"I've thought about shortening the cables too, but I'm sure I'd screw it up in some way. So many of the wall warts in my house have about a 1.5 metre cable and end up making a mess on my desk, but I only really need about 20cm."
Just fold up the wire until the remaining length is what you need, then put a rubber band around the folded-up part.
But then I read enough to see that this had nothing to do with Autocad, the.dxf file format, or anything that would Especially Good to be more open-source-like.
Nothing to see here folks, move along now... Surely there's a Lego article you want to read and comment on...
Just out of interest, what are some alternatives? I really don't know.
I looked around the Web a couple years ago for just that, and found Intellicad http://www.intellicad.org/, more specifically, Cadopia's version http://www.cadopia.com/. After a 30-day trial version, they extorted $150 from me for the basic version 4.0 (much cheaper than the "Autocad Lite" or whatever it's called). I've used earlier versions of Autocad, and found Intellicad to be very compatible and easier to use. OTOH I don't do a whole lot of cad, so if you do, take this micro-review with a grain of salt.
No matter what.dwg/Autocad compatible software you get, it will be perhaps a year or two behind Autocad's latest features and.dwg formats. If you're sure you don't have to read others'.dwg files from the latest versions of Autocad, you're in a much better position to use 'something else', but I suspect a whole lot of people have to read others' files which could include the latest formats.
It claims to help people stop drinking, but what it really seems to offer is religious conversion (despite the "AA is spiritual, not religious" slogan/claim), and it blames the many who continue to drink destructively for their own drinking, saying it's because they "didn't work The Program." This could be a part of the "ooga booga" topic someone else posted.
From the article: "AA: America's Stealth Religion" on Beliefnet, 12-step members make up about 10 percent of the US population. Based on their fervent belief and the way I've seen them post on Oprah's board (and seeing non-AA supportive posts get deleted there), I expect flames for even daring to ask this question.
Penn and Teller did an episode of their excellent Showtime show "Bullshit!" on steppism, and they've done some hard-hitting episodes on other controversial topics, but I get the feeling that Mythbusters will stick to the "Don't put a JATO pack on the back of a car" type of show. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but ideas can be more powerful and dangerous to society than high explosives, and such things should be discussed from all sides.
Microsoft has a history of several standards, such as the 'external' one and the 'internal' one for DOS functions. There was Microsoft's printer buffer program or whatever it was called under MS-DOS (you run it to print a file, it "terminates and stays resident" with the resident portion printing the file, while you got a command prompt and could run another program, sort of like Unix) that made undocumented OS calls.
You can trust Microsoft to be "innovative" with file formats "to give our custumers what they demamd."
You want unmaintainable code? I have three letters for you - APL! Problem solved.
I'm not so sure. Much APL code certainly is very dense (because of lots of powerful one-greek-character operators), but I've seen lots of C code (and not just from the Obfuscation Contest) that's harder to read and understand.
It's often easier to rewrite a long line of APL code (or a large single-line APL program) than to modify it, but as far as managers may need to know, that's maintenance.
Here's a simple way to increase your lifespan. Eat less. In fact, halve the amount of food you eat.
As another poster said, when doing caloric reduction you still need as much vitamins and minerals as when eating a "normal" amount of calories, and so you need to be very selective about what you eat to get them all (vitamin supplements and such help, but don't have everything that some foods have).
Some 4 or 5 years ago I was into this midi making thing a lot. Basicaly, I took a song and rewriten it in notes to a midi file by listening to it (since there's no other way to do so). It requires A LOT of work, since there is no software that could do that automaticaly. There was a huge community and lots of websites where we shared those midi files with other people and everything was very lovely until those websites started closing down... I had a website as well. I DID NOT SELL those midi files or profit from them in any way, and people who downloaded them were absolute enthusiasts who just wanted to have the notes of their favorite song or sing a karaoke with friends at some party and I could't see how this violates any law or something. But anyhow, I got this angry letter and had to close down. This letter said that apparently you can only sell those midis and pay some part of the profit to the copyright owner,
The letter is wrong on one point: You DO have to pay a certain amount for each copy that is downloaded, BUT it doesn't matter whether you sell them or give them away.
which is in my oppinion plain wrong.
If you believe that strongly enough to put your money where your mouth is, hire a lawyer.
People don't download midis instead of buying a CD, artists DO NOT lose any profit (they may even gain), you just get some extra stuff (like notes, lyrics, ability to play this song on your midikeyboard...), which, in fact, you make yourself and just share with others. It's like using a plot from a movie in your school play, you don't get charged for that do you?
These arguments sound similar to arguments for "sharing" MP3's. Whether the original artists gain or lose money isn't the point. Whether the copyright laws are being followed IS the point.
Want to change the copyright laws? Do what Disney did....
And it's been around for a few decades. LPC was specifically designed for speech, and can compress intelligible (for low expectations intelligible - it's not very nice sounding) speech to a speed of 1200bps. I have no doubt it can be applied to musical sounds, but the quality will likely not be as good as mp3. Many people get upset at the claim that MP3 is anywhere near "CD quality" and its artifacts are easily demonstrated.
I could see this technique used in high-volume, low-margin, low-quality applications such as toys, but even then the cost of ROM is low enough that one would likely use a lower bitrate mp3 rather than spend the time/money to develop LPC for the product.
The Michelson-Morley Experiment was also a 'failure' in that it did not detect the 'ether' which was a hypothesized medium in which light waves traveled, but it's quite a famous experiment relating to classical physics vs. quantum physics.
In one of Feynmam's essays in the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" he stresses the importance of publishing "negative results," saying how too many scientific experiments that "didn't come out as expected" are not published, causing (among other things) others to unnecesarily do the same thing to find out something that was already known but not published.
Okay, so what did they do, other than being "hams in space" and novelty contacts for average amateur radio operators? Did they handle any emergency traffic during recent natural disasters such as Earthquakes, the Tsunami, or hurricanes?
How do they get "most powerful" from a frequecy spec? Power is measured in Watts, not Hz, right?
Right. But I think they're saying it's the most powerful in its frequency range, which goes well below the usual subwoofer design.
Besides, this is the worlds most powerful subwoofer.
From the specs, the Servodrive goes to 136dB at 28Hz and above, but perhaps below 20Hz or 10Hz and certainly below 5Hz, this rotary woofer will have more output than the Servodrive. This thing DOES go to DC!
Yes, and infrasound can theoretically cause incontinence too, but I'm not sure what frequency works for that -- didn't the Mythbusters disprove that the infrasound incontinence myth?
It doesn't allegedly cause incontinence, it allegedly causes diarrhea, but I think it takes an enormous sound volume in air to generate the needed amplitude in the human body, perhaps more than generated in the Mythbusters episode. But apparently if you're standing on a platform vibrating at that particular frequency, it easily causes a large amplitude vibration throughout the body which causes the effect, as Mr. Samuel Clemens discovered while standing on one of Mr. Tesla's vibrating platforms:
I believe this very issue will determine the economic viability of both the nuclear industries and the space elevator.
How ironic if the nuclear waste disposal industry were the major player in funding, designing and building the first space elevator. Well, maybe not ironic, but interesting.
Moreover, she wrote, The Onion and its Web site are free, so the seal is not being used for commercial purposes.
The Onion has advertisements on the site, and is apparently a profit-making concern. Use of the Seal is specifically to enhance the content, so IMHO that makes it a commercial use.
But I still think this is "fair use" [yes, I know this is an abomination of the phrase] of the Seal. There's nothing wrong with using parody to make a profit.
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"I've thought about shortening the cables too, but I'm sure I'd screw it up in some way. So many of the wall warts in my house have about a 1.5 metre cable and end up making a mess on my desk, but I only really need about 20cm."
Just fold up the wire until the remaining length is what you need, then put a rubber band around the folded-up part.
Of course ! Extraverts are outsourcing thoughts.
I thought they had NO source of thoughts!
But then I read enough to see that this had nothing to do with Autocad, the .dxf file format, or anything that would Especially Good to be more open-source-like.
Nothing to see here folks, move along now... Surely there's a Lego article you want to read and comment on...
Just out of interest, what are some alternatives? I really don't know.
.dwg/Autocad compatible software you get, it will be perhaps a year or two behind Autocad's latest features and .dwg formats. If you're sure you don't have to read others' .dwg files from the latest versions of Autocad, you're in a much better position to use 'something else', but I suspect a whole lot of people have to read others' files which could include the latest formats.
I looked around the Web a couple years ago for just that, and found Intellicad http://www.intellicad.org/, more specifically, Cadopia's version http://www.cadopia.com/. After a 30-day trial version, they extorted $150 from me for the basic version 4.0 (much cheaper than the "Autocad Lite" or whatever it's called). I've used earlier versions of Autocad, and found Intellicad to be very compatible and easier to use. OTOH I don't do a whole lot of cad, so if you do, take this micro-review with a grain of salt.
No matter what
And you've obviously spent entirely too much time here.
Yes, thousands of us have done just that. And we're not afraid to use our real names (okay, our "real slashdot ID's") to admit it.
Think we're just a bunch of nerds here? You ain't seen nothin yet. Wait till you see the "Mindstorms" story.
Quoting the last line first:
And Mac users will probably be the first to say that even two buttons are overrated...
Heck, even a mouse is overated. Back when I used CP/M, before everyone had a mouse...
Ahem! I have a feeling there are a few *cough* patents that are the root of such evil^H^H^H^Hexclusivity...
Back before everyone had a mouse you could erase a whole word with a single ^W.
It claims to help people stop drinking, but what it really seems to offer is religious conversion (despite the "AA is spiritual, not religious" slogan/claim), and it blames the many who continue to drink destructively for their own drinking, saying it's because they "didn't work The Program." This could be a part of the "ooga booga" topic someone else posted.
From the article: "AA: America's Stealth Religion" on Beliefnet, 12-step members make up about 10 percent of the US population. Based on their fervent belief and the way I've seen them post on Oprah's board (and seeing non-AA supportive posts get deleted there), I expect flames for even daring to ask this question.
Penn and Teller did an episode of their excellent Showtime show "Bullshit!" on steppism, and they've done some hard-hitting episodes on other controversial topics, but I get the feeling that Mythbusters will stick to the "Don't put a JATO pack on the back of a car" type of show. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but ideas can be more powerful and dangerous to society than high explosives, and such things should be discussed from all sides.
Microsoft has a history of several standards, such as the 'external' one and the 'internal' one for DOS functions. There was Microsoft's printer buffer program or whatever it was called under MS-DOS (you run it to print a file, it "terminates and stays resident" with the resident portion printing the file, while you got a command prompt and could run another program, sort of like Unix) that made undocumented OS calls.
You can trust Microsoft to be "innovative" with file formats "to give our custumers what they demamd."
Someone here register that name, quick...
You want unmaintainable code? I have three letters for you - APL! Problem solved.
I'm not so sure. Much APL code certainly is very dense (because of lots of powerful one-greek-character operators), but I've seen lots of C code (and not just from the Obfuscation Contest) that's harder to read and understand.
It's often easier to rewrite a long line of APL code (or a large single-line APL program) than to modify it, but as far as managers may need to know, that's maintenance.
Here's a simple way to increase your lifespan. Eat less. In fact, halve the amount of food you eat.
As another poster said, when doing caloric reduction you still need as much vitamins and minerals as when eating a "normal" amount of calories, and so you need to be very selective about what you eat to get them all (vitamin supplements and such help, but don't have everything that some foods have).
More info here:
http://calorierestriction.org/
Anonymous Coward wrote: ... And to cap it all, he's a pretty nice guy.
Jack, that's not you, is it?
He would have made it Open Source.
This is like INT 21h in DOS
Finally, something I (a DOS old fart) understand! Mod Parent Up!
Seriously, this and some of the other posts are really *informative*, the most so that I've seen about *[*]n*x.
Actually, since modern copyright starts at 1925, I would think MOST would be more than a century old.
I do hope they're not duplicating efforts... and whether they even know about Project Gutenberg. http://www.promo.net/pg/>
I expect their scans to be sumbitted to it.
Some 4 or 5 years ago I was into this midi making thing a lot. Basicaly, I took a song and rewriten it in notes to a midi file by listening to it (since there's no other way to do so). It requires A LOT of work, since there is no software that could do that automaticaly. There was a huge community and lots of websites where we shared those midi files with other people and everything was very lovely until those websites started closing down... I had a website as well. I DID NOT SELL those midi files or profit from them in any way, and people who downloaded them were absolute enthusiasts who just wanted to have the notes of their favorite song or sing a karaoke with friends at some party and I could't see how this violates any law or something. But anyhow, I got this angry letter and had to close down. This letter said that apparently you can only sell those midis and pay some part of the profit to the copyright owner,
The letter is wrong on one point: You DO have to pay a certain amount for each copy that is downloaded, BUT it doesn't matter whether you sell them or give them away.
which is in my oppinion plain wrong.
If you believe that strongly enough to put your money where your mouth is, hire a lawyer.
People don't download midis instead of buying a CD, artists DO NOT lose any profit (they may even gain), you just get some extra stuff (like notes, lyrics, ability to play this song on your midikeyboard...), which, in fact, you make yourself and just share with others. It's like using a plot from a movie in your school play, you don't get charged for that do you?
These arguments sound similar to arguments for "sharing" MP3's. Whether the original artists gain or lose money isn't the point. Whether the copyright laws are being followed IS the point.
Want to change the copyright laws? Do what Disney did....
Anyway, if you're interested in buying full length midi files, here's a link http://www.midimusic.de/index.php?&lng=eng [midimusic.de] . These guys are fast...
And it's been around for a few decades. LPC was specifically designed for speech, and can compress intelligible (for low expectations intelligible - it's not very nice sounding) speech to a speed of 1200bps. I have no doubt it can be applied to musical sounds, but the quality will likely not be as good as mp3. Many people get upset at the claim that MP3 is anywhere near "CD quality" and its artifacts are easily demonstrated.
I could see this technique used in high-volume, low-margin, low-quality applications such as toys, but even then the cost of ROM is low enough that one would likely use a lower bitrate mp3 rather than spend the time/money to develop LPC for the product.
If the results are negative, then what?
The answer is: We know a little more.
Yes, absolutely.
The Michelson-Morley Experiment was also a 'failure' in that it did not detect the 'ether' which was a hypothesized medium in which light waves traveled, but it's quite a famous experiment relating to classical physics vs. quantum physics.
In one of Feynmam's essays in the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" he stresses the importance of publishing "negative results," saying how too many scientific experiments that "didn't come out as expected" are not published, causing (among other things) others to unnecesarily do the same thing to find out something that was already known but not published.
Bah! The URLs don't work!
The FBI sure works fast, don't it? Imagine that, the FBI reading slashdot...
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Okay, so what did they do, other than being "hams in space" and novelty contacts for average amateur radio operators? Did they handle any emergency traffic during recent natural disasters such as Earthquakes, the Tsunami, or hurricanes?
How do they get "most powerful" from a frequecy spec? Power is measured in Watts, not Hz, right?
Right. But I think they're saying it's the most powerful in its frequency range, which goes well below the usual subwoofer design.
Besides, this is the worlds most powerful subwoofer.
From the specs, the Servodrive goes to 136dB at 28Hz and above, but perhaps below 20Hz or 10Hz and certainly below 5Hz, this rotary woofer will have more output than the Servodrive. This thing DOES go to DC!
Yes, and infrasound can theoretically cause incontinence too, but I'm not sure what frequency works for that -- didn't the Mythbusters disprove that the infrasound incontinence myth?
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It doesn't allegedly cause incontinence, it allegedly causes diarrhea, but I think it takes an enormous sound volume in air to generate the needed amplitude in the human body, perhaps more than generated in the Mythbusters episode. But apparently if you're standing on a platform vibrating at that particular frequency, it easily causes a large amplitude vibration throughout the body which causes the effect, as Mr. Samuel Clemens discovered while standing on one of Mr. Tesla's vibrating platforms:
http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/Tesl
http://www.rastko.org.yu/istorija/tesla/oniell-te
I believe this very issue will determine the economic viability of both the nuclear industries and the space elevator.
How ironic if the nuclear waste disposal industry were the major player in funding, designing and building the first space elevator. Well, maybe not ironic, but interesting.
From TFA:
Moreover, she wrote, The Onion and its Web site are free, so the seal is not being used for commercial purposes.
The Onion has advertisements on the site, and is apparently a profit-making concern. Use of the Seal is specifically to enhance the content, so IMHO that makes it a commercial use.
But I still think this is "fair use" [yes, I know this is an abomination of the phrase] of the Seal. There's nothing wrong with using parody to make a profit.
Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.
What makes Sunday so special?