Black and white aren't colors. Or, to put it annother way, they are colors but neither is *a* color. If you mix all the colors of light you get white light, so white isn't *a* color, and if you remove all of those colors of light, you get black, so it isn't a color, either. When it comes to pigments, it's the other way around, since any "color" pigment absorbs all the other colors of light and reflects just the "color" that it is. (this is all a very simple and generalized explanation) If you mix all the different "colors" of pigment together, all colors of light get absorbed and you see what we call black. If no "colors" of pigment are present, no colors of light are absorbed, and you see what we call black. (and when your screen keeps turning blue, you see red, and then you see the light).
When it comes to pigmeat, it's a question of tomato-based versus vineger-based.
"...hardware such as those old 386s can be put to use." Yeah, right. What recent version of Linux will run on a 386 with maybe 8 Meg of RAM (but probably only 4) *and* fit on that under 528M hard drive that's the biggest thing the mobo's BIOS will take? I've got some old hardware I'd like re-use. Anybody know where I can pick up a copy of "Linux for BoatAnchors"?
"I basically read 10 pages out of "Linux: unleashed" and then it hit the garbage can.. " It may not have worked for you, but someone else might have been able toget some use out of it. Why clutter a landfill when you could have given it away? It wouldn't have cost you anything more than buying it and tossing it.
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You want a powerful anti-TV essay? Read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon".
The "essay" the above link leads to is a wonderful way to get a headache, I'd rather read something by Katz, or even Ballard's "Crash". Okay, maybe not "Crash".
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"...who burned the inventors of the past at the stake." Perhaps they would have been better treated if they had invented a better, more enjoyable past.
For those who know what "hacker" really means it's a very convenient word, but as far as the general public is concerned I'm afraid it's forever tainted and some new bit of slang is needed to replace it as a shortcut way of saying "knowledgeable and resourceful computer enthusiast". I'd suggest "computer ham", since hackers are to computers somewhat as amateur radio operators are to radio, but radio hams, having not so long ago endured being confused by the general public with those idiots with illegal Citizens Band rigs that screwed up everybody's television reception, would probably not be too receptive to that particular compliment, so I am open to sincere and well-intentioned suggestions.
Thanks for the link. I can now see it as being something on top of someone's head, but it still doesn't look like any kind of hat. Hats are supposed to be round or oval or elliptical or something like that, not rectangular. It looks like a canvas coal bucket.
I've looked at it in 640 x 480, 800 x600, and 1024 x 768. Can anyone tell me what that thing with the human right arm and the rectangular blue "handle" in front of the wall is?
Maybe they're experts at everything and that is what leads them to like Linux. I'm sure they think that they are. (like there's anybody at this site that doesn't think of themselves that way)
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"...fans and ventilators will still send vibrations through the metal of the space station." And that vibration will set the air in motion (if there's no air in the room where you're trying to sleep, noise and vibration aren't your biggest problem). This will produce sound that will work it's way through the cancellation system to come back as out of phase vibrations in the air which will hit the metal and vibrate it, cancelling out (quite possibly imperfectly)the original metal-borne vibrations. In an airless environment, this same method (phase-flipped, i.e., inverse, feedback)could be used with transducers attached directly to the structure of the station, some to sense vibration, others to be driven (just like loudspeakers)by the vibration-cancellation system.
Perhaps a lot more stories should be slashbox only, with decoys posted on the main page to keep the trolls distracted from the good stuff. What a pity the moderators are too busy stomping trolls and fighting flames to give my posts the extra points they so richly deserve:)
Sound is vibration, or rather vibrations that are air-coupled to your ear (or microphone) are sounds. So if you have a "phase flip the sound 180 degrees and play it back" system it should go a long way towards damping the vibrations as well. Unfortunately, one general system for the living area would tend to make conversations difficult if not impossible.
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For an interesting view of what is alleged to be the real reason why the U.S. went off of the gold standard (so that the rich could get richer moving in and out of the currency markets)see Taylor Caldwell's "Captains and Kings".
Please send, at no charge, a nice large assortment of 3Com NIC cards and any other interesting hardware on hand. What? Oh, okay, I'll pay the shipping, you tightwad.
For those who don't recognize sarcasm when they see it, refer to the above.
Actually the Germans were working with tape when the U.S. was still doing wire. Think BASF. The Roberts/Akai reel to reels trace their heritage to German machines captured and brought back to the states by a American officer. It was Bing Crosby's huge (for the time)check to Ampex that really got the ball rolling on post-WWII tape recording, though.
I believe that the system to which you refer used a "needle" (stylus) and groove only as a means of guiding the "tonearm" across the disc, but the signal was detected by the change in capacitance (to put it roughly, the change in the distance between two conductors--that distance being filled by an insulator, in this case, air)between the disc and the "pickup". This meant no actual contact, and therefore no wear and tear, on the part of the disc containing the information.
Phonograph stylii (styluses?) are not for digging dirt out of record grooves. The area of contact between the groove wall and the stylus is so extremely small that a gram or two of tracking force becomes thousands of pounds of pressure and the friction generates enough heat to melt the vinyl in the area of contact which means that a little speck of dust will get "welded" into the groove wall to serve as a "click" or "pop" forever thereafter.
"Sten and other activists - coalescing around a group called the OpenNET coalition - have long argued that the Federal Communications Commission should enforce open access. But FCC Chairman William E. Kennard has said new regulations might slow the deployment of high-speed Internet service. Moreover, Kennard points out that cable has competition for high-speed access from DSL, a service that runs over phone lines."
Where I live (Sprint, Time-Warner) they're fiercely competing to let the other one stick its neck out on this first. Maybe once they see the cable company gettting that extra $20 per subscriber each month, they'll finally get around to letting those of us using local ISP's to get DSL. On second thought, they'll probably tie it to using them as my ISP, put all the locals out of business, and then jack up the rates.
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When it comes to pigmeat, it's a question of tomato-based versus vineger-based.
Where do I join?
"...hardware such as those old 386s can be put to use."
Yeah, right. What recent version of Linux will run on a 386 with maybe 8 Meg of RAM (but probably only 4) *and* fit on that under 528M hard drive that's the biggest thing the mobo's BIOS will take? I've got some old hardware I'd like re-use. Anybody know where I can pick up a copy of "Linux for BoatAnchors"?
Preferably in small, unmarked bills, harder to trace that way.
If he's not a politician for sale, why isn't it algore2000.org?
"I basically read 10 pages out of "Linux: unleashed" and then it hit the garbage can.. "
It may not have worked for you, but someone else might have been able toget some use out of it. Why clutter a landfill when you could have given it away? It wouldn't have cost you anything more than buying it and tossing it.
The "essay" the above link leads to is a wonderful way to get a headache, I'd rather read something by Katz, or even Ballard's "Crash". Okay, maybe not "Crash".
"...who burned the inventors of the past at the stake."
Perhaps they would have been better treated if they had invented a better, more enjoyable past.
Jon who?
I'd say the hazards await the victims of those who forget the church's purpose.
Help, I upgraded my processor and it erased the UVPROM my BIOS was on.
For those who know what "hacker" really means it's a very convenient word, but as far as the general public is concerned I'm afraid it's forever tainted and some new bit of slang is needed to replace it as a shortcut way of saying "knowledgeable and resourceful computer enthusiast". I'd suggest "computer ham", since hackers are to computers somewhat as amateur radio operators are to radio, but radio hams, having not so long ago endured being confused by the general public with those idiots with illegal Citizens Band rigs that screwed up everybody's television reception, would probably not be too receptive to that particular compliment, so I am open to sincere and well-intentioned suggestions.
Thanks for the link. I can now see it as being something on top of someone's head, but it still doesn't look like any kind of hat. Hats are supposed to be round or oval or elliptical or something like that, not rectangular. It looks like a canvas coal bucket.
I've looked at it in 640 x 480, 800 x600, and 1024 x 768. Can anyone tell me what that thing with the human right arm and the rectangular blue "handle" in front of the wall is?
Maybe they're experts at everything and that is what leads them to like Linux. I'm sure they think that they are. (like there's anybody at this site that doesn't think of themselves that way)
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And that vibration will set the air in motion (if there's no air in the room where you're trying to sleep, noise and vibration aren't your biggest problem). This will produce sound that will work it's way through the cancellation system to come back as out of phase vibrations in the air which will hit the metal and vibrate it, cancelling out (quite possibly imperfectly)the original metal-borne vibrations.
In an airless environment, this same method (phase-flipped, i.e., inverse, feedback)could be used with transducers attached directly to the structure of the station, some to sense vibration, others to be driven (just like loudspeakers)by the vibration-cancellation system.
Perhaps a lot more stories should be slashbox only, with decoys posted on the main page to keep the trolls distracted from the good stuff. What a pity the moderators are too busy stomping trolls and fighting flames to give my posts the extra points they so richly deserve :)
Was this story ever posted on Slashdot's main page?
For an interesting view of what is alleged to be the real reason why the U.S. went off of the gold standard (so that the rich could get richer moving in and out of the currency markets)see Taylor Caldwell's "Captains and Kings".
For those who don't recognize sarcasm when they see it, refer to the above.
Actually the Germans were working with tape when the U.S. was still doing wire. Think BASF. The Roberts/Akai reel to reels trace their heritage to German machines captured and brought back to the states by a American officer. It was Bing Crosby's huge (for the time)check to Ampex that really got the ball rolling on post-WWII tape recording, though.
I believe that the system to which you refer used a "needle" (stylus) and groove only as a means of guiding the "tonearm" across the disc, but the signal was detected by the change in capacitance (to put it roughly, the change in the distance between two conductors--that distance being filled by an insulator, in this case, air)between the disc and the "pickup". This meant no actual contact, and therefore no wear and tear, on the part of the disc containing the information.
Phonograph stylii (styluses?) are not for digging dirt out of record grooves. The area of contact between the groove wall and the stylus is so extremely small that a gram or two of tracking force becomes thousands of pounds of pressure and the friction generates enough heat to melt the vinyl in the area of contact which means that a little speck of dust will get "welded" into the groove wall to serve as a "click" or "pop" forever thereafter.
enforce open access. But FCC Chairman William E. Kennard has said new regulations might slow the deployment of high-speed Internet service. Moreover,
Kennard points out that cable has competition for high-speed access from DSL, a service that runs over phone lines."
Where I live (Sprint, Time-Warner) they're fiercely competing to let the other one stick its neck out on this first. Maybe once they see the cable company gettting that extra $20 per subscriber each month, they'll finally get around to letting those of us using local ISP's to get DSL. On second thought, they'll probably tie it to using them as my ISP, put all the locals out of business, and then jack up the rates.
Now *that* comment should be moderated up as insightful. But I only get moderator when I don't want it.