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  1. Re:mechanical prototype alternatives on From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps · · Score: 1

    here is a link to information about the laser form material
    laserform

  2. mechanical prototype alternatives on From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps · · Score: 1

    i looked at the emachineshop and their software looks to be
    just for simple protrusions of dxfs
    i have used this company listed below in the past with very successfull results
    you can design a cast part in whatever software
    you are proficient in and then e-mail them an
    exported stl file for quote. They will also
    machine it to a blueprint and send the whole
    thing to you in about 1 1/2 weeks...
    ati
    the only problem is the process can only print out tool steel and not aluminum yet.
    but i am still hoping...
    but you can always just get a part machined out
    of aluminum block from a solid model

  3. google slashdots slashdot :) on PhoneGaim Brings Phone Calling To IM Users · · Score: 1

    here is an interesting effect.
    when you read the google tech news. the main story about phonegaim points to this very thread on slashdot...
    google news

  4. Re:3 Laws of (Pragmatic) Robotics on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    yeah, but what if two people are standing exact distances from the robot and stepping off a cliff at the same time? who does the robot decide to intervene? does that mean that it harmed the other person?

  5. 3 laws are pseudo-scientific babble on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1


    First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

    Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

    Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    here is another interesting topic to consider. how do begin to define rules for what would actually harm a human, when we actually don't know for certain ourselves? we have inherent rules floating in our brains now such as: i don't want to get fat and ruin my health so i will drink diet soda. diet soda contains aspartame which breaks down into formaldehyde. this is harmful to us.

    people know alcohol is not good for your health but we still drink it, sometimes to the point of ruining our lives.

    getting in a car involves some degree of statistical risk to us. does the rule of no harm have to be broken down into subcommands of chance of harm?

    so if we can't even really know what daily societal rules are harmful to ourselves, how can we guide another being to not harm us?

    notice these 3 rules are also qualative and not exactly applicable to realtime input and output.
    coming up with ai rules seems like the analogy of managers learning industry jargon to convince employees that someone in charge knows what they are talking about. if we really knew how to program autonomous beings then we would know longer be in the same evolutionary category with them would we? so we wouldn't really need to worry about them harming us...

    anyway, naysaying has always been the tradition against progress; so i guess people probably thought that those pesky horseless carriages would take over the world too :)

    resume screen rant
    control c

  6. maybe i am wrong but... on Matrix Decision Making · · Score: 1

    i am betting that calculating the determinant is not a part of this book. hey look, i am a manager and i can talk with words from math in them to motivate you to do stupid things.

  7. google results on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    i think a lot of those result hits are articles where someone was writing a tutorial involving an email address and they didn't want to post a real one...

    still, i like the me@privacy.net one ;)

  8. Re:"The Corporation" on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    can a torrent be slashdotted or this should just help it get faster right? anyway, the tracker link was down for me...

  9. Re:Graphical Frontend to YUM on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 1

    yumi is awesome !!! i installed the fc2 rpm and it works great. i see that it is a beta release though. i really liked synaptic and yumi is just what fedora should be packaged with. i wonder if they have any licensing restrictions...

  10. Re:fedora core 2 gripes on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    well, i am kind of a nooB and those were several things which i didn't like also.

    i like to see the commands go by because if one is red then you know to go do something about it.

    also i googled around to find out about the nautilus thing. that was driving me crazy...

    i don't really have any programming knowledge and all of that stuff was found from just typing in a few simple phrases in google... so i think if you are smart enough to turn your computer on and install the three disks by yourself it is not that counter-intuitive to search thru a few newsgroups for answers.

  11. fedora core 2 gripes on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 4, Informative

    several of the gripes the reviewer mentioned about fedora can be solved by the following:

    # get rid of the graphical boot in fedora
    edit the /etc/sysconfig/init
    GRAPHICAL=no

    # change your gnome splash screen
    replace /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png

    # reset nautilus to default browsing
    gconftool-2 -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser -s true

  12. magazines i like on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
  13. 2004-to_the_5_boroughs -doit on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i bought this cd today from borders book store in kansas city (usa). as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip. grip began it's magic. however, it did not work. i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer... i then put it back in and tried: mount /mnt/dvd xine played the video just fine. i then executed the following: mkdir 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cdparanoia -v -B this produced a file full of perfect wavs i then went through the sucky process of renaming all the wavs and then did a ls -l >> doit i edited doit with gedit and created the following script: #!/bin/bash lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3 lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3 lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3 lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3 lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3 lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3 lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3 lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3 lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3 lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3 lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3 lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3 lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3 lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3 lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3 after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit hooray >=) so i guess what the cd accomplished is that i had to rename all the wav files instead of connecting to the freedb.freedb.org database

  14. 2004-to_the_5_boroughs -doit on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i bought this cd today from borders book store. as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip. grip began it's magic. however, it did not work. i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer... i then put it back in and tried: mount /mnt/dvd xine played the video just fine. i then executed the following: mkdir 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs cdparanoia -v -B this produced a file full of perfect wavs i then went through the sucky process of renaming all the wavs and then did a ls -l >> doit i edited doit with gedit and created the following script: #!/bin/bash lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3 lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3 lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3 lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3 lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3 lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3 lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3 lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3 lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3 lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3 lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3 lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3 lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3 lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3 lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3 after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit hooray >=) so i guess what the cd accomplished is that i had to rename all the wav files instead of connecting to the freedb.freedb.org database

  15. to the V boroughs -? cdparanoia and lame on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i bought this cd today from borders book store.
    as i don't want to listen to it except on my zaurus when running, i put it in grip.

    grip began it's magic. however, it did not work.
    i successfully used grip to rip the gnr contraband cd last week. so i just figured since the beastie boys were more psuedo-intellectual than gnr :) they had hired a better drm programmer...

    i then put it back in and tried:
    mount /mnt/dvd
    xine played the video just fine.

    i then executed the following:
    mkdir2004-to_the_5_boroughs
    cd 2004-to_the_5_boroughs
    cdparanoia -v -B
    this produced a file full of perfect wavs
    i then went through the sucky process of renaming
    all the wavs and then did a
    ls -l >> doit
    i edited doit with gedit and created the following script:

    #!/bin/bash
    lame -h -b 192 01-check_it_out.wav 01-check_it_out.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 02-right_right_now_now.wav 02-right_right_now_now.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 03-3_the_hard_way.wav 03-3_the_hard_way.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 04-time_to_build.wav 04-time_to_build.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.wav 05-rhyme_the_rhyme_well.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 06-triple_trouble.wav 06-triple_trouble.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 07-hey_fuck_you.wav 07-hey_fuck_you.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 08-oh_word.wav 08-oh_word.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 09-thats_it_thats_all.wav 09-thats_it_thats_all.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 10-all_lifestyles.wav 10-all_lifestyles.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 11-shazam.wav 11-shazam.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.wav 12-an_open_letter_to_nyc.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 13-crawlspace.wav 13-crawlspace.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 14-the_brouhhaha.wav 14-the_brouhhaha.mp3
    lame -h -b 192 15-we_got_the.wav 15-we_got_the.mp3

    after saving, i used chmod 755 doit and ran ./doit

    hooray >=)

  16. Re:802******* and beyond on IEEE Approves 802.11i · · Score: 1

    yes, but i want that contained in the cf card for my pda so you don't have some other piece of crap attached to it or put batteries in it...

  17. 802******* and beyond on IEEE Approves 802.11i · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i am not buying or upgrading anymore 802***** equipment until someone comes out with a standard that allows me to broadcast to unused radio stations in my car stereo ;)

  18. apartment analogy on Microsoft Planning on Opening Up More Source · · Score: 2, Funny

    hey you can work on improving your apartment as much as you want. when the next guy moves in, we are going to paint it pink and throw all your crap out ...

    we really like that you fixed the garbage disposal for us free though.

  19. lame on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    lame is also my favorite for
    converting recordings into mp3
    lame file.wav file.mp3

  20. overnet on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    using overnet with screen is really good

  21. wtf???? on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 2, Informative

    i am a huge gnr and also stp fan. i went to the concert here in kansas city and i liked it so much that i bought the cd last week... i am listening to it on my computer here at work after running it thru grip and streaming it from home... what kind of copy protection was on the cd? i haven't noticed any problems yet?

  22. Re:pdf availability on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 1
    or perhaps i did as you suggest and my previous post was a
    cryptic reference of standardized format distribution
    to the very last sentence of the book before the Robert Chute poem.

    Paradigm shifts!

  23. pdf availability on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 4, Interesting

    now he needs to release it under the new paradigm
    of academic textbooks.
    like the MIT heat transfer book :)
    i kind of like this idea, that if something was
    important enough for you to write down for humanity,
    you are just doing it for the sake of society.
    that would probably take a huge cut out of the
    whole "i wrote a book now buy it for my class"
    effect...

  24. Re:fedora core 2 & matrox g450 & xinerama on First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server? · · Score: 1

    sorry, i didn't feel like
    insertion after
    all the x file entries :)

  25. fedora core 2 & matrox g450 & xinerama (du on First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server? · · Score: 3, Informative
    step 1: i did a clean install, letting fedora set up my xorg.conf file.
    i am using a matrox g450 with two dell flat panel monitors. right out
    of the box, they were both enabled in "clone" mode.

    step 2: i just used the advanced tab under preferences: screensaver to
    enable display power management. i set power management enabled. standby
    after 15 min, suspend after 15 min, and off after 15 minutes. this
    automatically enabled the power features. i did not have to add any
    lines the x configuration file as in previous versions of redhat.

    step 3: become root and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf after the section entitled
    Section "Module"
    blah
    EndSection
    I inserted these lines:

    Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "Xinerama"
    EndSection

    I saved and pressed control-alt-backspace to restart the xserver. after loggin in again,
    i went to system settings: display.

    there appeared a tab labeled "dual head" i clicked "use dual head"
    then i configured my second monitor and picked spanning desktops.
    after hitting ok, i hit ctrl-alt-backspace again and presto!!!!!!
    xineraman was enabled with power management. i did not install any of the matrox drivers or use the mgapdesk utility.
    i just used the above instructions and that was it right out of the box....

    also as to everyone badmouthing fedora core 2 , i am very impressed and
    have found a great many features that have been improved and generally
    well thought out. i am very glad i upgraded....

    if anyone wants to see my xorg.conf file here it is:
    # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Multihead layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "Xinerama" "on" Option "Clone" "off" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3