Oh, unless you're living in a dark cave we should all know now that the constitution is just an old, annoying piece of paper and congress is a pack of loony toons waiting for retirement while raiding any and all funds it can to get pork projects going, and vote selling. The gov. has completely ignored popular will for some time.
Ok, THAT is pretty cool. The ALU took a looong time to get it to do an anything, honestly I wasn't impressed with it. Anyone can take a collection of objects (rocks, twigs, small pets) and use them as place holders and perform logic operations with them. This however is a true digital calculator.
By arraning the "wires" and "torches" you build NOTs...
Which leads to my question, this appears to show that he's using pure binary logic; meaning this calculator is not an analog machine like the ALU (if you saw that vid it looked to me like the operator had to run to each part of the logic and flip a lever or light a torch or something), in this it looks like he's using the "wires" to carry actual signals around the logic. This look like a minecraft model of actual signal-bit operations. Am I getting this right?
Whos talking about cheap desktop monitors, and I'm not seeing any of the color and backlight issues you describe. I guess I need one of those cheap monitors your talking about.
Since I work for myself I have a hard time feeling guilty. I also appear to have money for dual displays and internet access so I'm thinking there's no problem.
Anyone else notice the freudian slip by Brian Donohue, author of the above linked article?
With public awareness about cyber legislation high after the dramatic failure of Stop Online PRIVACY Act (SOPA), interest in- and skepticism of new cybersecurity legislation is on the rise.
I can't stand having a two foot wide desktop with 6 inches of vertical height.
Your married to the classic CRT ratio, and you are of course overstating the actual ratio of new displays. You would do well to get used to letterbox ratios for a few reasons; 1) LCD tvs come in letterboxed ratios. The old 4:3 CRT/TV ratio is not coming back. 2) LCD TV'S have one or more HDMI ports, and netbooks have them as well. The best deal for a larger display is an LCD TV w/HDMI. I "dock" my netbook by simply plugging it in its hdmi port to my Vizio 24" LCD, something I picked up at Walmart for under $150, and bluetooth my kb and mouse. A comparable LCD from a computer specialty store was twice as much. The resolution is crisp as anything, and not only do I have two HDMI ports on this thing it also has an RGB analog port, an rf cable plug, and I can tune in TV broadcasts over the air, if I were so inclined. I bought three of these cheapie LCDs just for my computers. I have a hellacious dual head display on my main rig and the one for my netbook. 3) If for some reason you simply can't wrap your head around the 16:9 ratio I think you can force the 4:3 ration on some configurations. 4) You really should try to get used to t he letterbox; its pretty sweet to have a window going on one side where I'm hacking some code and another off the other side where I'm watching a movie or something. Its not nessessary to have another display (even though I do on my main/gaming rig anyway.) I have more screen real estate than I know what to do with.
Buying a phone to access porn or other "adult" material, well, I suppose its not out of the realm of possibility, but seriously, a phone? Seems like there are much simpler ways for kids to access adult material if they are bent on it. And I'll also bet the "problem" is a lot less than these reactionaries are making it out to be. FOR EXAMPLE: when I was a kid my mother bought a paper back copy of William Blatty's Novel The Exorcist (yes, I'm that old) after the film version was released in '73 and made a huge splash in the film world, featuring Mike Oldfield's title peice Tubular Bells in the soundtrack. My mother caught me reading it and took it out of my hands asking me if I was looking for the part where Reagan is stabbing herself in the vagina with the crucifix. I really wasn't, it was the hugest film in the world at the time and I just wanted to see what the hell it was all about, but the point is; kids are going to find porn if that's what they're trying to do, and 2; where was T-Mobile (or Bell Teleohone, or Virgin Atlantic, or whomever) when I was 13? I mean seriously? Is this th kind of world we want to live in? Anyway, I think its more about T-Mobile trying to protect themselves from lawsuites over any regard for moral censorship anyway.
It was my custom to bring a flask of fine scotch with me on flights. The first time after 9-11 I forgot about the new rules about liquids so the TSA made me pour it out. I said I'll just drink it, if its explosive I'll probably not be feeling to well after I do so. I got a small ovation from the passengers waiting behind me, and flipped off the TSA agent. *Things went better than I excpeted*
What these figures do not disclose is what percentage of these "visitors" are illegal aliens, which part are new Al Qaeda / CIA / Special Forces trainees (the "Farm", & "School of the Americas"), and which part are foreign troops training for USA "crowd control" and FEMA camp "operations".
I'm really curious to know how many Al Qaeda ops the TSA has caught by groping my aunt or my little sister. I think the percentages speak for themselves.
I don't. No need. I don't need that or a fb account to watch the shows I like either. Still manage to catch every new episode of "The Big Bang Theory" without either.
I did see the video, and its difficult to understand how the hydrolics worked at all. There was nothing connected to the guy's arms other than some thin wires. Literally nothing, at least from what I saw.
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Its ironic that you defend a law controlling one's speech and have a quote from 1984 as a sig. I mean, how do you people not get this?
Tell me about it. I've seen more than my share of comments from Brits here almost ALWAYS defend these ridiculous laws. And I always walk away amazed.
That's ok, we don;t really want you here.
Oh, unless you're living in a dark cave we should all know now that the constitution is just an old, annoying piece of paper and congress is a pack of loony toons waiting for retirement while raiding any and all funds it can to get pork projects going, and vote selling. The gov. has completely ignored popular will for some time.
Ok, THAT is pretty cool. The ALU took a looong time to get it to do an anything, honestly I wasn't impressed with it. Anyone can take a collection of objects (rocks, twigs, small pets) and use them as place holders and perform logic operations with them. This however is a true digital calculator.
By arraning the "wires" and "torches" you build NOTs...
Which leads to my question, this appears to show that he's using pure binary logic; meaning this calculator is not an analog machine like the ALU (if you saw that vid it looked to me like the operator had to run to each part of the logic and flip a lever or light a torch or something), in this it looks like he's using the "wires" to carry actual signals around the logic. This look like a minecraft model of actual signal-bit operations. Am I getting this right?
"Turing", as in Alan Turing, British Mathematician, not "touring", as in a sedan.
Whos talking about cheap desktop monitors, and I'm not seeing any of the color and backlight issues you describe. I guess I need one of those cheap monitors your talking about.
Since I work for myself I have a hard time feeling guilty. I also appear to have money for dual displays and internet access so I'm thinking there's no problem.
THEN you will toss them in a landfill. Actually, there are services that will dispose of old electronics in a resposible way for you.
With public awareness about cyber legislation high after the dramatic failure of Stop Online PRIVACY Act (SOPA), interest in- and skepticism of new cybersecurity legislation is on the rise.
Mistaken or on purpose, it is apt.
I'm surprised anyone is still using 4:3 CRTs. Seriously. Why?????
I can't stand having a two foot wide desktop with 6 inches of vertical height.
Your married to the classic CRT ratio, and you are of course overstating the actual ratio of new displays. You would do well to get used to letterbox ratios for a few reasons; 1) LCD tvs come in letterboxed ratios. The old 4:3 CRT/TV ratio is not coming back. 2) LCD TV'S have one or more HDMI ports, and netbooks have them as well. The best deal for a larger display is an LCD TV w/HDMI. I "dock" my netbook by simply plugging it in its hdmi port to my Vizio 24" LCD, something I picked up at Walmart for under $150, and bluetooth my kb and mouse. A comparable LCD from a computer specialty store was twice as much. The resolution is crisp as anything, and not only do I have two HDMI ports on this thing it also has an RGB analog port, an rf cable plug, and I can tune in TV broadcasts over the air, if I were so inclined. I bought three of these cheapie LCDs just for my computers. I have a hellacious dual head display on my main rig and the one for my netbook. 3) If for some reason you simply can't wrap your head around the 16:9 ratio I think you can force the 4:3 ration on some configurations. 4) You really should try to get used to t he letterbox; its pretty sweet to have a window going on one side where I'm hacking some code and another off the other side where I'm watching a movie or something. Its not nessessary to have another display (even though I do on my main/gaming rig anyway.) I have more screen real estate than I know what to do with.
Why not? I think we could do worse than Tom Beringer as head of ISOC.
Hey, I haven't seen a decent thread Godwined on /. in a while. We were about due.
Buying a phone to access porn or other "adult" material, well, I suppose its not out of the realm of possibility, but seriously, a phone? Seems like there are much simpler ways for kids to access adult material if they are bent on it. And I'll also bet the "problem" is a lot less than these reactionaries are making it out to be.
FOR EXAMPLE: when I was a kid my mother bought a paper back copy of William Blatty's Novel The Exorcist (yes, I'm that old) after the film version was released in '73 and made a huge splash in the film world, featuring Mike Oldfield's title peice Tubular Bells in the soundtrack. My mother caught me reading it and took it out of my hands asking me if I was looking for the part where Reagan is stabbing herself in the vagina with the crucifix. I really wasn't, it was the hugest film in the world at the time and I just wanted to see what the hell it was all about, but the point is; kids are going to find porn if that's what they're trying to do, and 2; where was T-Mobile (or Bell Teleohone, or Virgin Atlantic, or whomever) when I was 13? I mean seriously? Is this th kind of world we want to live in?
Anyway, I think its more about T-Mobile trying to protect themselves from lawsuites over any regard for moral censorship anyway.
I hear a sharp *swoosh* as the point screams passed your head...
Oh, that'll happen..
It was my custom to bring a flask of fine scotch with me on flights. The first time after 9-11 I forgot about the new rules about liquids so the TSA made me pour it out. I said I'll just drink it, if its explosive I'll probably not be feeling to well after I do so. I got a small ovation from the passengers waiting behind me, and flipped off the TSA agent. *Things went better than I excpeted*
What these figures do not disclose is what percentage of these "visitors" are illegal aliens, which part are new Al Qaeda / CIA / Special Forces trainees (the "Farm", & "School of the Americas"), and which part are foreign troops training for USA "crowd control" and FEMA camp "operations".
I'm really curious to know how many Al Qaeda ops the TSA has caught by groping my aunt or my little sister. I think the percentages speak for themselves.
Fb is obviously well along the way to begine Web 2.0 AOL's walled garden deal. And seriously, do we need it? Hell no.
I don't. No need. I don't need that or a fb account to watch the shows I like either. Still manage to catch every new episode of "The Big Bang Theory" without either.
No fb account, plenty of offers. Not that I haven't been asked for urls, but I just tell them I don't do fb, and they move on.
I did see the video, and its difficult to understand how the hydrolics worked at all. There was nothing connected to the guy's arms other than some thin wires. Literally nothing, at least from what I saw.