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De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
A well insulated house will not save you any money if the insulation causes the house to retain water and rot in 10 years. I don't know the climate in New Zealand, but I suspect it is not as extreem as the one I'm dealing with (minnesota, USA). Double glazed windows are not an issue, law requires something better than what used to qualify as double glazed. Here we look at the payback of Low-E glass. We have a real problem here with houses being built so tight that any water that gets in the walls (say from the studs not being completely dry at construction time) sit in the walls causing rot.
My point was that making something better without understanding the compromises is not worth it. An engineer that wants to make his house better should go for it only after knowing what makes a better house. Just making it better on one point ignores all the other compromises that make up a modern house, and one of those ignored factors can bite you.
Having remodeled old houses, and built modern houses, my option is that a modern house is (in general) stronger and better built than the old house. However those old houses breathed, while a modern house is so tight that any water in the lumber will sit there, causing the house to rot. That is modern houses that don't survive are a victum of the quality of construction being too good!
the definition of the militia has stayed the same; section 311(a) of volume 10 of the United States Code declares, "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and . . . under 45 years of age." The next section of the code distinguishes the organized militia (the National Guard) from the "unorganized militia." The modern federal National Guard was specifically raised under Congress's power to "raise and support armies," not its power to "Provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the Militia
Clear now? Every male (and I would include females in modern enlightend times, though technicly the law doesn't) between 17 and 45 is a member of the milita, and has the right to own arms. That is the strictest definition I would agree with, personally I side with the arguement that the right to arms was always intended to belong to the people in general.
A whole lot of links at Minnestoa concealed carry reform now. A biased site, but you need refute all their studies before you make the claim that guns require regulation.
Guns do not turn ordinary citizens into murderers. Significantly, fewer than one gun owner in 3,000 commits homicide; and that one killer is far from a typical gun owner. Studies have found two-thirds to four-fifths of homicide offenders have prior arrest records, frequently for violent felonies.[28] A study by the pro-control Police Foundation of domestic homicides in Kansas City in 1977 revealed that in 85 percent of homicides among family members, the police had been called in before to break up violence.[29] In half the cases, the police had been called in five or more times. Thus, the average person who kills a family member is not a non-violent solid citizen who reaches for a weapon in a moment of temporary insanity. Instead, he has a past record of illegal violence and trouble with the law. Such people on the fringes of society are unlikely to be affected by gun control laws. Indeed, since many killers already had felony convictions, it was already illegal for them to own a gun, but they found one anyway.
The problem with biometric (or other forms) of these devices is they assume one person with one gun. I have personally shot many guns that someone else owned and had no intention of selling. I in turn often let someone else shoot my gun. So your biometric device needs to be easially modified to add many people to the list of allowed shooters. Oh, and it better not fail - ever. In a self defense situation half seconds count, if I need my gun now, then it better fire now, not after 5 seconds of verifying my biometric information. Did I mention I live in Minnesota where I may want to fire my gun when the tempature is -30? Suddenly your biometric scan needs to work through think gloves (which are hard enough to work a gun with), when batteries and the like work poorly. The technology isn't there to be 100% in normal weather. (that is 100%, forget 99.9999%, not good enough)
I build houses for a living (just found a programing job, so that will change in two weeks). We have a real problem with houses for enginners. Most want to build a thousand year house, but don't care to learn what makes a house work. They end up specifying the strongest materials, without knowing that those materials are strong, but cause the house to rot out, and their "thousand year house" ends up unsafe less than 10 years.
Mind you, climate has a lot to do with it. Build in a desert and I don't think you will have this problem. We in the industry have no confidence in the ability of any house that meets code (without bribing inspecters...) to not rot out. At best a few will be around for 100 years, but we fully expect that most will not, despite looking for materials that wick water away.
Last advice: Make several acceptable drawings, and once you think you like a few, see if there is a print out there already that is close enough. Many home drawn prints are great in most ways, but end up shoving a lot of problems in an extra large, oddly shaped closet because things don't fit togather the way they want them to. Of course if you can't find any print you like, the architech will design that wierd close for you...
Maybe I'm a cynic, but when someone days computers in the classroom I respond with why. Nobody has given an answer to that. Classrooms are for learning, and computers are a tool. A computer in every classroom makes as much sense as a hammer in every classroom. A hammer is a useful tool, and your education is incomplete if you don't take one shop class where you use one (in todays world you shouldn't spend much time with it, but shop is at just as important as art, music, and home ecconomics classes - give everyone a basic introduction to the subject and let those who like it take more), but there is no place for a hammer in many classrooms. A computer lab is useful. Perhaps several, because there are useful things to do with a computer in school, and some teachers will require many papers written on the computer.
So your first task is to ask why when you have an idea.
As for ideas: that is up to you. I recomend you stay away from things that need your day job skills. You don't want to get burnt out on the day job. Obviously if things are going to be wired for computers it takes an expert, but try not to burn yourself out.
How about orginizing your local parade, or town days. These commities need a lot of help, and you get to meet people in the comunity useful to know. Is there an orginization that you support? Ducks unlimited is my favorite, but there is also the EFF, which gets more press on slashdot. As a kid I was in 4-H, and they need help all the time, what groups where you in as a kid? How about local parks? Not the playground, (they might or might not get all the help they need from local taxes), but the state and federal parks that maybe nearby, which generally need more help than they get.
Most people don't survie retirement as well as they think. I don't have a link, but appearently, if you reitre at 65 and live to 67 odds are you will live past 80. All those people who retire and are dead in a year are bringing the expected lifespan down (about 76 now IIRC).
In other words most people won't quit working. They will try retirement, and find they can't live without enforced human interaction and will go back to work providing those basic services for the folks who can stand to live without the other benifits of a job. Things like human interaction, and a feeling that you are needed.
But sadly, the gun use in this country comes largely from citizens assaulting fellow citizens.
If you want to make that claim you better be prepared to back it up. I know many people who have used a gun. I know nobody who has used a gun to kill, either accidently or on purpose, other than as a part of their military service (not at issue here). I know nobody who has had a gun used against them. (again outside of military matters) I know many people who love to hunt. I know many people who enjoy target shooting.
The statistics I've seen have never claimed that more than 2% of gun owners ever use their guns against people. Most estimates place the number of guns in the US equal to or greater than the entire population. Your claim that guns are often used against other people just don't hold up, there are too many guns in the US for me to not know many people who have used a gun against someone else, or had one used against them. If you claim is true, there I should know many people who have used a gun against someone.
As for guns themselves, voilent crime against people goes down when Concealed carry guns are easy to carry legally. (so far all states that have had it long enough to collect valid statistics - but crimes against property where nobody is there is up, can't have it all, though I'd prefer the latter myself if that is the choice) Thus the claim that getting rid of guns lessens crime doesn't stand.
I have to disagree. The word regulated at the time the second ammendment was written was often used to mean armed. Many old guns where from regulating or regulator companies. Meaning companies that made guns. Today we no longer use the word in that way, but back then a well regulated milita was well equipted with guns. Re-read that ammendment was "A milita well equipted with guns being nessicary for a free state, the right of the citicians to own guns shall not be infringed." Seems clearer now: it was intended to protect the right to own guns.
Even if we assume your interpitation, the same founders passed a law making all males between 18 (16?) and 40 (Not sure again, but about that age) members of the milita. So even if you argue that the ammendment was only intended for members of the milita, it applies to just about every adult anyway. (Unless you would argue that today we would still recignise the males only clause of the origional law, personally I consider it better to assume females too)
Start voting your shares though. I've never seen the board recomend something that didn't pass, or recomend against something that passed, but I've seen several close elections. If you vote your proxies (or better yet at the meeting!) and get a few other smaller players to do so, you just might get some useful change in a company.
Note that in the cases where the board almost didn't get their will passed, the company was doing baddly, so your vote means more to a company that is currently doing baddly.
I disagree with some of that. I wouldn't say anything to the next employer, and let them contact the old one. The old guys are in a difficult situation. If they say anything bad about you, they better be willing to accuse of of that in a court of law because you can sue them if they say you used company resources to crack other computers. Many companies have a strict policy of only saying "Yes he worked here, from some date to a latter date."
I would check with a lawyer. Most places have employement "at will" which means they can get rid of you anytime. However to fire someone might have a stronger legal meaning than they can apply without proof. Fired means you were let go because of actions you did or didn't do, and you are not elligable to unemplyment (in my state, YMMV), while they can "lay off" anyone they want to with no cause, and those people can get unemplyment. (note that as a contract worker you would not get unemplyment, but others would).
If they really did fire you, see if you can quit. It might be too late, but anytime your boss says "your fired", you should say "no, I quit". Most places don't want to fire someone, even a bad person, and will let you get by with this. There are still many good personal reasons to quit (you can come up with one that isn't a lie) so it isn't looked on baddly by other employers. Being fired is looked on baddly, because there is only one way to get fired: be so bad that they fire you. Unless your lawyer says otherwise you should work this course.
Mostly I agree, but I don't think that you should nessicarly have to be in production. Just that if you can't within a year of the patent produce a device that uses the patent, then you don't get it. Just one device, not a production model. I don't even require it to be fully functionable, just that it must exist and form that you can convince people (both techs and laymen) that it has a good chance of being useful. No company goes into production without prototypes. (Only an idiot would use a O2 re-breather that went into mass production without a lot of tests first)
If you can produce one and prove it works, you can have a patent. In the case of the O2 re-breather I don't mind if it takes 10 attemptes of dunking your head in a barrel before the prototype works. Just so long as I can be convinced it works. Working the bugs out to make it production worthy is your problem. My problem is patents that you have no intent of using in a product.
I got that impression too, but it was never explained that if that is the case, why is this better than any of the hundreds of apps I already can choose from that give me the same stats?
I have one of those things. I also have a real grill out on my deck. I've used the Georde foreman thing three times in two years. Everytime I've been disappointed. The food is faster, but has no flavor. When I go outside it doesn't take much longer, and the food tastes better, and there is no cleanup.
I know many of you live in apartments where you can't have a grill on your deck. However if you have the option get a real outdoor grill instead you will be much happier.
P.S. A real grill is worth spending a little money on. Everyone I know who has not bought a Weber has been disapointed in 5 years, those who spent extra on the Weber are happy many years latter. Not the Weber is the only good brand, there are others, but Weber has the name and it works. (Some of the others are appearently better quality for less price, but who knows if they are good or another cheap one?)
I'm color blind though. Okay, I can see colors well enough to match them My sister and my dad don't do as well though (yes, both my sisters are color blind, if you understand colorblindness there is no surprize given I claimed it myself for myself and my dad first) Matching colors isn't easy for everyone I know. I've seen computers where you can't mix the mouse and keybaord cables up, even though the connector is the same.
However I was trying to cover the case where I missed the cable conpletely. If I take the computer to you, and then bring it back home all the matching in the world won't help if I left a cable in the car. Most people have several ports on their computer with nothing connected so they can't even check to make sure all the ports are filled.
I clecked on the links, they didn't help. Somehow both are a framework for some "eye candy". I have no idea what kind though. I saw some screen shots, but I'm not sure what is the eye candy they are trying to show me, and what is part of the desktop.
I use KDE all the time. I might even use Karamba. If so though, I don't know about it. Since I don't develop Karamba stuff, and appearently it is a framework I shouldn't care about it. I do care about the end results, which I might already have.
Well you can do whatever you want, and better that you develope something [you recignise as] useless to start...
That said, I'd much prefer to see you learn by working on something simple that is already out there. Text editors exist and work, there are plenty GNOME/KDE applications that exist and would be useful if someone would take the time to add a few more features to them, or fix some bugs. Make yourself that person, and give open source a reason to be open.
It really is a better way to get into code to read and modify someone else's code. You see what they did, and can make judegements on what is right/wrong. If the code is good you learn, if it is bad, they still did a lot of the hard thinking, and you need to mearly re-write it to make it better. Both have real binifits.
IANAL, but can't I sue some of the spammers? Not the mortgage ones, but the penis size ones should be no problem. Isn't there some sexual harrasement law I can apply? I get enough of it a day that I can't imangine anyone would not consider it harrasement. In fact the only juriers I can imangine are those without computers, and I have this idea that many are "little old ladies who only drive their car to church on sunday" and would want to throw the book at anyone who is "degrading socity" in that way, even if there is nothing illegal.
How can I track down who is sending me these things, and then where can I find a lawyer to take the case?
That page is almost worthless. Don't waste your time reading it, the only tip worth anything is the one about doing a "make readmes". Everything else is better accomplished by using the portupgrade scripts.
Trust me on this one, once you use portupgrade you will not go back to the pkg_* commands.
I consider myself group 2 (who doesn't?) but I'm smart enoguh to play group 1 as you suggest. This isn't because I like wasting my time on the script, it is because 1 time in 10 I missed something that is in the script. I hate to bother someone who knows what they are doing because I forgot some detail, better for the script to find the cat ate my ethernet line again.
I don't think a car is the right comparition. A Car is moble. Even when broke you can normally get it to the mechanic under its own power. If not you can tow it in. It is rare for a car to be broke in such a way that you can forget a part at home.
Compare that to my computer. Assume for a moment it is broke and I'm the idiot who is going to bring it in. Perhaps the harddrive crashed. Should I bring the in the mouse, keyboard, joystick, printer, monitor, speakers? Not to mention 3 power cords, the printer cable, a keyboard extention cable, a USB cable (I no longer have a usb device connected, but the cable is still connected...), network cable, phone cable. Whatever, I do or I don't, you fix it, and I get it home again, now what. All those cables and devies have to be plgued in again. Many places to forget something and them I'm calling you on the phone because after you finished with my computer the screen is blank, and how much effort before you discover I forgot to plug the monitor cable in?
He got it partially right that we should change my voice to fit my charicter. However he missed the hard part. I'f I'm playing a southern bell, not only does my voice need to change from midwest male to southern female, but the words change. Nobody in the south would use the word pop when they want a carbonated drink, they use soda, while in my area nobody uses the word soda, we use pop. Do you bucket or pail? Vacuume cleaner or Hover? Xerox or copier? Those are just a few examples I can think of, a linguist can tell you plenty more, and likely come up with a lot of other things that need to change that have nothing to do with sound.
I don't have the ATAPI specs, but they are based on SCSI (the same AFAIK), and I do have that spec.
Scsi defines sense data that includes Operator Medium Removal request (code 5Ah, additional code 01h). However this is something that the CDROM is only required to store until something happens. The only way for linux to know that you pushed the button is for the kernel to poll the CDROM (say once a second?) to see if there is any sense data. Not a good use for the data bus or CPU resources. If I read my book right, support is mandatory for CDROM devies. However if a drive chooses not to store this information you can't do anything about it.
Note, the specs are not easy to read, you should not put much trust in something I was able to dig up in a few minutes, I could easially have missed something. Still, I think I'm right, and if you have the specs you should be able to tell what I was looking at.
I agree with your statement that the last 20% of the work takes the longest. However linux is now at about 81% complete. A lot of work has been done to make it the last 20%. There is still a lot more to do. I give windows about 82%, but they have done work in different places than linux so you can't directly compare.
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De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
A well insulated house will not save you any money if the insulation causes the house to retain water and rot in 10 years. I don't know the climate in New Zealand, but I suspect it is not as extreem as the one I'm dealing with (minnesota, USA). Double glazed windows are not an issue, law requires something better than what used to qualify as double glazed. Here we look at the payback of Low-E glass. We have a real problem here with houses being built so tight that any water that gets in the walls (say from the studs not being completely dry at construction time) sit in the walls causing rot.
My point was that making something better without understanding the compromises is not worth it. An engineer that wants to make his house better should go for it only after knowing what makes a better house. Just making it better on one point ignores all the other compromises that make up a modern house, and one of those ignored factors can bite you.
Having remodeled old houses, and built modern houses, my option is that a modern house is (in general) stronger and better built than the old house. However those old houses breathed, while a modern house is so tight that any water in the lumber will sit there, causing the house to rot. That is modern houses that don't survive are a victum of the quality of construction being too good!
According toThe Cato institute
Clear now? Every male (and I would include females in modern enlightend times, though technicly the law doesn't) between 17 and 45 is a member of the milita, and has the right to own arms. That is the strictest definition I would agree with, personally I side with the arguement that the right to arms was always intended to belong to the people in general.
A whole lot of links at Minnestoa concealed carry reform now. A biased site, but you need refute all their studies before you make the claim that guns require regulation.
according to the Cato institute:
The problem with biometric (or other forms) of these devices is they assume one person with one gun. I have personally shot many guns that someone else owned and had no intention of selling. I in turn often let someone else shoot my gun. So your biometric device needs to be easially modified to add many people to the list of allowed shooters. Oh, and it better not fail - ever. In a self defense situation half seconds count, if I need my gun now, then it better fire now, not after 5 seconds of verifying my biometric information. Did I mention I live in Minnesota where I may want to fire my gun when the tempature is -30? Suddenly your biometric scan needs to work through think gloves (which are hard enough to work a gun with), when batteries and the like work poorly. The technology isn't there to be 100% in normal weather. (that is 100%, forget 99.9999%, not good enough)
I build houses for a living (just found a programing job, so that will change in two weeks). We have a real problem with houses for enginners. Most want to build a thousand year house, but don't care to learn what makes a house work. They end up specifying the strongest materials, without knowing that those materials are strong, but cause the house to rot out, and their "thousand year house" ends up unsafe less than 10 years.
Mind you, climate has a lot to do with it. Build in a desert and I don't think you will have this problem. We in the industry have no confidence in the ability of any house that meets code (without bribing inspecters...) to not rot out. At best a few will be around for 100 years, but we fully expect that most will not, despite looking for materials that wick water away.
Last advice: Make several acceptable drawings, and once you think you like a few, see if there is a print out there already that is close enough. Many home drawn prints are great in most ways, but end up shoving a lot of problems in an extra large, oddly shaped closet because things don't fit togather the way they want them to. Of course if you can't find any print you like, the architech will design that wierd close for you...
Maybe I'm a cynic, but when someone days computers in the classroom I respond with why. Nobody has given an answer to that. Classrooms are for learning, and computers are a tool. A computer in every classroom makes as much sense as a hammer in every classroom. A hammer is a useful tool, and your education is incomplete if you don't take one shop class where you use one (in todays world you shouldn't spend much time with it, but shop is at just as important as art, music, and home ecconomics classes - give everyone a basic introduction to the subject and let those who like it take more), but there is no place for a hammer in many classrooms. A computer lab is useful. Perhaps several, because there are useful things to do with a computer in school, and some teachers will require many papers written on the computer.
So your first task is to ask why when you have an idea.
As for ideas: that is up to you. I recomend you stay away from things that need your day job skills. You don't want to get burnt out on the day job. Obviously if things are going to be wired for computers it takes an expert, but try not to burn yourself out.
How about orginizing your local parade, or town days. These commities need a lot of help, and you get to meet people in the comunity useful to know. Is there an orginization that you support? Ducks unlimited is my favorite, but there is also the EFF, which gets more press on slashdot. As a kid I was in 4-H, and they need help all the time, what groups where you in as a kid? How about local parks? Not the playground, (they might or might not get all the help they need from local taxes), but the state and federal parks that maybe nearby, which generally need more help than they get.
Most people don't survie retirement as well as they think. I don't have a link, but appearently, if you reitre at 65 and live to 67 odds are you will live past 80. All those people who retire and are dead in a year are bringing the expected lifespan down (about 76 now IIRC).
In other words most people won't quit working. They will try retirement, and find they can't live without enforced human interaction and will go back to work providing those basic services for the folks who can stand to live without the other benifits of a job. Things like human interaction, and a feeling that you are needed.
But sadly, the gun use in this country comes largely from citizens assaulting fellow citizens.
If you want to make that claim you better be prepared to back it up. I know many people who have used a gun. I know nobody who has used a gun to kill, either accidently or on purpose, other than as a part of their military service (not at issue here). I know nobody who has had a gun used against them. (again outside of military matters) I know many people who love to hunt. I know many people who enjoy target shooting.
The statistics I've seen have never claimed that more than 2% of gun owners ever use their guns against people. Most estimates place the number of guns in the US equal to or greater than the entire population. Your claim that guns are often used against other people just don't hold up, there are too many guns in the US for me to not know many people who have used a gun against someone else, or had one used against them. If you claim is true, there I should know many people who have used a gun against someone.
As for guns themselves, voilent crime against people goes down when Concealed carry guns are easy to carry legally. (so far all states that have had it long enough to collect valid statistics - but crimes against property where nobody is there is up, can't have it all, though I'd prefer the latter myself if that is the choice) Thus the claim that getting rid of guns lessens crime doesn't stand.
I have to disagree. The word regulated at the time the second ammendment was written was often used to mean armed. Many old guns where from regulating or regulator companies. Meaning companies that made guns. Today we no longer use the word in that way, but back then a well regulated milita was well equipted with guns. Re-read that ammendment was "A milita well equipted with guns being nessicary for a free state, the right of the citicians to own guns shall not be infringed." Seems clearer now: it was intended to protect the right to own guns.
Even if we assume your interpitation, the same founders passed a law making all males between 18 (16?) and 40 (Not sure again, but about that age) members of the milita. So even if you argue that the ammendment was only intended for members of the milita, it applies to just about every adult anyway. (Unless you would argue that today we would still recignise the males only clause of the origional law, personally I consider it better to assume females too)
Start voting your shares though. I've never seen the board recomend something that didn't pass, or recomend against something that passed, but I've seen several close elections. If you vote your proxies (or better yet at the meeting!) and get a few other smaller players to do so, you just might get some useful change in a company.
Note that in the cases where the board almost didn't get their will passed, the company was doing baddly, so your vote means more to a company that is currently doing baddly.
I disagree with some of that. I wouldn't say anything to the next employer, and let them contact the old one. The old guys are in a difficult situation. If they say anything bad about you, they better be willing to accuse of of that in a court of law because you can sue them if they say you used company resources to crack other computers. Many companies have a strict policy of only saying "Yes he worked here, from some date to a latter date."
I would check with a lawyer. Most places have employement "at will" which means they can get rid of you anytime. However to fire someone might have a stronger legal meaning than they can apply without proof. Fired means you were let go because of actions you did or didn't do, and you are not elligable to unemplyment (in my state, YMMV), while they can "lay off" anyone they want to with no cause, and those people can get unemplyment. (note that as a contract worker you would not get unemplyment, but others would).
If they really did fire you, see if you can quit. It might be too late, but anytime your boss says "your fired", you should say "no, I quit". Most places don't want to fire someone, even a bad person, and will let you get by with this. There are still many good personal reasons to quit (you can come up with one that isn't a lie) so it isn't looked on baddly by other employers. Being fired is looked on baddly, because there is only one way to get fired: be so bad that they fire you. Unless your lawyer says otherwise you should work this course.
Mostly I agree, but I don't think that you should nessicarly have to be in production. Just that if you can't within a year of the patent produce a device that uses the patent, then you don't get it. Just one device, not a production model. I don't even require it to be fully functionable, just that it must exist and form that you can convince people (both techs and laymen) that it has a good chance of being useful. No company goes into production without prototypes. (Only an idiot would use a O2 re-breather that went into mass production without a lot of tests first)
If you can produce one and prove it works, you can have a patent. In the case of the O2 re-breather I don't mind if it takes 10 attemptes of dunking your head in a barrel before the prototype works. Just so long as I can be convinced it works. Working the bugs out to make it production worthy is your problem. My problem is patents that you have no intent of using in a product.
I got that impression too, but it was never explained that if that is the case, why is this better than any of the hundreds of apps I already can choose from that give me the same stats?
I have one of those things. I also have a real grill out on my deck. I've used the Georde foreman thing three times in two years. Everytime I've been disappointed. The food is faster, but has no flavor. When I go outside it doesn't take much longer, and the food tastes better, and there is no cleanup.
I know many of you live in apartments where you can't have a grill on your deck. However if you have the option get a real outdoor grill instead you will be much happier.
P.S. A real grill is worth spending a little money on. Everyone I know who has not bought a Weber has been disapointed in 5 years, those who spent extra on the Weber are happy many years latter. Not the Weber is the only good brand, there are others, but Weber has the name and it works. (Some of the others are appearently better quality for less price, but who knows if they are good or another cheap one?)
I'm color blind though. Okay, I can see colors well enough to match them My sister and my dad don't do as well though (yes, both my sisters are color blind, if you understand colorblindness there is no surprize given I claimed it myself for myself and my dad first) Matching colors isn't easy for everyone I know. I've seen computers where you can't mix the mouse and keybaord cables up, even though the connector is the same.
However I was trying to cover the case where I missed the cable conpletely. If I take the computer to you, and then bring it back home all the matching in the world won't help if I left a cable in the car. Most people have several ports on their computer with nothing connected so they can't even check to make sure all the ports are filled.
I clecked on the links, they didn't help. Somehow both are a framework for some "eye candy". I have no idea what kind though. I saw some screen shots, but I'm not sure what is the eye candy they are trying to show me, and what is part of the desktop.
I use KDE all the time. I might even use Karamba. If so though, I don't know about it. Since I don't develop Karamba stuff, and appearently it is a framework I shouldn't care about it. I do care about the end results, which I might already have.
Well you can do whatever you want, and better that you develope something [you recignise as] useless to start...
That said, I'd much prefer to see you learn by working on something simple that is already out there. Text editors exist and work, there are plenty GNOME/KDE applications that exist and would be useful if someone would take the time to add a few more features to them, or fix some bugs. Make yourself that person, and give open source a reason to be open.
It really is a better way to get into code to read and modify someone else's code. You see what they did, and can make judegements on what is right/wrong. If the code is good you learn, if it is bad, they still did a lot of the hard thinking, and you need to mearly re-write it to make it better. Both have real binifits.
IANAL, but can't I sue some of the spammers? Not the mortgage ones, but the penis size ones should be no problem. Isn't there some sexual harrasement law I can apply? I get enough of it a day that I can't imangine anyone would not consider it harrasement. In fact the only juriers I can imangine are those without computers, and I have this idea that many are "little old ladies who only drive their car to church on sunday" and would want to throw the book at anyone who is "degrading socity" in that way, even if there is nothing illegal.
How can I track down who is sending me these things, and then where can I find a lawyer to take the case?
That page is almost worthless. Don't waste your time reading it, the only tip worth anything is the one about doing a "make readmes". Everything else is better accomplished by using the portupgrade scripts.
Trust me on this one, once you use portupgrade you will not go back to the pkg_* commands.
I consider myself group 2 (who doesn't?) but I'm smart enoguh to play group 1 as you suggest. This isn't because I like wasting my time on the script, it is because 1 time in 10 I missed something that is in the script. I hate to bother someone who knows what they are doing because I forgot some detail, better for the script to find the cat ate my ethernet line again.
I don't think a car is the right comparition. A Car is moble. Even when broke you can normally get it to the mechanic under its own power. If not you can tow it in. It is rare for a car to be broke in such a way that you can forget a part at home.
Compare that to my computer. Assume for a moment it is broke and I'm the idiot who is going to bring it in. Perhaps the harddrive crashed. Should I bring the in the mouse, keyboard, joystick, printer, monitor, speakers? Not to mention 3 power cords, the printer cable, a keyboard extention cable, a USB cable (I no longer have a usb device connected, but the cable is still connected...), network cable, phone cable. Whatever, I do or I don't, you fix it, and I get it home again, now what. All those cables and devies have to be plgued in again. Many places to forget something and them I'm calling you on the phone because after you finished with my computer the screen is blank, and how much effort before you discover I forgot to plug the monitor cable in?
Is that really the same thing?
He got it partially right that we should change my voice to fit my charicter. However he missed the hard part. I'f I'm playing a southern bell, not only does my voice need to change from midwest male to southern female, but the words change. Nobody in the south would use the word pop when they want a carbonated drink, they use soda, while in my area nobody uses the word soda, we use pop. Do you bucket or pail? Vacuume cleaner or Hover? Xerox or copier? Those are just a few examples I can think of, a linguist can tell you plenty more, and likely come up with a lot of other things that need to change that have nothing to do with sound.
I don't have the ATAPI specs, but they are based on SCSI (the same AFAIK), and I do have that spec.
Scsi defines sense data that includes Operator Medium Removal request (code 5Ah, additional code 01h). However this is something that the CDROM is only required to store until something happens. The only way for linux to know that you pushed the button is for the kernel to poll the CDROM (say once a second?) to see if there is any sense data. Not a good use for the data bus or CPU resources. If I read my book right, support is mandatory for CDROM devies. However if a drive chooses not to store this information you can't do anything about it.
Note, the specs are not easy to read, you should not put much trust in something I was able to dig up in a few minutes, I could easially have missed something. Still, I think I'm right, and if you have the specs you should be able to tell what I was looking at.
I agree with your statement that the last 20% of the work takes the longest. However linux is now at about 81% complete. A lot of work has been done to make it the last 20%. There is still a lot more to do. I give windows about 82%, but they have done work in different places than linux so you can't directly compare.