So what? Whining that it's hard and and that someone wants to do it some other way than the "true way" sounds like MORE bullshit designed to protect the chosen ones than any real criticism.
You figure all of NASA, the european space agency, the Russians, the Chinese... the various private undertakings, every satellite manufacturer and service provider in the world... are all deluded, do you? You think the ISS is an illusion, and that there are no raw materials to be had outside of deep gravity wells? You think the ISS can't be bettered? You think we can't solve the remaining problems just because they're "hard"? You think we won't? I suppose you think the landing of a man on the surface of the moon in 1969 is a myth, then? You think the landing of the various (numerous) mars probes is a myth? You think Voyager isn't out there at the boundary of the solar system? You think we don't have spacecraft watching the sun from various angles? You think there aren't weapons platforms, weather satellites, radio and television satellites, flight/orbital test platforms, GPS constellations, cubesats, amateur radio sats... and yet there are engine tests going on with new propulsion methods, there are tests on new methods that aren't ready for engine design, there are space telescopes, gravity sensing platforms, It's actually getting kind of crowded near the earth, but that's no impediment to the various probes that have gone up, and continue to go up to destinations further out. Then there are the people trying for a beanstalk, working the materials science for all they're worth, trying to develop just the right material.
And you can't even connect all this with the idea that the odds hugely favor that we have lots and lots of time to develop whatever we need... and that we did almost all of the forgoing in just over 50 years...
You think a few years of low-ish progress spell the end? You think a scam (or overly optimistic collection of fruitbars) and the actions of a bunch of oath-violating fudgetards in congress defines and terminates the entire undertaking?
Frankly, I'm quite confident the "nutter" here... is you. You, and the drooling idiot with mod points who cranked your insanity up past zero.
Thank you. No, I'm only driving four relays, so the SainSmart board does just fine. Also, I'm a huge fan of opto-isolators.
That's a great tip for other applications, though.:)
In my setup as it stands now, two of the relays control the aeration and filtration pumps in my salt tank, and the other two let me turn an antenna rotor from anywhere on my LAN.
For the salt tank, I tell the pi to knock the filtration pumps off for 45 minutes, which lets me clean the filter media without actively blowing gunk through the tank, and/or feed the waterkids without filtering out most of the flake food and phytoplankton. It also gates the tank aeration to run only at night, which keeps the water crystal clear during the day.
For the rotor control, sometimes I'm by the rotor, which is in my radio room, but other times I'm at my desk, running my SDR software over the network to the SDR, and need to control the rotor remotely.
One of the B+ units is my experimentation platform, one is my lady's, the third is managing remote control of things, comma, various.
Faster would be nice, of course, but there are just scads of applications that don't require it. I use my pi B+ machines via SSH shell, not a desktop. In that environment, typically I have midnight commander up for both its editing capabilities and the simplification it provides for common operations; I write Python, which as one of the fastest scripting languages and really doesn't seem to be noticeably slow within the context of the B+. I drive relay boards (Sainsmart... the PiFace is a joke, severely limiting both voltage and current due to insufficient trace widths / clearance on the PCB) and use those relay boards to perform a number of remote-able tasks for me. I just don't feel a lack of speed.
However, I *do* notice swapping from time to time when I'm editing and testing, and (of course) there is a speed drop then, but that's not something you can attribute to the CPU. It's happening because the machine simply doesn't have enough RAM; I have read (somewhere... can't be sure), there are SOC versions that do upgrade the RAM available that are essentially drop-ins. If that's the situation, then I would be *very* willing to swap out the B+ boards for C+ or whatever such a thing would be called. As we have all known for years, there are few things that contribute as much to a smoothly running modern OS as enough RAM so it can really breathe.
I can't say I have any interest at all in the A; I didn't even bother with the pi until the B+ became available. The B+, however, strikes me as a wonderful platform, and when you add the cheap sensors and other hardware, plus the drivers... whahoo.:)
We have three here already, and I'm probably about to add a fourth.
If you're a shell/raspian user, tip of the day is: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mc
That's all fine... until something gets them. Better not to count on tough immune systems and provide a clean environment instead.
I don't even let them drink out of a bowl. I use an IR sensor to drive a 12v valve, which runs a stream of water they lap out of the air from our RO system. My cats have consistently been living past 20 years. Pretty happy with that.
aw *crap*. blew my moderation, and no way to fix it -- didn't set the anon checkbox. I *despise* slashdot's moderation engine. No moderator need be anonymous unless they're being unfair. Stupid.
We had cats and kids at one point. Letting cats (or any other dependent) drink water from a toilet is an act of stupidity. Eventually, they're going to catch something, and it may be very nasty -- even nasty enough that you might get it.
So... I set an alarm up that would go off in the kid's bathroom (they weren't allowed in ours) if the seat was up and the bathroom door was open.
The rules were: (1) if the alarm went off, they lost 10% of their allowance. (2) If the alarm was found to be disabled in any way, they lost their allowances permanently.
Worked great. The one time there was a problem with the alarm -- magnetic reed relay had stuck -- I was told before the kid left the bathroom. That seat and lid stayed down and the cats remained healthy. To this day, those kids (now in their 30's) don't leave seats and/or covers up. They know why, and they're properly habituated so it's not an issue.
It's always important to remember that there's no such thing as free energy.
It's even more important to remember that some energy costs are already paid. For instance, if you float downstream on a river, the environment "paid the cost" of your transport. Less so if you use a one-time raft, but still. If you use a flowing stream to turn a water wheel, and from there do some work with it, again, the majority of the continuing costs are "paid" by the evap/precip freeze/melt cycles. When the "cost" of building a mill or a raft is just some stuff lying around and the sweat off your back, these energy supplies look very good indeed. Free? No. Hugely attractive to me? You bet.
The winners have always been able to rewrite history to suit them. These (very) few years of the Internet keeping semi-accurate track have been an anomaly. It isn't a given that it will be allowed to continue.
Do they want to be entertained, or do they want to be informed?
A nation of couch potatoes looks up at you briefly, small strings of spittle pendant from their slack jaws, then turn their blank eyes back to the latest American Idol or Survivor episode. They are Nero. The TV is the fiddle. The government is the very essence of corrupt Rome. Or, if you like, McDonald's is the bread, and TV the circus. The problem is, as it has been for some time, is that modern Americans are absolutely immune to critical thinking, and are in no way concerned about it. This is why our society is crumbling around us with regard to our rights, liberties, property, responsibility and future prospects.
Welcome to the last stage of failure of a constitutional republic: unsustainable grab-it-all oligarchy.
What regular people want is feast on cheap oil and gas and cheap food, and give a big "fuck you" to the next generation.
That's pretty much where we are now. We got here, power-wise, because of the oil-interest manufactured hysteria over nuclear power.
But not to worry, that raised finger to the next generation will dovetail nicely with the corporate oligarchy that developed to rule them without regard for their constitution, individual rights, property, privacy, and responsibility.
Always remember: The things that come to those who wait are those things left behind by those who got there first. And people with money always get there first. Or at all, in the case of our government's decision process.
Huh. Back when *I* worked in the ER, I always heard it was "these two dudes", from which I developed the understanding that no man can be subdued by the machinations of a single opponent.
That's the claim. As far as I'm aware, no one has succeeded. Our climate -- the world's -- has stubbornly insisted on doing other than what it has been predicted to do by every model I've been able to find.
It would be fascinating, however, to be pointed to a model, than when fed the data prior to 2000, predicted the 2000-2014 range accurately. So, can you point to such a model?
Now that we've finally detected the first of these, we have an excellent idea that this picture is the correct one: most planets in the Universe are homeless.
Now that we've finally detected the first of these, we have an excellent idea that this picture is the correct one: it appears that some planets in the local area where we can actually take a measurement are homeless. The broader aspect of our universe's distribution of homeless planets remains completely unknown, as does the explicit state of the local area.
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Spot on.
You figure all of NASA, the european space agency, the Russians, the Chinese... the various private undertakings, every satellite manufacturer and service provider in the world... are all deluded, do you? You think the ISS is an illusion, and that there are no raw materials to be had outside of deep gravity wells? You think the ISS can't be bettered? You think we can't solve the remaining problems just because they're "hard"? You think we won't? I suppose you think the landing of a man on the surface of the moon in 1969 is a myth, then? You think the landing of the various (numerous) mars probes is a myth? You think Voyager isn't out there at the boundary of the solar system? You think we don't have spacecraft watching the sun from various angles? You think there aren't weapons platforms, weather satellites, radio and television satellites, flight/orbital test platforms, GPS constellations, cubesats, amateur radio sats... and yet there are engine tests going on with new propulsion methods, there are tests on new methods that aren't ready for engine design, there are space telescopes, gravity sensing platforms, It's actually getting kind of crowded near the earth, but that's no impediment to the various probes that have gone up, and continue to go up to destinations further out. Then there are the people trying for a beanstalk, working the materials science for all they're worth, trying to develop just the right material.
And you can't even connect all this with the idea that the odds hugely favor that we have lots and lots of time to develop whatever we need... and that we did almost all of the forgoing in just over 50 years...
You think a few years of low-ish progress spell the end? You think a scam (or overly optimistic collection of fruitbars) and the actions of a bunch of oath-violating fudgetards in congress defines and terminates the entire undertaking?
Frankly, I'm quite confident the "nutter" here... is you. You, and the drooling idiot with mod points who cranked your insanity up past zero.
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Under-rated -- even if it gets to 5.
Thank you. No, I'm only driving four relays, so the SainSmart board does just fine. Also, I'm a huge fan of opto-isolators.
That's a great tip for other applications, though. :)
In my setup as it stands now, two of the relays control the aeration and filtration pumps in my salt tank, and the other two let me turn an antenna rotor from anywhere on my LAN.
For the salt tank, I tell the pi to knock the filtration pumps off for 45 minutes, which lets me clean the filter media without actively blowing gunk through the tank, and/or feed the waterkids without filtering out most of the flake food and phytoplankton. It also gates the tank aeration to run only at night, which keeps the water crystal clear during the day.
For the rotor control, sometimes I'm by the rotor, which is in my radio room, but other times I'm at my desk, running my SDR software over the network to the SDR, and need to control the rotor remotely.
One of the B+ units is my experimentation platform, one is my lady's, the third is managing remote control of things, comma, various.
Faster would be nice, of course, but there are just scads of applications that don't require it. I use my pi B+ machines via SSH shell, not a desktop. In that environment, typically I have midnight commander up for both its editing capabilities and the simplification it provides for common operations; I write Python, which as one of the fastest scripting languages and really doesn't seem to be noticeably slow within the context of the B+. I drive relay boards (Sainsmart... the PiFace is a joke, severely limiting both voltage and current due to insufficient trace widths / clearance on the PCB) and use those relay boards to perform a number of remote-able tasks for me. I just don't feel a lack of speed.
However, I *do* notice swapping from time to time when I'm editing and testing, and (of course) there is a speed drop then, but that's not something you can attribute to the CPU. It's happening because the machine simply doesn't have enough RAM; I have read (somewhere... can't be sure), there are SOC versions that do upgrade the RAM available that are essentially drop-ins. If that's the situation, then I would be *very* willing to swap out the B+ boards for C+ or whatever such a thing would be called. As we have all known for years, there are few things that contribute as much to a smoothly running modern OS as enough RAM so it can really breathe.
I can't say I have any interest at all in the A; I didn't even bother with the pi until the B+ became available. The B+, however, strikes me as a wonderful platform, and when you add the cheap sensors and other hardware, plus the drivers... whahoo. :)
We have three here already, and I'm probably about to add a fourth.
If you're a shell/raspian user, tip of the day is:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mc
Then either:
mc
or
sudo mc
You, sir, are exhibiting uncalled-for optimism.
Damned socialist chipmakers. You just know those bastards are going to take our pi's away from us.
Then you might be interested in reading this, which describes how it might all work, and how an (actual) AI could be made to work.
That's all fine... until something gets them. Better not to count on tough immune systems and provide a clean environment instead.
I don't even let them drink out of a bowl. I use an IR sensor to drive a 12v valve, which runs a stream of water they lap out of the air from our RO system. My cats have consistently been living past 20 years. Pretty happy with that.
aw *crap*. blew my moderation, and no way to fix it -- didn't set the anon checkbox. I *despise* slashdot's moderation engine. No moderator need be anonymous unless they're being unfair. Stupid.
Space can expand faster than light, no? And certainly this has consequences in the causal sense.
We had cats and kids at one point. Letting cats (or any other dependent) drink water from a toilet is an act of stupidity. Eventually, they're going to catch something, and it may be very nasty -- even nasty enough that you might get it.
So... I set an alarm up that would go off in the kid's bathroom (they weren't allowed in ours) if the seat was up and the bathroom door was open.
The rules were: (1) if the alarm went off, they lost 10% of their allowance. (2) If the alarm was found to be disabled in any way, they lost their allowances permanently.
Worked great. The one time there was a problem with the alarm -- magnetic reed relay had stuck -- I was told before the kid left the bathroom. That seat and lid stayed down and the cats remained healthy. To this day, those kids (now in their 30's) don't leave seats and/or covers up. They know why, and they're properly habituated so it's not an issue.
Are you, in any way, implying that the government got the tax code right?
Even then. You know what does the majority of the damage? Hysteria, that's what.
It's even more important to remember that some energy costs are already paid. For instance, if you float downstream on a river, the environment "paid the cost" of your transport. Less so if you use a one-time raft, but still. If you use a flowing stream to turn a water wheel, and from there do some work with it, again, the majority of the continuing costs are "paid" by the evap/precip freeze/melt cycles. When the "cost" of building a mill or a raft is just some stuff lying around and the sweat off your back, these energy supplies look very good indeed. Free? No. Hugely attractive to me? You bet.
Nah, that's just the ladies reporting their experiences in my hot tub. :)
The winners have always been able to rewrite history to suit them. These (very) few years of the Internet keeping semi-accurate track have been an anomaly. It isn't a given that it will be allowed to continue.
Orwell was an optimist.
It was Texas. They certainly wanted us to *think* they were stronger.
A nation of couch potatoes looks up at you briefly, small strings of spittle pendant from their slack jaws, then turn their blank eyes back to the latest American Idol or Survivor episode. They are Nero. The TV is the fiddle. The government is the very essence of corrupt Rome. Or, if you like, McDonald's is the bread, and TV the circus. The problem is, as it has been for some time, is that modern Americans are absolutely immune to critical thinking, and are in no way concerned about it. This is why our society is crumbling around us with regard to our rights, liberties, property, responsibility and future prospects.
Welcome to the last stage of failure of a constitutional republic: unsustainable grab-it-all oligarchy.
That's pretty much where we are now. We got here, power-wise, because of the oil-interest manufactured hysteria over nuclear power.
But not to worry, that raised finger to the next generation will dovetail nicely with the corporate oligarchy that developed to rule them without regard for their constitution, individual rights, property, privacy, and responsibility.
Always remember: The things that come to those who wait are those things left behind by those who got there first. And people with money always get there first. Or at all, in the case of our government's decision process.
Huh. Back when *I* worked in the ER, I always heard it was "these two dudes", from which I developed the understanding that no man can be subdued by the machinations of a single opponent.
I heard it was close -- by a whisker.
That's the claim. As far as I'm aware, no one has succeeded. Our climate -- the world's -- has stubbornly insisted on doing other than what it has been predicted to do by every model I've been able to find.
It would be fascinating, however, to be pointed to a model, than when fed the data prior to 2000, predicted the 2000-2014 range accurately. So, can you point to such a model?
Now that we've finally detected the first of these, we have an excellent idea that this picture is the correct one: it appears that some planets in the local area where we can actually take a measurement are homeless. The broader aspect of our universe's distribution of homeless planets remains completely unknown, as does the explicit state of the local area.
FTF TFS and perhaps even for TFA.