So that's what's sending CW (yes, hams call Morse code CW for Continuous Wave). I hear that in the cube farm where I work and I'm constantly wondering what luser can't send SOS properly. =)
For the non Morse literate, M is two dahs, and O is 3.
Had a massive tech advantage over my opponents and was mopping up. Attacked a greek phalanx unit that was Fortified in the mountains with my F-16, and lost my F-16!!!! Clearly a spear thrown in the jet intake. D'oh!!!!!
Actually, The Fairness Doctrine is not censorship at all. It required broadcasters to present a multiplicity of viewpoints when dealing with controversial material. It was instituted because the electromagnetic spectrum is a public good, held in trust for all americans of all viewpoints by the US Government, and thus, there is a compelling public interest in avoiding broadcasting only wrong information. I don't think there is a legal leg to stand on to regulate cable systems as those are wholly privately owned and don't consume spectrum. Satellite, perhaps, but that's easily gotten around by broadcasters operating outside the US's jurisdiction.
I agree with you in that I don't favor content regulation either, but I don't think the Fairness Doctrine counts as such since a broadcaster could say any silly non-libelous thing they want as long as they give equal time.
While I don't think companies are particularly eager to end planned obsolecence (Please, won't somebody think of the Profits!), some groups are making open source hardware. The GNU Radio project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ makes wholly software-configurable radios. Nifty things for ham radio operators such as myself.
Gotta disagree with you there friend. Heifer International has many options that don't require grains or much in the way of land. I personally like sending people a brace of rabbits, but there are beehives, trees, goats, sheep and pigs. Sure, everyone knows the 4lbs corn:1lb beef ratio that is so prevalent in vegan literature, but you have to remember that's the model of first-world agribusiness, not traditional farming. Heck, for most of the beef industry's history in the US, cattle were grass-fed. And people don't get much nourishment out of grass.
There's really no way to know if he'll actually be better. But it's not very likely he'll be worse. Most of Bush's flaws are willful actions. Not erring as badly may be sufficient to be better. But here's a good reason to vote against Bush: he is in bed with the oil industry and so will not end our dependency on foreign oil. Even he says he will merely reduce it, which I judge to be wholly unlikely. Another is that he has imprisoned american citizens for years on end without judicial review or access to a lawyer. A third is that he has a history of smearing the reputations by proxy of honorable patriots such as John McCain for political gain.
That's not GM posing a threat, that's patent law and patent enforcement getting out of hand again. This is Slashdot, we should be able to differentiate between the technology and the poor policy decisions and laws surrounding it.
Safely? yeah, if you consider massive capillary breakage, and hence bruising and (in space in the vicinity of a star) hellacious sunburn to be safe. You're not going to explode in a vacuum, but it's not exactly Jim Dandy either
Voyager ejected their core at least once. They had to go back and get it with a tractor beam, as it didn't actually explode like they thought it would. In the meantime they were even more screwed than usual being 70,000 light years from home without even FTL.
Just another circular regression. What is the primary cause of the Universe:God? What evidence do you find for God: the Universe! Sometimes A just equals A.
And including a creator begs the question, "Where did the creator come from?" An infinite regression either way. The difference is, we have evidence of at least one example of a Universe, but none of a Universal creator.
Some of us alternative OS users were actually affected by the virus, even if we weren't infected. In addition to the Net slowdown, the friggin SoBig.f virus forges emails. So if you have any windows using acquantainces, or even people who received a forward with your address on it, the SoBig.f virus will cheerfully send out copies of itself purportedly from you! It doesn't just stop at the address book either, but allegedly scans documents on the drive to harvest addresses. Evil, evil thing. So, no computational loss, but potential harm to reputation, even though it's easy to prove via the headers that it did not originate from you, the vast majority of those windows users who get infected with emails bearing your From: line don't know a header from a hole in the head.
Yes, I think it would totally distract me from my work to listen to music that I liked. It would be infinitely more interesting than the somewhat mechanical series of steps I'm involved it. Also, for some reason I find that the effort exerted by ignoring the music that I dislike for some reason focuses me on my task. I wouldn't have the incentive to ignore music that I liked and would focus on that instead.
In my particular case, I find that blocking the creativity is a good thing. I work as a sysadmin and webmaster and many parts of my job require doing many small tasks and attending to many small details all in the correct order in order to accomplish my goal. This requires care and concentration so that I don't skip a step. Unfortunately, each individual step doesn't tie up much of my mental CPU, so the other 99% of my brain thinks about new inventions, geopolitical trend, boot-strapping a space-based civilization, and women. All of these are so much more interesting that the task at hand seems pointless, and I lose my place. To combat this, when doing one of these "astromech" tasks as I call them (a droid can do this work!), I listen to streaming techno music from the Internet. As music, I hate techno, as it's repetitive and boring so the effort of blocking it out makes the task at hand much more interesting by comparison. Simultaneously, the pace and beat of the music keep me awake and focused. Obviously I don't listen to this while doing a creative task like planning or designing or composing a letter, but if I'm doing the grunt work of configuring a server or setting up user accounts it makes it much more likely for the job to get done.
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So that's what's sending CW (yes, hams call Morse code CW for Continuous Wave). I hear that in the cube farm where I work and I'm constantly wondering what luser can't send SOS properly. =)
For the non Morse literate, M is two dahs, and O is 3.
Had a massive tech advantage over my opponents and was mopping up. Attacked a greek phalanx unit that was Fortified in the mountains with my F-16, and lost my F-16!!!! Clearly a spear thrown in the jet intake. D'oh!!!!!
Yeah, I saw that movie, back when it was called D.A.R.Y.L. The kid stole an SR-71 and ejected from it. W00t.
Actually, The Fairness Doctrine is not censorship at all. It required broadcasters to present a multiplicity of viewpoints when dealing with controversial material. It was instituted because the electromagnetic spectrum is a public good, held in trust for all americans of all viewpoints by the US Government, and thus, there is a compelling public interest in avoiding broadcasting only wrong information. I don't think there is a legal leg to stand on to regulate cable systems as those are wholly privately owned and don't consume spectrum. Satellite, perhaps, but that's easily gotten around by broadcasters operating outside the US's jurisdiction. I agree with you in that I don't favor content regulation either, but I don't think the Fairness Doctrine counts as such since a broadcaster could say any silly non-libelous thing they want as long as they give equal time.
Prohibition was *repealed* under FDR. With another constitutional amendment. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
While I don't think companies are particularly eager to end planned obsolecence (Please, won't somebody think of the Profits!), some groups are making open source hardware. The GNU Radio project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ makes wholly software-configurable radios. Nifty things for ham radio operators such as myself.
Gotta disagree with you there friend. Heifer International has many options that don't require grains or much in the way of land. I personally like sending people a brace of rabbits, but there are beehives, trees, goats, sheep and pigs. Sure, everyone knows the 4lbs corn:1lb beef ratio that is so prevalent in vegan literature, but you have to remember that's the model of first-world agribusiness, not traditional farming. Heck, for most of the beef industry's history in the US, cattle were grass-fed. And people don't get much nourishment out of grass.
There's really no way to know if he'll actually be better. But it's not very likely he'll be worse. Most of Bush's flaws are willful actions. Not erring as badly may be sufficient to be better. But here's a good reason to vote against Bush: he is in bed with the oil industry and so will not end our dependency on foreign oil. Even he says he will merely reduce it, which I judge to be wholly unlikely. Another is that he has imprisoned american citizens for years on end without judicial review or access to a lawyer. A third is that he has a history of smearing the reputations by proxy of honorable patriots such as John McCain for political gain.
That's not GM posing a threat, that's patent law and patent enforcement getting out of hand again. This is Slashdot, we should be able to differentiate between the technology and the poor policy decisions and laws surrounding it.
Safely? yeah, if you consider massive capillary breakage, and hence bruising and (in space in the vicinity of a star) hellacious sunburn to be safe. You're not going to explode in a vacuum, but it's not exactly Jim Dandy either
Over 10K a year, gasp! =p
Dude, does this mean you are comparing the Bush administration to Nazis? [ObPoliticalHysteria Off]
That aside, people can occasionally come to rational conclusions about politics. It just doesn't happen very often.
No, no, plotting our nuclear doom makes money see, while feeding the homeless is just a cost center. Visualize whirled peas.
Voyager ejected their core at least once. They had to go back and get it with a tractor beam, as it didn't actually explode like they thought it would. In the meantime they were even more screwed than usual being 70,000 light years from home without even FTL.
Just another circular regression. What is the primary cause of the Universe:God? What evidence do you find for God: the Universe! Sometimes A just equals A.
And including a creator begs the question, "Where did the creator come from?" An infinite regression either way. The difference is, we have evidence of at least one example of a Universe, but none of a Universal creator.
Because Apple is a for-profit company and sells Macintoshes. Making it Mac-only will encourage that.
Some of us alternative OS users were actually affected by the virus, even if we weren't infected. In addition to the Net slowdown, the friggin SoBig.f virus forges emails. So if you have any windows using acquantainces, or even people who received a forward with your address on it, the SoBig.f virus will cheerfully send out copies of itself purportedly from you! It doesn't just stop at the address book either, but allegedly scans documents on the drive to harvest addresses. Evil, evil thing. So, no computational loss, but potential harm to reputation, even though it's easy to prove via the headers that it did not originate from you, the vast majority of those windows users who get infected with emails bearing your From: line don't know a header from a hole in the head.
Yes, I think it would totally distract me from my work to listen to music that I liked. It would be infinitely more interesting than the somewhat mechanical series of steps I'm involved it. Also, for some reason I find that the effort exerted by ignoring the music that I dislike for some reason focuses me on my task. I wouldn't have the incentive to ignore music that I liked and would focus on that instead.
But that's probably just me.
In my particular case, I find that blocking the creativity is a good thing. I work as a sysadmin and webmaster and many parts of my job require doing many small tasks and attending to many small details all in the correct order in order to accomplish my goal. This requires care and concentration so that I don't skip a step. Unfortunately, each individual step doesn't tie up much of my mental CPU, so the other 99% of my brain thinks about new inventions, geopolitical trend, boot-strapping a space-based civilization, and women. All of these are so much more interesting that the task at hand seems pointless, and I lose my place. To combat this, when doing one of these "astromech" tasks as I call them (a droid can do this work!), I listen to streaming techno music from the Internet. As music, I hate techno, as it's repetitive and boring so the effort of blocking it out makes the task at hand much more interesting by comparison. Simultaneously, the pace and beat of the music keep me awake and focused. Obviously I don't listen to this while doing a creative task like planning or designing or composing a letter, but if I'm doing the grunt work of configuring a server or setting up user accounts it makes it much more likely for the job to get done.