I think you missed the point. It's not that an unskilled construction worker would earn the same as an expert surgeon.
It's that a construction worker who spent half the time sleeping at work, forgot to add cement to concrete, stole and sold the wheelbarrow and built a meter of brick wall in a week would earn the same as a hard-working construction worker who did twenty times as much good work over that time. And he wouldn't lose job for being a piss-poor worker either.
There were better-paid jobs and worse-paid jobs, but once you got a job, your work quality didn't matter - you couldn't be fired for underperforming.
Communism didn't work for several reasons but two of about the biggest ones were:
- constant paranoia about getting sabotaged by outside enemies, which paralyzed progress by destroying mutual trust, on which communism must be built to succeed.
- constantly getting sabotaged by actual outside enemies - CIA funding religious extremists opposing the nation, never-ending propaganda about the paradise of the capitalist life, restrictions in trade of modern technologies, constant threat of war which stole lots of resources for army, which could otherwise be used on making lives better.
Of course there were other factors, but these two were nowhere near the least.
These weren't official ones. I developed them on my own. The tape recorder was notoriously difficult to get the data to load right. Some tapes, saved on a different recorder, would require special tricks to get the readout "within specs".
One, I had to mute audio in the TV set to which the Atari was hooked up. I guess electromagnetic interference from the speaker was a problem. On another, I'd have to hold the label with key functions on the recorder. The label was metal and connected to the recorder ground. By holding it, I was providing extra grounding that reduced the noise just enough to get the game to load. Luckily that one took only like 5 minutes to load:) The best one was copied from a floppy. The copy was good, but there was no 'loader' program and the game was too big to fit with a copier to copy it to a different tape, and recorded from the beginning of the tape, no room to save the loader. The solution was to take a random different tape with a generic loader, start loading it, then after counting 6 "beeps" QUICKLY remove it and put the right tape in - the timeout tolerance was like 2-3s, so you really had to hurry.
> I'm guessing you have a USB dongle, so try this and see what happens: > rmmod ir-usb > modprobe irda-usb > plug in dongle, monitor dmesg output > irattach irda0 -s > modprobe irnet > gnome-ppp
This and many other... unfortunately, unlike/dev/ircomm0,/dev/irnet seems to live by its own rules and not trying to emulate a serial line. gnome-ppp says "Cannot open/dev/irnet: Bad address". Supposedly pppd should be able to talk over it, but it's pretty hard to guess the right commands to send in the blind if I can't just connect with minicom and try AT by hand.
(switch wifi off)
I've never heard of this before. Which script are you running and how?
The nice rightclick into applet, [v]Enable Wireless. Also, from EEEBuntu EEEConfigure, hotkey Wireless (on/off) (/etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh ) for eee900 Its "moment of truth" is
but ls/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan ls: cannot access/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan: No such file or directory
There is a couple of other devices there, but nothing resembling wifi.
It's not that volume control doesn't work. It's the mute key on the keyboard that doesn't.
This should work, but maybe the keybindings aren't setup with the right keycodes. Try System|Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts first. If that doesn't work, have a look at this [ubuntu.com] to troubleshoot it.
It doesn't seem to be it. The key is there, when I press it, it displays the mute icon, but a fraction of second later it displays the channel unmuted. It looks like there is -something- (applet? demon?) that unmutes the audio as soon as the key mutes it.
Just out of curiosity...did you install from scratch or upgrade? Do you have the package eeepc-acpi-scripts installed?
I installed Intrepid-based eeebuntu from scratch, then upgraded to Jaunty. But most of the problems mentioned were present in Intrepid. The upgrade broke some things, fixed some others, didn't change great most.
Currently I'm planning to back up all my data and just reinstall it - the upgrade process was far from smooth and some of the diffs of config files I was prompted to resolve really got me to scratch my head.
What you're saying is "if you commit the misdemeanor (speeding to overtake), take the punishment like a man: die like a man and whoever dies with you be damned. You shouldn't have tried speeding in the first place."
A lethal injection needle in the driver's seat, set to activate when speeding is detected, would be more appropriate.
Any misdemeanor is permissible if you have a reasonable reason to believe committing it will prevent a tragic accident. You are allowed to trespass to save lives, you are allowed to damage property to avoid injury, you may kill one to save many. Yes, if alternative to speeding is death, speeding is permissible.
The caveat is that if you invoke "higher necessity" you're guilty unless proven innocent. Upon you is the burden of proof that indeed you had to do what you did was necessary, and that the alternative would (according to information available to you at that time) lead to much more serious consequences. It doesn't necessarily mean innocence, but a significant mitigating circumstance - reducing jail sentence to probation, reducing the fine to least permissible value and so on (if the steps you took were disproportionate to the danger).
Considering they DID release (and shipped out, and sold, without anyone from QA noticing) the actual _game_ that does not install on _any_ PC, your, your neighbors' nor your development test systems, and it hasn't killed their business yet... I don't think a patch that doesn't work on 10% of affected systems would mean suicide to their business.
So, I'm overtaking that other car. I go over the speed limit because I noticed an oncoming car on the opposite lane and decide I won't avoid collision if I stay within the speed limit, and it's too late to retreat. Then the engine power drops so that I can't finish the maneuver on time.
Coming next: brakes that make it impossible to brake rapidly, to avoid collision with a car tailgating you.
>>>>GPRS over IrDA >> System|Preferences|Network Configuration
No mention of IRDA whatsoever. I picked the settings for my cellular phone company from a nice friendly box, they appeared and look all right. But if I insert the IRDA dongle and place the phone by it, nothing happens.
I got as far as after modprobe irnet (and especially not ircomm-tty as most tutorials suggest) I see my phone in/proc/net/irda/discovery Still,/dev/irnet is not considered a device viable to be used as modem.
So, System|Preferences|Network Connections (there's no "Network Configuration" item), | Mobile Broadband, Add, "Era" (it's my provider). Insert dongle, pick "modem" function on the phone, select IRDA as method of connection, Activate, place facing the dongle.
What next? 'Cause nothing happens, and the Network Applet doesn't display any new options?
>>>> Toggle WiFi on/off. Windows: FN+F2. Linux: supposedly run a script in/etc/acpi. Doesn't work. >>Applet in the top right corner of the screen.
It disables network connection over WiFi. The card remains switched on, the blue LED is lit, the card continues to draw battery. I can launch Kismet for example and it will work just fine.
>>>>Rotate the screen 90 degrees. >>System|Preferences|Screen Resolution
OK. Wonders of Jaunty, I have all 4 orientations. Didn't work in Intrepid, it only gave me options of Normal and 180 degrees.
>>>> Mute. >>Applet in the top right corner of the screen.
Especially comfortable when you need to disable sound _fast_. Also works perfectly to stop the system from playing startup sound before desktop is loaded fully.
It's not that volume control doesn't work. It's the mute key on the keyboard that doesn't.
>>>>Use the camera >>Install the package Cheese.
I just did. sudo apt-get install cheese, then menu|graphics|Cheese. It loaded. It lit the camera LED. It displayed the whirly circle for a moment. Then it froze and took the desktop with it. Now there's no mouse cursor, the system doesn't react to keystrokes, it won't even switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1). Seriously, no trolling, it did just now.
No, I'm not doing this to annoy you. I'll be genuinely happy and grateful if you help me troubleshoot it all.
I expect integrated power-and-watercooling sockets all over the house. The forced flow, the air conditioning unit integrated with water cooling facility, pump and reservoir, also using the heated water as heat source for heat pump.
If you follow the bug list, somebody at long least got it through the thick skulls of people developing the Bluez stack, that forcing users to enter a PIN code on keyboard of devices that have no keyboard is a bad idea, and the alternate solution of "file a bug, wait half a year for a new release in which we hopefully include your device in the whitelist of pin-free devices" is not a good option either.
That was the only reason I upgraded (and had to deal with resulting breakage).
- configure GPRS modem over IRDA. In XP, place it close to the dongle, install a program from the CD, enter some info about your phone provider in a friendly dialog. In Linux I get somewhere between irdaping and irdadump with irattach not working correctly so that I could try to send AT commands to/dev/ircomm0
- install a serial port wacom tablet. XP, install the drivers, run callibration program. Linux - start off with editing xorg.conf manually, ignoring the big THIS FILE IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY DO NOT EDIT BY HAND warning.
- reconfigure a multitouch touchpad. Windows - launch a friendly configuration program. Linux - supposedly you install a package and then create a proper config file in/etc. When I followed the instructions, touchpad ceased to work.
- use GPS over bluetooth. Windows: insert the dongle, turn the GPS on, pair the device upon prompt, configure the program with several clicks. On Linux, start with dist-upgrade to Jaunty because Intrepid insists I enter a PID on keyboard of the GPS which has no keyboard. Then edit an entry in/etc so that the device gets bound to/dev/rfcomm0 automatically./etc/init.d/gpsd restart, because if it starts before the actual device is turned on, it won't connect. Then start the GPS program.
- Toggle WiFi on/off. Windows: FN+F2. Linux: supposedly run a script in/etc/acpi. Doesn't work.
- Rotate the screen 90 degrees. Windows: properties, rotate 90 degrees. Linux: nope, you can do 180 degrees only.
- Mute. Windows: FN+F7. Linux: Hold FN+F8 till volume drops to zero. Pressing FN+F7 turns it off for a fraction of second then it's back. There is a script that fixes that. It doesn't work.
- Use the camera: Windows: detected out of the box. Linux - don't even get me started, took me about 4 hours.
Windows XP on my netbook is ungodly slow (due to very slow SSD drive), so I use Linux. But even with a distro supposedly designed specifically for my netbook, about half of the peripherals either don't work or require you to jump through hoops to get them working.
It disabled hardware acceleration on my gfx card. It broke some configured programs. Considering adding extra whitespaces in config files more important than keeping the actual config. It simply _uninstalled_ tor and privoxy. It reset all the custom desktop (compiz) settings to defaults.
The only thing it got right is de-retardization of bluetooth. Otherwise, I feel no difference except some things that did work before don't work now.
Generally, on top of clicking "upgrade", you have to spend another 5 hours or so recovering the system to usable state.
A store is a private property. They CAN put "no photos" notice, or generally forbid you anything and everything a private person is allowed to forbid a trespasser on a private property. (The fact you're not trespassing is just that they, as a shop, allow you to enter, but they don't waive any other their rights that way).
OTOH, if there was no "no photos" notice anywhere, you are free to do anything within law unless they tell you to stop, so if they tell you "stop making photos", you should comply but they can't tell you to _start_ doing anything (except leaving the property), like "delete the photos you have taken".
Nope. You don't buy a product. You buy the right to participate (in a sect). The device you receive is merely a token of membership and medium over which you can partake in the flesh of Steve Jobs.
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Agreed. It's not about collecting all the stars.
OTOH, carrying the basketball ball all the way through System Shock 2 is.
Only color TVs which need to aim at a pixel of given color.
Think back to b&w TVs which had no pixels. Extinguish the beam on pixels you don't want lit.
I think you missed the point.
It's not that an unskilled construction worker would earn the same as an expert surgeon.
It's that a construction worker who spent half the time sleeping at work, forgot to add cement to concrete, stole and sold the wheelbarrow and built a meter of brick wall in a week would earn the same as a hard-working construction worker who did twenty times as much good work over that time. And he wouldn't lose job for being a piss-poor worker either.
There were better-paid jobs and worse-paid jobs, but once you got a job, your work quality didn't matter - you couldn't be fired for underperforming.
and the player would play only DVDs certified for Low Earth Orbit area.
Communism didn't work for several reasons but two of about the biggest ones were:
- constant paranoia about getting sabotaged by outside enemies, which paralyzed progress by destroying mutual trust, on which communism must be built to succeed.
- constantly getting sabotaged by actual outside enemies - CIA funding religious extremists opposing the nation, never-ending propaganda about the paradise of the capitalist life, restrictions in trade of modern technologies, constant threat of war which stole lots of resources for army, which could otherwise be used on making lives better.
Of course there were other factors, but these two were nowhere near the least.
These weren't official ones. I developed them on my own.
The tape recorder was notoriously difficult to get the data to load right. Some tapes, saved on a different recorder, would require special tricks to get the readout "within specs".
One, I had to mute audio in the TV set to which the Atari was hooked up. I guess electromagnetic interference from the speaker was a problem. :)
On another, I'd have to hold the label with key functions on the recorder. The label was metal and connected to the recorder ground. By holding it, I was providing extra grounding that reduced the noise just enough to get the game to load. Luckily that one took only like 5 minutes to load
The best one was copied from a floppy. The copy was good, but there was no 'loader' program and the game was too big to fit with a copier to copy it to a different tape, and recorded from the beginning of the tape, no room to save the loader. The solution was to take a random different tape with a generic loader, start loading it, then after counting 6 "beeps" QUICKLY remove it and put the right tape in - the timeout tolerance was like 2-3s, so you really had to hurry.
> I'm guessing you have a USB dongle, so try this and see what happens:
> rmmod ir-usb
> modprobe irda-usb
> plug in dongle, monitor dmesg output
> irattach irda0 -s
> modprobe irnet
> gnome-ppp
This and many other... unfortunately, unlike /dev/ircomm0, /dev/irnet seems to live by its own rules and not trying to emulate a serial line. gnome-ppp says "Cannot open /dev/irnet: Bad address". Supposedly pppd should be able to talk over it, but it's pretty hard to guess the right commands to send in the blind if I can't just connect with minicom and try AT by hand.
(switch wifi off)
I've never heard of this before. Which script are you running and how?
The nice rightclick into applet, [v]Enable Wireless. /etc/acpi/eee-wifi-on-off.sh ) for eee900
Also, from EEEBuntu EEEConfigure,
hotkey Wireless (on/off) (
Its "moment of truth" is
wifi_off() { /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
echo 0 >
}
but ls /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access
There is a couple of other devices there, but nothing resembling wifi.
It's not that volume control doesn't work. It's the mute key on the keyboard that doesn't.
This should work, but maybe the keybindings aren't setup with the right keycodes. Try System|Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts first. If that doesn't work, have a look at this [ubuntu.com] to troubleshoot it.
It doesn't seem to be it. The key is there, when I press it, it displays the mute icon, but a fraction of second later it displays the channel unmuted. It looks like there is -something- (applet? demon?) that unmutes the audio as soon as the key mutes it.
Just out of curiosity...did you install from scratch or upgrade? Do you have the package eeepc-acpi-scripts installed?
I installed Intrepid-based eeebuntu from scratch, then upgraded to Jaunty. But most of the problems mentioned were present in Intrepid. The upgrade broke some things, fixed some others, didn't change great most.
Currently I'm planning to back up all my data and just reinstall it - the upgrade process was far from smooth and some of the diffs of config files I was prompted to resolve really got me to scratch my head.
What you're saying is "if you commit the misdemeanor (speeding to overtake), take the punishment like a man: die like a man and whoever dies with you be damned. You shouldn't have tried speeding in the first place."
A lethal injection needle in the driver's seat, set to activate when speeding is detected, would be more appropriate.
A half-assed response 6 hours after the mistake plus a full fix 30 days later is less of a hit than a full fix 30 days later.
Fix 90% now and remaining 10% later vs fix 100% later?
The law includes a term of "higher necessity".
Any misdemeanor is permissible if you have a reasonable reason to believe committing it will prevent a tragic accident. You are allowed to trespass to save lives, you are allowed to damage property to avoid injury, you may kill one to save many. Yes, if alternative to speeding is death, speeding is permissible.
The caveat is that if you invoke "higher necessity" you're guilty unless proven innocent. Upon you is the burden of proof that indeed you had to do what you did was necessary, and that the alternative would (according to information available to you at that time) lead to much more serious consequences. It doesn't necessarily mean innocence, but a significant mitigating circumstance - reducing jail sentence to probation, reducing the fine to least permissible value and so on (if the steps you took were disproportionate to the danger).
I wonder, Europium being quite heavy and with radioactive isotopes, what pressure till you reach critical mass?
How many elements -could- be superconductors but due to their critical mass pressure being lower than their superconductivity pressure, can't be?
Considering they DID release (and shipped out, and sold, without anyone from QA noticing) the actual _game_ that does not install on _any_ PC, your, your neighbors' nor your development test systems, and it hasn't killed their business yet... I don't think a patch that doesn't work on 10% of affected systems would mean suicide to their business.
So, I'm overtaking that other car. I go over the speed limit because I noticed an oncoming car on the opposite lane and decide I won't avoid collision if I stay within the speed limit, and it's too late to retreat.
Then the engine power drops so that I can't finish the maneuver on time.
Coming next: brakes that make it impossible to brake rapidly, to avoid collision with a car tailgating you.
>>>>GPRS over IrDA
>> System|Preferences|Network Configuration
No mention of IRDA whatsoever. I picked the settings for my cellular phone company from a nice friendly box, they appeared and look all right. But if I insert the IRDA dongle and place the phone by it, nothing happens.
I got as far as after modprobe irnet (and especially not ircomm-tty as most tutorials suggest) I see my phone in /proc/net/irda/discovery /dev/irnet is not considered a device viable to be used as modem.
Still,
So, System|Preferences|Network Connections (there's no "Network Configuration" item), | Mobile Broadband, Add, "Era" (it's my provider). Insert dongle, pick "modem" function on the phone, select IRDA as method of connection, Activate, place facing the dongle.
What next? 'Cause nothing happens, and the Network Applet doesn't display any new options?
>>>> Toggle WiFi on/off. Windows: FN+F2. Linux: supposedly run a script in /etc/acpi. Doesn't work.
>>Applet in the top right corner of the screen.
It disables network connection over WiFi. The card remains switched on, the blue LED is lit, the card continues to draw battery. I can launch Kismet for example and it will work just fine.
>>>>Rotate the screen 90 degrees.
>>System|Preferences|Screen Resolution
OK. Wonders of Jaunty, I have all 4 orientations. Didn't work in Intrepid, it only gave me options of Normal and 180 degrees.
>>>> Mute.
>>Applet in the top right corner of the screen.
Especially comfortable when you need to disable sound _fast_.
Also works perfectly to stop the system from playing startup sound before desktop is loaded fully.
It's not that volume control doesn't work. It's the mute key on the keyboard that doesn't.
>>>>Use the camera
>>Install the package Cheese.
I just did. sudo apt-get install cheese, then menu|graphics|Cheese.
It loaded. It lit the camera LED. It displayed the whirly circle for a moment. Then it froze and took the desktop with it. Now there's no mouse cursor, the system doesn't react to keystrokes, it won't even switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1). Seriously, no trolling, it did just now.
No, I'm not doing this to annoy you. I'll be genuinely happy and grateful if you help me troubleshoot it all.
I expect integrated power-and-watercooling sockets all over the house. The forced flow, the air conditioning unit integrated with water cooling facility, pump and reservoir, also using the heated water as heat source for heat pump.
Heh.
I start coding right away.
About 60% into coding the problem I have more than 80% of the original code replaced.
I find the syntax-highlighting editor to be much clearer and better suited medium for sketching a solution than paper.
Well, Bluetooth was utterly broken.
If you follow the bug list, somebody at long least got it through the thick skulls of people developing the Bluez stack, that forcing users to enter a PIN code on keyboard of devices that have no keyboard is a bad idea, and the alternate solution of "file a bug, wait half a year for a new release in which we hopefully include your device in the whitelist of pin-free devices" is not a good option either.
That was the only reason I upgraded (and had to deal with resulting breakage).
Please tell me how to...
- configure GPRS modem over IRDA. In XP, place it close to the dongle, install a program from the CD, enter some info about your phone provider in a friendly dialog. In Linux I get somewhere between irdaping and irdadump with irattach not working correctly so that I could try to send AT commands to /dev/ircomm0
- install a serial port wacom tablet. XP, install the drivers, run callibration program. Linux - start off with editing xorg.conf manually, ignoring the big THIS FILE IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY DO NOT EDIT BY HAND warning.
- reconfigure a multitouch touchpad. Windows - launch a friendly configuration program. Linux - supposedly you install a package and then create a proper config file in /etc. When I followed the instructions, touchpad ceased to work.
- use GPS over bluetooth. Windows: insert the dongle, turn the GPS on, pair the device upon prompt, configure the program with several clicks. On Linux, start with dist-upgrade to Jaunty because Intrepid insists I enter a PID on keyboard of the GPS which has no keyboard. Then edit an entry in /etc so that the device gets bound to /dev/rfcomm0 automatically. /etc/init.d/gpsd restart, because if it starts before the actual device is turned on, it won't connect. Then start the GPS program.
- Toggle WiFi on/off. Windows: FN+F2. Linux: supposedly run a script in /etc/acpi. Doesn't work.
- Rotate the screen 90 degrees. Windows: properties, rotate 90 degrees. Linux: nope, you can do 180 degrees only.
- Mute. Windows: FN+F7. Linux: Hold FN+F8 till volume drops to zero. Pressing FN+F7 turns it off for a fraction of second then it's back. There is a script that fixes that. It doesn't work.
- Use the camera: Windows: detected out of the box. Linux - don't even get me started, took me about 4 hours.
Windows XP on my netbook is ungodly slow (due to very slow SSD drive), so I use Linux. But even with a distro supposedly designed specifically for my netbook, about half of the peripherals either don't work or require you to jump through hoops to get them working.
It disabled hardware acceleration on my gfx card.
It broke some configured programs. Considering adding extra whitespaces in config files more important than keeping the actual config.
It simply _uninstalled_ tor and privoxy.
It reset all the custom desktop (compiz) settings to defaults.
The only thing it got right is de-retardization of bluetooth. Otherwise, I feel no difference except some things that did work before don't work now.
Generally, on top of clicking "upgrade", you have to spend another 5 hours or so recovering the system to usable state.
Always remember to use a clean needle when you inject marijuana!
I wonder how many legal outlets do they have in these countries.
Like, how far would you have to travel to purchase a legal copy of Windows?
Also, how many average salaries one such copy is?
No! That's why it's pirated!
>>Downloads are not profitable. They have never been profitable.
Considering the enormous flop iTunes were, I guess you are right.
A store is a private property. They CAN put "no photos" notice, or generally forbid you anything and everything a private person is allowed to forbid a trespasser on a private property. (The fact you're not trespassing is just that they, as a shop, allow you to enter, but they don't waive any other their rights that way).
OTOH, if there was no "no photos" notice anywhere, you are free to do anything within law unless they tell you to stop, so if they tell you "stop making photos", you should comply but they can't tell you to _start_ doing anything (except leaving the property), like "delete the photos you have taken".
Nope. You don't buy a product. You buy the right to participate (in a sect). The device you receive is merely a token of membership and medium over which you can partake in the flesh of Steve Jobs.