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Not sure why it was the clerk's business whether you had a TV or not. You say you get flamed by people for not having a TV? Why does the subject come up if you do not volunteer the information? I hope you're not like the guy in the Onion article.
The TV is not the problem. Keep it for the console games. It's the broadcast that is broken. Are your friends upset because your house isn't entertaining enough to them since you don't have a TV, a DVD collection, etc? That would make sense, and of course it'd be their problem and not yours.
But I'm still trying to figure out how the subject of your not having a TV became a point of interest for the "lady at the cigarette counter."
I'm also wondering how you got the strength to quit TV but not quit smoking.
The best information I've come up with from news reports is that the Beagle needed an active signal in order to start charging it's battery. I assume this means it would need to have been told where to point the solar panel or something like that. But the news articles I read made it not sound silly, like some control-freak designed it and chose not to use an automatic system. I know it cannot be that simple. But it seems to me, this sort of failure ought to be planned for from the beginning, and the lander should be able to do something useful (anything), rather than just become a piece of pollution.
Maybe they didn't decontaminate it either. In a few billion years there will be life on Mars which has evolved from our microbes:-)
You're focusing on how hard it is to show that there are "no" problems. You're ignoring the fact that we have a situation where there are extremely serious *known* problems that should be absolute showstoppers, yet there is still somehow, contraversy about what should be done.
The Diebold exec who said out on the record that the company was committed to delivering the election to the republican candidate, ought to be in Guantanamo Bay right now getting his teeth checked. The company ought to ALREADY have been barred from ever touching an election, and their privileges for having contracts with financial institutions ought to be put in jeapordy, already, just based on the evidence we already have.
So instead of dwelling on the fact that it's always going to be impossible to prove a system is perfect, please pay more attention to the fact that the system we're being offered is already known to be inadequate, if not treasonous.
I hope that tools and techniques for dealing with object code become more common. Think about it, if you had the tools you have today, how much easier would your life have been back in the z80 and 6502 days? Imagine when the community gives up on the whole "open source, exposed source, shared source, published source, whatever source", never mind that, we can work with object code anyway.
"Between these two problems a panel farm is not going to be worth the cost to set it up."
Here in Tucson AZ, we have a 2.5 Megawatt solar array, that will be 4 MW by next spring. That's just a drop in the bucket, of course, but it does have an impact.
Lots of houses have passive solar, mostly for heating water. Some of these water heaters have heat exchangers for warming the house too. (It does drop below the 30's in Tucson, and it gets real cold in the mountains here).
Every 2.6 test kernel broke support for framebuffer consoles on my Radeon card. That is a total showstopper for me, since one of my main reasons for using linux is so that I can have the terminal characteristics that are offered by such a frame buffer console. I don't really want to shop for another video card just so that I can upgrade to the 2.6 kernel, and it doesn't look like this is ever going to be fixed. I personally think it is a serious enough bug that it should have prevented any even numbered release.
Maybe it's been fixed from the last test and now, but I don't see it in the changelog.
What I'd rather have is a 2.4 kernel with the preempt stuff, the easy ALSA integration, and ACPI support that works on my laptop. I'd also like the Radeon FB driver that is in 2.4, which works fine, in the 2.6 kernel.
A cube the size of an orange, Would that be the average of Riemann sums of the cube inside the orange versus the cube that contains the orange?
There is a pretty big difference in size between a cube that would fit inside an orange, versus a cube that an orange would just barely fit inside.
Isn't there some cubic object that would have made a better analogy? The only thing I see on my desk is the rubik's cube. I'm sure I could do better but I'm in a hurry.
Before Ireland had her "Bloody Sunday", Russia had a much bloodier one. In January 1905, a group of workers went to Nicholas' winter palace to (peaceably) present a petition asking for a standard workday and improved labor conditions. The Tsar wasn't even there at the time, but the army treated it as an attack, and massacred the (unarmed) group.
Bloody Sunday is pretty much acknowledged as the event that started the Russian Revolution which ended the Tsarist rule and eventually put Lenin and the Communists in power.
When I stop seeing every meadow and woodland being turned into new suburban housing developments, full of 5+ bedroom houses that start at half a million dollars, and when I stop seeing every 2nd or 3rd car be either a brand new SUV or some brand new luxury car, I'll start to buy into the theory that there is a "deteriorating economy."
My own prospects may be deteriorating, but I don't think I'll be able to apply that to the economy as a whole until I see some evidence.
As a musician and songwriter, I see this sort of thing as a barrier to entry, not a benefit.
If the cost of recording media goes up, it makes it more expensive to record, and makes it much more costly to distribute one's music for free. If it costs me $4 to make a demo to give away, then it's costing almost as much to make music to give away for free, as it would cost to buy some music produced by a corporation!
This isn't about piracy, it's about controlling whose art gets distributed. Stalin had different methods, but it's the same goal.
Did he break Australian law by fabricating the flight plan? If so, is this merely a "lose your license and pay a fine" sort of crime, or is this "spend a few decades doing hard labor" sort of crime? Could it be that getting rescued and having to pay to have his plane shipped off as scrap, could be the least of his problems now?
Look at the latest motions. SCO has asked IBM for all AIX source code, including incremental changes. Forget for a moment that this case is supposedly about Linux. Consider that access to AIX might be the actual goal, and the whole Linux issue is only a means to that end.
Look at the latest motions. They ask for AIX and Dynix.
Regardless of the contract, my insurance company would have provided reasonable replacement cost for anything that was stolen from my car. Since it happened at the body shop, the insurance company would have actually been in a position to withhold payment until the question of responsibility was resolved. Maybe the law wasn't on your side in your state, and maybe your insurance policy isn't as good as mine. But I have had a very similar situation, and it is actually one of the things that sold me on the idea of insurance. (I didn't know at the time that items inside the car were covered against theft.)
Amen to that. I've ridden Amtrak quite a lot, and I must say that the big problem they have is with the rights-of-way they lease from the Union Pacific Railroad (and others). See, freight always takes priority over passenger traffic. So there's no limit to the amount of time you can be delayed while waiting for a freight train. Hours and hours and hours of waiting.
Personally, I regret the fact that the wars, etc., haven't yet given us $20.00/gallon gasoline.
>The lack of developers' free time is the problem.
If you say so. They don't even have time to update the FAQ, so I'm not holding my breath for a driver.
I'm hoping for a generation of kids that has no problem just looking at object code and understanding it, instead of throwing a fit about "open source this, free that". Yes I realize the complexity of object code today, but, with everyone saying it can't be done, there's bound to be someone who can come along and just do it... I'd really love to see the revolution that ensues after the lack of "source code" ceases to be a problem anymore.
"I don't do windows, but wouldn't it be preferable to put the resources towards native solutions?"
It might be that the native solution is a lost cause, comparatively.
It was far simpler to interface to the windows library than to reverse engineer it. So you can have this today, but it wouldn't even have been a fraction of the work needed to take the native driver any further. Do you realize how that development is done? Hex editor on the partition, make an operation, hex edit, log and analyze the result...
As to other platforms, well, we are talking about a Windows filesystem here... and Alpha is pretty much dead... what other platforms were you going to use a windows fs on, and how hard would it be to talk you out of it?
As for HPFS, where the hell is IBM on that? Thought they were supposed to be our friends this month.
I would also like to see pluggable filesystems for windows. Maybe if a bunch of smart people play with ntfs.sys, there will be an "a-ha" moment, and then we get it by accident:-)
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Not sure why it was the clerk's business whether you had a TV or not. You say you get flamed by people for not having a TV? Why does the subject come up if you do not volunteer the information? I hope you're not like the guy in the Onion article.
The TV is not the problem. Keep it for the console games. It's the broadcast that is broken. Are your friends upset because your house isn't entertaining enough to them since you don't have a TV, a DVD collection, etc? That would make sense, and of course it'd be their problem and not yours.
But I'm still trying to figure out how the subject of your not having a TV became a point of interest for the "lady at the cigarette counter."
I'm also wondering how you got the strength to quit TV but not quit smoking.
The best information I've come up with from news reports is that the Beagle needed an active signal in order to start charging it's battery.
:-)
I assume this means it would need to have been told where to point the solar panel or something like that. But the news articles I read made it not sound silly, like some control-freak designed it and chose not to use an automatic system. I know it cannot be that simple. But it seems to me, this sort of failure ought to be planned for from the beginning, and the lander should be able to do something useful (anything), rather than just become a piece of pollution.
Maybe they didn't decontaminate it either. In a few billion years there will be life on Mars which has evolved from our microbes
If you block ssh, I've got to go to another coffee shop and put my money in their tip jar instead.
You're focusing on how hard it is to show that there are
"no" problems. You're ignoring the fact that we have a
situation where there are extremely serious *known* problems
that should be absolute showstoppers, yet there is still
somehow, contraversy about what should be done.
The Diebold exec who said out on the record that the
company was committed to delivering the election to
the republican candidate, ought to be in Guantanamo Bay right now getting his teeth checked.
The company ought to ALREADY have been barred from ever
touching an election, and their privileges for having
contracts with financial institutions ought to be put in jeapordy, already,
just based on the evidence we already have.
So instead of dwelling on the fact that it's always going to be
impossible to prove a system is perfect, please pay
more attention to the fact that the system we're being offered
is already known to be inadequate, if not treasonous.
I hope that tools and techniques for dealing with object code become more common. Think about it, if you had the tools you have today, how much easier would your life have been back in the z80 and 6502 days? Imagine when the community gives up on the whole "open source, exposed source, shared source, published source, whatever source", never mind that, we can work with object code anyway.
"Between these two problems a panel farm is not going to be worth the cost to set it up."
Here in Tucson AZ, we have a 2.5 Megawatt solar array, that will be 4 MW by next spring. That's just a drop in the bucket, of course, but it does have an impact.
Lots of houses have passive solar, mostly for heating water. Some of these water heaters have heat exchangers for warming the house too. (It does drop below the 30's in Tucson, and it gets real cold in the mountains here).
Every 2.6 test kernel broke support for framebuffer consoles on my Radeon card. That is a total showstopper for me, since one of my main reasons for using linux is so that I can have the terminal characteristics that are offered by such a frame buffer console. I don't really want to shop for another video card just so that I can upgrade to the 2.6 kernel, and it doesn't look like this is ever going to be fixed. I personally think it is a serious enough bug that it should have prevented any even numbered release.
Maybe it's been fixed from the last test and now, but I don't see it in the changelog.
What I'd rather have is a 2.4 kernel with the preempt stuff, the easy ALSA integration, and ACPI support that works on my laptop. I'd also like the Radeon FB driver that is in 2.4, which works fine, in the 2.6 kernel.
Richard Pearse, either the Nathan Stubblefield or the Philo T. Farnsworth of Aviation.
>Someone in Texass that has brains?
Most people in Austin moved there from other places in the 1980's. Most of the natives
got disgusted and left.
"...I pay $50 a month for satellite and I cant even record any TV. Thats bullshit. "
It is bullshit, but not in the way you mean.
Shame on you for supporting these people.
YOU are the problem. Not them. Don't you see that? Without your money, they cannot continue.
A cube the size of an orange, Would that be the average of Riemann sums of the cube inside the orange versus the cube that contains the orange?
There is a pretty big difference in size between a cube that would fit inside an orange, versus a cube that an orange would just barely fit inside.
Isn't there some cubic object that would have made a better analogy? The only thing I see on my desk is the rubik's cube. I'm sure I could do better but I'm in a hurry.
Before Ireland had her "Bloody Sunday", Russia had a much bloodier one. In January 1905, a group of workers went to Nicholas' winter palace to (peaceably) present a petition asking for a standard workday and improved labor conditions. The Tsar wasn't even there at the time, but the army treated it as an attack, and massacred the (unarmed) group.
Bloody Sunday is pretty much acknowledged as the event that started the Russian Revolution which ended the Tsarist rule and eventually put Lenin and the Communists in power.
I know about Ireland's Bloody Sunday.
Before Northern Ireland had her "Bloody Sunday",
Many Soviets didn't even know their own history (e.g., the Tsar was killed, Bloody Sunday, etc.), before The Thaw.
Correlation is not causation.
Repeat that.
Keep repeating it until it sinks in.
When I stop seeing every meadow and woodland being turned into new suburban housing developments, full of 5+ bedroom houses that start at half a million dollars, and when I stop seeing every 2nd or 3rd car be either a brand new SUV or some brand new luxury car, I'll start to buy into the theory that there is a "deteriorating economy."
My own prospects may be deteriorating, but I don't think I'll be able to apply that to the economy as a whole until I see some evidence.
In a rented Cadillac (long story, not my idea), I've had the OnStar operator gently suggest that I slow down...
As a musician and songwriter, I see this sort of thing as a barrier to entry, not a benefit.
If the cost of recording media goes up, it makes it more expensive to record, and makes it much more costly to distribute one's music for free. If it costs me $4 to make a demo to give away, then it's costing almost as much to make music to give away for free, as it would cost to buy some music produced by a corporation!
This isn't about piracy, it's about controlling whose art gets distributed. Stalin had different methods, but it's the same goal.
Did he break Australian law by fabricating the flight plan? If so, is this merely a "lose your license and pay a fine" sort of crime, or is this "spend a few decades doing hard labor" sort of crime? Could it be that getting rescued and having to pay to have his plane shipped off as scrap, could be the least of his problems now?
I sure hope so.
"If it costs him an airplane I think that's probaly fair"
If it "costs him an airplane", it means he also needs to get the scrap out of there next summer.
Look at the latest motions. SCO has asked IBM for all AIX source code, including incremental changes. Forget for a moment that this case is supposedly about Linux. Consider that access to AIX might be the actual goal, and the whole Linux issue is only a means to that end.
Look at the latest motions. They ask for AIX and Dynix.
"Series of i's and 0's", indeed.
Regardless of the contract, my insurance company would have provided reasonable replacement cost for anything that was stolen from my car. Since it happened at the body shop, the insurance company would have actually been in a position to withhold payment until the question of responsibility was resolved. Maybe the law wasn't on your side in your state, and maybe your insurance policy isn't as good as mine. But I have had a very similar situation, and it is actually one of the things that sold me on the idea of insurance. (I didn't know at the time that items inside the car were covered against theft.)
>Amtrak running on freight rails, too.
Amen to that. I've ridden Amtrak quite a lot, and I must say that the big problem they have is with the rights-of-way they lease from the Union Pacific Railroad (and others). See, freight always takes priority over passenger traffic. So there's no limit to the amount of time you can be delayed while waiting for a freight train. Hours and hours and hours of waiting.
Personally, I regret the fact that the wars, etc., haven't yet given us $20.00/gallon gasoline.
>The lack of developers' free time is the problem.
If you say so. They don't even have time to update the FAQ, so I'm not holding my breath for a driver.
I'm hoping for a generation of kids that has no problem just looking at object code and understanding it, instead of throwing a fit about "open source this, free that". Yes I realize the complexity of object code today, but, with everyone saying it can't be done, there's bound to be someone who can come along and just do it... I'd really love to see the revolution that ensues after the lack of "source code" ceases to be a problem anymore.
"I don't do windows, but wouldn't it be preferable to put the resources towards native solutions?"
It might be that the native solution is a lost cause, comparatively.
It was far simpler to interface to the windows library than to reverse engineer it. So you can have this today, but it wouldn't even have been a fraction of the work needed to take the native driver any further. Do you realize how that development is done? Hex editor on the partition, make an operation, hex edit, log and analyze the result...
As to other platforms, well, we are talking about a Windows filesystem here... and Alpha is pretty much dead... what other platforms were you going to use a windows fs on, and how hard would it be to talk you out of it?
As for HPFS, where the hell is IBM on that? Thought they were supposed to be our friends this month.
I would also like to see pluggable filesystems for windows. Maybe if a bunch of smart people play with ntfs.sys, there will be an "a-ha" moment, and then we get it by accident