The best method for locating these faults is to switch bits of cable in and out, and narrow down which section it is, then dig it up.
And how do the insulators get damaged? One way that happens more than most people would admit is it gets clipped by someone digging up something else.
I never have understood this. Why do they use such flimsy tubing when they run lines under ground? Why not use man-sized tunnels? You don't have to dig them up. You simply climb down a ladder. Not much chance of a post hole digger putting a hole in one either. You could suspend the line mid-tunnel. This would help with water, unless the tunnel floods. You would need ventilation shafts every so often to prevent gas build up.
I can see where this would be a problem in existing developments. Who wants their yard dug up? However, you don't have this problem in new developments. Concrete does erode over time. I guess you'd have to think about replacement every hundred years or so. That could be a problem. However, I think it would be better then the power going out every time a car hits a pole, it gets cold or hot, a tree grows, or the wind blows.
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While I agree that Flash isn't a top priority in general, it is to me. Try doing market research without flash. Almost all product information (in general, not just computers) is locked up in some company's flash-only website. It's a real pain! My company couldn't use Linux on the desktop if flash were not available.
Stallman's position is to the proprietary software industry as the expectation of being able to open the hood of your car is to the automobile industry.
It's interesting that you make this analogy. It must have been about 10 years ago I read that the major auto makers were considering using sealed engines in consumer cars. The idea was that you could just drive up to a dealership and it would take 10 minutes and four bolts to completely replace the engine. The old engine would go back to the factory for refurbishing.
At about the same time, Bill Gates was experimenting with a sealed computer. The idea was that it was too hard to keep Windows stable if you couldn't control the hardware.
10 years latter and I haven't heard a thing about sealed consumer engines. However, we have the XBox and Trusted Computing.
Of course, the automotive analogy might be bad as well. Just ask any "Shade Tree" or "Back Yard" mechanic. Most curse the day they decided to computerize the engine, thus locking them away from manual adjustments.
"People don't want a single dedicated computer. They don't want their whole lives bound up in one piece of hardware.
No, I don't want my information "bound up" in a single, non-networked device. However, this statement shows just how out of touch this guy is. The Net, in it's current form, has been around since the 90s. Non-tech people have been doing remote connections since the mid 80s. Is "I left the data in my work computer" really still a viable excuse? Do computers still exist that can't be remote accessed (excluding systems designed that way for security reasons)? And no, I'm not talking about systems that just need some switch turned on, I mean they completely lack the ability. I ask because that is the only type of system I can think of where your life might be "bound up in one piece of hardware."
One thing I can say, I don't want my whole life bound up in a single dedicated pay service. Not when it's so easy to remote access my own systems or even just take the data with me (via USB drive or some such). Why pay someone else to keep my data for me when I can keep it myself for free? On top of that, I feel much safer securing my own data. I don't want to worry about someone snooping without a warrant.
People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using."
I already have this ability without this service. Of course, this service will probably sell. I keep seeing ads for a remote access service on TV. It amazes me every time I see it. I think to myself, people really pay for a service that lets your computer do something it could already do? Wow. I wonder if I could sell a service that changes your wallpaper for you once a month? Of course you would have to supply your own wallpaper.
Interesting site and strange logic. Years ago, my first year in college, I took a philosophy class to cover a liberal arts credit. It was an interesting class. I'm glad I took it. I do wish I could remember it better.
Quite a bit of the class talked about artificial intelligence in computers and learning systems. One of the examples used a simple algorithm that your link reminds me of. I just wish I could remember it. I'll have to dig out the class book now and look it up. Anyway, the example was showing how humans stored information according to how it related to other things already stored, then how difficult it could be to recreate that in computers. In the example, a computer was told that birds could fly and were animals. It was told that pigs were animals. It was then asked if pigs could fly. The answer was yes.
In that spirit, I asked the site about the connection between pigs and birds. It's logic was interesting:
Okay, I see how pig connects to bird:
Pig connects to Animal, Pigs are a type of animal
Animal connects to Giraffe, A giraffe is an animal
Giraffe connects to Africa, Giraffes come from Africa
Africa connects to Continent, Africa is a continent
Continent connects to Europe, Europe is a continent
Europe connects to Turkey, Turkey is a country which straddles Europe and Asia
Turkey connects to Bird A turkey is a bird.
Correct, just interesting on how it came to the conclusion.
In small towns people are friendlier, more relaxed.
In bigger cities, on the other hand, you can feel the distance from other people. It's much more colder.
This might still be related to what is happening with the Internet. In a small town, you have a very limited number of people to choose your friends from. In a large city, you have a lot more people to choose from. This allows you to be much more picky when it comes to your friends. With the Internet, you have most of the planet to choose from.
I have another thought on this. In small towns, you have to be careful not to offend. After all, being rude to someone means one less friend in a very small pool. In larger populations, it doesn't matter as much. Loose one opportunity for friendship and there are a million more readably available. With the Internet's very large population pool, people really don't care how they act because if they get flamed on one social network, they can move to the next.
One interesting twist to all of this is that the Internet adds in the ability to be anonymous, removing the need to be responsible for your actions.
As for the Internet being responsible for a lack of friends, I wouldn't have the friends I have now if instant communication from anywhere in the world wasn't cheap and easy. My friends and I simply move around too much.
Considering all that DirectX provides, wouldn't it be better to ask about DirectX vs OpenGL+SDL? Doesn't DirectX handle joysticks, sound, and other functions required for games? Is SDL used in anything away from the Linux platform? I know it's cross-platform.
Interesting... Sounds like this senator frequently opposes the Republican party. It makes me wonder why he would want to maintain membership in that party.
With the election system of the US, it's always 2 parties with nobody having thet slightest chance to muscle in
For the most part, I agree that it's hard to get past the two-party system. However, in reviewing the Republican and Democratic parties, I don't see a lot of difference. Therefore, in my mind at least, they are the same and count as a single party in the two party system. That leaves the position of second party open to ???
This year I'm thinking of voting for the Libertarian party, rather than the Republican/Democratic party.
Sadly true. There is good money to be made making a porn with lots of sex and very little story. People go out of their way to purchase an X-rated film just for the sex scenes. Adult movies with a plot don't make money. The people that want an "X-rated movie" just fast-forward to the sex scenes. People that would enjoy the story avoid buying them because of the X rating. That, and in a lot of places it's difficult, if not illegal, to buy an X-rated film. Personally, I wish people would stop treating sex and nudity in such a juvenile fashion. However, people have to get past the dark ages first.
"A totally sanitised environment is no problem to be raised in as long you are going to continue living in it forever"
Untrue. There are more problems with an untrained immune system than just the fact that it won't strengthen.
I can't help but think that HIV would be a natural evolution to solve the problem of the immune system attacking itself. Given when and where it came from, I know this isn't the case. However, it does sound logical.
I have a OV511 camera as well. Searching my memory and as I recall, the old driver under USB support was quite obsolete. It was supposed to be replaced with a new driver under a new name. Looking at 2.6.16, it's ovcamchip under Video for Linux. From the kernel:
CONFIG_VIDEO_OVCAMCHIP:
Support for the OmniVision OV6xxx and OV7xxx series of camera chips. This driver is intended to be used with the ov511 and w9968cf USB camera drivers.
You know, of all the science fiction stories that I'd hope would come true, Dark Angel wasn't one of them. As I recall from that series, the aerial drones were being outfitted with guns to preform assassinations. The populas never suspected because they had grown used to seeing the drones flying about, doing surveillance. I've always wondered if that series was canceled because it hit too close to home. On the other hand, the second season sucked.
A few years ago I switched from Comcast cable to QWest DSL. Price was a minor concern. Comcast had just put a 2GB cap on news group access. I gave QWest a call as they own all of the local DSL. It was an enlightening conversation that ended with me switching. From Comcast I had a 3MB line that their rules prevented me from using, no servers, no static IP, and download caps. QWest didn't offer me restrictions, they offered me service. It was a side benefit that QWest was also cheaper.
I've often found that claiming an activity is enjoyable, or healthy, is completely relative to the person making the claim. While both enjoyment and health are beneficial, they do not rely upon each other. I would still gain a health benefit even if I did not enjoy my workout at the gym. I would also gain a enjoyment benefit from helping sick people, though I doubt it's good for my health.
That said, I've never understood complete abstinence from anything that doesn't require it for survival. Personally, I'd rather live a shorter, enjoyable life than a long, walled-in life.
I did find your example interesting in a couple of retrospects. You list exercising in the gym as good (benefit), masturbation as bad (slackness). Yet they are the same. You're just tricking your body into producing endorphins. If you want to make a distinction, go help someone haul dirt, build a home, or some other physical activity that produces something.
The other aspect I found interesting, the three items you list as slackness all require mental exercise. You contrast that with physical exercise. Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you would hold mental ability in contempt.
And here I was thinking that I could repackage the US Constitution and own the government. However, reading the replies, I see I'd need to prove they used my version to draft any new laws. Hmm, maybe if I wrote a book with the Constitution in it. I could sell it to a law school...
Replace Oklahoma with Utah, Baptist with Mormon, and you end up with the same situation. I've read down in the replies to this message and found a lot of similarities. Utah also has 3.2 beer, blue laws (in certain counties), illegal porn, and illegal gambling. It's common for the government leaders to ask the Mormon church for advice on how to vote. It's uncommon for them to vote against that advice. I have found that they generally wait until some other state makes a stupid law before they try to here. That way they can point at the other state and say "See, we are just following what other states are doing". I wonder how long it will be before this law shows up here.
I've discovered, in trying to keep up with this topic, that I don't know much about how the Internet at large works.
Telephone companies are "common carriers". ISPs are not.
I'm a little confused by this statement. I have always been told that it is the "Common Carrier" status of ISPs that prevents state and federal authorities from prosecuting ISPs for delivering porn, illegal software, and anything else deemed illegal. If ISPs are not "Common Carriers", what prevents the authorities from taking action against them for delivering illegal content?
I hope it is comparable to current broadcast radio offerings. Personally, I don't like satellite radio. I drive cross country a lot and enjoy getting local news, weather, and DJs. If I wanted a consistent music selection, I'd listen to my MP3 player, not radio.
I've always been told hot for whites, warm for bright colors, and cold for darks. As most of my clothes fall into the dark category, I rarely use hot water for washing. These are the instructions printed on the machine and the detergent. My clothes always come out clean.
I have to stop and think about this for a minute. When you say Linux, what do you mean? That a Linux distribution hasn't produced it's own unique GUI? I'm not aware of any. However, with most distributions using KDE or Gnome, and both being used with a majority of nix-based systems, I think a broader view is in order.
I couldn't help but notice the shear number of features in the article that appeared in nix-based systems first, including OSX. One example is the set of cascading windows rotated in a 3D view. I first used this feature a year ago while playing with Looking Glass under Gentoo Linux. I remember when I first used Windows 95. It was basically the same desktop I'd already been using for a year under Solaris.
Personally, I'm not aware of any great GUI feature that Windows has introduced, unless you count Clippy.
I'm also using Firefox 1.5 and the arrows work. However, I didn't think to click on them because my mouse pointer didn't change to a hand to indicate a clickable link. I guess I've just seen too much web design where something should be clickable, but it is not... The hand is the best way to tell.
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The best method for locating these faults is to switch bits of cable in and out, and narrow down which section it is, then dig it up.
And how do the insulators get damaged? One way that happens more than most people would admit is it gets clipped by someone digging up something else.
I never have understood this. Why do they use such flimsy tubing when they run lines under ground? Why not use man-sized tunnels? You don't have to dig them up. You simply climb down a ladder. Not much chance of a post hole digger putting a hole in one either. You could suspend the line mid-tunnel. This would help with water, unless the tunnel floods. You would need ventilation shafts every so often to prevent gas build up.
I can see where this would be a problem in existing developments. Who wants their yard dug up? However, you don't have this problem in new developments. Concrete does erode over time. I guess you'd have to think about replacement every hundred years or so. That could be a problem. However, I think it would be better then the power going out every time a car hits a pole, it gets cold or hot, a tree grows, or the wind blows.
Bummer, have to try latter...
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While I agree that Flash isn't a top priority in general, it is to me. Try doing market research without flash. Almost all product information (in general, not just computers) is locked up in some company's flash-only website. It's a real pain! My company couldn't use Linux on the desktop if flash were not available.
Stallman's position is to the proprietary software industry as the expectation of being able to open the hood of your car is to the automobile industry.
It's interesting that you make this analogy. It must have been about 10 years ago I read that the major auto makers were considering using sealed engines in consumer cars. The idea was that you could just drive up to a dealership and it would take 10 minutes and four bolts to completely replace the engine. The old engine would go back to the factory for refurbishing.
At about the same time, Bill Gates was experimenting with a sealed computer. The idea was that it was too hard to keep Windows stable if you couldn't control the hardware.
10 years latter and I haven't heard a thing about sealed consumer engines. However, we have the XBox and Trusted Computing.
Of course, the automotive analogy might be bad as well. Just ask any "Shade Tree" or "Back Yard" mechanic. Most curse the day they decided to computerize the engine, thus locking them away from manual adjustments.
"People don't want a single dedicated computer. They don't want their whole lives bound up in one piece of hardware.
No, I don't want my information "bound up" in a single, non-networked device. However, this statement shows just how out of touch this guy is. The Net, in it's current form, has been around since the 90s. Non-tech people have been doing remote connections since the mid 80s. Is "I left the data in my work computer" really still a viable excuse? Do computers still exist that can't be remote accessed (excluding systems designed that way for security reasons)? And no, I'm not talking about systems that just need some switch turned on, I mean they completely lack the ability. I ask because that is the only type of system I can think of where your life might be "bound up in one piece of hardware."
One thing I can say, I don't want my whole life bound up in a single dedicated pay service. Not when it's so easy to remote access my own systems or even just take the data with me (via USB drive or some such). Why pay someone else to keep my data for me when I can keep it myself for free? On top of that, I feel much safer securing my own data. I don't want to worry about someone snooping without a warrant.
People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using."
I already have this ability without this service. Of course, this service will probably sell. I keep seeing ads for a remote access service on TV. It amazes me every time I see it. I think to myself, people really pay for a service that lets your computer do something it could already do? Wow. I wonder if I could sell a service that changes your wallpaper for you once a month? Of course you would have to supply your own wallpaper.
Interesting site and strange logic. Years ago, my first year in college, I took a philosophy class to cover a liberal arts credit. It was an interesting class. I'm glad I took it. I do wish I could remember it better.
Quite a bit of the class talked about artificial intelligence in computers and learning systems. One of the examples used a simple algorithm that your link reminds me of. I just wish I could remember it. I'll have to dig out the class book now and look it up. Anyway, the example was showing how humans stored information according to how it related to other things already stored, then how difficult it could be to recreate that in computers. In the example, a computer was told that birds could fly and were animals. It was told that pigs were animals. It was then asked if pigs could fly. The answer was yes.
In that spirit, I asked the site about the connection between pigs and birds. It's logic was interesting:
Okay, I see how pig connects to bird:
Pig connects to Animal, Pigs are a type of animal
Animal connects to Giraffe, A giraffe is an animal
Giraffe connects to Africa, Giraffes come from Africa
Africa connects to Continent, Africa is a continent
Continent connects to Europe, Europe is a continent
Europe connects to Turkey, Turkey is a country which straddles Europe and Asia
Turkey connects to Bird A turkey is a bird.
Correct, just interesting on how it came to the conclusion.
In small towns people are friendlier, more relaxed.
In bigger cities, on the other hand, you can feel the distance from other people. It's much more colder.
This might still be related to what is happening with the Internet. In a small town, you have a very limited number of people to choose your friends from. In a large city, you have a lot more people to choose from. This allows you to be much more picky when it comes to your friends. With the Internet, you have most of the planet to choose from.
I have another thought on this. In small towns, you have to be careful not to offend. After all, being rude to someone means one less friend in a very small pool. In larger populations, it doesn't matter as much. Loose one opportunity for friendship and there are a million more readably available. With the Internet's very large population pool, people really don't care how they act because if they get flamed on one social network, they can move to the next.
One interesting twist to all of this is that the Internet adds in the ability to be anonymous, removing the need to be responsible for your actions.
As for the Internet being responsible for a lack of friends, I wouldn't have the friends I have now if instant communication from anywhere in the world wasn't cheap and easy. My friends and I simply move around too much.
What about DirectX vs OpenGL?
Considering all that DirectX provides, wouldn't it be better to ask about DirectX vs OpenGL+SDL? Doesn't DirectX handle joysticks, sound, and other functions required for games? Is SDL used in anything away from the Linux platform? I know it's cross-platform.
This must be why Republican Senator John Sununu is our avatar on the committee for removing the broadcast/audio flags from this legislation.
Interesting... Sounds like this senator frequently opposes the Republican party. It makes me wonder why he would want to maintain membership in that party.
With the election system of the US, it's always 2 parties with nobody having thet slightest chance to muscle in
For the most part, I agree that it's hard to get past the two-party system. However, in reviewing the Republican and Democratic parties, I don't see a lot of difference. Therefore, in my mind at least, they are the same and count as a single party in the two party system. That leaves the position of second party open to ???
This year I'm thinking of voting for the Libertarian party, rather than the Republican/Democratic party.
Sadly true. There is good money to be made making a porn with lots of sex and very little story. People go out of their way to purchase an X-rated film just for the sex scenes. Adult movies with a plot don't make money. The people that want an "X-rated movie" just fast-forward to the sex scenes. People that would enjoy the story avoid buying them because of the X rating. That, and in a lot of places it's difficult, if not illegal, to buy an X-rated film. Personally, I wish people would stop treating sex and nudity in such a juvenile fashion. However, people have to get past the dark ages first.
"A totally sanitised environment is no problem to be raised in as long you are going to continue living in it forever"
Untrue. There are more problems with an untrained immune system than just the fact that it won't strengthen.
I can't help but think that HIV would be a natural evolution to solve the problem of the immune system attacking itself. Given when and where it came from, I know this isn't the case. However, it does sound logical.
I have a OV511 camera as well. Searching my memory and as I recall, the old driver under USB support was quite obsolete. It was supposed to be replaced with a new driver under a new name. Looking at 2.6.16, it's ovcamchip under Video for Linux. From the kernel:
CONFIG_VIDEO_OVCAMCHIP:
Support for the OmniVision OV6xxx and OV7xxx series of camera chips. This driver is intended to be used with the ov511 and w9968cf USB camera drivers.
I've been doing video editing with Avidemux. It's a nice little program for Windows, OSX, and Linux.
You know, of all the science fiction stories that I'd hope would come true, Dark Angel wasn't one of them. As I recall from that series, the aerial drones were being outfitted with guns to preform assassinations. The populas never suspected because they had grown used to seeing the drones flying about, doing surveillance. I've always wondered if that series was canceled because it hit too close to home. On the other hand, the second season sucked.
A few years ago I switched from Comcast cable to QWest DSL. Price was a minor concern. Comcast had just put a 2GB cap on news group access. I gave QWest a call as they own all of the local DSL. It was an enlightening conversation that ended with me switching. From Comcast I had a 3MB line that their rules prevented me from using, no servers, no static IP, and download caps. QWest didn't offer me restrictions, they offered me service. It was a side benefit that QWest was also cheaper.
I've often found that claiming an activity is enjoyable, or healthy, is completely relative to the person making the claim. While both enjoyment and health are beneficial, they do not rely upon each other. I would still gain a health benefit even if I did not enjoy my workout at the gym. I would also gain a enjoyment benefit from helping sick people, though I doubt it's good for my health.
That said, I've never understood complete abstinence from anything that doesn't require it for survival. Personally, I'd rather live a shorter, enjoyable life than a long, walled-in life.
I did find your example interesting in a couple of retrospects. You list exercising in the gym as good (benefit), masturbation as bad (slackness). Yet they are the same. You're just tricking your body into producing endorphins. If you want to make a distinction, go help someone haul dirt, build a home, or some other physical activity that produces something.
The other aspect I found interesting, the three items you list as slackness all require mental exercise. You contrast that with physical exercise. Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you would hold mental ability in contempt.
And here I was thinking that I could repackage the US Constitution and own the government. However, reading the replies, I see I'd need to prove they used my version to draft any new laws. Hmm, maybe if I wrote a book with the Constitution in it. I could sell it to a law school...
Replace Oklahoma with Utah, Baptist with Mormon, and you end up with the same situation. I've read down in the replies to this message and found a lot of similarities. Utah also has 3.2 beer, blue laws (in certain counties), illegal porn, and illegal gambling. It's common for the government leaders to ask the Mormon church for advice on how to vote. It's uncommon for them to vote against that advice. I have found that they generally wait until some other state makes a stupid law before they try to here. That way they can point at the other state and say "See, we are just following what other states are doing". I wonder how long it will be before this law shows up here.
I've discovered, in trying to keep up with this topic, that I don't know much about how the Internet at large works.
Telephone companies are "common carriers". ISPs are not.
I'm a little confused by this statement. I have always been told that it is the "Common Carrier" status of ISPs that prevents state and federal authorities from prosecuting ISPs for delivering porn, illegal software, and anything else deemed illegal. If ISPs are not "Common Carriers", what prevents the authorities from taking action against them for delivering illegal content?
I hope it is comparable to current broadcast radio offerings. Personally, I don't like satellite radio. I drive cross country a lot and enjoy getting local news, weather, and DJs. If I wanted a consistent music selection, I'd listen to my MP3 player, not radio.
And here I was thinking that Bob went and had a sex change operation...
I can't believe anyone on slashdot wouldn't know I'm talking about Microsoft Bob. However, you never know...
I've always been told hot for whites, warm for bright colors, and cold for darks. As most of my clothes fall into the dark category, I rarely use hot water for washing. These are the instructions printed on the machine and the detergent. My clothes always come out clean.
I have to stop and think about this for a minute. When you say Linux, what do you mean? That a Linux distribution hasn't produced it's own unique GUI? I'm not aware of any. However, with most distributions using KDE or Gnome, and both being used with a majority of nix-based systems, I think a broader view is in order.
I couldn't help but notice the shear number of features in the article that appeared in nix-based systems first, including OSX. One example is the set of cascading windows rotated in a 3D view. I first used this feature a year ago while playing with Looking Glass under Gentoo Linux. I remember when I first used Windows 95. It was basically the same desktop I'd already been using for a year under Solaris.
Personally, I'm not aware of any great GUI feature that Windows has introduced, unless you count Clippy.
I'm also using Firefox 1.5 and the arrows work. However, I didn't think to click on them because my mouse pointer didn't change to a hand to indicate a clickable link. I guess I've just seen too much web design where something should be clickable, but it is not... The hand is the best way to tell.