"there's no user community rallying around the platform. We use the computer, certainly,"
I've noticed the lack of community too. The Macintosh and Linux community have great forums, mailing lists, and places for free support where people will go out of their way to help you.
I remember on Windows when my network card stopped working (before i decided to switch to LInux). My internet just wouldn't work. I tried everything.
Finally, when I tried using ipconfig/release ipconfig/renew it said "This device is either damaged or unusable. Error 439" Or something to that effect.
I posted on every forum imaginable, and most said that I was probably going to have to reinstall. Why would I have to do that? Couldn't I just replace whatever file or whatever that broke the device? I had no spyware or viruses at the time; so I don't see what could have broken it anyways.
Well, I tried MEPIS and it worked great (and the network card was not "damaged or unusable" either)
Needless to say I've encountered tons of problems where I've got stuck in Linux, but the thousands of forums, IRC, and other mediums for help have actually PROVIDED me with answers/fixes to my problems.
So yes, the communitys for Windows leave a lot to be desired.
or is the computer using us?
I'd say Microsoft is using us -- computers aren't.
Well I'll tell you why innovations aren't rampant like they use to be. It's the rise of the corporation as the cause.
I mean, people can't innovate anymore without being shot down by some unspecific patent. Companies register MILLIONS of patents and don't do ANYTHING with them.
If companies didn't stiffle innovation and push it back down when it started to get up -- then maybe there would be innovation.
People won't invent unless they can slap their name on their own product. This will cause people to not want to innovate.
"First cynical point: They'll be using the existing shell design, because they're going to use existing everything. We pay billions, they claim to have redesigned everything, they redesign nothing. They make a few minor cosmetic changes and we all live under the assertion that we live in a brave new NASA world of progress once again while some beaurocrat reappropriates the money for his own black-ops"
Well; mostly the money goes to the contracters such as boeing, and other large companies who do nasa's work.
What would be cheaper is if NASA hired all their own engineers and actually built the shuttle in a NASA hangar from the start.
It would be cheaper of they built their own shit from parts than hiring a middle man to do it for them.
Everything they do is contracted through a middle man. The only engineers on staff are there to help oversee the contract work and there to help if there is problems with something.
"It's not just a matter of coercing comanies into being responsible with information, it's a matter of giving citizens much more control over who has it, who is allowed to have it, and what they do with it."
I once had the chance to talk with Representitive Rick Boucher, and he said the same thing. Unfortunately, he explained to me that most of the congressmen are for the companies, because companies drive America's economy. He said that the economy is the priority, even over the citizens, and that our congressmen will do anything to protect the economy.
So; until congressmens priorities change from the economy/business to the people/wellbeing -- not much is going to change.
" We shouldn't HAVE to "opt out" of slimy marketing bullshit. It should be opt IN... ONLY.
I'm sick of having to call various agencies to opt out of marketing TRASH. Why do we put up with it? Oh, that's right.. marketers have more money than us, so they lobby the hell out of congresscritters.
Ugh."
Welcome to the new America.
America run by business owners, for business owner
"and even if they need it temporarily as a way to certify identity, why should they need to store it?"
And why do that even?
Say I open an account with some company, and they want to verify who I am... couldn't I make up a ID number?
Such as 3836259321
Easy, as good as a social security; as useful as numbers pulled out of a hat. The only time the number is used is when:
Mr Johnson, whats your private PIN? Yes ma'am it's:
Now if the customer is stupid enough to use the same pin everywhere -- well, too bad. But at least for those who want security -- they could have it (instead of your/my mandatory SS#)
"Let's ignore all the companies just using Apache, Linux, PHP, MySQL, Mozilla, Perl. Which are all F/OSS, used by most successful corporations on the Net."
Get a clue, man. I own a company that runs on Apache, MYSQL and Perl. Shit, the whole machine runs Debian Linux.
I don't gain money or loose money by my server serving up pages on F/OSS software. The apache foundation, PHP, MYSQL, PERL, and Mozilla foundation are primarly donation driven foundations. Companys DO NOT LIKE TO BE DRIVEN BY DONATIONS but rather STOCK INVESTORS
Anyways, what if someone does pull a CentOS on this mapping software? What if they provide it for an affordable $250 software package? And they're able to sustain the support the main company can? ($12K for a well support product is an awful lot. I know that shit isn't covering the callcenter costs....)
I'd love the F/OSS world, where everyone could build from everyone elses work. It'd be a perfect software industry. I have helped write and publish Open source software (read: http://dls.palacecommunity.com/plugins/ )
However, Ruby, people like Bill Gates, and a million other of them don't give a _-SHIT~_ what I think, or what RMS thinks, or what Linus Torvalds thinks.
Welcome to corporate america, where F/OSS doesn't mix.
Simple. Computeres were NEEDED once they were made. We were soon dependent on them completley, only after a few years of availability.
Look at today; can this world revolve normally without computers? Sure -- in the long run it wouldn't matter -- but the short to mid-term problems would be enourmous.
I don't see why it has taken THIS long for them to do anything about it. For the longest time (half year) they just sat around saying "what are we going to do about it guys?" without any sense of direction or determination to get it fixed.
They were in no particular hurry (don't get me wrong, hurrying is a bad thing) nor was there any urgency to find a solution. It was pretty much, "find a solution at your own convienence"
NASA has done some great stuff; but they just seem too slow and insignificant these days.
"What, you're laughing all the way to the bank, with your cut of the 12K checks? Or do you have something useful to add to the discussion?"
No, I know exactly what he's laughing at. The plausability of a corporation using a F/OSS product for their work.
Companies don't really like F/OSS software, Ruby, in fact they try to particularly avoid it.
Don't ask me why -- it'd be awesome if they forked the project and made their own version -- released the GPL source, sold software ??? profit!
I think it's bad though -- for commercial and IP interests anyway.
I mean, being that it's going to be sold for $12K, whats to stop some freeloader from buying a legal version of the software -- repackaging it, and selling it for substantially less (Say $90 dollars)
In a worse case scenario they would be giving out the repackaged version for free! Know about Redhat and CentOS? CentOS packages RHEL and gives it out for free! Definitely cuts in to Redhats profit margin.
If you want to make money out of software -- it's best to avoid F/OSS software at all costs.
F/OSS software is a great philosophy -- but it doesn't match the interests of corporations.
"I love Wikipedia...hate the big guys supporting (influencing) them... but in the end, it'll only be good for Wikipedia, I suppose."
Care to elaborate on your logic there?
Just look at how corporations (influence) the government. Is that good for the Government? (Or more directly, the citizens/users of the Government?)
RIAA/MICROSOFT/MPAA/DISNEY/INDTSUTRIAL/GEOLOGICA L BASED COMPANIES come to mind.
Corporate influence is usually always bad, and [in the end.., it'll only] usually turn out bad for the customer/citizen [I suppose]
Surely good for wikipedia, surely bad for the users. The whole purpose of corporate interest can be determined by literal meaning. Corporate interest is just that, interest for the corporation. If corporate interest "influences" wikipedia, wikipedia will be influenced to interest the corporation.
I have a similar situation as yours and used a homemade solution.
I purchased a fireproof safe and then put a rubber seal around the lid. I used a large drill bit (1 1/2 inch) to drill a hole in the safe. A friend of mine helped retrofit some sort of air pump to it so it sucks the air out and makes it a near vacuum inside.
I did this because I don't want oxygen or anything else to encourage cd/dvd-rot.
The studies have shown that CD's rot because of being exposed to oxygen, so I just tried to remove that component as best as I could.
Another solution would be to use some of that sealing plastic wrap and seal the DVD/CD in that, getting as much air as you can out of it.
I happen to be friends with one of the guys who works at Hasbro; and he's told me it isn't GPS controlled as they claim.
This is just marketing to make it appealing and feel "real."
He's told me that although he didn't do any of the programming work for the cab stuff, he has done some apache configuration and stuff for the server.
He tells me that they used a "deamon" like program coded in C to sned the current location to an SQL database, and the webserver handles it from there.
It makes sense that they would make it all fake to save money, having GPS's and stuff for real cabs just seems like too much work.
"Damnit, the bible belt is going to decide wether or not we have a broadcast flag or not, those farkers better not screw up!!(Of course by screwing up I mean doing anything that I don't agree with)"
I live in the bible belt, of course I'm the only one who cares about shit like this in my entire group of people I know.
Most people I talk to say "thats boring politics stuff" and the only people who really vote on voting day is the republicans. Thats why Texas is a republican state! TA DA!
Anyways, I tried calling 3 of those numbers and it said residential calls are not accepted on this voicemail system -- and then it would disconnect. I stopped calling more because I'm already going to pay $24 in long distance fee's for just these 3. (All long distance is 6 dollars for first minute.)
Oh well.... not like it'd be listened to anyway. They're having the meeting at 9am tomarrow (who checks their office messages RIGHT before an important meeting)
As every other american who won't speak on something important because it doesn't "affect them" I won't care myself either.
I don't watch TV at all. However, I understand -- if this is passed it is just another one of my rights being taken away from me.
Sad unforunately, had a friend who ran a Linux chatroom and got lots of newbs who got help there. Not possible anymore, I guess he'll have to move his room to "Single Again!"
Yep. Unfortunately, all the "CLIKC HERE TO SEE ME NUDE ON MY CAM HTTP://MEGABUCKS.COM" or "CLICK HERE TO SEE MY PRETEEN DAUGHTER NUDE HTTP://PORN.COM" will make it impossible for users to get help.
Closing private rooms for policy compliance? What about all the spam and stuff in pub rooms?
"In theory, you could go back in time and meet your infant father but you could not kill him"
This is not a theory then, it is a hypothesis until it can be proven. Then it becomes a theory. At this point, I see no way to test the hypothesis without going back in time for real.
Do we live in a time now where scientists disregard the scientific theory, base of all science?
The scientific method is. 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
If the experiments bear out the hypothesis it may come to be regarded as a theory or law of nature.
"(If Slashdot would only get with the 20th century and permit Unicode in postings - or even just parse HTML entities instead of stripping them - then this sort of misunderstanding would never happen...)"
Unlikely, I've modernized slashdot and the slashcode engine to be fully XML compliant and use DIV's instead of tables.
I've even fixed it so you can make text larger in CSS without the overflow (like many of the people who have tried to modernize slashdot)
My code additions were rejected, and I contacted every one of the editors through their personal emails... and haven't had a reply.
Seems like the chinese filters however do nothing against English.
How hard would it be for these outlaws to just learn english to do their foul deeds (of demonstrating their right to freedom -- what a foul deed indeed!)
"Also, changing the time every week and having them be interrupted by the 'MJ verdict' doesn't do much for people trying to set up a schedule around the shows. Ya, people have Tivo.. but then again, the networks aren't targeting those people anyway."
Well, TiVo won't do a damn thing if you program it to start recording at 6:15 - 7:15 block to get Firefly. I had that set up on my TiVo.
Yeah, until fox killed the show by putting it on from 1:00 - 2:00.
I was really surprised when I didn't see firefly on when it was suppose to be; thought my tivo was broke.
About 4 weeks later I found out the show was cancelled.
I hate fox. In fact, I almost puked when I had to buy the firefly dvd from the net (which profits would end up going to fox)
I don't watch fox anymore. If they cancel such great shows like firefly and put complete shit on like "Stacked"... that's a network that isn't worth my viewing. To hell with fox double for making a contract that will kill any series they cancel. (10 year ownership of any series they endorse. Yes. No continuation of firefly through sci-fi;-(
"Having just watched the entire series on DVD recently, I think the story has given 4 distinct clues to the fact he's something other than 'just a shepherd'...."
Yeah, there is even a few more things that were said too, that slihgly indicated he knows more than just a preacher would usually know.
It would seem he has some sort of background, and that the shepard thing is just a cover.
Normal table salt should do fine. --- "Do you need a filter to keep the salt out of the water as it runs through the tubing?"
I'm sure it depends on the type of tubing. I've had my system going for a while (month or two) and haven't had any corrosion problems yet. --- "I like the mini fridge idea. I may just try something like that. I have a closet I could put the coils in. I could then put an exhaust fan in the closet to blow the hot air outside."
That seems like a good idea. I just hung the coils outside the window. While manipulating the copper tubing for the fridge, be careful with the tubing. If it breaks, you'll start breathing freeon. It's a highly toxic gas.
I need to build an encloser for the compresser outside too. I keep the compressor outside cause it gets hot doing the compressing too... but when it rains I have to open the window and bring the heat-generating part of the system back inside. --- "How do you control the temperature? Just plug it in/unplug it when it's too warm/cold?"
The mini-fridge came with it's own thermostat, so the fridge had like OFF/1-6 and 1 is like cool, and 6 is like INSANELY cool.
All the switch did was control how often the compressor kicked in. When I get too cold I just turn the switch to 1, and the compressor will just make sure the water is "cool." If it's a cold day outside, I'll just turn the thermostat for it to plain OFF.
Remember, this is a mini-fridge I took apart and just submerged the cooling coils (for the freezer portion of the setup) in the water. Just put the heat part out the window;]
--- "How much does it cost you to run it (or is there no huge difference?)"
The compressor to the minifridge only ues energy when it's running. It doesn't run all the time because all it needs to do is keep the water in the trash can cool. Once the water has reached a temp satisfactory, the thermostat shuts the compressor off.
To further increase energy savings, I insulated the trash can containing the water. I went to the home depot and purchased fiberglass insulation and duct taped the stuff around the trash can. For the lid of the trashcan, I used a large block of styrofoam and taped that on top of it in the inside of the lid.
I pretty much have a ice chest in a trash can with it. The water resists tempature change, and like an ice chest, the water can stay freezing cold for HOURS before the compressor starts back up. It works great!
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"there's no user community rallying around the platform. We use the computer, certainly,"
I've noticed the lack of community too. The Macintosh and Linux community have great forums, mailing lists, and places for free support where people will go out of their way to help you.
I remember on Windows when my network card stopped working (before i decided to switch to LInux). My internet just wouldn't work. I tried everything.
Finally, when I tried using ipconfig/release ipconfig/renew it said "This device is either damaged or unusable. Error 439" Or something to that effect.
I posted on every forum imaginable, and most said that I was probably going to have to reinstall. Why would I have to do that? Couldn't I just replace whatever file or whatever that broke the device? I had no spyware or viruses at the time; so I don't see what could have broken it anyways.
Well, I tried MEPIS and it worked great (and the network card was not "damaged or unusable" either)
Needless to say I've encountered tons of problems where I've got stuck in Linux, but the thousands of forums, IRC, and other mediums for help have actually PROVIDED me with answers/fixes to my problems.
So yes, the communitys for Windows leave a lot to be desired.
or is the computer using us?
I'd say Microsoft is using us -- computers aren't.
Well I'll tell you why innovations aren't rampant like they use to be. It's the rise of the corporation as the cause.
I mean, people can't innovate anymore without being shot down by some unspecific patent. Companies register MILLIONS of patents and don't do ANYTHING with them.
If companies didn't stiffle innovation and push it back down when it started to get up -- then maybe there would be innovation.
People won't invent unless they can slap their name on their own product. This will cause people to not want to innovate.
It's quite obvious......
"First cynical point: They'll be using the existing shell design, because they're going to use existing everything. We pay billions, they claim to have redesigned everything, they redesign nothing. They make a few minor cosmetic changes and we all live under the assertion that we live in a brave new NASA world of progress once again while some beaurocrat reappropriates the money for his own black-ops"
7 36-1.htmlNasa hires Computer Sciences Corp for consulting.m l#001014Nasa Hires consultant on shuttle
Well; mostly the money goes to the contracters such as boeing, and other large companies who do nasa's work.
What would be cheaper is if NASA hired all their own engineers and actually built the shuttle in a NASA hangar from the start.
It would be cheaper of they built their own shit from parts than hiring a middle man to do it for them.
Don't believe me?
Here is some examples:
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/project-management/26
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001014.ht
Everything they do is contracted through a middle man. The only engineers on staff are there to help oversee the contract work and there to help if there is problems with something.
"It's not just a matter of coercing comanies into being responsible with information, it's a matter of giving citizens much more control over who has it, who is allowed to have it, and what they do with it."
I once had the chance to talk with Representitive Rick Boucher, and he said the same thing. Unfortunately, he explained to me that most of the congressmen are for the companies, because companies drive America's economy. He said that the economy is the priority, even over the citizens, and that our congressmen will do anything to protect the economy.
So; until congressmens priorities change from the economy/business to the people/wellbeing -- not much is going to change.
" We shouldn't HAVE to "opt out" of slimy marketing bullshit. It should be opt IN... ONLY.
I'm sick of having to call various agencies to opt out of marketing TRASH. Why do we put up with it?
Oh, that's right.. marketers have more money than us, so they lobby the hell out of congresscritters.
Ugh."
Welcome to the new America.
America run by business owners, for business owner
"and even if they need it temporarily as a way to certify identity, why should they need to store it?"
And why do that even?
Say I open an account with some company, and they want to verify who I am... couldn't I make up a ID number?
Such as 3836259321
Easy, as good as a social security; as useful as numbers pulled out of a hat. The only time the number is used is when:
Mr Johnson, whats your private PIN?
Yes ma'am it's:
Now if the customer is stupid enough to use the same pin everywhere -- well, too bad. But at least for those who want security -- they could have it (instead of your/my mandatory SS#)
"Let's ignore all the companies just using Apache, Linux, PHP, MySQL, Mozilla, Perl. Which are all F/OSS, used by most successful corporations on the Net."
Get a clue, man. I own a company that runs on Apache, MYSQL and Perl. Shit, the whole machine runs Debian Linux.
I don't gain money or loose money by my server serving up pages on F/OSS software. The apache foundation, PHP, MYSQL, PERL, and Mozilla foundation are primarly donation driven foundations. Companys DO NOT LIKE TO BE DRIVEN BY DONATIONS but rather STOCK INVESTORS
Anyways, what if someone does pull a CentOS on this mapping software? What if they provide it for an affordable $250 software package? And they're able to sustain the support the main company can? ($12K for a well support product is an awful lot. I know that shit isn't covering the callcenter costs....)
I'd love the F/OSS world, where everyone could build from everyone elses work. It'd be a perfect software industry. I have helped write and publish Open source software (read: http://dls.palacecommunity.com/plugins/ )
However, Ruby, people like Bill Gates, and a million other of them don't give a _-SHIT~_ what I think, or what RMS thinks, or what Linus Torvalds thinks.
Welcome to corporate america, where F/OSS doesn't mix.
Simple. Computeres were NEEDED once they were made. We were soon dependent on them completley, only after a few years of availability.
Look at today; can this world revolve normally without computers? Sure -- in the long run it wouldn't matter -- but the short to mid-term problems would be enourmous.
I don't see why it has taken THIS long for them to do anything about it. For the longest time (half year) they just sat around saying "what are we going to do about it guys?" without any sense of direction or determination to get it fixed.
They were in no particular hurry (don't get me wrong, hurrying is a bad thing) nor was there any urgency to find a solution. It was pretty much, "find a solution at your own convienence"
NASA has done some great stuff; but they just seem too slow and insignificant these days.
"What, you're laughing all the way to the bank, with your cut of the 12K checks? Or do you have something useful to add to the discussion?"
No, I know exactly what he's laughing at. The plausability of a corporation using a F/OSS product for their work.
Companies don't really like F/OSS software, Ruby, in fact they try to particularly avoid it.
Don't ask me why -- it'd be awesome if they forked the project and made their own version -- released the GPL source, sold software ??? profit!
I think it's bad though -- for commercial and IP interests anyway.
I mean, being that it's going to be sold for $12K, whats to stop some freeloader from buying a legal version of the software -- repackaging it, and selling it for substantially less (Say $90 dollars)
In a worse case scenario they would be giving out the repackaged version for free! Know about Redhat and CentOS? CentOS packages RHEL and gives it out for free! Definitely cuts in to Redhats profit margin.
If you want to make money out of software -- it's best to avoid F/OSS software at all costs.
F/OSS software is a great philosophy -- but it doesn't match the interests of corporations.
"It should be available this summer for about 10,000 euros (about $12K)."
And I thought Adobe Photoshop was expensive!
How do they plan to prevent piracy? A large percentage of people will want/need this software badly; but won't have the money to pay for it.
This creates a extrordinary demand for the product in piracy circles.
"I love Wikipedia...hate the big guys supporting (influencing) them... but in the end, it'll only be good for Wikipedia, I suppose."
A L BASED COMPANIES come to mind.
Care to elaborate on your logic there?
Just look at how corporations (influence) the government. Is that good for the Government? (Or more directly, the citizens/users of the Government?)
RIAA/MICROSOFT/MPAA/DISNEY/INDTSUTRIAL/GEOLOGIC
Corporate influence is usually always bad, and [in the end.., it'll only] usually turn out bad for the customer/citizen [I suppose]
Surely good for wikipedia, surely bad for the users. The whole purpose of corporate interest can be determined by literal meaning. Corporate interest is just that, interest for the corporation. If corporate interest "influences" wikipedia, wikipedia will be influenced to interest the corporation.
This usually can't be good, for the users.
I have a similar situation as yours and used a homemade solution.
I purchased a fireproof safe and then put a rubber seal around the lid. I used a large drill bit (1 1/2 inch) to drill a hole in the safe. A friend of mine helped retrofit some sort of air pump to it so it sucks the air out and makes it a near vacuum inside.
I did this because I don't want oxygen or anything else to encourage cd/dvd-rot.
The studies have shown that CD's rot because of being exposed to oxygen, so I just tried to remove that component as best as I could.
Another solution would be to use some of that sealing plastic wrap and seal the DVD/CD in that, getting as much air as you can out of it.
Just a suggestion!
I happen to be friends with one of the guys who works at Hasbro; and he's told me it isn't GPS controlled as they claim.
This is just marketing to make it appealing and feel "real."
He's told me that although he didn't do any of the programming work for the cab stuff, he has done some apache configuration and stuff for the server.
He tells me that they used a "deamon" like program coded in C to sned the current location to an SQL database, and the webserver handles it from there.
It makes sense that they would make it all fake to save money, having GPS's and stuff for real cabs just seems like too much work.
"I'd rather have them spend money on search engine R&D than this."
I second that, couldn't they impliment regular expression searches or something?
"Damnit, the bible belt is going to decide wether or not we have a broadcast flag or not, those farkers better not screw up!!(Of course by screwing up I mean doing anything that I don't agree with)"
I live in the bible belt, of course I'm the only one who cares about shit like this in my entire group of people I know.
Most people I talk to say "thats boring politics stuff" and the only people who really vote on voting day is the republicans. Thats why Texas is a republican state! TA DA!
Anyways, I tried calling 3 of those numbers and it said residential calls are not accepted on this voicemail system -- and then it would disconnect. I stopped calling more because I'm already going to pay $24 in long distance fee's for just these 3. (All long distance is 6 dollars for first minute.)
Oh well.... not like it'd be listened to anyway. They're having the meeting at 9am tomarrow (who checks their office messages RIGHT before an important meeting)
As every other american who won't speak on something important because it doesn't "affect them" I won't care myself either.
I don't watch TV at all. However, I understand -- if this is passed it is just another one of my rights being taken away from me.
Pretty crazy!
Must be a million acres worth of park. Imagine a golf course like that! That'd be one fine Golf Course.
You'd need a subway instead of a golf buggie to get around though!
Sad unforunately, had a friend who ran a Linux chatroom and got lots of newbs who got help there. Not possible anymore, I guess he'll have to move his room to "Single Again!"
Yep. Unfortunately, all the "CLIKC HERE TO SEE ME NUDE ON MY CAM HTTP://MEGABUCKS.COM" or "CLICK HERE TO SEE MY PRETEEN DAUGHTER NUDE HTTP://PORN.COM" will make it impossible for users to get help.
Closing private rooms for policy compliance? What about all the spam and stuff in pub rooms?
BTW, anyone know what those large green areas are on the zoomed out maps? This is the largest one, but there are loads of others.
0 0&spn=0.254245,3.197021&hl=en
It's Quttinirpaaq National Park If you zoom in to one of the levels you will see it say that.
Click here, and you'll see its one HUGE park yourself. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=82.106322,-70.3125
"In theory, you could go back in time and meet your infant father but you could not kill him"
This is not a theory then, it is a hypothesis until it can be proven. Then it becomes a theory.
At this point, I see no way to test the hypothesis without going back in time for real.
Do we live in a time now where scientists disregard the scientific theory, base of all science?
The scientific method is.
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
If the experiments bear out the hypothesis it may come to be regarded as a theory or law of nature.
"(If Slashdot would only get with the 20th century and permit Unicode in postings - or even just parse HTML entities instead of stripping them - then this sort of misunderstanding would never happen...)"
Unlikely, I've modernized slashdot and the slashcode engine to be fully XML compliant and use DIV's instead of tables.
I've even fixed it so you can make text larger in CSS without the overflow (like many of the people who have tried to modernize slashdot)
My code additions were rejected, and I contacted every one of the editors through their personal emails... and haven't had a reply.
I guess they're not concerned. Oh well..
Seems like the chinese filters however do nothing against English.
_ sb&type=z&act=info&name=democracy
How hard would it be for these outlaws to just learn english to do their foul deeds (of demonstrating their right to freedom -- what a foul deed indeed!)
http://cns.3721.com/cns.dll?coagent=msn_sa&fm=msn
Searching for 'democracy' returns plenty of stuff. In english of course.
"Also, changing the time every week and having them be interrupted by the 'MJ verdict' doesn't do much for people trying to set up a schedule around the shows. Ya, people have Tivo.. but then again, the networks aren't targeting those people anyway."
;-(
Well, TiVo won't do a damn thing if you program it to start recording at 6:15 - 7:15 block to get Firefly. I had that set up on my TiVo.
Yeah, until fox killed the show by putting it on from 1:00 - 2:00.
I was really surprised when I didn't see firefly on when it was suppose to be; thought my tivo was broke.
About 4 weeks later I found out the show was cancelled.
I hate fox. In fact, I almost puked when I had to buy the firefly dvd from the net (which profits would end up going to fox)
I don't watch fox anymore. If they cancel such great shows like firefly and put complete shit on like "Stacked"... that's a network that isn't worth my viewing. To hell with fox double for making a contract that will kill any series they cancel. (10 year ownership of any series they endorse. Yes. No continuation of firefly through sci-fi
"Having just watched the entire series on DVD recently, I think the story has given 4 distinct clues to the fact he's something other than 'just a shepherd'...."
Yeah, there is even a few more things that were said too, that slihgly indicated he knows more than just a preacher would usually know.
It would seem he has some sort of background, and that the shepard thing is just a cover.
I really hope we get to find out in serenity!
"What kind of salt?"
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Normal table salt should do fine.
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"Do you need a filter to keep the salt out of the water as it runs through the tubing?"
I'm sure it depends on the type of tubing. I've had my system going for a while (month or two) and haven't had any corrosion problems yet.
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"I like the mini fridge idea. I may just try something like that. I have a closet I could put the coils in. I could then put an exhaust fan in the closet to blow the hot air outside."
That seems like a good idea. I just hung the coils outside the window. While manipulating the copper tubing for the fridge, be careful with the tubing. If it breaks, you'll start breathing freeon. It's a highly toxic gas.
I need to build an encloser for the compresser outside too. I keep the compressor outside cause it gets hot doing the compressing too... but when it rains I have to open the window and bring the heat-generating part of the system back inside.
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"How do you control the temperature? Just plug it in/unplug it when it's too warm/cold?"
The mini-fridge came with it's own thermostat, so the fridge had like OFF/1-6 and 1 is like cool, and 6 is like INSANELY cool.
All the switch did was control how often the compressor kicked in. When I get too cold I just turn the switch to 1, and the compressor will just make sure the water is "cool." If it's a cold day outside, I'll just turn the thermostat for it to plain OFF.
Remember, this is a mini-fridge I took apart and just submerged the cooling coils (for the freezer portion of the setup) in the water. Just put the heat part out the window
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"How much does it cost you to run it (or is there no huge difference?)"
The compressor to the minifridge only ues energy when it's running. It doesn't run all the time because all it needs to do is keep the water in the trash can cool. Once the water has reached a temp satisfactory, the thermostat shuts the compressor off.
To further increase energy savings, I insulated the trash can containing the water. I went to the home depot and purchased fiberglass insulation and duct taped the stuff around the trash can. For the lid of the trashcan, I used a large block of styrofoam and taped that on top of it in the inside of the lid.
I pretty much have a ice chest in a trash can with it. The water resists tempature change, and like an ice chest, the water can stay freezing cold for HOURS before the compressor starts back up. It works great!