Reading the artical to the end I discovered the worry is because 9 out of every 1 million babies (mostly black) babies have problems due to lack of vitamin D. This isn't all that significant. Not saying that people shouldn't get more vitamin D, but it looks more like some people need to make sure they get enough. (Dark skinned people don't make as much vitamin D)
Yep. I use freeBSD, and I like it. As much as anything I am used to the BSD way of doing things. I have no problems with linux (other than distributions tend to do things just a little different), and am considering a new linux machine for things that linux does better than BSD. BSD is still the best for servers, but for desktops some of the support isn't as good. All IMHO of course, you are free to disagree.
Yeah, but eventially he did get the prize. Anyone who wants to know more can look up the story.
As for the X-prize, it is a good first step. Once it is done we need another prize for something useful done in orbit. By giving a small achiveable goal you get bunch of engineers thinking about the problem. They now have abilities and expirence to design something bigger/better.
Why retire the shuttle compltely? Build a capsule to do one thing we need the shuttle for all the time, and save the shuttle for missions where we need something it can do that the cheap capsule cannot. Want to retrive a satalite and bring it back to earth? (AFAIK it has never been done, so an obvious canidate) send a shuttle. Want to send supplies to the space station? Send a capsule.
ISS isn't in a good orbit for something like that, it needs a lot of boosts to keep it up there. Anyone know if by abandoning the shuttle we could boost it to a better orbit? Seems like a good idea, but I don't know about the energy needed, or if the structure (with mods?) can take it.
Medical technology influnences culture though. If someone has 12 kids yet at best can hope to result in 3 adults, the culture must account for that.
Without control groups, which I have no idea how you could create, we can only guess at the effects. I stand by my claim: medical technology makes it more enjoyable to have less kids.
Did you read the artical? There are minimun levels that need to be met before there is a problem. Having been near pig farms, and seeing their statisics (about 30 in 300 are too smelly) I susect that all those cars you complain smell terribal are well within specifications.
Though I really wonder why you have such a problem in the city. In farm country it is a given that farms smell. In the citys I live in urine smells are not considered normal.
My reply was in general. Not everything appllies to me in person. (I'm not married for example)
Why would you assume that just because it is tanken for granted that SUVs are never used as SUVs? SUVs are good for more than off road. Most people I know with suburbans use them to tow a heavy trailer with a family, a car cannot do this. (You can tow a small trailer) Find a car with a 9 passanger capacity, since I know people who haul that many people around. For that matter find a car that is comfortable for more than 4 people to ride in. (Your station wagon, might, but not for as many as a large SUV can haul comfortably)
SUVs cover more than surburbans and H2s. Look around, some of then get good fuel milage.
Who needs a computer at home? I have several, but I don't need them. I don't need my dog or cat either, but I wouldn't get rid of them. I don't need any of my books, but I enjoy them. Likewise I know people who have no practical need for a horse, but they like them and have them. I avoid passing judgement on other people's hobbies.
In first world countries with the medical technology you are blaming, the birthrate is currently less than what is nessicary to maintain population levels. Several countries in Europe are losing population before imigration because the natives are not having kids fast enough to replace those that die, despite people living longer.
In truth medical technology lowers the birth rate. When you don't have good medical care you are best off having a lot of kids, but not caring if they don't survive (because many will not, and caring leads to psycological problems if they don't survive). When you have good medical care you are better off having a few kids that you put lots of effort into ensuring the survival of, they live, and get the attention needed to do well. Medical technology also provides birth control that works.
Sure, but what do they use those vechicals for? It takes a long commute to justify a smaller vechcial if it is a given you need the large one for something.
Bikes aren't practical for someone who lives a long distance from work. And before you suggest moving, what are you suggesting the spouse do with the increased commute? And that is assuming all neighborhoods are created equal. Those with kids care about the local schools, and will not move to some places. Some neighborhoods won't allow you to choose what color your house is, or have a flagpole. It isn't practical to have a horse in the typical city. Just to name a few things that might mean someone cannot live near work.
Considering the last time I played solitary, I think that 10 on jack would be a good command to recignise. At the very least highlight all 10s and jacks. (others are generally the one suggesting, and there is sometimes a good reason not to make a legal move)
Voice commands should be very useful, but it will take a lot of work to figgure out where, and what the right thing to do it. (I'd be very mad if the 10 moved from a pile with no cards under when all kings are placed, when the other 10 is hidden and potentially blocking the other jack, and the 9)
Windows 9x gives the user root. Anything you do can be bypassed since anyone can write the partition table to wipe out linux and change the default boot partition to the windows one. The only way I know of to get around this is booting off a chip in your network card, your server can either load linux, or tell it to boot off the windows partition, depending on some scripts you set up. Do to the time it takes to re-install I recomend doing this nightly, if you notice a machine that someone has screwed up then put it out of order until the next day.
Because you mentioned FAT I'm assuming you are using something in the 9x series. Forget it, switch to something NT based (2000 or XP), and don't give the users administrator. They then can't do nearly as much damange. IIRC you are about as secure as Unix depending on your administrator skills. Install the software you need, and don't give users write to any local partition. (They need access to floppy, cd-writers, and USB memory cards, I don't know how to set that up) Make them save to a network server so they can get their data from any machine on campus.
I have to disagree a little. On point 3: Board members in all companyes I hold stock in must have a majority of votes, so if 50% of share holders vote against a director, that director will not serve on the board. It is a definate problem that shareholder proposals for directors do not get on the main ballot for most companies, but I know of exceptions to that rule. (A co-op I belong to is proposeing to change to entirely self-nominated canidates, already anyone who wants it is put on the ballot)
As for point 2: there are procedures to get something on the ballot, I've seen them followed, and then companies can do nothing to hold them off the ballot. They will recomeend against voting for it, but that is not the same thing. The one time I saw such a thing happen, at the shareholders meeting the company supplied (in the form of a high ranking employee) someone to second the motion because the initiator of the item couldn't find someone at the metting to second it. (It failed to pass, but got 35%. While I agree with the idea behind the proposeal, I disagreed with critical details so I voted against it)
What would IBM want with SCO? There is no doupt that IBM can buy SCO, and it is a common stragity when a company like IBM is on the wrong side of a court battle against a little guy like SCO. However when you are in the right it is often better to fight it out. Not only do you win (IBM has good lawyers), but you send a message to others that fighting IBM isn't an easy way to get money.
I'm trying to generalize. Linux wasn't completely unrelated to BSD, the AT&T lawsuits of the time helped linux. Look for the common points between the two, not the hugh differences.
Remember when Gnome split from KDE? They fully intended to end KDE, yet today both are powerful desktop systems that have benifited from each other. (Last I cheked you can't even complile KDE with a couple GNOME libs - code reuse in action)
For that matter, linux was the end of BSD, or perhaps we should say OpenBSD was the end of NetBSD. Take your pick of history, BSD is alive in well despite what some anonymous cowards would have you believe.
This is a good thing, XFree86 has gotten a lot of criticism, let the critics go their own speerate ways and each prove their way is best. In the end the best way wins, or if there is no best way, all survive, and each focuses on the areas where its way of doing things is best.
What is your source for that? British sign language is from all reports different from American sign language (which is similear to french sign language). I'm told that the two are not particularrly mutually intelligible.
I'm not deaf, and I don't know any sign languages so I can't claim it is true, but I given that I question your claim.
I remember as a kid wanting them, as did all the neighbor kids. I knew my parents wouldn't buy them so I never asked. I latter heard they were a hoax of some kind, but not what. (Considering nobody showed them off to me, they must have been. If they worked it would have been braging rights to show them off)
So can anyone enlighten those of us with deprived childhoods who never got them what they are?
If you register a copyright, when you create something, you can sue for more damages. IANAL, but essentially you get not only the money they made selling your work, but also an extra amount. Check with a lawyer.
An official registration is very useful when you want to sue. If you register something you don't have to latter prove you created it, one defense of copyright violation could be that who didn't create it, but copied the work of the violator, it can be hard to defend against this. (Likely a rare situation, you can't claim it incorrectly without lieing under oath)
Lastly, copyright registration makes it more likely that the library of Congress will preserve your work for all time. You might or might not care about that.
Well, I do when I can. I'm minded of the time I was passing cars where there was no left shoulder, and the cars on the right were tailgating and not slowing down or moving over. I was left with no choice but to not pull over. (I don't drive a sports car, I floored it, but that doesn't give much speed. Eventially I got passed them and I pulled over as soon as it was safe)
All the lights I've seen have a light next to the recieving unit that indicates which direction has the right away. This was done after 2 emergency vechicals going different directions (or at least coming from different directions) crashed in the middle of the intersection because they assumed they had the right away.
You don't brute force either system. Useing the best known mythods to break encryption today (which in the case of both RSA and ECC is not brute force) breaking a 512 bit ECC key is about the same effort of breaking a 15360 bit RSA key. Note that breaking a 512 bit symetric key (something like AES, blowfish, modified to use a 512 bit key) is more effort than breaking either one.
I'm not sure I belive the difference is that great. RSA type encryption has had a lot of effort put into breaking it, ECC gets less attention (though it is getting more). If ECC got as much attention as RSA did from the mathamatical world, the difference in efforts to break them would be a lot closer.
Note that both ECC and RSA are NP-complete, meaning that if there is a generic way to break one, in essentially no time (no matter how big the key is), that algorythm can be easially modified to break the other. There is a lot fo debate in CS about such problems and if such an algorythm exists. Anyone using either must be aware that there is no proff that you can't break it trivially.
I've heard of people putting a trackball on the floor, with the buttons modified to be pedals. You will have to expiriment, but I think you could find something that will work.
I'd look at chord keyboards too, they allow you to simulate a full keyboard with just a few buttons. They are not popular because they are hard to learn, but for you they could be the ticket.
Headsets have been made. Moving, twisting, and bobbing the head can all be mapped to controlls. I'm not aware of anything commercial, but you can rig something up.
Voice recignition is getting better all the time. Hard to apply to games, but if you can find a system that works, you might addapt it to some part of the game.
The other option is get invovled in some open source games and mention your disability. Do this right and you will fastenate the programers (or you could be one...) enough that they will re-do the interface just for you. Hard to do right, but if you can make your defects interesting it will work wonders.
For comercial stuff you might find something under the Americans with Disabilities act that will help, but the requirement that work must be in reason may not work with you. You can check it out though.
AFAIK nobody has ever produced an ITX motherboard. mini-ITX is a different story of course, and I wouldn't be surprized to see 64 bit in the mini-ITX or nano-ITX form factors. (Yes, ITX motherboards were defiend, and one or two were likely made, but they never caught on)
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Reading the artical to the end I discovered the worry is because 9 out of every 1 million babies (mostly black) babies have problems due to lack of vitamin D. This isn't all that significant. Not saying that people shouldn't get more vitamin D, but it looks more like some people need to make sure they get enough. (Dark skinned people don't make as much vitamin D)
Yep. I use freeBSD, and I like it. As much as anything I am used to the BSD way of doing things. I have no problems with linux (other than distributions tend to do things just a little different), and am considering a new linux machine for things that linux does better than BSD. BSD is still the best for servers, but for desktops some of the support isn't as good. All IMHO of course, you are free to disagree.
Yeah, but eventially he did get the prize. Anyone who wants to know more can look up the story.
As for the X-prize, it is a good first step. Once it is done we need another prize for something useful done in orbit. By giving a small achiveable goal you get bunch of engineers thinking about the problem. They now have abilities and expirence to design something bigger/better.
Why retire the shuttle compltely? Build a capsule to do one thing we need the shuttle for all the time, and save the shuttle for missions where we need something it can do that the cheap capsule cannot. Want to retrive a satalite and bring it back to earth? (AFAIK it has never been done, so an obvious canidate) send a shuttle. Want to send supplies to the space station? Send a capsule.
ISS isn't in a good orbit for something like that, it needs a lot of boosts to keep it up there. Anyone know if by abandoning the shuttle we could boost it to a better orbit? Seems like a good idea, but I don't know about the energy needed, or if the structure (with mods?) can take it.
Medical technology influnences culture though. If someone has 12 kids yet at best can hope to result in 3 adults, the culture must account for that.
Without control groups, which I have no idea how you could create, we can only guess at the effects. I stand by my claim: medical technology makes it more enjoyable to have less kids.
Did you read the artical? There are minimun levels that need to be met before there is a problem. Having been near pig farms, and seeing their statisics (about 30 in 300 are too smelly) I susect that all those cars you complain smell terribal are well within specifications.
Though I really wonder why you have such a problem in the city. In farm country it is a given that farms smell. In the citys I live in urine smells are not considered normal.
My reply was in general. Not everything appllies to me in person. (I'm not married for example)
Why would you assume that just because it is tanken for granted that SUVs are never used as SUVs? SUVs are good for more than off road. Most people I know with suburbans use them to tow a heavy trailer with a family, a car cannot do this. (You can tow a small trailer) Find a car with a 9 passanger capacity, since I know people who haul that many people around. For that matter find a car that is comfortable for more than 4 people to ride in. (Your station wagon, might, but not for as many as a large SUV can haul comfortably)
SUVs cover more than surburbans and H2s. Look around, some of then get good fuel milage.
Who needs a computer at home? I have several, but I don't need them. I don't need my dog or cat either, but I wouldn't get rid of them. I don't need any of my books, but I enjoy them. Likewise I know people who have no practical need for a horse, but they like them and have them. I avoid passing judgement on other people's hobbies.
In first world countries with the medical technology you are blaming, the birthrate is currently less than what is nessicary to maintain population levels. Several countries in Europe are losing population before imigration because the natives are not having kids fast enough to replace those that die, despite people living longer.
In truth medical technology lowers the birth rate. When you don't have good medical care you are best off having a lot of kids, but not caring if they don't survive (because many will not, and caring leads to psycological problems if they don't survive). When you have good medical care you are better off having a few kids that you put lots of effort into ensuring the survival of, they live, and get the attention needed to do well. Medical technology also provides birth control that works.
Sure, but what do they use those vechicals for? It takes a long commute to justify a smaller vechcial if it is a given you need the large one for something.
Bikes aren't practical for someone who lives a long distance from work. And before you suggest moving, what are you suggesting the spouse do with the increased commute? And that is assuming all neighborhoods are created equal. Those with kids care about the local schools, and will not move to some places. Some neighborhoods won't allow you to choose what color your house is, or have a flagpole. It isn't practical to have a horse in the typical city. Just to name a few things that might mean someone cannot live near work.
Considering the last time I played solitary, I think that 10 on jack would be a good command to recignise. At the very least highlight all 10s and jacks. (others are generally the one suggesting, and there is sometimes a good reason not to make a legal move)
Voice commands should be very useful, but it will take a lot of work to figgure out where, and what the right thing to do it. (I'd be very mad if the 10 moved from a pile with no cards under when all kings are placed, when the other 10 is hidden and potentially blocking the other jack, and the 9)
Windows 9x gives the user root. Anything you do can be bypassed since anyone can write the partition table to wipe out linux and change the default boot partition to the windows one. The only way I know of to get around this is booting off a chip in your network card, your server can either load linux, or tell it to boot off the windows partition, depending on some scripts you set up. Do to the time it takes to re-install I recomend doing this nightly, if you notice a machine that someone has screwed up then put it out of order until the next day.
Because you mentioned FAT I'm assuming you are using something in the 9x series. Forget it, switch to something NT based (2000 or XP), and don't give the users administrator. They then can't do nearly as much damange. IIRC you are about as secure as Unix depending on your administrator skills. Install the software you need, and don't give users write to any local partition. (They need access to floppy, cd-writers, and USB memory cards, I don't know how to set that up) Make them save to a network server so they can get their data from any machine on campus.
I have to disagree a little. On point 3: Board members in all companyes I hold stock in must have a majority of votes, so if 50% of share holders vote against a director, that director will not serve on the board. It is a definate problem that shareholder proposals for directors do not get on the main ballot for most companies, but I know of exceptions to that rule. (A co-op I belong to is proposeing to change to entirely self-nominated canidates, already anyone who wants it is put on the ballot)
As for point 2: there are procedures to get something on the ballot, I've seen them followed, and then companies can do nothing to hold them off the ballot. They will recomeend against voting for it, but that is not the same thing. The one time I saw such a thing happen, at the shareholders meeting the company supplied (in the form of a high ranking employee) someone to second the motion because the initiator of the item couldn't find someone at the metting to second it. (It failed to pass, but got 35%. While I agree with the idea behind the proposeal, I disagreed with critical details so I voted against it)
What would IBM want with SCO? There is no doupt that IBM can buy SCO, and it is a common stragity when a company like IBM is on the wrong side of a court battle against a little guy like SCO. However when you are in the right it is often better to fight it out. Not only do you win (IBM has good lawyers), but you send a message to others that fighting IBM isn't an easy way to get money.
I'm trying to generalize. Linux wasn't completely unrelated to BSD, the AT&T lawsuits of the time helped linux. Look for the common points between the two, not the hugh differences.
Yes the details are different, analogies often suffer that problem. Look past them to see the poiont I'm trying to get at.
KDE did lose developers, IIRC several GNOME developers had done some KDE work, but concern about the license drove them away.
Remember when Gnome split from KDE? They fully intended to end KDE, yet today both are powerful desktop systems that have benifited from each other. (Last I cheked you can't even complile KDE with a couple GNOME libs - code reuse in action)
For that matter, linux was the end of BSD, or perhaps we should say OpenBSD was the end of NetBSD. Take your pick of history, BSD is alive in well despite what some anonymous cowards would have you believe.
This is a good thing, XFree86 has gotten a lot of criticism, let the critics go their own speerate ways and each prove their way is best. In the end the best way wins, or if there is no best way, all survive, and each focuses on the areas where its way of doing things is best.
What is your source for that? British sign language is from all reports different from American sign language (which is similear to french sign language). I'm told that the two are not particularrly mutually intelligible.
I'm not deaf, and I don't know any sign languages so I can't claim it is true, but I given that I question your claim.
I remember as a kid wanting them, as did all the neighbor kids. I knew my parents wouldn't buy them so I never asked. I latter heard they were a hoax of some kind, but not what. (Considering nobody showed them off to me, they must have been. If they worked it would have been braging rights to show them off)
So can anyone enlighten those of us with deprived childhoods who never got them what they are?
If you register a copyright, when you create something, you can sue for more damages. IANAL, but essentially you get not only the money they made selling your work, but also an extra amount. Check with a lawyer.
An official registration is very useful when you want to sue. If you register something you don't have to latter prove you created it, one defense of copyright violation could be that who didn't create it, but copied the work of the violator, it can be hard to defend against this. (Likely a rare situation, you can't claim it incorrectly without lieing under oath)
Lastly, copyright registration makes it more likely that the library of Congress will preserve your work for all time. You might or might not care about that.
Well, I do when I can. I'm minded of the time I was passing cars where there was no left shoulder, and the cars on the right were tailgating and not slowing down or moving over. I was left with no choice but to not pull over. (I don't drive a sports car, I floored it, but that doesn't give much speed. Eventially I got passed them and I pulled over as soon as it was safe)
All the lights I've seen have a light next to the recieving unit that indicates which direction has the right away. This was done after 2 emergency vechicals going different directions (or at least coming from different directions) crashed in the middle of the intersection because they assumed they had the right away.
You don't brute force either system. Useing the best known mythods to break encryption today (which in the case of both RSA and ECC is not brute force) breaking a 512 bit ECC key is about the same effort of breaking a 15360 bit RSA key. Note that breaking a 512 bit symetric key (something like AES, blowfish, modified to use a 512 bit key) is more effort than breaking either one.
I'm not sure I belive the difference is that great. RSA type encryption has had a lot of effort put into breaking it, ECC gets less attention (though it is getting more). If ECC got as much attention as RSA did from the mathamatical world, the difference in efforts to break them would be a lot closer.
Note that both ECC and RSA are NP-complete, meaning that if there is a generic way to break one, in essentially no time (no matter how big the key is), that algorythm can be easially modified to break the other. There is a lot fo debate in CS about such problems and if such an algorythm exists. Anyone using either must be aware that there is no proff that you can't break it trivially.
I have several ideas for custom cases, but I'm not giving them away.
I'll bet most /. readers have their own ideas (which are to them unique, but likely duplicated by others). Lets start building.
I've heard of people putting a trackball on the floor, with the buttons modified to be pedals. You will have to expiriment, but I think you could find something that will work.
I'd look at chord keyboards too, they allow you to simulate a full keyboard with just a few buttons. They are not popular because they are hard to learn, but for you they could be the ticket.
Headsets have been made. Moving, twisting, and bobbing the head can all be mapped to controlls. I'm not aware of anything commercial, but you can rig something up.
Voice recignition is getting better all the time. Hard to apply to games, but if you can find a system that works, you might addapt it to some part of the game.
The other option is get invovled in some open source games and mention your disability. Do this right and you will fastenate the programers (or you could be one...) enough that they will re-do the interface just for you. Hard to do right, but if you can make your defects interesting it will work wonders.
For comercial stuff you might find something under the Americans with Disabilities act that will help, but the requirement that work must be in reason may not work with you. You can check it out though.
AFAIK nobody has ever produced an ITX motherboard. mini-ITX is a different story of course, and I wouldn't be surprized to see 64 bit in the mini-ITX or nano-ITX form factors. (Yes, ITX motherboards were defiend, and one or two were likely made, but they never caught on)