Local telephone companies are an endangered species because of the ubiquitousness of the cell phone. Kids growing up these days probably won't ever bother to get land line telephones as adults except for Internet access, and unshielded twisted pair copper wire can't compete with coax for speed; so unless the local telephone companies get busy replacing their antiquated copper with fiber to the home, cable will continue to eat their lunch.
Try buying yourself a coffee roaster and roasting your own beans. You won't regret it.:-)
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"Progress always win in the end, while they can delay the widespread use of TiVo-like devices they can't slaughter it altogether, they're merely getting some more time."
"My behemoth of a Motorola cell phone can pull these these cute numbers..."
What, no builtin modem for dial up networking from your computer when your cable internet connection goes down? No ability to film short movie clips? No ability to function as an answering machine by blinking a LED when a message is waiting? No ability to play chess and other games with me when I'm bored? No Internet surfing capability? No gigajoule death ray particle blaster? You must have a really old cell phone.;-)
"why would any sane kid subject themselves to silly pledges, ill conceived policies, random drug testing, etc, in order to spend more time at or around school?"
Because schooling is compulsory for children in the USA. If you can't afford a private school for your child. then you're required to send your child to a government school on pain of being declared an unfit parent by the government and having your child taken from you by force and put in foster care. "Land of the Free" indeed.
"There is no "slippery slope" argument to make here because it's just ridiculous to consider putting cameras in the street the same as putting cameras in someone's private property against their will."
Really? I expect the next step to getting government CCTV cameras into everyones home will be to require it as a condition of probation, much as tracking ankle bracelets are used now. Next CCTV cameras in your home will be required for anyone who has ever committed *any* crime, and eventually it will be required for everyone whether they have committed a crime or not in the name of safety and being "for the children." As usual, the refrain will be: "If you have nothing to hide, why should you object to having a police CCTV camera installed in your home?"
"I would freak out if I had to look down (or up) after death and watch my mother in law clean out my wife and my sex toy stash."
One advantage of being an atheist is that I realize I will be looking neither up or down after I'm dead, and that in fact there will be no "I" to care about anything once I'm dead. I may worry about things while I'm still alive, but not after I'm dead.
How about if you want to do arithmetic on 704 bit integers? Sure, you can break it up into smaller chunks and do multi-precision arithmetic in software on a general purpose computer, but with an FPGA you can simply declare whatever bus width you want and define whatever processing architecture you need for a given task.
"...willing to spend $750.00+ for a fucking coffee maker"
I spent almost $1,000 on a coffee maker and it's the best money I ever spent!:-) You haven't lived until you've tasted freshly roasted, ground, and brewed coffee (w/o a paper filter!) - and all except the roasting at the touch of a button!
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"... but I would love to find some place in this world where people actually have self respect and care about their rights."
I have been looking for just such a place in which to retire, but without much success. It's ironic that the people of the Russia now have more personal liberty than we do here in the USA from what I've read. It's almost as though we're slowly reversing roles with them.
Grand Cayman island is probably the place with the least governmental interference in people's lives that I've found thus far, but the cost of living is pretty high there judging from the cost of real estate.
"...this government, swollen and arrogant with pelf, goes butting into our business...It checks the amount of tropical oils in our snack foods, tells us what kind of gasoline we can buy for our cars and how fast we can drive them, bosses us around about retirement, education, and what's on TV; counts our noses and asks fresh questions about who's still living at home and how many bathrooms we have; decides whether the door to our office or shop should have steps or a wheelchair ramp; decrees the sex and complexion of the people we hire there; lectures us on safe sex; dictates what we can sniff, smoke, and swallow; and waylays young men, ships them to distant places, and tells them to shoot people they don't even know."
-- P.J.O'Rourke
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... never worked on a well run large collaborative project,...
I don't know about the "well run" part;-), but is there a mandatory coding style for OSS, such as Linux for example? I don't object to guidelines in general, but I do object to mandatory so called "guidelines."
Yes, in fact I have a subscription to Sweet Maria's and get two pounds of freshly roasted coffee each week from them, but I'd rather go by personal recommendations (if you can call a post on SlashDot "personal";) than to read marketing blurbs.
On a somewhat(?) related note, I have a Gaggia Syncrony Digital coffee maker and it makes wonderful freshly ground coffee with a "crema" on it (it doesn't use paper filters so retains a *LOT* more flavor) but the water and coffee bean containers are too small and I can't use the steamer at the same time as I'm making coffee because the steamer doesn't have a separate heater tank.
Does anyone know of a better coffee maker they can recommend?
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Local telephone companies are an endangered species because of the ubiquitousness of the cell phone. Kids growing up these days probably won't ever bother to get land line telephones as adults except for Internet access, and unshielded twisted pair copper wire can't compete with coax for speed; so unless the local telephone companies get busy replacing their antiquated copper with fiber to the home, cable will continue to eat their lunch.
Try buying yourself a coffee roaster and roasting your own beans. You won't regret it. :-)
Not much more time; cf, Archos AV700 40GB Portable Digital Video Player/Recorder
Where and when shall we gather?
What, no builtin modem for dial up networking from your computer when your cable internet connection goes down? No ability to film short movie clips? No ability to function as an answering machine by blinking a LED when a message is waiting? No ability to play chess and other games with me when I'm bored? No Internet surfing capability? No gigajoule death ray particle blaster? You must have a really old cell phone. ;-)
Because schooling is compulsory for children in the USA. If you can't afford a private school for your child. then you're required to send your child to a government school on pain of being declared an unfit parent by the government and having your child taken from you by force and put in foster care. "Land of the Free" indeed.
Really? I expect the next step to getting government CCTV cameras into everyones home will be to require it as a condition of probation, much as tracking ankle bracelets are used now. Next CCTV cameras in your home will be required for anyone who has ever committed *any* crime, and eventually it will be required for everyone whether they have committed a crime or not in the name of safety and being "for the children." As usual, the refrain will be: "If you have nothing to hide, why should you object to having a police CCTV camera installed in your home?"
One advantage of being an atheist is that I realize I will be looking neither up or down after I'm dead, and that in fact there will be no "I" to care about anything once I'm dead. I may worry about things while I'm still alive, but not after I'm dead.
http://xrl.us/kj3j
How about if you want to do arithmetic on 704 bit integers? Sure, you can break it up into smaller chunks and do multi-precision arithmetic in software on a general purpose computer, but with an FPGA you can simply declare whatever bus width you want and define whatever processing architecture you need for a given task.
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Idiot.
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I have been looking for just such a place in which to retire, but without much success. It's ironic that the people of the Russia now have more personal liberty than we do here in the USA from what I've read. It's almost as though we're slowly reversing roles with them.
Grand Cayman island is probably the place with the least governmental interference in people's lives that I've found thus far, but the cost of living is pretty high there judging from the cost of real estate.
Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubble
Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 17, @03:19PM
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*Ahem*
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TRIPLICATE!!!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/0
Note: Yes, I reported this a few minutes ago.
I don't know about the "well run" part ;-), but is there a mandatory coding style for OSS, such as Linux for example? I don't object to guidelines in general, but I do object to mandatory so called "guidelines."
Gads, you all sound like the same sort of management jerks that would expect their staff to submit to the degradation of drug testing. Do you?
Yes, in fact I have a subscription to Sweet Maria's and get two pounds of freshly roasted coffee each week from them, but I'd rather go by personal recommendations (if you can call a post on SlashDot "personal" ;) than to read marketing blurbs.
Wimp.
On a somewhat(?) related note, I have a Gaggia Syncrony Digital coffee maker and it makes wonderful freshly ground coffee with a "crema" on it (it doesn't use paper filters so retains a *LOT* more flavor) but the water and coffee bean containers are too small and I can't use the steamer at the same time as I'm making coffee because the steamer doesn't have a separate heater tank.
Does anyone know of a better coffee maker they can recommend?
I wouldn't work for any company that tried to tell me what "coding style" to use. I'm a retired programmer with 35+ years of experience BTW.
Herman Cassiday - if you read this, send me an email and let me know how you've been all these years. ;-)