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You don't think mini-itx is a part of that hardware revolution? Granted the only revolution on my workbench is a PIC16XXX circuit, but still, what are you talking about?
I still can't meet my needs with commodity hardware. I need a *silent* 1U pc compatable, with a single PCI slot. I'd really like a blank front panel so that I can mill my own control panel. It needs to be a much higher spec processor than a nehemiah though. It can be bigger than 1U, but then I want to be able to put an lcd panel on it, faders and knobs.
"unless you were there and saw it you no longer can be sure of anything you read or see online. "
There is nothing new under the sun. Do you actually believe this is unique to your contemporary world? The idea that "you shouldn't believe everything you read or hear" isn't new in our era!
"which would eventually lead to an internal war and world war."
Things will need to get a LOT worse before either of the following things happen:
1. Issues are so divisive that even people who command military units and/or govern states become revolutionaries. Hippies and ranchers aren't going to do it.
2. Some other nation with a military chooses to oppose the US.
So does Titor say when this civil war/world war started? Sometime before 2036?
It doesn't matter what Bush is. He is the executive in custodial charge of an imperialist regime which operates as it pleases in the world with zero meaningful opposition.
>The US seems to often confuse being the most >influential nation on this planet with being the >acknowledged rulers of this planet.
Until and unless the US meets actual opposition to things like invasion, overthrow, and occupation of countries, why exactly *shouldn't* the US presume it has such a role?
By the way, "opposition" to military action pretty much needs to be raised with military hardware, not merely words in the UN hall.
There was NO opposition whatsoever to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, despite claims by certain countries that they "opposed" the action. (Countries that commanded military forces, mind you, who could have stopped it, or at least escalated the matter to the point that diplomacy could not be ignored.)
But at the end of the day, they really didn't care enough to put their lives on the line, or risk being cut off from the US trade relations, did they? So US imperialism is supported by the world one more day. No domestic rebellion, no foreign opposition. To all apperances, the rest of the world WANTS to be ruled by the US.
"Gambling is a Vice and an addictive activity (even has a 12 step program to help recovering addicts whose lives have been shattered just like the 12 steps for drugs and alcohol)."
So does sex! Where do you stand on an outright ban of sex?
"If I cared, I would simply not use the bonus card, and pay with cash."
Does it matter that they are charging you a premium, since you opted out of being a volunteer research subject?
I choose my battles too, but the ones that force me to choose between volunteering something or being charged extra, usually make the list without much trouble.
"The stores forced them on you? They refuse to take your money unless you have one? It is impossible for you to take your business elsewhere?"
They jack the price up, then discount it to regular rates only if you play your part in the game. It's not really a privacy problem, but I prefer positive rewards for being a market research subject, not negative reinforcement for NOT being a research volunteer, get it?
I think of things like telephone switch patch panels and modulation matrices on analog synths to be "graphic user interfaces" also. They are laid out on a cartesian grid. Who said a GUI has to be on a CRT or LCD screen?
"But anyway, my point is that there ought to be some mechanism where the scarcest property in cyberspace, dotcom names, falls back into the hands of the public if they are not being put to full use."
It's far more likely that someone will come along, think outside the box, and do something ingenious that makes the whole notion of domain names obsolete.
Whatever that is, it'll be the thing that makes us look at today's "internet" like I remember the Telex network or the single line BBS.
The whole idea of "domain name as real estate" is just a fiction. Don't assume it will always have meaning.
There's a Clavia Nord Synthesizer that has a wheel controller made of stone and a pitch bend stick made of wood.
It's one thing to have a digital device with natural materials in the case, but it's much cooler when actual parts of the machine are wood and stone:-)
After you pay the taxes involved, say, sales tax in NYC for instance (8.625%), plus whatever you pay at customs entering the UK (maybe nothing?) do you still come out ahead? Is it really that the dollar is worth so little, or is it that stuff is overpriced in the UK? Hardly seems any different today than when I was there in '79.
It passes the "walks like a duck" test. I have no problem regarding the EU as a governing federation of European states. Give the EU a standing army and I'll regard it as a fact.
You sure about that? I would not want to be on the set where patent-infringing clones of Panaflex equipment was being used. I'd be just as afraid of sabotage or thug-enforcement at the hands of the union guys as the 1920's folks were of Edison.
I don't really care about any other feature. The primary thing that keeps me using Linux is the support of high resolution text consoles on a framebuffer device. Yes, I use X11, and various terms. But I will NOT do without at least a 160x64 text console, 8 of them, each running screen. I don't care that I can get "almost the same thing" with an xterm. Nothing beats the text console on a framebuffer for my work. Nothing. Actually, back when SVGATextMode was still alive, things were a bit simpler, so long as your card was supported.
Today, and ever since 2.5.x and 2.6.x, there are serious problems with the Radeon and Trident fbconsole drivers. But at least the vesafb still works. (I *wish* this could get fixed.)
I have not found anything at all for Windows 2000 or XP that even begins to compare with the framebuffer console. The best I can do is 80 columns. And they generally run in some very slow emulation. And they don't make a pleasant terminal.
I really do wish I had this feature under Windows.
>But what do you do when someone takes your entire >web site and hosts it in a foreign country?
I thank him profusely for hosting a mirror on his own dime and effort. I am especially grateful to know that this makes the material immune to the opressive laws in my own country.
You would spend billions. Even if you mounted a worldwide *volunteer* effort, and delivered a wholly superior product, it would have extreme difficulties being adopted, every step of the way.
>I can't remember anyone compiling a calc book in >the recent past.
It is not uncommon for math papers and books to be published with LaTeX. That's still not strictly source code.
I don't understand why copyright protections can't be an expection for an author of anything. There really isn't anything that makes a computer program special. Not special in the sense that its author deserves separate rights under copyright law. At least I hope not, as it would open the door to an argument against the GPL on 14th amendment grounds, and the wicked witch would win.
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You don't think mini-itx is a part of that hardware revolution? Granted the only revolution on my workbench is a PIC16XXX circuit, but still, what are you talking about?
I still can't meet my needs with commodity hardware. I need a *silent* 1U pc compatable,
with a single PCI slot. I'd really like a blank front panel so that I can mill my own control panel. It needs to be a much higher spec processor than a nehemiah though. It can be bigger than 1U, but then I want to be able to put an lcd panel on it, faders and knobs.
But don't you have to mod the XBox? And doesn't the mod involve some questionable use of ROM? And doesn't it mean it won't play xbox games anymore?
"unless you were there and saw it you no longer can be sure of anything you read or see online. "
There is nothing new under the sun. Do you actually believe this is unique to your contemporary world? The idea that "you shouldn't believe everything you read or hear" isn't new in our era!
"which would eventually lead to an internal war and world war."
Things will need to get a LOT worse before either of the following things happen:
1. Issues are so divisive that even people who command military units and/or govern states become revolutionaries. Hippies and ranchers aren't going to do it.
2. Some other nation with a military chooses to oppose the US.
So does Titor say when this civil war/world war started? Sometime before 2036?
IN TIMECUBE THERE IS NO WAR
> is Bush a terrorist?
It doesn't matter what Bush is. He is the executive in custodial charge of an imperialist regime which operates as it pleases in the world with zero meaningful opposition.
>The US seems to often confuse being the most
>influential nation on this planet with being the
>acknowledged rulers of this planet.
Until and unless the US meets actual opposition to things like invasion, overthrow, and occupation of countries, why exactly *shouldn't* the US presume it has such a role?
By the way, "opposition" to military action pretty much needs to be raised with military hardware, not merely words in the UN hall.
There was NO opposition whatsoever to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, despite claims by certain countries that they "opposed" the action. (Countries that commanded military forces, mind you, who could have stopped it, or at least escalated the matter to the point that diplomacy could not be ignored.)
But at the end of the day, they really didn't care enough to put their lives on the line, or risk being cut off from the US trade relations, did they? So US imperialism is supported by the world one more day. No domestic rebellion, no foreign opposition. To all apperances, the rest of the world WANTS to be ruled by the US.
[Bricker Amendment]
Section 3 will always fall to presidential veto.
"Gambling is a Vice and an addictive activity (even has a 12 step program to help recovering addicts whose lives have been shattered just like the 12 steps for drugs and alcohol)."
So does sex! Where do you stand on an outright ban of sex?
except for Nevada, I think
New Jersey, Louisiana, Mississippi, and many aboriginal territories.
"If I cared, I would simply not use the bonus card, and pay with cash."
Does it matter that they are charging you a premium, since you opted out of being a volunteer research subject?
I choose my battles too, but the ones that force me to choose between volunteering something or being charged extra, usually make the list without much trouble.
>You signed up for it, bro.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Max Planck, and Mao Tse Tung signed up for my discount cards. I just use them on their behalf.
"The stores forced them on you? They refuse to take your money unless you have one? It is impossible for you to take your business elsewhere?"
They jack the price up, then discount it to regular rates only if you play your part in the game. It's not really a privacy problem, but I prefer positive rewards for being a market research subject, not negative reinforcement for NOT being a research volunteer, get it?
I think of things like telephone switch patch panels and modulation matrices on analog synths to be "graphic user interfaces" also. They are laid out on a cartesian grid. Who said a GUI has to be on a CRT or LCD screen?
"But anyway, my point is that there ought to be some mechanism where the scarcest property in cyberspace, dotcom names, falls back into the hands of the public if they are not being put to full use."
It's far more likely that someone will come along, think outside the box, and do something ingenious that makes the whole notion of domain names obsolete.
Whatever that is, it'll be the thing that makes us look at today's "internet" like I remember the Telex network or the single line BBS.
The whole idea of "domain name as real estate" is just a fiction. Don't assume it will always have meaning.
You want my bigfoot.com "Free Email For Life" for your collection?
There's a Clavia Nord Synthesizer that has a wheel controller made of stone and a pitch bend stick made of wood.
:-)
It's one thing to have a digital device with natural materials in the case, but it's much cooler when actual parts of the machine are wood and stone
After you pay the taxes involved, say, sales tax in NYC for instance (8.625%), plus whatever you pay at customs entering the UK (maybe nothing?) do you still come out ahead? Is it really that the dollar is worth so little, or is it that stuff is overpriced in the UK? Hardly seems any different today than when I was there in '79.
>European Union is not a "country" yet
It passes the "walks like a duck" test.
I have no problem regarding the EU as a governing federation of European states. Give the EU a standing army and I'll regard it as a fact.
There used to be media called "Books" before the Microsoft DRM Amendment.
>Life is too short to work for idiots.
It tends to be a lot shorter when you have no income.
>thank god we're more evolved now...
You sure about that? I would not want to be on the set where patent-infringing clones of Panaflex equipment was being used. I'd be just as afraid of sabotage or thug-enforcement at the hands of the union guys as the 1920's folks were of Edison.
I don't really care about any other feature.
The primary thing that keeps me using Linux is
the support of high resolution text consoles on a
framebuffer device. Yes, I use X11, and various terms. But I will NOT do without at least a 160x64 text console, 8 of them, each running screen. I don't care that I can get "almost the same thing" with an xterm. Nothing beats the text console on a framebuffer for my work. Nothing. Actually, back when SVGATextMode was still alive, things were a bit simpler, so long as your card was supported.
Today, and ever since 2.5.x and 2.6.x, there are serious problems with the Radeon and Trident fbconsole drivers. But at least the vesafb still works. (I *wish* this could get fixed.)
I have not found anything at all for Windows 2000 or XP that even begins to compare with the framebuffer console. The best I can do is 80 columns. And they generally run in some very slow emulation. And they don't make a pleasant terminal.
I really do wish I had this feature under Windows.
>But what do you do when someone takes your entire
>web site and hosts it in a foreign country?
I thank him profusely for hosting a mirror on his own dime and effort. I am especially grateful to know that this makes the material immune to the opressive laws in my own country.
You would spend billions. Even if you mounted a worldwide *volunteer* effort, and delivered a wholly superior product, it would have extreme difficulties being adopted, every step of the way.
>I can't remember anyone compiling a calc book in
>the recent past.
It is not uncommon for math papers and books to be published with LaTeX. That's still not strictly source code.
I don't understand why copyright protections can't be an expection for an author of anything. There really isn't anything that makes a computer program special. Not special in the sense that its author deserves separate rights under copyright law. At least I hope not, as it would open the door to an argument against the GPL on 14th amendment grounds, and the wicked witch would win.