I don't think the goal should be justice, but to protect society from members that could damage it. Punishment should serve to prevent an offender from repeating their transgressions and serve as a deterrent to those who are considering crime as an option. I don't much like prison as a punishment, corporal and financial punishment for small offenses and capitol punishment for cases when rehabilitation really isn't ever going to be an option. In any case, getting justice for a family or a victim doesn't serve a purpose. It won't help us cope, it won't bring back what we have lost, and it won't benefit society. If however, torturing/brainwashing someone who murders their wife for a few weeks, or months can make them productive again, I'm all for it. I've read/watched "The Clockwork Orange" and think its a great idea. Note, this really isn't sarcasm, its what I think. I have to clarify that sometimes.
I kicked the WoW habit over a year ago, but I always wondered why someone didn't use firescope or firewire to directly read (and write if there are no checksums) to the game memory. Its all done in hardware on OHCI machines like PCs and Macs, I suppose warden could check the firewire hardware to make sure no one had mapped its memory space.
I want to see the chatlogs of someone whos wired eliza into their client. I bet even she could fool the GMs for a while.
Shh, theft is better. Say I download all the alice in chains albums, thats what, seven albums counting the live MTV thing? Averaging at 12 songs an album (a bit high for them really), thats 84 songs. At iTunes thats 84 dollars, therefore I can argue the monetary value associated with the theft is 84 dollars. If I downloaded across state lines it becomes federal and I don't know the law, but otherwise I'm pretty sure that anywhere in the United States 84 dollars is a the most minor class of misdemeanor with no jail time as an option and a fine not to exceed some number much smaller than the $25k associated with infringement. Copying has much more severe penalties than stealing.
I guess they had to make it that way because it is so hard to enforce, still seems rediculous.
He mentioned having a hand crank charger, so probably doesn't need a hand crank radio. I'm lazy, so is a hand crank charger lighter than one of those solar rolls you can get at REI? Although I guess if its a nuclear winter solar rolls will be out, but then so will I. You left out some iodine tabs and a filter. Thats way more water than you can carry otherwise. Some rain gear might not be wasted space either. I know this is/. and all, but in those circumstances having a hand gun would make a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about taking nicotine to barter, thats smart, how long does such a thing stay fresh? Do I need to replace the ones in my bag every so often? I guess they won't be worried about the freshness if they have been without very long.
So the president won't need any advisors to agree with him? I understand that you can never wait to know everything about a situation before you respond, thats military doctrine as old as Alexander the Great, but we don't need any gut reactions ending civilization either.
I didn't see the movie "Sum of all Fears", but if you've read the book, the situation at the end is exactly why more than one person should have to agree on the usage of nuclear weapons even in a retaliatory case.
Better yet, lets just get rid of timezones. Everyone switch to GMT. If a company wants to be environmentally friendly they tell you to come in at a time that causes you to use less electricity. But to be honest I don't think my lighting uses that much electricity compared to keeping my apartment at 60F when its 100F outisde.
As long as the assistance it provides is strong enough to compensate for the increase in inertia it would be fine. But they hid the mass of it when they used the leg press statistic. Only the mass of the leg units would be fighting you on a leg press. I'd prefer to see how much of a boost it provides on a squat, to get an idea of its mass/strength ratio.
I keep hearing that dirty bombs aren't that bad, and that the main danger is panic and the fear induced by the word radiation. A quick google seemed to back this up. http://www.accesskansas.org/kdem/What_Are_Dirty_Bo mbs.htm
Of course maybe that was your point, if they had covered dirty bombs to dispell the paranoia, the main danger of a dirty bomb would go away, instead of talking about a much more dangerous situation like a nuke that is rightly feared but much more unlikely.
I don't have any WinCE experience(VXworks, custom schedulers, and Integrity mostly), but one of my coworkers, whose opinion I generally respect uses CE for all his moonlighting contract jobs and he calls it rocksolid, easy to use, etc. etc. He's got lots of embedded experience, mostly safety critical, and he considers it a truly useful tool.
I can't ignore it outright, because he really does know what he's doing, he's written his own schedulers and memory managers for projects for 8051s and whatnot, so he's not just saying "oh, this looks easy I'll use this". But I'm also hesitant to believe that M$ has made something reliable enough to run embedded hard real-time.
I'm not too worried about my position being outsourced either. Working defense for almost any country requires that you be a citizen of that country. My main worry is that Kerry will be elected and cancel the oh so cool plane I'm writing code for.
But I do have to agree that, most programmers in medium to large corporations become paralyzed without a spec, and they shouldn't. Requirements are always late, you have to accept that and get involved in making the requirements, and talking to the decision makers and customers (if possible) as you create your at-risk software. If the in-work requirements change, your software will need a rewrite, but at least you are already familiar with the problem space. You were probably the one who drove the changes anyway, by discovering something the designers hadn't thought about while writing code.
Being active in the spec making process can mean the difference between being an under-appreciated, under-paid programmer, and being layed off from a failed/cancelled project.
Your right, that once distributed, one download doesn't equal a loss of $19.95, or even necessarily a loss (hadn't thought about that). I was saying (apparently not very clearly) that just taping the film does not imply you will distribute it, so that taping it should be no more than a $19.95 loss. If I stole a DVD, the courts wouldn't assume that I would rip and distribute it to millions of people. I don't think its fair to assume that would be the case here. The taper might just want to watch it again at home.
In this thread people have compared taping a movie to holding up a liquer store, and robbing a McDonalds. These are both violent crimes. A better analogy might be shoplifting. I don't pay for those bubble cams and security guards with taxes, I pay for them with higher prices on the goods in those stores. If a theater wants to enforce this, which they will probably have to to get any more top movies, then they should have to pay for it with higher prices on tickets or snacks. This will make us realize that its us that the pirates are hurting, and not some guy in a pinstripe. That said, if 3yrs is the standard sentence, I agree its draconian. Its a nonviolent crime that in itself removes about 19.95 (price of a new DVD) from the economy. Distribution, while still nonviolent, should be equated to theft on the level of the profits made. So anything less than US $1200 profit would be a misdemeanor in the US. However because of the power of the **AAs, shoplifting a CD could get you a misdemeanor and a fine, while downloading one track from that CD could get you a felony with huge fines, possible jail time, and the loss of voting rights.
5 dollars for a pro job? You just need some toothpaste! A few years back my daggerfall cd got scratched and I fell into deep despair. But the dental association came to the rescue in the form of the diatoms that are in most toothpaste. I just smeared the toothpaste on the disc then rubbed it around until the entire surface had kind of a matte finish and I couldn't see the original scratch. I was quite certain it wouldn't work, but it did. However, I haven't been able to get it to work with win2k using NTFS. I have heard other people getting it to work with NTFS, so I think maybe my new CD drive isn't as forgiving as the one that used to read it.
It doesn't seem that either the Sony device or the DashPC use any other sensors besides GPS.
Stock nav systems in cars these days almost always have a gyrocompass or three axis tilt sensor, and an accelerometer for dead-reckoning. They are also sometimes wired into the vehicle speed sensor.
These extra inputs are combined (with a kalman filter for instance) to give a position estimate more accurate than any individual sensor could provide. This accounts for the much more accurate and smooth results you see with stock systems compared to add ons.
In the air or on water GPS is a godsend, dead-reckoning based on velocity is out because of winds/current and its good enough because there is nothing to bump into. But on the ground the error of GPS gets worse due to reflections, and you need more accuracy to stay on the right roads. Luckily being on the ground you can count on having much more accurate velocity estimates for dead-reckoning.
I'd like to see an add-on nav system that supports this so I'm free to choose a car that doesn't offer a stock nav system. Anyone know of such a system?
I think it might look smoother if instead of taking a picture at time intervals, they were taken at distance intervals. Gets rid of long pauses at gas stations, lights etc., and you'd actually see more detail when your moving fast so you wouldn't miss whole sections of scenery. You wouldn't be able to detect increases or decreases in speed from watching the video however.
This might be a bit more complicated to implement, but you could do it pretty easily if you connected both the camera and a GPS to a laptop and triggered images off a change in position. You'd need some threshold value so you don't get pictures due to jitter in the GPS data, if you've got an in car system with an inertial sensor and GPS combo with a filter it would be even better. The best solution might be to pull the VSS line off of the engine control unit. In my friend's del sol I found it was a pulsed signal, just used the frequency counter on my multimeter piped into a thinkpad and divided by some constant integer (not sure why) to get the same speed as the GPS I was recording. So you would just integrate the position deltas from the velocity, as long as your not squealing your tires it would be plenty accurate.
aren't those things illegal to carry? I know they are in texas at least. With a CC permit I still think you can only carry a gun, not clubs or knives > 5.5"
To start with, I have to say that legal drugs would not decrease the cost to society. Many people's only reason for not using drugs is the fear of being caught. And don't forget that if they were legal, it would be companies and interest groups like the labels and the RIAA that would advertise and supply them. People would still hit bottom and start stealing for a fix, but with each hit being cheaper, more people OD before hitting bottom. Countries that have more lenient drug laws have huge healthcare problems, thats also something to think about. But on the other point I have to agree with the original poster. Taking someone's voice in society is a serious action, and I agree that any crime that carries that punishment should show blatant disregard for societies laws, but some crimes do. A person who commits murder in a fit of rage really doesn't disdain the law, he just lost his mind for a moment, and now has to pay the price. On the other hand, a seemingly much less serious crime of fraud (say a con man who goes after the elderly) does show disregard, and I don't think that guy should vote. I think premeditation should be the standard, but I haven't really given it that much thought. As for why 2million people are allowed to kill a man and I'm not, its the same reason they are allowed to lock me in a cage, but I'm not allowed to lock you in one. Society has to have the ability to uphold its laws forcefully or they don't mean anything. If someone has shown that they are beyond hope of rehabilitation (repeat offenses, violent mental illness etc.) I don't think society should have to pay to keep them locked up. Other than execution, banishment is the only way to eliminate someone from society without recurring cost. And where do we banish them to? As for rehabilitation, Gene Wolfe's "book of the new sun" convinced me that torture was a better mechanism for social reform than imprisonment.
Makes me wonder.
With the state of disarray that the former soviet union is in, is it possible that ICBMs will still be targeted directly at what is now your house because of lapses in buerocracy etc.?
There was one for 2003, anyone made one for 2004 demo yet? It might help convince some of my coworkers to see the light. And as an ealrier poster said, put it on the machines at bestbuy. And leave it running in flyby mode.
I don't understand how people can consider Clinton's adultery irrelevant. Its not about personal versus proffesional, its about trust. Clinton betrayed his wife. The one person (other than a child) that should mean more to him than the rest of the world combined. Having done that why would he hesitate to betray the american people, a faceless entity he's never met.
On the other hand we have some republican's who betrayed . . . someone who didn't trust them in the first place. While in running the country the parties should be allies (ok so I'm naive), when it comes to political strategy they are all out enemies. When an enemy fails to protect their data, its their own fault. That said, if the republican's involved broke laws or rules, they should recieve punishment (I know they won't, but they should and I won't vote for them again).
The bottom line however, is that with their respective records, I would still trust these republican's as my sysadmin over clinton.
Ahg! did you just refer to VB as an embedded programming language?!
That aside, I do agree. I've been writing embedded SW for the F-16 Falcon for the past couple years and when I needed to analyze data from flight test, did I use a tool on my nice 64bit Ultra 10? No, there wasn't anything besides bc available, so I citrixed myself over to a overloaded w2k server to wait 10min every time I tried to run a VB tool.
We finally got star office, but I now have the exact problem your talking about. The project is almost over and initial attempts to get my VB tools ported to the seemingly similar basic SO uses indicate that its not worth the time it would save.
I think numerical analysis is probably the most useful business area that OSS needs to concentrate on compatibility. Gnumeric is a great tool, but switching is more work than starting over.
And if you want a real embedded programming language try Jovial73.
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I don't think the goal should be justice, but to protect society from members that could damage it. Punishment should serve to prevent an offender from repeating their transgressions and serve as a deterrent to those who are considering crime as an option. I don't much like prison as a punishment, corporal and financial punishment for small offenses and capitol punishment for cases when rehabilitation really isn't ever going to be an option. In any case, getting justice for a family or a victim doesn't serve a purpose. It won't help us cope, it won't bring back what we have lost, and it won't benefit society. If however, torturing/brainwashing someone who murders their wife for a few weeks, or months can make them productive again, I'm all for it. I've read/watched "The Clockwork Orange" and think its a great idea. Note, this really isn't sarcasm, its what I think. I have to clarify that sometimes.
I kicked the WoW habit over a year ago, but I always wondered why someone didn't use firescope or firewire to directly read (and write if there are no checksums) to the game memory. Its all done in hardware on OHCI machines like PCs and Macs, I suppose warden could check the firewire hardware to make sure no one had mapped its memory space.
I want to see the chatlogs of someone whos wired eliza into their client. I bet even she could fool the GMs for a while.
Shh, theft is better. Say I download all the alice in chains albums, thats what, seven albums counting the live MTV thing? Averaging at 12 songs an album (a bit high for them really), thats 84 songs. At iTunes thats 84 dollars, therefore I can argue the monetary value associated with the theft is 84 dollars. If I downloaded across state lines it becomes federal and I don't know the law, but otherwise I'm pretty sure that anywhere in the United States 84 dollars is a the most minor class of misdemeanor with no jail time as an option and a fine not to exceed some number much smaller than the $25k associated with infringement. Copying has much more severe penalties than stealing.
I guess they had to make it that way because it is so hard to enforce, still seems rediculous.
He mentioned having a hand crank charger, so probably doesn't need a hand crank radio. I'm lazy, so is a hand crank charger lighter than one of those solar rolls you can get at REI? Although I guess if its a nuclear winter solar rolls will be out, but then so will I. You left out some iodine tabs and a filter. Thats way more water than you can carry otherwise. Some rain gear might not be wasted space either. I know this is /. and all, but in those circumstances having a hand gun would make a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about taking nicotine to barter, thats smart, how long does such a thing stay fresh? Do I need to replace the ones in my bag every so often? I guess they won't be worried about the freshness if they have been without very long.
So the president won't need any advisors to agree with him? I understand that you can never wait to know everything about a situation before you respond, thats military doctrine as old as Alexander the Great, but we don't need any gut reactions ending civilization either.
I didn't see the movie "Sum of all Fears", but if you've read the book, the situation at the end is exactly why more than one person should have to agree on the usage of nuclear weapons even in a retaliatory case.
Better yet, lets just get rid of timezones. Everyone switch to GMT. If a company wants to be environmentally friendly they tell you to come in at a time that causes you to use less electricity. But to be honest I don't think my lighting uses that much electricity compared to keeping my apartment at 60F when its 100F outisde.
As long as the assistance it provides is strong enough to compensate for the increase in inertia it would be fine. But they hid the mass of it when they used the leg press statistic. Only the mass of the leg units would be fighting you on a leg press. I'd prefer to see how much of a boost it provides on a squat, to get an idea of its mass/strength ratio.
I keep hearing that dirty bombs aren't that bad, and that the main danger is panic and the fear induced by the word radiation. A quick google seemed to back this up.o mbs.htm
http://www.accesskansas.org/kdem/What_Are_Dirty_B
Of course maybe that was your point, if they had covered dirty bombs to dispell the paranoia, the main danger of a dirty bomb would go away, instead of talking about a much more dangerous situation like a nuke that is rightly feared but much more unlikely.
I don't have any WinCE experience(VXworks, custom schedulers, and Integrity mostly), but one of my coworkers, whose opinion I generally respect uses CE for all his moonlighting contract jobs and he calls it rocksolid, easy to use, etc. etc. He's got lots of embedded experience, mostly safety critical, and he considers it a truly useful tool.
I can't ignore it outright, because he really does know what he's doing, he's written his own schedulers and memory managers for projects for 8051s and whatnot, so he's not just saying "oh, this looks easy I'll use this". But I'm also hesitant to believe that M$ has made something reliable enough to run embedded hard real-time.
Anyone want to enlighten me further?
I'm not too worried about my position being outsourced either. Working defense for almost any country requires that you be a citizen of that country. My main worry is that Kerry will be elected and cancel the oh so cool plane I'm writing code for.
But I do have to agree that, most programmers in medium to large corporations become paralyzed without a spec, and they shouldn't. Requirements are always late, you have to accept that and get involved in making the requirements, and talking to the decision makers and customers (if possible) as you create your at-risk software. If the in-work requirements change, your software will need a rewrite, but at least you are already familiar with the problem space. You were probably the one who drove the changes anyway, by discovering something the designers hadn't thought about while writing code.
Being active in the spec making process can mean the difference between being an under-appreciated, under-paid programmer, and being layed off from a failed/cancelled project.
Your right, that once distributed, one download doesn't equal a loss of $19.95, or even necessarily a loss (hadn't thought about that). I was saying (apparently not very clearly) that just taping the film does not imply you will distribute it, so that taping it should be no more than a $19.95 loss. If I stole a DVD, the courts wouldn't assume that I would rip and distribute it to millions of people. I don't think its fair to assume that would be the case here. The taper might just want to watch it again at home.
In this thread people have compared taping a movie to holding up a liquer store, and robbing a McDonalds. These are both violent crimes.
A better analogy might be shoplifting. I don't pay for those bubble cams and security guards with taxes, I pay for them with higher prices on the goods in those stores.
If a theater wants to enforce this, which they will probably have to to get any more top movies, then they should have to pay for it with higher prices on tickets or snacks. This will make us realize that its us that the pirates are hurting, and not some guy in a pinstripe.
That said, if 3yrs is the standard sentence, I agree its draconian. Its a nonviolent crime that in itself removes about 19.95 (price of a new DVD) from the economy. Distribution, while still nonviolent, should be equated to theft on the level of the profits made. So anything less than US $1200 profit would be a misdemeanor in the US.
However because of the power of the **AAs, shoplifting a CD could get you a misdemeanor and a fine, while downloading one track from that CD could get you a felony with huge fines, possible jail time, and the loss of voting rights.
5 dollars for a pro job? You just need some toothpaste! A few years back my daggerfall cd got scratched and I fell into deep despair. But the dental association came to the rescue in the form of the diatoms that are in most toothpaste. I just smeared the toothpaste on the disc then rubbed it around until the entire surface had kind of a matte finish and I couldn't see the original scratch. I was quite certain it wouldn't work, but it did. However, I haven't been able to get it to work with win2k using NTFS. I have heard other people getting it to work with NTFS, so I think maybe my new CD drive isn't as forgiving as the one that used to read it.
It doesn't seem that either the Sony device or the DashPC use any other sensors besides GPS.
Stock nav systems in cars these days almost always have a gyrocompass or three axis tilt sensor, and an accelerometer for dead-reckoning. They are also sometimes wired into the vehicle speed sensor.
These extra inputs are combined (with a kalman filter for instance) to give a position estimate more accurate than any individual sensor could provide. This accounts for the much more accurate and smooth results you see with stock systems compared to add ons.
In the air or on water GPS is a godsend, dead-reckoning based on velocity is out because of winds/current and its good enough because there is nothing to bump into. But on the ground the error of GPS gets worse due to reflections, and you need more accuracy to stay on the right roads. Luckily being on the ground you can count on having much more accurate velocity estimates for dead-reckoning.
I'd like to see an add-on nav system that supports this so I'm free to choose a car that doesn't offer a stock nav system. Anyone know of such a system?
I think it might look smoother if instead of taking a picture at time intervals, they were taken at distance intervals. Gets rid of long pauses at gas stations, lights etc., and you'd actually see more detail when your moving fast so you wouldn't miss whole sections of scenery. You wouldn't be able to detect increases or decreases in speed from watching the video however.
This might be a bit more complicated to implement, but you could do it pretty easily if you connected both the camera and a GPS to a laptop and triggered images off a change in position. You'd need some threshold value so you don't get pictures due to jitter in the GPS data, if you've got an in car system with an inertial sensor and GPS combo with a filter it would be even better.
The best solution might be to pull the VSS line off of the engine control unit. In my friend's del sol I found it was a pulsed signal, just used the frequency counter on my multimeter piped into a thinkpad and divided by some constant integer (not sure why) to get the same speed as the GPS I was recording. So you would just integrate the position deltas from the velocity, as long as your not squealing your tires it would be plenty accurate.
aren't those things illegal to carry? I know they are in texas at least. With a CC permit I still think you can only carry a gun, not clubs or knives > 5.5"
To start with, I have to say that legal drugs would not decrease the cost to society. Many people's only reason for not using drugs is the fear of being caught. And don't forget that if they were legal, it would be companies and interest groups like the labels and the RIAA that would advertise and supply them. People would still hit bottom and start stealing for a fix, but with each hit being cheaper, more people OD before hitting bottom. Countries that have more lenient drug laws have huge healthcare problems, thats also something to think about. But on the other point I have to agree with the original poster. Taking someone's voice in society is a serious action, and I agree that any crime that carries that punishment should show blatant disregard for societies laws, but some crimes do. A person who commits murder in a fit of rage really doesn't disdain the law, he just lost his mind for a moment, and now has to pay the price. On the other hand, a seemingly much less serious crime of fraud (say a con man who goes after the elderly) does show disregard, and I don't think that guy should vote. I think premeditation should be the standard, but I haven't really given it that much thought. As for why 2million people are allowed to kill a man and I'm not, its the same reason they are allowed to lock me in a cage, but I'm not allowed to lock you in one. Society has to have the ability to uphold its laws forcefully or they don't mean anything. If someone has shown that they are beyond hope of rehabilitation (repeat offenses, violent mental illness etc.) I don't think society should have to pay to keep them locked up. Other than execution, banishment is the only way to eliminate someone from society without recurring cost. And where do we banish them to? As for rehabilitation, Gene Wolfe's "book of the new sun" convinced me that torture was a better mechanism for social reform than imprisonment.
Makes me wonder. With the state of disarray that the former soviet union is in, is it possible that ICBMs will still be targeted directly at what is now your house because of lapses in buerocracy etc.?
There was one for 2003, anyone made one for 2004 demo yet? It might help convince some of my coworkers to see the light. And as an ealrier poster said, put it on the machines at bestbuy. And leave it running in flyby mode.
I don't understand how people can consider Clinton's adultery irrelevant. Its not about personal versus proffesional, its about trust. Clinton betrayed his wife. The one person (other than a child) that should mean more to him than the rest of the world combined. Having done that why would he hesitate to betray the american people, a faceless entity he's never met.
On the other hand we have some republican's who betrayed . . . someone who didn't trust them in the first place. While in running the country the parties should be allies (ok so I'm naive), when it comes to political strategy they are all out enemies. When an enemy fails to protect their data, its their own fault. That said, if the republican's involved broke laws or rules, they should recieve punishment (I know they won't, but they should and I won't vote for them again).
The bottom line however, is that with their respective records, I would still trust these republican's as my sysadmin over clinton.
Ahg! did you just refer to VB as an embedded programming language?!
That aside, I do agree. I've been writing embedded SW for the F-16 Falcon for the past couple years and when I needed to analyze data from flight test, did I use a tool on my nice 64bit Ultra 10? No, there wasn't anything besides bc available, so I citrixed myself over to a overloaded w2k server to wait 10min every time I tried to run a VB tool.
We finally got star office, but I now have the exact problem your talking about. The project is almost over and initial attempts to get my VB tools ported to the seemingly similar basic SO uses indicate that its not worth the time it would save.
I think numerical analysis is probably the most useful business area that OSS needs to concentrate on compatibility. Gnumeric is a great tool, but switching is more work than starting over.
And if you want a real embedded programming language try Jovial73.