One could dissipate heat by having hundreds of monofilament wires to wick the heat away from such craft. Doing that should provide more time for the sensor array to gather and transmit more data.
Of course, we could select Tom Cruise and other scientologists as crew.
---You must understand that for business it isn't strictly the one off cost of a product that is an issue.
I've seen your types here before. It's the "Real total ROI" game. There's plenty of places to see why you're wrong. You can do that research.
---A bigger issue that companies pay for is the support and the management of their software. Also the case of buying in large amounts especially for government allows for even cheaper cost per unit.
This is the common excuse MS and likes use to develop a cost for free software. Guess what? You need experienced admins, and they cost a lot. It doesnt matter if it's Linux or Windows. Experience costs.
---The trouble with being stuck with a nix style system is the lack of support and the excessive technical knowladge required to support who ever has purchased the system. Where as windows and microsoft products are supported by many and it is considerably cheaper than nix support.
The support IS the source. If the free devs are going somewhere you dont like, fork it internally and hire a coder if the admin is too busy, or farm it out to a 3rd world.
Hmm. Gun control laws... I thought it was mandatory that every able citizen keep a fully automatic weapon+bullets in Switzerland. But we dont see the violence levels there as we do in America. I wonder if we can attribute that to American Media? (I would, due to Bhutan- look it up on wikipedia).
Guns/weapons do not make violence. Violence comes from people who act violent. Stopping the majority of this violence will require reviewing the source of the violent actions in people, regardless of preconceptions. Is it from the media? Is it from less religious influence? Is it from single parent households? Is it from the disparity of wealth?
And Hate speech, according to whom? Should we not allow vitriol that some people spout be public, for surely intelligent people would realize it for what it is? I mean, we in the USA have the KKK, who hates blacks and Catholics. Fair enough. We even allow them to demonstrate *peacefully*, even though everybody knows what they say is just wrong on all points. We view that they have a point, even if horridly invalid.
Determining "Hate Speech" is just like "Obscenity Laws". Ill know it when I see it.
Unix and C has been with us since the beginning. Anybody who didnt realize that fact shouldn't be in computers, period.
C will cannibalize any prior language on any platform (from stamps to supers). After that, Unix will not be long to follow, due to simple methods of controlling hardware/software.
Also, the MacOS is dead. Dead through and through. Unix and Windows are the only 2 choices. Just so happens that a company used the FreeBSD base and added a snazzy GUI.
Even since that, guess what is next to die? Microsoft. Why? OSS people need only make the 90% solution, because that "90% @ free" is better than "100% @ big_money" according to many many people. When people realize that one doent need a 200$ operating system to take care of most tasks, they will switch. Acer, Dell, IBM, Asus, and the rest of the gang will make sure of that.
Well, that's the rub: I care not what they want to do in the private building where the National Council does.
I also dont care if they wish to rent or purchase governmental property under leases, as long as the govt does not discriminate according to the Fair Housing Commission (whatever that act is called).
I also dont care if they ARE sexist, religious bigots.
But as long as they ask to use Public Property for donation (using a school area rent free), that they cannot discriminate.
Then you come to moral questions. There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching -- an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence. You do not, for instance find that attitude in Socrates. You find him quite bland and urbane toward the people who would not listen to him; and it is, to my mind, far more worthy of a sage to take that line than to take the line of indignation. You probably all remember the sorts of things that Socrates was saying when he was dying, and the sort of things that he generally did say to people who did not agree with him.
You will find that in the Gospels Christ said, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell." That was said to people who did not like His preaching. It is not really to my mind quite the best tone, and there are a great many of these things about Hell. There is, of course, the familiar text about the sin against the Holy Ghost: "Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this World nor in the world to come." That text has caused an unspeakable amount of misery in the world, for all sorts of people have imagined that they have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, and thought that it would not be forgiven them either in this world or in the world to come. I really do not think that a person with a proper degree of kindliness in his nature would have put fears and terrors of that sort into the world.
Then Christ says, "The Son of Man shall send forth his His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth"; and He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It comes in one verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there is a certain pleasure in contemplating wailing and gnashing of teeth, or else it would not occur so often. Then you all, of course, remember about the sheep and the goats; how at the second coming He is going to divide the sheep from the goats, and He is going to say to the goats, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire." He continues, "And these shall go away into everlasting fire." Then He says again, "If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched." He repeats that again and again also. I must say that I think all this doctrine, that hell-fire is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty. It is a doctrine that put cruelty into the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture; and the Christ of the Gospels, if you could take Him as His chroniclers represent Him, would certainly have to be considered partly responsible for that.
There are other things of less importance. There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea. You must remember that He was omnipotent, and He could have made the devils simply go away; but He chose to send them into the pigs. Then there is the curious story of the fig tree, which always rather puzzled me. You remember what happened about the fig tree. "He was hungry; and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came if haply He might fin
Actually, I'm still technically Catholic. I understand the religion. After going through Confirmation 4 years after I should have (if we were in the church at the time), I had private lessons from the Sister at our church.
She stressed that I study the bible, Catholic Books from the church Library in Indianapolis, and study other faiths as to compare between them. Fair enough. After studying further (4 years later) I choose to convert. It's not because of some kiddy diddler. It's the faith, stupid.
Boy Scouts use public land (eg. public schools, parks).
Federal law says one cannot discriminate on religion (with exemption of private groups).
When Boy Scouts exclusively use public land (school area is occupied and only for Boy Scouts), explain why they need not adhere to the religious discrimination policy?
After reading the majority of the Old and New Testament (which I encourage EVERYBODY to do, regardless of religious affiliation), I cannot and will not accept the words in the Bible. The old Testament comes down to this: How bloody can you make everybody else to serve the Lord? We only need to look at Exodus, Job, Samuel or other books. It's just like a snuff book.
And then comes the New Testament... peace and redemption for those who accept Jesus. Oh, if you dont, BURN IN HELL. Parts of His message sound like half-assed tries at Buddhism, which He failed at. And unlike the Death and Destruction in the Old Testament, Jesus is fixated with Satan and Hellfire. Wonderful. Does this sound like someone who you would worship?
What would be the take on our society if somebody worshiped a God that was "peaceful" until you broke XYZ religious law, then commanded to death in the afterlife? I'd call them crazy, but that's the whole church.
I dont recall the actual distinctions between a Merit Badge and a patch. We worked our asses off for each "flair" we got, regardless of the name associated.
Our Troop fell apart after the parent responsible for it couldnt do it any more. Since there was nobody else, we just quit.
I'm amazed that somebody didnt say that sooner than I. I just searched "Boy Scouts MPAA merit badge" and the ars link was first.
The internet is a nice recording tool, especially for bad behavior the majority of us want to stop. Too bad that most people have bad memories to even recall such events.
I dont think so. Cell phones have something on computers: they have a service that can go away if you dont pay the monthly fee.
Computers one buys from a store does not. Microsoft and a few other companies have played around with "software as a service", but the smart ones snubbed it. Instead, it'll stay Linux and get cheaper and cheaper.
---There have actually been cases where people tried to upload Baen ebooks to pirate sites and were shot down by the pirates because they feel that Baen, by charging a reasonable fee, is doing it right, and that pirating their stuff is like killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
That reminds me of something. I had a 300 level class in middle to late ages Europe that discussed a phenomenon that occurred in Europe during the 1770's. Because of pressures of economics and agriculture, bread/grain prices skyrocketed throughout the continent. However, many many villages and cities were unhappy about it, so vast mobs would break in grain stores and shops "stealing" the grain. Now, I quote stealing because the mobs would leave what they considered a fair price for the grain, as they saw the shops raising prices a form of gouging. At that time in history, taking advantage of people for bad situations was unethical and immoral (and the majority thought was illegal) and the mobs saw it was their job to 'do it right'.
We see that yet again in terms of digital goods. The pirates are the citizens of yesteryear who think they've been had. They in response "release" what should have been free, at the same time protecting those who do treat the citizens fair.
It's a perverted set of morals and ethics but very grounded in history. Reading about the good will that Baen has garnered along with your description of pirates protecting them reminded me of that history lesson.
I wasnt looking specifically for bluetooth, but was rating on price and quality the choices for laptops. I find it shoddy quality to have "options" for a laptop in which isnt even offered. I chose HP because it seemed to be the best crafted laptop for its price, but I was wrong.
Like I said before, I ended up getting a Thinkpad and love it. And frankly, I know more than their staff, and that's because I was friends with them in earlier uni classes. (and they sometimes call me for help)
Yeah. I dont think so. There's a little problem with that module, and the Windows registry. That problem is: what in the hell does that specific GUID actually do? Those little configs in/etc have nice descriptions in them. Just take a look at fstab or httpd.conf or others to see the commenting and thoughtful names associated to each configure option. The Windows Registry has no such thing, even in help. Linux has man, which has many many config help pages.
---Windows 2008 Server has this, I believe.
Buy a new version? Yeah, now that's a help. And you're not even sure if it IS in there, are you? We've even managed to shoehorn a modular Linux system within a WRT54G (the ones that did run Linux) along with optional hardware mods that do all sorts of extra things. Windows cant do a damned thing without a mouse (it can very limitedly, is unusable unlike CLI in Linux). You should know that.
---win-get is like an apt-get for Windows.
I honestly did not know about that. It looks pretty spiffy.
--- Um, that's just plain wrong. You're obviously not a programmer or a sysadmin.
I have worked as a junior sysadmin for Linux, SunOS, and AIX systems (specifically older systems that have custom apps that refuse to run on Solaris and newer versions of AIX). I can code a respectful amount of C, but a programmer I am not. I do know Windows from a user perspective along with tinkering on the lower 9X branches. For me, I prefer Linux for a desktop and Windows for the few required tools (tax software, vertical apps).
I dont pretend to know about the intricacies of Windows programming, nor does programming interest me.
And that's why I went the corporate laptop route. IBM/lenovo has warranties up to 5 years on hardware (I bought 3). I figure a company that stands behind their products like that has good equipment in them. Also, Thinkpads are well supported in Linux (Ubuntu especially).
I ended up buying T61, 2GB ram, 120GB hd, Intel gfx (salesman said go with this for 100% Linux support- stay away from nVidia) and a slot-battery along with 9 cell. I get upwards 8-10 hours on lowest contrast setting and 3d disabled. Things just work. The only bad thing I see is I have no Svideo port when my old HP laptop did and I'm not that concerned about that. Even my HD accelerometer works after some compiling (yah, its experimental).
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One could dissipate heat by having hundreds of monofilament wires to wick the heat away from such craft. Doing that should provide more time for the sensor array to gather and transmit more data.
Of course, we could select Tom Cruise and other scientologists as crew.
Karl or Groucho?
And KDE/Linux cant run GTK2 programs without the required libraries.
So, in your opinion, would it be better overall to legalize and regulate all classes of drugs (regulation of purity, not restriction)?
Is the possibility of further abuse worth the tradeoff of getting rid of organized drug crimes?
Thanks. Evidently he wasn't well versed in his Unix Variants.
---You must understand that for business it isn't strictly the one off cost of a product that is an issue.
I've seen your types here before. It's the "Real total ROI" game. There's plenty of places to see why you're wrong. You can do that research.
---A bigger issue that companies pay for is the support and the management of their software. Also the case of buying in large amounts especially for government allows for even cheaper cost per unit.
This is the common excuse MS and likes use to develop a cost for free software. Guess what? You need experienced admins, and they cost a lot. It doesnt matter if it's Linux or Windows. Experience costs.
---The trouble with being stuck with a nix style system is the lack of support and the excessive technical knowladge required to support who ever has purchased the system. Where as windows and microsoft products are supported by many and it is considerably cheaper than nix support.
The support IS the source. If the free devs are going somewhere you dont like, fork it internally and hire a coder if the admin is too busy, or farm it out to a 3rd world.
Crashed?
The Red Rings were a FEATURE! I tell ya!
The original post said the following:
"Europe does a lot of stupid things,..."
What you said does not invalidate my statements, as Switzerland IS in Europe (the last I checked). They just havent entered in the EU.
Hmm. Gun control laws... I thought it was mandatory that every able citizen keep a fully automatic weapon+bullets in Switzerland. But we dont see the violence levels there as we do in America. I wonder if we can attribute that to American Media? (I would, due to Bhutan- look it up on wikipedia).
Guns/weapons do not make violence. Violence comes from people who act violent. Stopping the majority of this violence will require reviewing the source of the violent actions in people, regardless of preconceptions. Is it from the media? Is it from less religious influence? Is it from single parent households? Is it from the disparity of wealth?
And Hate speech, according to whom? Should we not allow vitriol that some people spout be public, for surely intelligent people would realize it for what it is? I mean, we in the USA have the KKK, who hates blacks and Catholics. Fair enough. We even allow them to demonstrate *peacefully*, even though everybody knows what they say is just wrong on all points. We view that they have a point, even if horridly invalid.
Determining "Hate Speech" is just like "Obscenity Laws". Ill know it when I see it.
Unix and C has been with us since the beginning. Anybody who didnt realize that fact shouldn't be in computers, period.
C will cannibalize any prior language on any platform (from stamps to supers). After that, Unix will not be long to follow, due to simple methods of controlling hardware/software.
Also, the MacOS is dead. Dead through and through. Unix and Windows are the only 2 choices. Just so happens that a company used the FreeBSD base and added a snazzy GUI.
Even since that, guess what is next to die? Microsoft. Why? OSS people need only make the 90% solution, because that "90% @ free" is better than "100% @ big_money" according to many many people. When people realize that one doent need a 200$ operating system to take care of most tasks, they will switch. Acer, Dell, IBM, Asus, and the rest of the gang will make sure of that.
Well, that's the rub: I care not what they want to do in the private building where the National Council does.
I also dont care if they wish to rent or purchase governmental property under leases, as long as the govt does not discriminate according to the Fair Housing Commission (whatever that act is called).
I also dont care if they ARE sexist, religious bigots.
But as long as they ask to use Public Property for donation (using a school area rent free), that they cannot discriminate.
Wrong. The Ansible was in Orson Scott Card's novel series Enders Game.
This is a snippet from Bertrand Russel, titled "Why I am not a Christian"
The Moral Problem
Then you come to moral questions. There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching -- an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence. You do not, for instance find that attitude in Socrates. You find him quite bland and urbane toward the people who would not listen to him; and it is, to my mind, far more worthy of a sage to take that line than to take the line of indignation. You probably all remember the sorts of things that Socrates was saying when he was dying, and the sort of things that he generally did say to people who did not agree with him.
You will find that in the Gospels Christ said, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell." That was said to people who did not like His preaching. It is not really to my mind quite the best tone, and there are a great many of these things about Hell. There is, of course, the familiar text about the sin against the Holy Ghost: "Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this World nor in the world to come." That text has caused an unspeakable amount of misery in the world, for all sorts of people have imagined that they have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, and thought that it would not be forgiven them either in this world or in the world to come. I really do not think that a person with a proper degree of kindliness in his nature would have put fears and terrors of that sort into the world.
Then Christ says, "The Son of Man shall send forth his His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth"; and He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It comes in one verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there is a certain pleasure in contemplating wailing and gnashing of teeth, or else it would not occur so often. Then you all, of course, remember about the sheep and the goats; how at the second coming He is going to divide the sheep from the goats, and He is going to say to the goats, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire." He continues, "And these shall go away into everlasting fire." Then He says again, "If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched." He repeats that again and again also. I must say that I think all this doctrine, that hell-fire is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty. It is a doctrine that put cruelty into the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture; and the Christ of the Gospels, if you could take Him as His chroniclers represent Him, would certainly have to be considered partly responsible for that.
There are other things of less importance. There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea. You must remember that He was omnipotent, and He could have made the devils simply go away; but He chose to send them into the pigs. Then there is the curious story of the fig tree, which always rather puzzled me. You remember what happened about the fig tree. "He was hungry; and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came if haply He might fin
Actually, I'm still technically Catholic. I understand the religion. After going through Confirmation 4 years after I should have (if we were in the church at the time), I had private lessons from the Sister at our church.
She stressed that I study the bible, Catholic Books from the church Library in Indianapolis, and study other faiths as to compare between them. Fair enough. After studying further (4 years later) I choose to convert. It's not because of some kiddy diddler. It's the faith, stupid.
Boy Scouts use public land (eg. public schools, parks).
Federal law says one cannot discriminate on religion (with exemption of private groups).
When Boy Scouts exclusively use public land (school area is occupied and only for Boy Scouts), explain why they need not adhere to the religious discrimination policy?
Have you even read the Bible?
After reading the majority of the Old and New Testament (which I encourage EVERYBODY to do, regardless of religious affiliation), I cannot and will not accept the words in the Bible. The old Testament comes down to this: How bloody can you make everybody else to serve the Lord? We only need to look at Exodus, Job, Samuel or other books. It's just like a snuff book.
And then comes the New Testament... peace and redemption for those who accept Jesus. Oh, if you dont, BURN IN HELL. Parts of His message sound like half-assed tries at Buddhism, which He failed at. And unlike the Death and Destruction in the Old Testament, Jesus is fixated with Satan and Hellfire. Wonderful. Does this sound like someone who you would worship?
What would be the take on our society if somebody worshiped a God that was "peaceful" until you broke XYZ religious law, then commanded to death in the afterlife? I'd call them crazy, but that's the whole church.
And I was in Boy Scouts for 2 years also.
I dont recall the actual distinctions between a Merit Badge and a patch. We worked our asses off for each "flair" we got, regardless of the name associated.
Our Troop fell apart after the parent responsible for it couldnt do it any more. Since there was nobody else, we just quit.
I'm amazed that somebody didnt say that sooner than I. I just searched "Boy Scouts MPAA merit badge" and the ars link was first.
The internet is a nice recording tool, especially for bad behavior the majority of us want to stop. Too bad that most people have bad memories to even recall such events.
Until they remove the "MPAA approved" copyright merit badge, dont help them in any way.
Or... Does anybody remember THIS? I do.
Great comic strip who didnt believe him HERE.
Got any lime?
I dont think so. Cell phones have something on computers: they have a service that can go away if you dont pay the monthly fee.
Computers one buys from a store does not. Microsoft and a few other companies have played around with "software as a service", but the smart ones snubbed it. Instead, it'll stay Linux and get cheaper and cheaper.
---There have actually been cases where people tried to upload Baen ebooks to pirate sites and were shot down by the pirates because they feel that Baen, by charging a reasonable fee, is doing it right, and that pirating their stuff is like killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
That reminds me of something. I had a 300 level class in middle to late ages Europe that discussed a phenomenon that occurred in Europe during the 1770's. Because of pressures of economics and agriculture, bread/grain prices skyrocketed throughout the continent. However, many many villages and cities were unhappy about it, so vast mobs would break in grain stores and shops "stealing" the grain. Now, I quote stealing because the mobs would leave what they considered a fair price for the grain, as they saw the shops raising prices a form of gouging. At that time in history, taking advantage of people for bad situations was unethical and immoral (and the majority thought was illegal) and the mobs saw it was their job to 'do it right'.
We see that yet again in terms of digital goods. The pirates are the citizens of yesteryear who think they've been had. They in response "release" what should have been free, at the same time protecting those who do treat the citizens fair.
It's a perverted set of morals and ethics but very grounded in history. Reading about the good will that Baen has garnered along with your description of pirates protecting them reminded me of that history lesson.
Boy, arent we getting a little hostile?
I wasnt looking specifically for bluetooth, but was rating on price and quality the choices for laptops. I find it shoddy quality to have "options" for a laptop in which isnt even offered. I chose HP because it seemed to be the best crafted laptop for its price, but I was wrong.
Like I said before, I ended up getting a Thinkpad and love it. And frankly, I know more than their staff, and that's because I was friends with them in earlier uni classes. (and they sometimes call me for help)
--- Meet the _winreg Python module.
/etc have nice descriptions in them. Just take a look at fstab or httpd.conf or others to see the commenting and thoughtful names associated to each configure option. The Windows Registry has no such thing, even in help. Linux has man, which has many many config help pages.
Yeah. I dont think so. There's a little problem with that module, and the Windows registry. That problem is: what in the hell does that specific GUID actually do? Those little configs in
---Windows 2008 Server has this, I believe.
Buy a new version? Yeah, now that's a help. And you're not even sure if it IS in there, are you? We've even managed to shoehorn a modular Linux system within a WRT54G (the ones that did run Linux) along with optional hardware mods that do all sorts of extra things. Windows cant do a damned thing without a mouse (it can very limitedly, is unusable unlike CLI in Linux). You should know that.
---win-get is like an apt-get for Windows.
I honestly did not know about that. It looks pretty spiffy.
--- Um, that's just plain wrong. You're obviously not a programmer or a sysadmin.
I have worked as a junior sysadmin for Linux, SunOS, and AIX systems (specifically older systems that have custom apps that refuse to run on Solaris and newer versions of AIX). I can code a respectful amount of C, but a programmer I am not. I do know Windows from a user perspective along with tinkering on the lower 9X branches. For me, I prefer Linux for a desktop and Windows for the few required tools (tax software, vertical apps).
I dont pretend to know about the intricacies of Windows programming, nor does programming interest me.
And that's why I went the corporate laptop route. IBM/lenovo has warranties up to 5 years on hardware (I bought 3). I figure a company that stands behind their products like that has good equipment in them. Also, Thinkpads are well supported in Linux (Ubuntu especially).
I ended up buying T61, 2GB ram, 120GB hd, Intel gfx (salesman said go with this for 100% Linux support- stay away from nVidia) and a slot-battery along with 9 cell. I get upwards 8-10 hours on lowest contrast setting and 3d disabled. Things just work. The only bad thing I see is I have no Svideo port when my old HP laptop did and I'm not that concerned about that. Even my HD accelerometer works after some compiling (yah, its experimental).