5MB isn't much for a WinCE app to use while running- my GPS map browser uses about that much, as does Windows Media. HOWEVER- his EXE size seems a bit large to me (3.8 MB) as Pocket IE on Wince is only 18k for the exe- though I think it has lots of DLLs.
Go to Maryhill, Washington on the banks of the Columbia river where an astronomically accurate, complete and not-falling down Stonehenge has been standing for 75 years now. It's dedicated to the WWI dead of Klickitat County.
Washington State has had it's own Stonehenge,
accurately represented, for well nigh over 75 years now- why couldn't the astronomy students have just visited there?
Except in this instance- there's no need to lie and the actual defamation belongs to the politicians back home who have outsourced this war to Jailbirds-R-Us and their magical torture team. Far better to let the troops have as much communication as possible back home- so that we can transform our whole society into something that doesn't have to go fight a war to keep oil prices low.
VOIP on a satellite link wouldn't be much better- to avoid cutouts you'd have to go half-duplex (like the ham radio, complete with "Over" to tell the other person that they can talk now) except it would be even MORE annoying because it would be a minimum 2 seconds before they could reply (Geosat ping times being what they are).
Half duplex with a 2 second wait in between, I just can't see any other way to do it with Sattelite ping times. I think you're better off with a Sattelite phone so that you don't have the additional bandwidth cosiderations of IP protocol (which with streaming applications is really bad- almost quadrupling the size of the packets).
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The great thing about a "Crisis" is that you can use it as leverage to do what you always wanted to do but couldn't before.
True enough- but I'd argue that is the time to raise taxes, especially on the people who will profit from you dealing with the crisis.
I don't think you'd have to be a libertarian extremist for this to drive you nuts- the more than a million Rhode Islanders, for instance, who live in a state with only 8,000 head of cattle, might also have some complaints.
Sounds like they need to tear down a few buildings for pastureland.
'm not sure that making beef a luxury item for the eastern seaboard while simultaneously destroying the economy of Wyoming has much appeal for anyone except Marxist daydreamers like yourself.
OTOH, another possible outcome is actually providing jobs and more farms in RI- and more cities in Wyoming as people move there for the beef eating lifestyle thus giving the economy an extra boost.
And that's not even considering the black market you'd create in smuggled beef - unless you want checkpoints and searches at all state border crossings. (Which, incidentally, is one of the problems with creating the kind of control economy you apparently envision - though an article on octopi and robot design probably isn't the place for that discussion.)
Actually- we can bring it back on topic by pointing out that solving the way octopi move and mimicing that in a robot brings us one step closer to the impenatrable robot army border patrol- which ends the whole smuggled anything problem completely. Don't have your Interstate Commerce Commission RFID tag? Say goodbye to your truck as the flamethrower-armed octopi robots destroy it!
Why are you worried about how other people live and shop and eat? You go buy local beef, and leave the rest of us out of your predilections.
Which I do- but I alone cannot "bring back this type of farming"- I don't have the kind of money that the people who can, but won't, do.
I like to buy meat from reputable local butchers. I used to work for one, and I got spoiled.
Yes- but the grand majority of Americans can't- they don't have a local butcher within 200 miles. They do however have a Wal*Mart, which supports the big agribusinesses instead, and in so doing, put the little butcher out of business. That's why it matters how other people live and shop and eat- by going with the profit motive every time (like we've been taught to do since teacher in first grade taught us about points and grading) we are slowly killing off that small, reputable local butcher, as well as the family farmer who sends meat to him. And replacing the whole chain with the factory farm which raises the beef far away from the pasture in a veal fattening pen, zaps it with electricity to kill it, hoists it by crane onto the line where it's cut up by some illegal immigrant making less than minimum wage in the most unsanitary conditions possible under the lax USDA inspectors who are paid by the same company, to be sent to the local grocer prepackaged complete with ecoli and mad cow neurons.
In short- thank you for supporting your reputable local butchers- as nobody else will.
Time traviling space nazi aliens was really a part II from Season III- following the age old cliffhanger to protect the writer's jobs that started with the writer's strike of 1989 in the middle of STTNG. EVERY season where they have a contract to continue the series, of EVERY show, has had a season ending clifhanger since then, usually actually written well in advance but not delivered until the writers have signed their new contracts.
Nice. How can we get back to that kind of farming? That's a question I've had for a long time.
I've got a few good ideas- but they both drive the free traitors and the libertarians crazy:
Limit beef in the United States to be sold to the consumer within the state where it was raised- no interstate beef shipments, no cheap labor states competing with expensive labor states, no huge factories in the midwest selling to the big cities on the coasts.
Cut farm subsidies for any company/farm that exports outside of the United States- farm subsidies were supposed to be to maintain domestic control over the food supply, not to give agribusinesses a cheaper price than small substinence farmers in thrid world nations.
Limit growers to one head per half acre of land- correct grazing ratio, no larger herds allowed.
But like I said, all of these suggestions would drive the free market Randroids nuts. Our best bet WITHIN the free market structure is:
Find a local grower of organic beef. Inspect his farm yearly. Get a good sized freezer and buy from him once a year- a quarter beef can easily feed a family of four for a year, and at current small town butchering rates, is about half the cost of what you get in the grocery store.
Maybe the animals on old-school family farms where the animals are treated humanely and then killed swiftly with respect live happy lives, but today's factory farms are sick and demented.
I grew up on just such an old school family farm- always sickened our guests because we knew the NAME of the beef we were eating. I don't buy that factory farm crap output, because it is crap. Really bad for you. Factory farm animals are raised in small pens on high fat content feed- to increase their weight at market. 30% fat is not unusual for factory farm beef. My brother's beef, on the other hand, you need to add olive oil to if it's not going to stick to the pan or the grill- there's that little fat content in it.
Our animals were always treated as pets growing up- then eaten....and the cycle of life continues.
Intelligence- yes. Sentience- not sure. We know octopi have intelligence. We know they have manipulation abilities. But the third requirement for Sentience is communication- anybody have any examples of one octopi teaching another octopi something?
I couldn't remember the name of the company until you said it- and yes, that was it. As I remember, yes, you accurately described the problem at the time.
Today, of course, RFID prices have fallen immensely- embedding one in a clay chip would only raise the price of the chip $.15, and be far less than $1 per chip to produce in total.
Back in the mid 1990s (1995-1997) when I was working for Casino Software Corporation of America, one of our major competitors already had this kind of system up and operating. Though I think thiers was ACTIVE RFID instead of Passive (was passive available that early?) they had readers in their blackjack table and even a scanner in the shoe to know what cards were where and who to pay out to. I always thought their system was a security hole- if you could grab the image off of the pit boss's system you would know the cards of everybody at all the blackjack tables. But their system sure did prevent the common "double payout" scam that was running around at the time (where the con man went to the table of a dealer he was paying under the table- and knew that he could get the bets paid incorrectly).
Re:Should have thought of this *before* she left
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When you send it international- yes, you usually have to fill out a customs declaration form of some sort. Certain phrases get less attention from the authorities/thieves than others of course- try to make it something NOT worth stealing or bothering with when you've got 50,000 other packages to search today....
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But what the heck. I'd send it as a PDA with a huge storage card of some sort- but I'd disassemble the PDA first, send it in a few separate packages, marked "miscellaneous electronic parts" to avoid it being stolen, and to go for smaller packages thus minimizing shipping/customs costs. It can be reassembled at the other end. Plus, might be usefull to include something like This hand crank charger or This Solar charger considering that she has limited access to electricity. Far cheaper than shipping printout, books, or other items of the sort.
Chill, man, this is slashdot- and in the GP I already refered to the history (or rather, to the three separate alleged histories- your explaination being one of the three mentioned in the group along with me misremembering the string and it being "Mosaic" instead of "Mozilla", and "Mozilla Compatible" actually telling the truth about the interpretation of the HTML).
The most important shortage in the world is the shortage of leaders. Technical companies suffer more because few people who want to be leaders are technically knowledgeable.
Maybe if venture capitalism wasn't an old boy network of Yale and Harvard grads- and actually included a few technical schools and technical degree holders- we wouldn't have that situation. But because of the culture surrounding those two schools, we've got an ARTIFICIAL shortage of leaders, dragging down the C-level executive job market with unjustifiable salaries.
Honestly though, do you think Microsoft would leave such glaring and obvious evidence if they DID steal source from Mozilla?
Well, considering that they DID leave something so glaring an obvious as an identification string from a pirated audio program in WAV files installed on every user's machine, it is POSSIBLE. Whether they did it or not is an open question- and there are at least three reasons given elsewhere in this discussion as to why the word "Mozilla" might appear in the browser identity string that have NOTHING to do with Open Source or GPL'd software.
It's more of a suspicion than an accusation- based on the header that a web server recieves from an IE 6.0 browser that mentions mozilla. It MAY be only be a passing nod to the fact that the Mozilla group is the one that created the original HTML standard, and were the winners of the HTML 4.0 standard from the World Wide Web commission- but I've always found the mention of Mozilla in IE code to be rather suspicious. Since IE is closed source, there's no real way of anybody outside of Microsoft having this answer at all.
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5MB isn't much for a WinCE app to use while running- my GPS map browser uses about that much, as does Windows Media. HOWEVER- his EXE size seems a bit large to me (3.8 MB) as Pocket IE on Wince is only 18k for the exe- though I think it has lots of DLLs.
Go to Maryhill, Washington on the banks of the Columbia river where an astronomically accurate, complete and not-falling down Stonehenge has been standing for 75 years now. It's dedicated to the WWI dead of Klickitat County.
Washington State has had it's own Stonehenge, accurately represented, for well nigh over 75 years now- why couldn't the astronomy students have just visited there?
Except in this instance- there's no need to lie and the actual defamation belongs to the politicians back home who have outsourced this war to Jailbirds-R-Us and their magical torture team. Far better to let the troops have as much communication as possible back home- so that we can transform our whole society into something that doesn't have to go fight a war to keep oil prices low.
VOIP on a satellite link wouldn't be much better- to avoid cutouts you'd have to go half-duplex (like the ham radio, complete with "Over" to tell the other person that they can talk now) except it would be even MORE annoying because it would be a minimum 2 seconds before they could reply (Geosat ping times being what they are).
Half duplex with a 2 second wait in between, I just can't see any other way to do it with Sattelite ping times. I think you're better off with a Sattelite phone so that you don't have the additional bandwidth cosiderations of IP protocol (which with streaming applications is really bad- almost quadrupling the size of the packets).
The great thing about a "Crisis" is that you can use it as leverage to do what you always wanted to do but couldn't before.
True enough- but I'd argue that is the time to raise taxes, especially on the people who will profit from you dealing with the crisis.
I don't think you'd have to be a libertarian extremist for this to drive you nuts- the more than a million Rhode Islanders, for instance, who live in a state with only 8,000 head of cattle, might also have some complaints.
Sounds like they need to tear down a few buildings for pastureland.
'm not sure that making beef a luxury item for the eastern seaboard while simultaneously destroying the economy of Wyoming has much appeal for anyone except Marxist daydreamers like yourself.
OTOH, another possible outcome is actually providing jobs and more farms in RI- and more cities in Wyoming as people move there for the beef eating lifestyle thus giving the economy an extra boost.
And that's not even considering the black market you'd create in smuggled beef - unless you want checkpoints and searches at all state border crossings. (Which, incidentally, is one of the problems with creating the kind of control economy you apparently envision - though an article on octopi and robot design probably isn't the place for that discussion.)
Actually- we can bring it back on topic by pointing out that solving the way octopi move and mimicing that in a robot brings us one step closer to the impenatrable robot army border patrol- which ends the whole smuggled anything problem completely. Don't have your Interstate Commerce Commission RFID tag? Say goodbye to your truck as the flamethrower-armed octopi robots destroy it!
Why are you worried about how other people live and shop and eat? You go buy local beef, and leave the rest of us out of your predilections.
Which I do- but I alone cannot "bring back this type of farming"- I don't have the kind of money that the people who can, but won't, do.
I like to buy meat from reputable local butchers. I used to work for one, and I got spoiled.
Yes- but the grand majority of Americans can't- they don't have a local butcher within 200 miles. They do however have a Wal*Mart, which supports the big agribusinesses instead, and in so doing, put the little butcher out of business. That's why it matters how other people live and shop and eat- by going with the profit motive every time (like we've been taught to do since teacher in first grade taught us about points and grading) we are slowly killing off that small, reputable local butcher, as well as the family farmer who sends meat to him. And replacing the whole chain with the factory farm which raises the beef far away from the pasture in a veal fattening pen, zaps it with electricity to kill it, hoists it by crane onto the line where it's cut up by some illegal immigrant making less than minimum wage in the most unsanitary conditions possible under the lax USDA inspectors who are paid by the same company, to be sent to the local grocer prepackaged complete with ecoli and mad cow neurons.
In short- thank you for supporting your reputable local butchers- as nobody else will.
Time traviling space nazi aliens was really a part II from Season III- following the age old cliffhanger to protect the writer's jobs that started with the writer's strike of 1989 in the middle of STTNG. EVERY season where they have a contract to continue the series, of EVERY show, has had a season ending clifhanger since then, usually actually written well in advance but not delivered until the writers have signed their new contracts.
I've got a few good ideas- but they both drive the free traitors and the libertarians crazy:
Limit beef in the United States to be sold to the consumer within the state where it was raised- no interstate beef shipments, no cheap labor states competing with expensive labor states, no huge factories in the midwest selling to the big cities on the coasts.
Cut farm subsidies for any company/farm that exports outside of the United States- farm subsidies were supposed to be to maintain domestic control over the food supply, not to give agribusinesses a cheaper price than small substinence farmers in thrid world nations.
Limit growers to one head per half acre of land- correct grazing ratio, no larger herds allowed.
But like I said, all of these suggestions would drive the free market Randroids nuts. Our best bet WITHIN the free market structure is:
Find a local grower of organic beef. Inspect his farm yearly. Get a good sized freezer and buy from him once a year- a quarter beef can easily feed a family of four for a year, and at current small town butchering rates, is about half the cost of what you get in the grocery store.
Maybe the animals on old-school family farms where the animals are treated humanely and then killed swiftly with respect live happy lives, but today's factory farms are sick and demented.
I grew up on just such an old school family farm- always sickened our guests because we knew the NAME of the beef we were eating. I don't buy that factory farm crap output, because it is crap. Really bad for you. Factory farm animals are raised in small pens on high fat content feed- to increase their weight at market. 30% fat is not unusual for factory farm beef. My brother's beef, on the other hand, you need to add olive oil to if it's not going to stick to the pan or the grill- there's that little fat content in it.
Our animals were always treated as pets growing up- then eaten....and the cycle of life continues.
Intelligence- yes. Sentience- not sure. We know octopi have intelligence. We know they have manipulation abilities. But the third requirement for Sentience is communication- anybody have any examples of one octopi teaching another octopi something?
I couldn't remember the name of the company until you said it- and yes, that was it. As I remember, yes, you accurately described the problem at the time.
Today, of course, RFID prices have fallen immensely- embedding one in a clay chip would only raise the price of the chip $.15, and be far less than $1 per chip to produce in total.
Back in the mid 1990s (1995-1997) when I was working for Casino Software Corporation of America, one of our major competitors already had this kind of system up and operating. Though I think thiers was ACTIVE RFID instead of Passive (was passive available that early?) they had readers in their blackjack table and even a scanner in the shoe to know what cards were where and who to pay out to. I always thought their system was a security hole- if you could grab the image off of the pit boss's system you would know the cards of everybody at all the blackjack tables. But their system sure did prevent the common "double payout" scam that was running around at the time (where the con man went to the table of a dealer he was paying under the table- and knew that he could get the bets paid incorrectly).
When you send it international- yes, you usually have to fill out a customs declaration form of some sort. Certain phrases get less attention from the authorities/thieves than others of course- try to make it something NOT worth stealing or bothering with when you've got 50,000 other packages to search today....
But what the heck. I'd send it as a PDA with a huge storage card of some sort- but I'd disassemble the PDA first, send it in a few separate packages, marked "miscellaneous electronic parts" to avoid it being stolen, and to go for smaller packages thus minimizing shipping/customs costs. It can be reassembled at the other end. Plus, might be usefull to include something like This hand crank charger or This Solar charger considering that she has limited access to electricity. Far cheaper than shipping printout, books, or other items of the sort.
Chill, man, this is slashdot- and in the GP I already refered to the history (or rather, to the three separate alleged histories- your explaination being one of the three mentioned in the group along with me misremembering the string and it being "Mosaic" instead of "Mozilla", and "Mozilla Compatible" actually telling the truth about the interpretation of the HTML).
The most important shortage in the world is the shortage of leaders. Technical companies suffer more because few people who want to be leaders are technically knowledgeable.
Maybe if venture capitalism wasn't an old boy network of Yale and Harvard grads- and actually included a few technical schools and technical degree holders- we wouldn't have that situation. But because of the culture surrounding those two schools, we've got an ARTIFICIAL shortage of leaders, dragging down the C-level executive job market with unjustifiable salaries.
Honestly though, do you think Microsoft would leave such glaring and obvious evidence if they DID steal source from Mozilla?
Well, considering that they DID leave something so glaring an obvious as an identification string from a pirated audio program in WAV files installed on every user's machine, it is POSSIBLE. Whether they did it or not is an open question- and there are at least three reasons given elsewhere in this discussion as to why the word "Mozilla" might appear in the browser identity string that have NOTHING to do with Open Source or GPL'd software.
I think that last is right- I may be getting the two confused (with some help from Netscape headers which have always been Mozilla internally).
Ah, ok. that makes more sense....and I could be remembering the browser header wrong as well.
Except- no troll mod has been noted. And if you count characters, including the BR tags, it's less than 120.
It's more of a suspicion than an accusation- based on the header that a web server recieves from an IE 6.0 browser that mentions mozilla. It MAY be only be a passing nod to the fact that the Mozilla group is the one that created the original HTML standard, and were the winners of the HTML 4.0 standard from the World Wide Web commission- but I've always found the mention of Mozilla in IE code to be rather suspicious. Since IE is closed source, there's no real way of anybody outside of Microsoft having this answer at all.
And- didn't they already use an open source code base for Internet Explorer 6, thus being in violation of the GPL?