Tesla did not invent AC power. He just proved that it was a better solution than DC power. This caused a rift between Edison and Tesla. Edison believed that AC power was to dangerous for practical everyday use. Tesla believed that DC power was to IMPRACTICAL for everyday use. Edison was never able to come up with a solution for the problem of added resistance in longer lines, preventing the flow of electrons. Tesla new that in AC current, an almost unlimited length of line could be used because each individual electron in the conductor did not actually move through great distances, it was just shoved around through the same general area. When Tesla, through the help of Westinghouse began making AC power available to the public, Edison did everything within his considerable power and popularity to discredit AC power and Tesla as being to dangerous. He is rumered to have used scare tactics to have achieved this, however I'm not so sure how true this is. At a DC power demonstration Edison is rumored to have electricuted a small animal (I can't remember but I think it was a cat) with AC power as a demonstration as to how violant AC power is. Tesla was always a bit of a recluse, and Edison was always in the lime-light. He overshadowed Tesla so much that by the time Edison was faced with the decision to either jump on the AC bandwagon or go out of buisness, Tesla was mostly forgoten about by the public. It was Edisons poplarity that caused the public to credit him as the so called "Father of Electricity" even though it was Tesla who made most of the technology practical.
Do I really care if Yahoo, Ebay, or Amazon get attacked and are forced to shut down?
I think not!
I could care less about CNN one way or another. But the former three companies are indictive of what the net is becoming. I don't use any of these companies and I probably never will. So they had to shut down for a little while and lost a bit of money. Big deal! It's not like they can't afford it (well maybe Amazon can't).
Or maybe I'm just tired of my Simpsons and South Park episodes being interupted every fifteen minutes with those @#$%!%^ annoying "Dot Comm" commercials.
A real revolution is about taking apart old ideas that don't work and replacing them with new ones that do?
Is this anything like Russian peasants rising up and over-throwing the Tzar, only to set up communism in it's place?
No offence man, but I think that is an optomistic ideal.
It should read: A real revolution is about rising up to fight against something that is not agreed with, and replacing it with what you believe is the way thing should be, which another group of people probably don't agree with either.
Don't you think there is enough blatant commercialism on TV and in movies as it is without us joining in. One thing that is so appealing to me and a lot of other people about the geek community is our stedfastness toward conformity. This would be one of the worst forms of conformity that I can think of. Linux get enough publicity as it is, so much so in fact that I'm starting to worry that it, itself will soon become an institution
Who knows what MP3.com's aganda is? And at this point does it really matter? I'm pretty sure MP3.com is thinking more about their bottom line than they are about weather or not the format will remain available to everyone in the future. Thats what big company's do. Right now they probably only want to make sure that the format is available to them. When that is assured, then they will be the time to worrying about competition.
Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass again. I seem to do that alot after my first ten cups of coffee...bzzzzzzzzzz.
Well if we're gonna go there, why don't we ask the thousands of Japaneese-Americans placed in detention camps out of rampant paranoia. Or the millons of Japaneese killed in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. And lets not forget all the Native-Americans that where uprooted from there homes and forced onto reservations against there will, dying on the forced march there only to be uprooted and moved again. And then there are the thousands of Native-Americans that refused to be moved, and were then slaughtered by the U.S. Calvalry. Oh yes, and lets definatly not forget the honorable Vietnam "War" and the uncountable vietnameese people that were killed out of suspicion of being connected with the Viet-Cong even when there was no evidence supporting this.
I do not support what Stalin did in his paranoia, but you can't judge an entire country on the action of one delusional man. Nor do I support China's actions in the Forbiden City (which, I might add, would have been a much better rhetoric than than trying to through Stalin in my face) when hundred's and maybe thousands of student demonstrators were arrested and killed.
The point I was trying to make in my post was not that the Soviets had some great form of government that never did any wrong, we all know that this is far from the truth. I was trying to say that the view that had been painted for us about them was based mostly on our own governments propaganda, that the USSR was an evil society that was ready to destroy the USA at their first opportunity to turn their key and, push the big red button. Ironically they were telling their own citizens the same thing about us.
We were severly undereducated about Russia too. Except for what our government told us, we had very little understanding of what life was like behind the iron curtain. We were led to believe that life in the USSR was horrible and oppressive. The truth be told, it wasn't all that great but, it didn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as our government led us to believe that it was. Not that the Soviet government wasn't misleading its own people about us too.
How do we know the same doesn't hold true, at least to a certain extend, with China? Granted tourism into China is a lot more free than it was with the USSR, so I'm sure a lot of our information is coming from first hand accounts. But how do we know that the information coming from the government about China is not just more propoganda to justify our aggresive attitude toward one of the last remaining Communist governments?
Especially if you consider that at the time of the OKC bombing. The Internet was not in nearly as wide spread use as it is today. It was another year before I myself joined the online community.
Does anyone know how small the transmitters are and weather they could tranmit video signals? I build high power rockets and I've been searching for something to transmit video signals from the rockets in flight back to the ground. I currently use an 8mm camcorder, but this calls for the rockets to be large, thus limiting my altitude. Maybe I should just lurn a little more about radio first.
Eye's already gots one! Made it myself from old car parts outa ma cusins junk jard. Ya'll mighta seen it out sides the roadways there by my fence. It looks a right perty standin on top of ma wifes old Ford Pinto. Thems was good cars ya know. Heck ya aint gota be rich t aowns a dinosar. Thems the way we does thing out here in Oklahoma.
How much more of this anal retentiveness do we have to put up with? Oh wait... considering how fast buisness is to changes in legal habits, we'll probably have to put up with it for a long time.
My god they act like children. "No, you can't use that URL, thats my name! I'm gonna go tell the patent office!"
Shit, get a grip, you couldn't posibly lose as much money if these people keep their name's and URL's as you are spending on courts and blood-sucking lawers (offense meant to all the lawers out there) trying to make them stop. I'm not bitter...Really I'm not:)
Can I sue Nintendo too? I always thought that Brock guy was way to much like me. Chases after every girl he comes across, only to get shot down by all of them. He can spend day after day camping with the same young girl and still not score. Has a strange fixation with breeding strange and exotic animals...oops I think I said to much.
They (Corel) must be concerned that they can't make this contract legaly binding if they user is a minor.
As most of us probably know a minor cannot enter into a legaly binding contract. This probably scares Corel because if a minor downloads "their" OS and violates the EULA there is not much that Corel can do about it.
Funny I never thought of it before but, this would mean that a kid can go down to his local software store, and buy a game. Since said person is a minor, and cannot enter into a legal agreement, he could distrubute this software freely and there really isn't much that could be done to him/her. However his/her friends had better be minors also or the "violated" company is gonna find someone to hang for it.
The trailer for this outstanding movie is also on Apples Quicktime page under Miramax.
I must admit that when I learned that Disney was going to import this movie about a year ago, I was a bit apprehensive. After all the "dubbed versions of anime` that I've seen,such as the awfull "Clash of the Bionoids", an adaptation of the original "Macross". Which I later learned was adapted by Carl Maceck (of "Robotech" fame)himself. But after the small sample that I saw on Apples quicktime page I'm almost excited. My only real fear is in how much of the original story has been changed or lost in the translation.
As opposed to my standard, long-winded comments that will never have any kind of effect on the way people think, and serve no other purpose than to make me feel better. I think I'll just tell a "short" story.
First someone please define normal for me!
In junior high school, I played football(badly). I was never put on to the feild for any thing but to be a practice dummy for the more popular kids on the team. I was not well liked by the other players and was picked on constantly, in the locker room, in the showers, in the hall ways, wherever.
I love football. My dad who would've been proud of anything that I chose to do with myself, was extremely proud of me for making the team in the first place, being that he was a former starting quarterback for his high school football team.
I stayed with the team for the rest of junior high. At the end of Nineth grade we moved. Thinking that I could make a fresh start at things , I decided that I would not try out for football at my new school. This didn't make things any better. I went from one school where football was like the second greatest thing a student could play, to a town that lived and breathed high school football.
It was not long until I had redeveloped the same reputation of being an oddball that I had had in junior high.
High school was hell! If my few friends needed me they could find me in the computer lab or in the band room. I could not understand why I was shunned by the rest of the school. I did everything right just like my dad had, but I failed miserably.
Six months before graduation I went into my garage, stood on a chair, and put a rope around my neck. I probably hung there for five minutes or so before my brother found me and cut me down.
I spent the next two weeks in the hospital. My brother could not understand why someone he looked up to and respected would try to take his own life. My father didn't understand why I thought that he had thought that I was a failure.
While I was in the hospital my father told me that I had succeded where he had failed. I was graduating in the top 5% of my class, and had been accepted to college with a full ride. Where he had been lucky to graduate high school at all, and even though he had gone to college on a football scholarship, he was forced to drop out when he couldn't keep his grades high enough and lost the scholarship.
Six months later I walked across the stage to accept my diploma. The assembly who had cheered for most everyone previously stayed quiet. With the exception of my father, cheered in spite of everyone.
Today I'm an Info Systems Director. I now make $75,000 a year at a small town health care establishment. I have been happily married for seven years this November, and I have two children.
Last april I went to my 10 year high school reunion. While no one really remembered me, I still had the rather pleasant oppertunity to see how all my piers had turned out in the last decade.
Most of the football team, in fact most of the graduating class were stuck in blue collar or dead end jobs, unhappily and prematurly married with childeren, or alone and unhappy.
Come on, this is a sham! How can you patent something you didn't create? I understand someone saying "We found it, we own it!" But DNA is owned by all of us by right of nature, not some big corporation with delusions of becoming the Microsoft of human genetics.
If they own the rights for DNA structures then they would own part of all of us and every other creature living under Gods creation (no offense intended to the non or anti-Christian). And the last I checked slavery was illegal.
Even without Linux, Open Source would have still gained popularity. Open Source isn't about what OS we prefer. "It's about freedom baby, yeah!" If we hadn't have had Linux we would have used something else.
I don't know about super models, but I work with a woman who is a coder, and she models on the side. Sometimes I can't get any work done around here between reading/. postings and drooling over her.
Has anyone ever noticed, that any one sitting at a workstation in a movie never seems to have a clue how to use the mouse? They just seem to type an outrageous amount of garbage to acomplish a seemingly small task, and they manage to do this at break-neck speeds. In the days before GUI's this was fitting. But now we are starting to see GUI's (none of which are ever real OS's, just some odd looking interface that sometimes bares a slight resemblance to "cough" windows) popping up on workstation screens in the movies. This is great, except that actors instead of using the mouse are STILL typing seemingly random commands at about 200wpm.
It was neither 2001, or 2010. It was 2061. But I can understand how you would have forgotten, I myself have tried very hard to forget that travesty of a novel.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, now this I will most definatly agree with.
Very well put.
Tesla did not invent AC power. He just proved that it was a better solution than DC power. This caused a rift between Edison and Tesla.
Edison believed that AC power was to dangerous for practical everyday use.
Tesla believed that DC power was to IMPRACTICAL for everyday use. Edison was never able to come up with a solution for the problem of added resistance in longer lines, preventing the flow of electrons.
Tesla new that in AC current, an almost unlimited length of line could be used because each individual electron in the conductor did not actually move through great distances, it was just shoved around through the same general area.
When Tesla, through the help of Westinghouse began making AC power available to the public, Edison did everything within his considerable power and popularity to discredit AC power and Tesla as being to dangerous. He is rumered to have used scare tactics to have achieved this, however I'm not so sure how true this is.
At a DC power demonstration Edison is rumored to have electricuted a small animal (I can't remember but I think it was a cat) with AC power as a demonstration as to how violant AC power is.
Tesla was always a bit of a recluse, and Edison was always in the lime-light. He overshadowed Tesla so much that by the time Edison was faced with the decision to either jump on the AC bandwagon or go out of buisness, Tesla was mostly forgoten about by the public.
It was Edisons poplarity that caused the public to credit him as the so called "Father of Electricity" even though it was Tesla who made most of the technology practical.
Do I really care if Yahoo, Ebay, or Amazon get attacked and are forced to shut down?
I think not!
I could care less about CNN one way or another. But the former three companies are indictive of what the net is becoming. I don't use any of these companies and I probably never will. So they had to shut down for a little while and lost a bit of money. Big deal! It's not like they can't afford it (well maybe Amazon can't).
Or maybe I'm just tired of my Simpsons and South Park episodes being interupted every fifteen minutes with those @#$%!%^ annoying "Dot Comm" commercials.
A real revolution is about taking apart old ideas that don't work and replacing them with new ones that do?
Is this anything like Russian peasants rising up and over-throwing the Tzar, only to set up communism in it's place?
No offence man, but I think that is an optomistic ideal.
It should read: A real revolution is about rising up to fight against something that is not agreed with, and replacing it with what you believe is the way thing should be, which another group of people probably don't agree with either.
MPAA be damned. X-files season 1 on DVD is MINE. I hadn't heard about this thanks for the info.
Don't you think there is enough blatant commercialism on TV and in movies as it is without us joining in. One thing that is so appealing to me and a lot of other people about the geek community is our stedfastness toward conformity. This would be one of the worst forms of conformity that I can think of. Linux get enough publicity as it is, so much so in fact that I'm starting to worry that it, itself will soon become an institution
Who knows what MP3.com's aganda is? And at this point does it really matter? I'm pretty sure MP3.com is thinking more about their bottom line than they are about weather or not the format will remain available to everyone in the future. Thats what big company's do. Right now they probably only want to make sure that the format is available to them. When that is assured, then they will be the time to worrying about competition.
Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass again. I seem to do that alot after my first ten cups of coffee...bzzzzzzzzzz.
Well if we're gonna go there, why don't we ask the thousands of Japaneese-Americans placed in detention camps out of rampant paranoia. Or the millons of Japaneese killed in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. And lets not forget all the Native-Americans that where uprooted from there homes and forced onto reservations against there will, dying on the forced march there only to be uprooted and moved again. And then there are the thousands of Native-Americans that refused to be moved, and were then slaughtered by the U.S. Calvalry. Oh yes, and lets definatly not forget the honorable Vietnam "War" and the uncountable vietnameese people that were killed out of suspicion of being connected with the Viet-Cong even when there was no evidence supporting this.
I do not support what Stalin did in his paranoia, but you can't judge an entire country on the action of one delusional man. Nor do I support China's actions in the Forbiden City (which, I might add, would have been a much better rhetoric than than trying to through Stalin in my face) when hundred's and maybe thousands of student demonstrators were arrested and killed.
The point I was trying to make in my post was not that the Soviets had some great form of government that never did any wrong, we all know that this is far from the truth. I was trying to say that the view that had been painted for us about them was based mostly on our own governments propaganda, that the USSR was an evil society that
was ready to destroy the USA at their first opportunity to turn their key and, push the big red button. Ironically they were telling their own citizens the same thing about us.
We were severly undereducated about Russia too. Except for what our government told us, we had very little understanding of what life was like behind the iron curtain. We were led to believe that life in the USSR was horrible and oppressive. The truth be told, it wasn't all that great but, it didn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as our government led us to believe that it was. Not that the Soviet government wasn't misleading its own people about us too.
How do we know the same doesn't hold true, at least to a certain extend, with China? Granted tourism into China is a lot more free than it was with the USSR, so I'm sure a lot of our information is coming from first hand accounts. But how do we know that the information coming from the government about China is not just more propoganda to justify our aggresive attitude toward one of the last remaining Communist governments?
Especially if you consider that at the time of the OKC bombing. The Internet was not in nearly as wide spread use as it is today. It was another year before I myself joined the online community.
I thought about using Ham, but didn't give it much more than a passing thought. Maybe I should look into it more seriously. Thanks for the info.
Does anyone know how small the transmitters are and weather they could tranmit video signals?
I build high power rockets and I've been searching for something to transmit video signals from the rockets in flight back to the ground. I currently use an 8mm camcorder, but this calls for the rockets to be large, thus limiting my altitude. Maybe I should just lurn a little more about radio first.
I bet your loads of fun at parties aren't ya. Do you bring Mr. Microphone too.
Eye's already gots one! Made it myself from old car parts outa ma cusins junk jard. Ya'll mighta seen it out sides the roadways there by my fence. It looks a right perty standin on top of ma wifes old Ford Pinto. Thems was good cars ya know.
Heck ya aint gota be rich t aowns a dinosar. Thems the way we does thing out here in Oklahoma.
How much more of this anal retentiveness do we have to put up with? Oh wait... considering how fast buisness is to changes in legal habits, we'll probably have to put up with it for a long time.
My god they act like children. "No, you can't use that URL, thats my name! I'm gonna go tell the patent office!"
Shit, get a grip, you couldn't posibly lose as much money if these people keep their name's and URL's as you are spending on courts and blood-sucking lawers (offense meant to all the lawers out there) trying to make them stop. I'm not bitter...Really I'm not:)
Can I sue Nintendo too? I always thought that Brock guy was way to much like me. Chases after every girl he comes across, only to get shot down by all of them. He can spend day after day camping with the same young girl and still not score. Has a strange fixation with breeding strange and exotic animals...oops I think I said to much.
They (Corel) must be concerned that they can't make this contract legaly binding if they user is a minor.
As most of us probably know a minor cannot enter into a legaly binding contract. This probably scares Corel because if a minor downloads "their" OS and violates the EULA there is not much that Corel can do about it.
Funny I never thought of it before but, this would mean that a kid can go down to his local software store, and buy a game. Since said person is a minor, and cannot enter into a legal agreement, he could distrubute this software freely and there really isn't much that could be done to him/her. However his/her friends had better be minors also or the "violated" company is gonna find someone to hang for it.
The trailer for this outstanding movie is also on Apples Quicktime page under Miramax.
,such as the awfull "Clash of the Bionoids", an adaptation of the original "Macross". Which I later learned was adapted by Carl Maceck (of "Robotech" fame)himself. But after the small sample that I saw on Apples quicktime page I'm almost excited. My only real fear is in how much of the original story has been changed or lost in the translation.
I must admit that when I learned that Disney was going to import this movie about a year ago, I was a bit apprehensive. After all the "dubbed versions of anime` that I've seen
Les Tolbert
As opposed to my standard, long-winded comments that will never have any kind of effect on the way people think, and serve no other purpose than to make me feel better. I think I'll just tell a "short" story.
First someone please define normal for me!
In junior high school, I played football(badly). I was never put on to the feild for any thing but to be a practice dummy for the more popular kids on the team. I was not well liked by the other players and was picked on constantly, in the locker room, in the showers, in the hall ways, wherever.
I love football. My dad who would've been proud of anything that I chose to do with myself, was extremely proud of me for making the team in the first place, being that he was a former starting quarterback for his high school football team.
I stayed with the team for the rest of junior high. At the end of Nineth grade we moved. Thinking that I could make a fresh start at things , I decided that I would not try out for football at my new school. This didn't make things any better. I went from one school where football was like the second greatest thing a student could play, to a town that lived and breathed high school football.
It was not long until I had redeveloped the same reputation of being an oddball that I had had in junior high.
High school was hell! If my few friends needed me
they could find me in the computer lab or in the band room. I could not understand why I was shunned by the rest of the school. I did everything right just like my dad had, but I failed miserably.
Six months before graduation I went into my garage, stood on a chair, and put a rope around my neck. I probably hung there for five minutes or so before my brother found me and cut me down.
I spent the next two weeks in the hospital. My brother could not understand why someone he looked up to and respected would try to take his own life. My father didn't understand why I thought that he had thought that I was a failure.
While I was in the hospital my father told me that I had succeded where he had failed. I was graduating in the top 5% of my class, and had been accepted to college with a full ride. Where he had been lucky to graduate high school at all, and even though he had gone to college on a football scholarship, he was forced to drop out when he couldn't keep his grades high enough and lost the scholarship.
Six months later I walked across the stage to accept my diploma. The assembly who had cheered for most everyone previously stayed quiet. With the exception of my father, cheered in spite of everyone.
Today I'm an Info Systems Director. I now make $75,000 a year at a small town health care establishment. I have been happily married for seven years this November, and I have two children.
Last april I went to my 10 year high school reunion. While no one really remembered me, I still had the rather pleasant oppertunity to see how all my piers had turned out in the last decade.
Most of the football team, in fact most of the graduating class were stuck in blue collar or dead end jobs, unhappily and prematurly married with childeren, or alone and unhappy.
The world is a funny place.
Les Tolbert
Come on, this is a sham! How can you patent something you didn't create? I understand someone saying "We found it, we own it!" But DNA is owned by all of us by right of nature, not some big corporation with delusions of becoming the Microsoft of human genetics.
If they own the rights for DNA structures then they would own part of all of us and every other creature living under Gods creation (no offense intended to the non or anti-Christian). And the last I checked slavery was illegal.
How can any of us ask a question like that?
Even without Linux, Open Source would have still gained popularity. Open Source isn't about what OS we prefer. "It's about freedom baby, yeah!" If we hadn't have had Linux we would have used something else.
I don't know about super models, but I work with a woman who is a coder, and she models on the side. Sometimes I can't get any work done around here between reading /. postings and drooling over
her.
Has anyone ever noticed, that any one sitting at a workstation in a movie never seems to have a clue how to use the mouse? They just seem to type an outrageous amount of garbage to acomplish a seemingly small task, and they manage to do this at break-neck speeds. In the days before GUI's this was fitting. But now we are starting to see GUI's (none of which are ever real OS's, just some odd looking interface that sometimes bares a slight resemblance to "cough" windows) popping up on workstation screens in the movies. This is great, except that actors instead of using the mouse are STILL typing seemingly random commands at about 200wpm.
It has been decided that lunar surface shall be harvested to feed the starving here on earth.
We shall then build a new moon using unprocessed whole weat flour, therebye packing it with vitamins and minerals and wholesome goodess.
This seems like almost as likely a senerio does it not.
I they have metalic snow on Venus also.
It was neither 2001, or 2010. It was 2061. But I can understand how you would have forgotten, I myself have tried very hard to forget that travesty of a novel.