Though since he seems to have posted the pinouts and whatnot I guess someone else could try taking a whack at making it better.
Like a... wireless BlueTooth to Serial port adapter? So all you have, other than iPad, is a little serial port dongle thingy? That'd be my choice: rather than hacking Apple's proprietary data/power connecter (though it had to be done... but now that's out of the way), hack their bluetooth stack
I use math (including some advanced stuff) every day.
Everyone does. Math is inescapable. Is it a problem when we don't realize we just performed some mind boggling calculation and executed it flawlessly without thinking about it? idk.
Math's problem is one of marketing. Everyone has been raised in a mathematically bigoted society. Mathematic's PR has been spiriling long before they allowed Computer Science to stroll over to Engineering and change its name to Software Engineering. Perhaps Math's answer has already been logically laid out for them... they would achieve far greater enrollment stats if they just did that... change the name. They could go with "Mathematical Engineering" and squeeze in between CS And Engineering... because it's too obvious to change it to... Everything... because everything is math. Admittedly... a subspecialty of engineering with mathemenautic subsubspecialties... hiding the department completely, might do wonders for the interest. The smaller the room, the larger the crowd. And a crime drama with mathematician hero's wouldn't hurt... maybe a fantasy drama depicting algebraics sweeping around the medieval Mediterranean... conquering... with math and cool technology... and sometimes scimitars
Everything they will use to explain 'reality' will be done with beautiful math.
Math plays a part, but reality is really language. Whether that language is mathematics, or English, it matters not. In a sense, we create the Universe as we behold and describe it. We must look beyond the knee-jerk dismissing of anthropomorphism and semantics.
Light travels incomprehensible distances, hits the lenses of our eyes, is flipped upside-down and focused on our retina, and the rods and cones there transfer that information to our brains' ocular centers, then reinterpreted to our understanding, then transcoded again to our logical and classification areas, then run through our language centers... yada yada yada... to our mouths... and we say "wow, look at the pretty colors, children," or what have you. The eyes and vision centers are not a complete necessity for world-creation, as the blind also have a way to feel out the world with hearing and touch. Perception can take many forms, but it is isolated and meaningless without language.
Language is essential. Without language, in the strictest literal sense, there would be no Universe. Physicists always seem to gloss over this, but all cosmological volumes should begin with this principle: We are human, and we use language to observe.
It's demise has been greatly exaggerated. I don't use it... but I just this past weekend, sick and tired of my father wanting me to fix his old windows box, I installed Lucid Lynx on it. It boots in less than a minute now instead of almost four minutes. He can't hardly tell the difference that it isn't Windows. Yes, it looks different. But it's all desktop, icons, menus and clicking. I don't understand why businesses with hundreds and sometimes thousands of desktop business users don't just switch. It would save any medium or large corporations so much money it's ridiculous. Internal Windows application developers are some of the biggest babies I have never met... "the app doesn't work unless the user is operating as administrator, so all our users operate as administrator" and yet the Windows admins really believe their networks are tight. It must be nice to be in network operations and basically sleep all day because everyone thinks it's magic and incomprehensible that Brazilian or Russian hackers could sneak in past their unfirewalled and wide open remote desktop ports. It's true that Mac users seem to be lulled into false security, but with so many fortresses and ways to attack, why would hackers ever bother trying to pwn an unsecured Mac? It is the silly self-taught Windows administrators (not all, just most, and not the true Microsoft specialty guys that are well trained) that are arrogantly lulled into false security. At least that is my experience....they think Windows is hardended out of the box, or they think admins at upper levels are on top of things. I, for one, think that the sky is falling.
Personally, I find the rights of self-defense and community defense both inalienable, as are all the basic human rights only codified and not granted in the Bill of Rights.
almost agreed... and this is exactly my point. Certain rights are codified in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of Press, Speech, Religion are not inalienable rights... neither is the right to bear arms a basic human right, and neither are others that are explicitly defined there, such as right to due process and a speedy trial. They are alienated all over the world. Neither in the Bill of Rights and no where in the Constitution is "self-defense" codified. It is a basic inalienable right, but the Constitution doesn't mention it anywhere.
You can only protect your self interests by protecting the interests of your neighbors, too.
I don't have a problem with this statement. But I believe it is possible to protect your neighbor while dying in the process... called 'self-sacrifice.' The off-hand example is the volunteer fireman. He has no interest in whether or not your house burns down, yet he risks his life to save yours. I'm not saying that this is what the Second is requiring of militias, just that it wasn't ever about self-defense until this past decade. Now you can shoot me if you feel threatened, according to this Court. Before, it merely allowed you to protect your community from the tyranny of corrupt government. Ironically, the government manipulated you into being paranoid about me instead of them. Most gun owners seemed to eat this up because they were incorrectly basing their right to self-defense on the Second for years.
you sound like Abraham Lincoln, in that parable about his argument with a friend about how people always do things in their own self-interest. After stopping to help someone that was in need, his friend said his actions proved that people didn't always act in their self-interest. And Lincoln responded in disagreement, saying if he hadn't helped he wouldn't have been able to live with himself, so he selfishly acted to avoid feeling guilty for not helping.
My original point, and the point of the Second is NOT to promote self-interest, but common interest. If promoting the common interest is also self-promoting, that is incidental.
It isn't actually "spying" if the person is willingly sharing information, or has information posted that everyone can read. "Spying" is getting information that a person doesn't want others to have.
This seems to be unconstitutional. On one hand, we have the First Amendment, on the other hand there is the Fourth Amendment. Now... if terrorists or criminals are publicly posting their exploits, well that is different. But initiating investigations based entirely on Constitutionally protected opinion or association is certainly a violation, and such investigations, once they get beyond what is public, in turn, violate the Fourth.
We can't protect ourselves without protecting enough others. It's all self-defense.
No. It isn't. Read the text. Try to understand that the purpose of a militia is not to protect itself. It is to put itself in harm's way to protect others.
WTF?? You have read something I have not written. Let me put it another way. If you research the minutes of the Continental Congresses, you will discover that the Founders debated self-defense. They intentionally left it out of the Constitution. You won't find it mentioned anywhere in there. I did not say you don't have a right to bear arms in self-defense. You do. But the right is (was) derived both from much older English common law, and also current State laws... the purpose of the Second was to prevent tyranny, not robbery.
On the other hand, lack of discipline is also troublesome. If a parent decides to praise the good with the bad, rather than just the good, doesn't this breed sociopaths? I hyperbolize, but sometimes it really is alright to say "that is not good... don't do that."
and get it to the supreme court.
if they say this is legal, burn it down.
simple really.
Too late. SCOTUS has already changed the meaning of the Second Amendment to something the Founders never intended. The purpose of the Second was so that those that carried arms could organize and could protect others from our own government. Now, it means self-defense. From selfless to selfish in just two, well-publicized cases.
Banks and lawyers. Two totally unnecessary services getting the most money from everything for nothing?! Great!:D
Let's not forget the roles of the paralegals, court reporters, bailiffs, court clerks, gavel carpenters and those pretentious robe designers! They're benefitting as much as anyone in this litigious patent machinery.
that the only sane people seem to be in other countries? In the US, the normal people get trodden on all over the place, the idea of a "choice" of ISP is a joke, and despite the prohibition on ex post facto laws, the Supreme Court ruled that a bought-off Congress could keep extending "copyright term" ad infinitum - even setting it to a "million bajillion" years if they felt like it.
Wow... how the world has changed in only 60 years or so. You see, the irony here is, The United States used to be the enemy of nazis... the US was the nazi's worst nightmare, and nazis often traversed through neutral Ireland on their way to new identities. And now it seems the roles have reversed. (If my quip offends anyone, let me just say, to calm your pure hearts, that the independent ('indy') record companies are not nazis; they're more like the French Resistance).
When they have you wasting your time picking sense out of their nonsense, you've been effectively neutralized. Nonsense can be manufactured at a far greater rate than it could possibly be critiqued.
And so you are right. This is precisely why Democrats always blow it. They had a majority in both Houses, and the Executive. WHY THE FUCK DID THEY START WITH HEALTHCARE??? sorry... lost ma cool thar. Seriously, they could have knocked out about 30 annoying things, and they started with the impossible, and basically wasted all that time. They should change their name to the Bumfuzzled Party.../grumbling
Just because they supply our gadget craze, doesn't mean they have our best interest in mind
Who said anything about best interests? As a nation we clearly want cheap, toxic plastic crap, and China supplies it. From where I'm sitting it looks like an equitable relationship to me. It's not like the first time was free or anything.
This sort of shenanigans of screwing the consumer is anathema. Where could Chinese businesses have learned such unscrupulous practices?
Certainly interesting... but you could look at this practice as the photo equivalent of sensationalist headlines. We are so accustomed to the bullshit, it no longer bugs us.
What really irks me is that photographers have multiplied exponentially (maybe not pro news staffers, but regardless), and yet most Internet news stories have a single photo, if that. WTF? News sites are still treating web articles like page real estate is at a premium, and if they stuck another image there, they'd eat up the ad space or column space of other stories. Every web article should have a bunch of thumbnails to entire albums of photos... literally show the news every angle, and include maps, audio and video. I don't understand why they don't... digital media is cheap and readily at hand. If a news site did this, they'd become so popular they could charge anything they wanted for web ads.
I could see the "first child conceived in space" or the "first birth in space", but why does...
AFAIK, space is everywhere. All children were conceived and born in space. Oh, but you probably meant "outer space." But there is a concept we all have considered at one time or another... known as sex in zero-gravity. I would think gender matters in that context.
Given that Adobe hasn't upgraded to Cocoa precisely because they don't want to orphan people's libraries of existing photoshop plugins
Complete and utter rubbish! Where did you even get that? It's ridiculous that Adobe would care so much for something that would have no effect on their profit. I mean... perhaps that is an incidental truth, but make no mistake, Adobe didn't want to pay for the cost of migrating, i.e., realized that actually employing a significant number of developers to migrate/rebuild the software would be expensive, and they couldn't then have as many highly paid execs riding the coattails of the fruits of the previous decade's developers. They did carbonize their software, after all... because that took a minimal amount of effort... you think carbonization left plugins intact? Your statement is just wild. That's like saying that music CD's never came down in price because major record labels didn't want your record player to become obsolete... the notion is absurd that Adobe would care about their customers. I point to their fleecing with CS3 & 4 as evidence... WTF was the point of those? Getting an extra thousand bucks from every graphics professional every 2 years, perhaps? "We put it in a new box! This box is better than the last box. You need this new box."
Yeah, and they can get rid of that stupid cross-platform support too!
Are you kidding? On the contrary, Microsoft wants Windows everywhere, so Ballmer must realize the only way to do this now is to run Windows inside Flash!
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Your point is thin. I'd like to point out that before everyone started using USB, no one used it.
if you can't hack it, there's the camera connection kit and something like this... so long as it doesn't need drivers.
Though since he seems to have posted the pinouts and whatnot I guess someone else could try taking a whack at making it better.
Like a ... wireless BlueTooth to Serial port adapter? So all you have, other than iPad, is a little serial port dongle thingy? That'd be my choice: rather than hacking Apple's proprietary data/power connecter (though it had to be done... but now that's out of the way), hack their bluetooth stack
I use math (including some advanced stuff) every day.
Everyone does. Math is inescapable. Is it a problem when we don't realize we just performed some mind boggling calculation and executed it flawlessly without thinking about it? idk.
Math's problem is one of marketing. Everyone has been raised in a mathematically bigoted society. Mathematic's PR has been spiriling long before they allowed Computer Science to stroll over to Engineering and change its name to Software Engineering. Perhaps Math's answer has already been logically laid out for them... they would achieve far greater enrollment stats if they just did that... change the name. They could go with "Mathematical Engineering" and squeeze in between CS And Engineering... because it's too obvious to change it to ... Everything... because everything is math. Admittedly... a subspecialty of engineering with mathemenautic subsubspecialties... hiding the department completely, might do wonders for the interest. The smaller the room, the larger the crowd. And a crime drama with mathematician hero's wouldn't hurt... maybe a fantasy drama depicting algebraics sweeping around the medieval Mediterranean... conquering... with math and cool technology... and sometimes scimitars
that's what is done... with all the new imaging data... all the new techniques... most of what we know about brain comes from accidents
Everything they will use to explain 'reality' will be done with beautiful math.
Math plays a part, but reality is really language. Whether that language is mathematics, or English, it matters not. In a sense, we create the Universe as we behold and describe it. We must look beyond the knee-jerk dismissing of anthropomorphism and semantics.
Light travels incomprehensible distances, hits the lenses of our eyes, is flipped upside-down and focused on our retina, and the rods and cones there transfer that information to our brains' ocular centers, then reinterpreted to our understanding, then transcoded again to our logical and classification areas, then run through our language centers... yada yada yada... to our mouths... and we say "wow, look at the pretty colors, children," or what have you. The eyes and vision centers are not a complete necessity for world-creation, as the blind also have a way to feel out the world with hearing and touch. Perception can take many forms, but it is isolated and meaningless without language.
Language is essential. Without language, in the strictest literal sense, there would be no Universe. Physicists always seem to gloss over this, but all cosmological volumes should begin with this principle: We are human, and we use language to observe.
It's demise has been greatly exaggerated. I don't use it... but I just this past weekend, sick and tired of my father wanting me to fix his old windows box, I installed Lucid Lynx on it. It boots in less than a minute now instead of almost four minutes. He can't hardly tell the difference that it isn't Windows. Yes, it looks different. But it's all desktop, icons, menus and clicking. I don't understand why businesses with hundreds and sometimes thousands of desktop business users don't just switch. It would save any medium or large corporations so much money it's ridiculous. Internal Windows application developers are some of the biggest babies I have never met... "the app doesn't work unless the user is operating as administrator, so all our users operate as administrator" and yet the Windows admins really believe their networks are tight. It must be nice to be in network operations and basically sleep all day because everyone thinks it's magic and incomprehensible that Brazilian or Russian hackers could sneak in past their unfirewalled and wide open remote desktop ports. It's true that Mac users seem to be lulled into false security, but with so many fortresses and ways to attack, why would hackers ever bother trying to pwn an unsecured Mac? It is the silly self-taught Windows administrators (not all, just most, and not the true Microsoft specialty guys that are well trained) that are arrogantly lulled into false security. At least that is my experience... .they think Windows is hardended out of the box, or they think admins at upper levels are on top of things. I, for one, think that the sky is falling.
Personally, I find the rights of self-defense and community defense both inalienable, as are all the basic human rights only codified and not granted in the Bill of Rights.
almost agreed... and this is exactly my point. Certain rights are codified in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of Press, Speech, Religion are not inalienable rights... neither is the right to bear arms a basic human right, and neither are others that are explicitly defined there, such as right to due process and a speedy trial. They are alienated all over the world. Neither in the Bill of Rights and no where in the Constitution is "self-defense" codified. It is a basic inalienable right, but the Constitution doesn't mention it anywhere.
You can only protect your self interests by protecting the interests of your neighbors, too.
I don't have a problem with this statement. But I believe it is possible to protect your neighbor while dying in the process... called 'self-sacrifice.' The off-hand example is the volunteer fireman. He has no interest in whether or not your house burns down, yet he risks his life to save yours. I'm not saying that this is what the Second is requiring of militias, just that it wasn't ever about self-defense until this past decade. Now you can shoot me if you feel threatened, according to this Court. Before, it merely allowed you to protect your community from the tyranny of corrupt government. Ironically, the government manipulated you into being paranoid about me instead of them. Most gun owners seemed to eat this up because they were incorrectly basing their right to self-defense on the Second for years.
My original point, and the point of the Second is NOT to promote self-interest, but common interest. If promoting the common interest is also self-promoting, that is incidental.
It isn't actually "spying" if the person is willingly sharing information, or has information posted that everyone can read. "Spying" is getting information that a person doesn't want others to have.
This seems to be unconstitutional. On one hand, we have the First Amendment, on the other hand there is the Fourth Amendment. Now... if terrorists or criminals are publicly posting their exploits, well that is different. But initiating investigations based entirely on Constitutionally protected opinion or association is certainly a violation, and such investigations, once they get beyond what is public, in turn, violate the Fourth.
We can't protect ourselves without protecting enough others. It's all self-defense.
No. It isn't. Read the text. Try to understand that the purpose of a militia is not to protect itself. It is to put itself in harm's way to protect others.
WTF?? You have read something I have not written. Let me put it another way. If you research the minutes of the Continental Congresses, you will discover that the Founders debated self-defense. They intentionally left it out of the Constitution. You won't find it mentioned anywhere in there. I did not say you don't have a right to bear arms in self-defense. You do. But the right is (was) derived both from much older English common law, and also current State laws... the purpose of the Second was to prevent tyranny, not robbery.
On the other hand, lack of discipline is also troublesome. If a parent decides to praise the good with the bad, rather than just the good, doesn't this breed sociopaths? I hyperbolize, but sometimes it really is alright to say "that is not good... don't do that."
and get it to the supreme court. if they say this is legal, burn it down. simple really.
Too late. SCOTUS has already changed the meaning of the Second Amendment to something the Founders never intended. The purpose of the Second was so that those that carried arms could organize and could protect others from our own government. Now, it means self-defense. From selfless to selfish in just two, well-publicized cases.
nobody, like, owns the electrons, man!
Well at least somebody wins... (the lawyers)
Banks and lawyers. Two totally unnecessary services getting the most money from everything for nothing?! Great! :D
Let's not forget the roles of the paralegals, court reporters, bailiffs, court clerks, gavel carpenters and those pretentious robe designers! They're benefitting as much as anyone in this litigious patent machinery.
that the only sane people seem to be in other countries? In the US, the normal people get trodden on all over the place, the idea of a "choice" of ISP is a joke, and despite the prohibition on ex post facto laws, the Supreme Court ruled that a bought-off Congress could keep extending "copyright term" ad infinitum - even setting it to a "million bajillion" years if they felt like it.
Wow... how the world has changed in only 60 years or so. You see, the irony here is, The United States used to be the enemy of nazis... the US was the nazi's worst nightmare, and nazis often traversed through neutral Ireland on their way to new identities. And now it seems the roles have reversed. (If my quip offends anyone, let me just say, to calm your pure hearts, that the independent ('indy') record companies are not nazis; they're more like the French Resistance).
When they have you wasting your time picking sense out of their nonsense, you've been effectively neutralized. Nonsense can be manufactured at a far greater rate than it could possibly be critiqued.
And so you are right. This is precisely why Democrats always blow it. They had a majority in both Houses, and the Executive. WHY THE FUCK DID THEY START WITH HEALTHCARE??? sorry... lost ma cool thar. Seriously, they could have knocked out about 30 annoying things, and they started with the impossible, and basically wasted all that time. They should change their name to the Bumfuzzled Party... /grumbling
Just because they supply our gadget craze, doesn't mean they have our best interest in mind
Who said anything about best interests? As a nation we clearly want cheap, toxic plastic crap, and China supplies it. From where I'm sitting it looks like an equitable relationship to me. It's not like the first time was free or anything.
This sort of shenanigans of screwing the consumer is anathema. Where could Chinese businesses have learned such unscrupulous practices?
Sarah Palin could be described accurately as off her rocker or as I call her, batshit insane...;
Wouldn't it be more constructive to at least attempt to counter the voters that want her elected by exposing her politics as lies and nonsense?
Who is more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him.
News sites have editors that are many times more informed than their average reader.
Well, Reuters photo editors certainly do suck.
http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
Certainly interesting... but you could look at this practice as the photo equivalent of sensationalist headlines. We are so accustomed to the bullshit, it no longer bugs us.
What really irks me is that photographers have multiplied exponentially (maybe not pro news staffers, but regardless), and yet most Internet news stories have a single photo, if that. WTF? News sites are still treating web articles like page real estate is at a premium, and if they stuck another image there, they'd eat up the ad space or column space of other stories. Every web article should have a bunch of thumbnails to entire albums of photos... literally show the news every angle, and include maps, audio and video. I don't understand why they don't... digital media is cheap and readily at hand. If a news site did this, they'd become so popular they could charge anything they wanted for web ads.
I could see the "first child conceived in space" or the "first birth in space", but why does...
AFAIK, space is everywhere. All children were conceived and born in space. Oh, but you probably meant "outer space." But there is a concept we all have considered at one time or another... known as sex in zero-gravity. I would think gender matters in that context.
Given that Adobe hasn't upgraded to Cocoa precisely because they don't want to orphan people's libraries of existing photoshop plugins
Complete and utter rubbish! Where did you even get that? It's ridiculous that Adobe would care so much for something that would have no effect on their profit. I mean... perhaps that is an incidental truth, but make no mistake, Adobe didn't want to pay for the cost of migrating, i.e., realized that actually employing a significant number of developers to migrate/rebuild the software would be expensive, and they couldn't then have as many highly paid execs riding the coattails of the fruits of the previous decade's developers. They did carbonize their software, after all... because that took a minimal amount of effort... you think carbonization left plugins intact? Your statement is just wild. That's like saying that music CD's never came down in price because major record labels didn't want your record player to become obsolete... the notion is absurd that Adobe would care about their customers. I point to their fleecing with CS3 & 4 as evidence... WTF was the point of those? Getting an extra thousand bucks from every graphics professional every 2 years, perhaps? "We put it in a new box! This box is better than the last box. You need this new box."
Yeah, and they can get rid of that stupid cross-platform support too!
Are you kidding? On the contrary, Microsoft wants Windows everywhere, so Ballmer must realize the only way to do this now is to run Windows inside Flash!