellites, we'll be good to go, buffoon.
If their antenna were tall enough would they not escape the interference?
That's the problem. Localized interference is a fact of life, and one all services deal with. In America, the relevant set of regulations is "Part 15", a section designed to govern and allow low power, non-licensed users of spectrum. 802.11 is a prime example for this group. Among others are the little 49Mhz walkie talkies, wireless microphones that transmit to an FM radio, AM transmitter kits, garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless (as opposed to "wireless"... is a cord not a wire? Anyway...), RF satellite remote controls, X10 video... Ok, that's enough examples. All of these are required to avoid interfering with licensed services ("Primary and the multitudinous "Secondary" allocations), and to accept any interference recieved from the licensed services, so that the users are aware that they are in some sort of conflict with the rightful users of the spectrum. Part of this involves strict limits on electrical field strength created by the unlicensed device. The power companies want to have these limits lifted, because the losses from and reception of outside interference to their transmission lines are so high that the system won't work if it is held to a reasonable power level. Ethernet on twisted pairs runs at extremely low power, using the same frequencies the power companies intend to usurp. It's on fairly-evenly-spaced conductors, and stays there, and the twist helps it not to act as an antenna. While my network creates a lot of hash in my shack, 20 feet away, I can't hear it. Power lines are fairly efficient transmission lines at 60 Hz. At 100MHz, they are extremely good antennae, yet the power companies want to use them for transmission lines.
The example most meaningful to me relates to the common moronic complaint about getting out of the way for modernity... Astronomy. Many are afraid of the dark, and some refuse to face their fears,
ruining the night for everyone and everything. The BPL controversy differs from this, though, in that light does in fact have some benefits for the individuals it shines on.
A better example might be restricting open-source software on the grounds that most people use commercial software anyway (see SCO). Take away the rights of the minority in deference to the majority. Let's put all ways of communicating over long distances in the hands of the corporations. That way, when the governments who want to control who knows what, and when, need something stopped, they have one-stop shopping, and when they want something said, that's the only thing that gets heard. While we're at it, let's repeal the second ammendment to the US constitution, turning the citizens of the United States of America into "subjects", just like...(flamebait filter encountered, 92 country-long list deleted).
Besides... BPL will be only another choice among the existing broadband solutions, and only in the same areas where those solutions are already available anyway. It's not like everybody who has power will have broadband available. This is a cost-intensive solution, and works only over very short ranges, requiring repeaters, amplifiers, cross-voltage shunts, and other things to work around the unsuitability of this infrastructure for this purpose.
My dad, out in rural east-central Indiana, is not going to finally have broadband available because of this. They're going to deploy it in the same places already served by DSL, cablemodem, and WISPs. They don't want to bring broadband to all. They want a piece of the high-yield pie. Any statement to the contrary is a lie, or at best, proof of ignorance. On the other hand, I would almost certainly be able to use this, as I am in an area that grew very quickly, so the phone company ran one line for about every 16 houses and multiplexed us into "local subscriber loops". There are still many slots on those loops available, so ord
That sounds like something my 6-year-old daughter would think. Not the part about the middle finger, but about the agency required to enforce a law being the entity that made the law. The FCC does have some leeway in the way they right specific regulations, but they work under laws passed enacted by the legislature.
Analog cellular is blocked in US receivers because of the "Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986". First, some drug dealers were caught because they made plans over the radio, somehow imagining that these radio sets were in fact secure wired phones. They argued in court the patently absurd idea that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Of course, they lost (except in the 9th court of appeals, of course). The rest of the stupid people thought that they should have privacy while speaking out loud in public, and rather than being mindful of what they say in public, they wanted, and got, a law making it illegal to hear what a person is saying, unless specifically addressed.
Mind, I don't care what people are talking about. I just think it's absurd that we are legally required to pretend that they aren't talking. What's next, a law barring turning your gaze at right angles to the street, so as to avoid noticing what people are doing in front of their picture windows?
Anyway, we're in agreement as to the absurdity of the law. Just don't go blaming the cops for the laws.
Questions, what is spec. on audio/video plug
Duh! Line-level audio, NTSC BBV. Data jack is probably TTL, but it doesn't matter, as the only function enabled is cloning. No CAT system.
To someone like you, the concept of collateral damage is alien. You would intentionally attack civilians, and can't imagine agonizing over the balance between cleaning up the bad guys and unavoidably hurting some of the innocent people the bad guys are hiding behind.
Who in WWII, to make it harder for defending troops to deploy, targeted civilian towns to create mass panicked exodus and clog the roads.
Who subjugated the Vietnamese and so brutalized them that a communist dictator could gather loyalty?
Who attacked the defenseless Chinese (and the rest of eastern Asia), kidnapped women for prostitution (comfort women), and committed such unspeakable atrocities as binding the knees of women in labor so that they and their babies died in agony.
Who cleaned up (or in one case, tried and failed) these messes?
Even when it's unpleasant and thankless, if not us, who? If not now, when? You little pissants can afford to pretend that evil people are just misunderstood, and we're using them as an excuse to take over the world. You can keep up the moral masturbation because we'll take care of the problem.
I highly recommend C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra" (and "Out of the Silent Planet", and "That Hideous Strength", and "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", etc.). One of these days, all countries will be good and strong, and we'll all understand that "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".
To someone like you, the concept of collateral damage is alien. You would intentionally attack civilians, and can't imagine agonizing over the balance between cleaning up the bad guys and unavoidably hurting some of the innocent people the bad guys are hiding behind.
Who in WWII, to make it harder for defending troops to deploy, targeted civilian towns to create mass panicked exodus and clog the roads.
Who subjugated the Vietnamese and so brutalized them that a communist dictator could gather loyalty?
Who attacked the defenseless Chinese (and the rest of eastern Asia), kidnapped women for prostitution (comfort women), and committed such unspeakable atrocities as binding the knees of women in labor so that they and their babies died in agony.
Who cleaned up (or in one case, tried and failed) these messes?
Even when it's unpleasant and thankless, if not us, who? If not now, when? You little pissants can afford to pretend that evil people are just misunderstood, and we're using them as an excuse to take over the world. You can keep up the moral masturbation because we'll take care of the problem.
I highly recommend C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra" (and "Out of the Silent Planet", and "That Hideous Strength", and "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", etc.). One of these days, all countries will be good and strong, and we'll all understand that "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".
Kent state, 4 killed, by accident. I agree that it was stupid to have the guard armed with rifles. Shotbags would have been more than sufficient. Those guard boys were scared, and didn't know what to expect. If you think the deaths were intentional, I'm surprised you have enough brain capacity to breathe.
Iraq? Continual sneak attacks by people who want to get back to their former occupation as bullies, then more of the Baathists hiding among the crowd shooting, or sometimes even just setting off firecrackers, with our soldiers never knowing which? If we wanted to kill them all, we would, and could, do so, and we could dramatically cut our own casualties in the process.
Go ahead and envy/hate us. We'll still save the world, even with you in it.
I'm borderline autistic, didn't know anyone my own age until kindergarten, and graduated from a rural high school in the early 1980s. Absolute conformity was so highly-valued that I was spanked on a kindergarten field drip for refusing to eat a hot dog with mustard on it. I remember that I turned the bun inside out and used it to wipe the dog off, ate the dog, and wadded the bun up in the napkin. The principal had come along on the trip, and when I threw my napkin into the trash, he pulled it back out and showed the class that I hadn't eaten the bun, then spanked me.
I used to get detention for getting hit by the big kids, on the grounds that since it happened so often, I must be doing something to provoke it. In first grade, I asked my father for permission to carry a pistol, because I was unable to defend myself against overwhelming force, and the bus driver told me to handle it myself. At least the schedule during the school day exposed me to only those one year ahead and behind, so I could at least fight back.
If he's really that awkward, he should learn to avoid all social interaction, defend himself when necessary, and above all, not lose it over good-natured teasing.
I believe the whole thing behind not using VNC is the network lag.
From the article: Instead of using a switch box to control the machines, you use your TCP/IP connection.
Anything else stupid you'd like to say?
1 mouse 1 screen 10 pcs
Only if you leave the monitors off the other 10 machines, which you CAN do with VNC. The only thing missing is switching systems by moving the mouse past the edge of the screen. Since they're not all running the same program in some cooperative, multi-screen-interactive way, I'd expect he'd be happier not having input suddenly jump when he bumps the mouse unintentionally.
Since you're the only one to mention brain lube, you get the follow-up. NOTE: This is acceptable only when working away from supervision
Keep the beer handy and get started. Think about it, try to do it. If it just comes crapping out, finish it and turn it in. If it doesn't come, keep working, but start drinking. Keep trying to be logical. It may get frustrating, but keep thinking about the whole problem and trying to write solutions. At some point, you'll start making progress or be forced to temporarily give up (to go sleep it off). If you're moving ahead, or at least think you are, keep going as long as you can, then go sleep it off.
After the drunk, go back into either what you've done, or the problem you haven't yet touched. If you did nothing, you're likely to have the problem deeply ingrained in you mind, and either can start an iterative process through it, or go do something else for a while. There's nothing like heavy concentration all the way to incoherence to expand your perspective on a problem, and if you are capable of solving it, you will probably have the solution in a day or so. If you are in the much more likely situation of having written a bunch of incoherent crap the night before, go back through it and correct it. Some things will be on the right track but need fixing, and you'll see what's wrong and fix it. Some things will be completely wrong, and you'll see why they are wrong, and what the right solution is.
I certainly don't suggest this approach for the "coder". If you're just implementing somebody elses pseudocode, it's no different from digging a ditch. Keep at it, take breaks when you're too tired to go on, do whatever you need to to get into the frame of mind.
Oh, and if you're forced to work under supervision, just go ahead and beat yourself over the head with the problem, get yelled at for not doing anything, go home, and go to sleep. If the problem is deeply-enough engrained in your mind, you'll probably dream the solution. I was once surprised to awaken with 85 lines of code ready to type and a few modifications to apply, all verbatim and correct. I walked in, did the changes, it compiled, and the job was done. That told me I was taking that job way too seriously.
people will hate him too
That brings me to the point I wanted to make. Until he sued, I didn't think badly of him. He got access to a camera and wanted to see if his moves were as smooth as he imagined. Frankly, they weren't completely clumsy.
The whole point of the story was that we've all done things that aren't "cool", and it's funny to see someone else acting silly. Now, the point is that he's a pussy who can't laugh at himself. Let the taunting begin.
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Please note the difference between "recruiting" and "coordinating", then rethink your statement.
cell phones are unrelated to this discussion. The lowest frequency they use is around 800Mhz, and thi highest used by access BPL is around 100. The 2nd harmonic will be fairly low-level.
Dude (and all others using amateur radio for backcountry emergency contingency)... two words - "wilderness protocol". 146.520Mhz, FM, simplex, from the top of the hour to 5 after, 7AM to 10PM localtime. That's when to listen for distress calls (of course, any time is ok), and that's the time to call when you're most likely to be heard. Out here in the Rockies, hams try to listen at the right times when they're hiking, so they can relay or directly help. Some with homes in wilderness areas are set up for LitZ (long tone zero) detection, so you can call off-time (some need it all time), so if you don't get an answer, try holding down the "0" key (if you have DTMF) for a few seconds, then repeating your call. In the unlikely event that you're a ham without 2M fm capability, try 446 simplex or 52.525 simplex, same way.
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What do you want to do with it? If you want local conversations - maybe 70 mile radius range, a 2 meter rig using a good local repeater will put you in touch with the locals, maybe let you use IRLP for worldwide communications (not full coverage, but spots all over the world). Add 70cm (dual-banders are commonly insignificantly more than a single-bander) and you can operate remote bases, if anyone is offering one locally. If you want to be able to dabble in everything the service can do, go for one of the "do-all" rigs. I personally use a Yaesu FT-817, which gives me all bands up to 70cm except for 1-1/4 meters, all modes, but with a maximum output power of 5W. It lets me go battery power, and it was cheap for the coverage - USD650, and I heard they were selling them for USD500 at the Dayton HamVention this year. If you don't want to operate portable, you might prefer an FT-100, or the ICOM equivalent, the IC-706mkIIg, both 100W rigs with the capability of the FT-817.
That said, you don't really know whether you will actually enjoy it (don't discount the possibility, the world is riddled with never-active hams). Most of us would like for everybody to be in the hobby. <DIGRESSION> That was actually a theme of my senior comprehensive exams (required to graduate from Wabash). I was asked what I would do if I could do one thing for the world. My answer was to get as many people as possible active as hams in all countries, on the grounds that it is hard to go to war against someone you know personally. The internet actually realizes a small part of that vision, but it affords few opportunities for meeting someone you wouldn't have already sought out on your own. Hell, mostly now it's people emailing other people they already now... that, and looking at pr0n.</DIGRESSION> Seek out your local club. You need to find out when/where the exams are anyway. Let it be known that you're wanting to check it out, but are leery of committing large cash against an unknown. Chances are that if you do in fact follow up, learn, and get the license, someone will be able to loan you an HT to get on the repeater, maybe even an HF rig. Sometimes you'll get used to, and fall in love with, the rig, and want to buy it off the guy who lent it to you, and sometimes, that's part of what he's hoping for. Regardless, the big hope is to create another ham. Everyone wants you to succeed. Even if nobody has something to lend, the local club probably has a station. Dues are usually in the USD20/y range, and include access to whatever the club has - a station, autopatch on the repeater (it's cool to call somebody on the phone when nobody else can get a signal on their cell phones), remote base access... I don't know what's offered in your area.
Once you find your niche (and if you don't decide it's all bogus), you can start looking for the sort of equipment you want to own (or build), AND you'll know what you're looking for.
If you can't connect with a local community, just get a do-all rig and start fucking around.
Umm... Ok, if only appliance operators count, then you're right. On the other hand, you can build and operate station for less than USD20 (I am counting the crystal). I admit, I use mostly my FT-817, as I like to have all frequencies and modes at my fingertips, but I love the challenge of working minimalist.
A: I'm guessing it wasn't illegal, just unpopular among the mindless lemmings like you.
B: That's just the kind of language I'd expect from an AC. Look at my uid, look it up at the FCC, and you can drive right up to my house... In fact, please do, and try to break in, while you're at it.
Am I wrong?
No. You meant that as a pro-ham comment, right? Or do you prefer to force everyone to communicate over media owned by large corporations?
That's "Spiced ham", commonly rendered as "SPAM".
An $80 qrp rig that can work the world is a hobby for elitists, and sat phones are for the masses? Really?
You insensitive clod! You should have been carrying (and paying for) a satellite phone.
Excellent. And then, we can ask people to build their own HF radios, or maybe ask manufacturers to design and build them, then wait for people to buy them, then wait for them to learn to use them, then wait for them to build decent antenna systems, then wait for them to form networks for the purpose of passing information. 11 years after they shoot down the satellites, we'll be good to go, buffoon.
If their antenna were tall enough would they not escape the interference?
That's the problem. Localized interference is a fact of life, and one all services deal with. In America, the relevant set of regulations is "Part 15", a section designed to govern and allow low power, non-licensed users of spectrum. 802.11 is a prime example for this group. Among others are the little 49Mhz walkie talkies, wireless microphones that transmit to an FM radio, AM transmitter kits, garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless (as opposed to "wireless"... is a cord not a wire? Anyway...), RF satellite remote controls, X10 video... Ok, that's enough examples. All of these are required to avoid interfering with licensed services ("Primary and the multitudinous "Secondary" allocations), and to accept any interference recieved from the licensed services, so that the users are aware that they are in some sort of conflict with the rightful users of the spectrum. Part of this involves strict limits on electrical field strength created by the unlicensed device. The power companies want to have these limits lifted, because the losses from and reception of outside interference to their transmission lines are so high that the system won't work if it is held to a reasonable power level. Ethernet on twisted pairs runs at extremely low power, using the same frequencies the power companies intend to usurp. It's on fairly-evenly-spaced conductors, and stays there, and the twist helps it not to act as an antenna. While my network creates a lot of hash in my shack, 20 feet away, I can't hear it. Power lines are fairly efficient transmission lines at 60 Hz. At 100MHz, they are extremely good antennae, yet the power companies want to use them for transmission lines.
The example most meaningful to me relates to the common moronic complaint about getting out of the way for modernity... Astronomy. Many are afraid of the dark, and some refuse to face their fears, ruining the night for everyone and everything. The BPL controversy differs from this, though, in that light does in fact have some benefits for the individuals it shines on.
A better example might be restricting open-source software on the grounds that most people use commercial software anyway (see SCO). Take away the rights of the minority in deference to the majority. Let's put all ways of communicating over long distances in the hands of the corporations. That way, when the governments who want to control who knows what, and when, need something stopped, they have one-stop shopping, and when they want something said, that's the only thing that gets heard. While we're at it, let's repeal the second ammendment to the US constitution, turning the citizens of the United States of America into "subjects", just like...(flamebait filter encountered, 92 country-long list deleted).
Besides... BPL will be only another choice among the existing broadband solutions, and only in the same areas where those solutions are already available anyway. It's not like everybody who has power will have broadband available. This is a cost-intensive solution, and works only over very short ranges, requiring repeaters, amplifiers, cross-voltage shunts, and other things to work around the unsuitability of this infrastructure for this purpose.
My dad, out in rural east-central Indiana, is not going to finally have broadband available because of this. They're going to deploy it in the same places already served by DSL, cablemodem, and WISPs. They don't want to bring broadband to all. They want a piece of the high-yield pie. Any statement to the contrary is a lie, or at best, proof of ignorance. On the other hand, I would almost certainly be able to use this, as I am in an area that grew very quickly, so the phone company ran one line for about every 16 houses and multiplexed us into "local subscriber loops". There are still many slots on those loops available, so ord
That sounds like something my 6-year-old daughter would think. Not the part about the middle finger, but about the agency required to enforce a law being the entity that made the law. The FCC does have some leeway in the way they right specific regulations, but they work under laws passed enacted by the legislature.
Analog cellular is blocked in US receivers because of the "Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986". First, some drug dealers were caught because they made plans over the radio, somehow imagining that these radio sets were in fact secure wired phones. They argued in court the patently absurd idea that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Of course, they lost (except in the 9th court of appeals, of course). The rest of the stupid people thought that they should have privacy while speaking out loud in public, and rather than being mindful of what they say in public, they wanted, and got, a law making it illegal to hear what a person is saying, unless specifically addressed.
Mind, I don't care what people are talking about. I just think it's absurd that we are legally required to pretend that they aren't talking. What's next, a law barring turning your gaze at right angles to the street, so as to avoid noticing what people are doing in front of their picture windows?
Anyway, we're in agreement as to the absurdity of the law. Just don't go blaming the cops for the laws.
Questions, what is spec. on audio/video plug
Duh! Line-level audio, NTSC BBV. Data jack is probably TTL, but it doesn't matter, as the only function enabled is cloning. No CAT system.
Michael Lutz
Don't you mean "Lionel Hutz"?
How embarassing!
To someone like you, the concept of collateral damage is alien. You would intentionally attack civilians, and can't imagine agonizing over the balance between cleaning up the bad guys and unavoidably hurting some of the innocent people the bad guys are hiding behind.
Who in WWII, to make it harder for defending troops to deploy, targeted civilian towns to create mass panicked exodus and clog the roads.
Who subjugated the Vietnamese and so brutalized them that a communist dictator could gather loyalty?
Who attacked the defenseless Chinese (and the rest of eastern Asia), kidnapped women for prostitution (comfort women), and committed such unspeakable atrocities as binding the knees of women in labor so that they and their babies died in agony.
Who cleaned up (or in one case, tried and failed) these messes?
Even when it's unpleasant and thankless, if not us, who? If not now, when? You little pissants can afford to pretend that evil people are just misunderstood, and we're using them as an excuse to take over the world. You can keep up the moral masturbation because we'll take care of the problem.
I highly recommend C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra" (and "Out of the Silent Planet", and "That Hideous Strength", and "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", etc.). One of these days, all countries will be good and strong, and we'll all understand that "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".
To someone like you, the concept of collateral damage is alien. You would intentionally attack civilians, and can't imagine agonizing over the balance between cleaning up the bad guys and unavoidably hurting some of the innocent people the bad guys are hiding behind.
Who in WWII, to make it harder for defending troops to deploy, targeted civilian towns to create mass panicked exodus and clog the roads.
Who subjugated the Vietnamese and so brutalized them that a communist dictator could gather loyalty?
Who attacked the defenseless Chinese (and the rest of eastern Asia), kidnapped women for prostitution (comfort women), and committed such unspeakable atrocities as binding the knees of women in labor so that they and their babies died in agony.
Who cleaned up (or in one case, tried and failed) these messes?
Even when it's unpleasant and thankless, if not us, who? If not now, when? You little pissants can afford to pretend that evil people are just misunderstood, and we're using them as an excuse to take over the world. You can keep up the moral masturbation because we'll take care of the problem.
I highly recommend C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra" (and "Out of the Silent Planet", and "That Hideous Strength", and "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", etc.). One of these days, all countries will be good and strong, and we'll all understand that "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".
Kent state, 4 killed, by accident. I agree that it was stupid to have the guard armed with rifles. Shotbags would have been more than sufficient. Those guard boys were scared, and didn't know what to expect. If you think the deaths were intentional, I'm surprised you have enough brain capacity to breathe.
Iraq? Continual sneak attacks by people who want to get back to their former occupation as bullies, then more of the Baathists hiding among the crowd shooting, or sometimes even just setting off firecrackers, with our soldiers never knowing which? If we wanted to kill them all, we would, and could, do so, and we could dramatically cut our own casualties in the process.
Go ahead and envy/hate us. We'll still save the world, even with you in it.
I'm borderline autistic, didn't know anyone my own age until kindergarten, and graduated from a rural high school in the early 1980s. Absolute conformity was so highly-valued that I was spanked on a kindergarten field drip for refusing to eat a hot dog with mustard on it. I remember that I turned the bun inside out and used it to wipe the dog off, ate the dog, and wadded the bun up in the napkin. The principal had come along on the trip, and when I threw my napkin into the trash, he pulled it back out and showed the class that I hadn't eaten the bun, then spanked me.
I used to get detention for getting hit by the big kids, on the grounds that since it happened so often, I must be doing something to provoke it. In first grade, I asked my father for permission to carry a pistol, because I was unable to defend myself against overwhelming force, and the bus driver told me to handle it myself. At least the schedule during the school day exposed me to only those one year ahead and behind, so I could at least fight back.
If he's really that awkward, he should learn to avoid all social interaction, defend himself when necessary, and above all, not lose it over good-natured teasing.
I believe the whole thing behind not using VNC is the network lag.
From the article:
Instead of using a switch box to control the machines, you use your TCP/IP connection.
Anything else stupid you'd like to say?
1 mouse 1 screen 10 pcs
Only if you leave the monitors off the other 10 machines, which you CAN do with VNC. The only thing missing is switching systems by moving the mouse past the edge of the screen. Since they're not all running the same program in some cooperative, multi-screen-interactive way, I'd expect he'd be happier not having input suddenly jump when he bumps the mouse unintentionally.
Since you're the only one to mention brain lube, you get the follow-up.
NOTE: This is acceptable only when working away from supervision
Keep the beer handy and get started. Think about it, try to do it. If it just comes crapping out, finish it and turn it in. If it doesn't come, keep working, but start drinking. Keep trying to be logical. It may get frustrating, but keep thinking about the whole problem and trying to write solutions. At some point, you'll start making progress or be forced to temporarily give up (to go sleep it off). If you're moving ahead, or at least think you are, keep going as long as you can, then go sleep it off.
After the drunk, go back into either what you've done, or the problem you haven't yet touched. If you did nothing, you're likely to have the problem deeply ingrained in you mind, and either can start an iterative process through it, or go do something else for a while. There's nothing like heavy concentration all the way to incoherence to expand your perspective on a problem, and if you are capable of solving it, you will probably have the solution in a day or so. If you are in the much more likely situation of having written a bunch of incoherent crap the night before, go back through it and correct it. Some things will be on the right track but need fixing, and you'll see what's wrong and fix it. Some things will be completely wrong, and you'll see why they are wrong, and what the right solution is.
I certainly don't suggest this approach for the "coder". If you're just implementing somebody elses pseudocode, it's no different from digging a ditch. Keep at it, take breaks when you're too tired to go on, do whatever you need to to get into the frame of mind.
Oh, and if you're forced to work under supervision, just go ahead and beat yourself over the head with the problem, get yelled at for not doing anything, go home, and go to sleep. If the problem is deeply-enough engrained in your mind, you'll probably dream the solution. I was once surprised to awaken with 85 lines of code ready to type and a few modifications to apply, all verbatim and correct. I walked in, did the changes, it compiled, and the job was done. That told me I was taking that job way too seriously.
people will hate him too
That brings me to the point I wanted to make. Until he sued, I didn't think badly of him. He got access to a camera and wanted to see if his moves were as smooth as he imagined. Frankly, they weren't completely clumsy.
The whole point of the story was that we've all done things that aren't "cool", and it's funny to see someone else acting silly. Now, the point is that he's a pussy who can't laugh at himself. Let the taunting begin.