Wouldn't polygamy also allow a woman to have multiple husbands? And the man with multiple wives, his wives could then have multiple husbands, and you don't just end up with a married couple, you end up with this weird marriage net. Or matrix. Or star-topology marriage network. Say! Can you run IPv6 over it?
What exactly are "godless politicians"? I thought politicians were far too stupid to be Atheists, and, AFAIK, the vast majority of American politicians are Christian - 434 Congresspeople are. And also, what is "Nazi Darwinism", and how exactly does it differ from normal Darwinism?
... what [the] constitution says (in plain English...)
If only the Constitution was written in plain English. It's rather more English words applied to Latin structure, that is, not plain English. Nice try, though.
Some parts of Eastern Europe deploy CDMA2000, but their handsets use SIM for authentication. And the CDMA SIMs they use have GDM authentication capabilities for GSM roaming.
So it's clear you don't know the way the Doppler effect works. It works both ways - both shifting up AND down. LightSquared only has spectrum downwards of GPS, so what does that have to do with all the GPS signals that get blueshifted?
Then said airlines need to to invest in proper GPS equipment, instead of shit-ass receivers that don't know what the fuck 1575.42 MHz means. LightSquared's licensed spectrum is 1525-1559 MHz, and GPS L1 is 1575.42 MHz. Now, unless you can point to some solid evidence that LightSquared is broadcasting outside their spectrum, or that LTE is susceptible to causing interference a full 16MHz outside the (multi-)carrier signals' spectrum. And due to the use of OFDMA in LTE, I don't even want to hear a fucking bit about how they should use WiMAX (802.16m) instead, as it's also based on OFDMA.
I'll probably get modded "-1, Troll", or more likely, "-1, Flamebait", for the strong language, but this whole LightSquared vs. GPS mess seems like a total crock of badly-designed GPS crapola to me. Especially since some GPS equipment has zero issues what-so-fucking-ever even if you tape the damn GPS receiver to the LTE transceiver antenna up top the mast (and therefore reducing the distance to point-blank zero meters for interference testing).
Maybe it's worth noting that this "Lawrence Person" guy is a self-promoting hack, and that the article he linked in the parent is one he wrote himself, with enough political bias to make Fox News looks like it might be "fair and balanced" after all. It's probably a SEO ploy, after all, because he turns around and links right back to this very Slashdot story! And as for his claimed credentials on GPS tech... He simply claims he has them, but fails to provide any detail as to what they are. This guy's as trustworthy on the subject of GPS as Stephen Wolfram is on the scientific method.
The AC might be, but I'm not. I leave my email address unobfuscated, Google will provide the rest. 'Cept I know that Mr. Wolfram is a kook, plain and simple.
Hey AC, if you have a cell phone, and your carrier is AT&T, T-Mobile, Cincinnati Bell, i-Wireless, or any other GSM carrier, please get the fuck off of EUROPEAN cellular technology. Thanks.
It's pretty obvious that you're a Libertarian. Ron Paul links in your ~/.signature, the idea that the individual is the most important, and your comment about the "monopoly" of education in the United States. And I'll agree with you with one point: Pure socialism, at least in the idea that the system is wrong, the idea that we should all work as a unified national commune, etc., fails. But then again, so does capitalism. Why? Because neither system scales up. Capitalism has only two ultimate ends: Monopoly, or failure. Capitalism itself only works when the means for companies to scale large enough to become monopolistic is eliminated, which would sadly mean going technologically backwards about two hundred years via the removal of communications technology to limit the reaches of command and control, or via "government interference" that makes the economy not quite the laissez-faire system your Libertarian mind would like. Have you even read The Wealth of Nations? Pretty much the vast majority of businesses used as examples are small businesses, like local blacksmiths and such. Although one could argue that in his day these small businesses had "monopolies" in the sense that it was prohibitively expensive to travel to another town to find competitively-priced services, as the towns of the day were small enough that you'd have only one of each type of business. But there wasn't such a strong market pull from the incumbent business to prevent another, say, shoemaker to enter town and compete with said incumbent.
And as to your statement about the federal government's monopoly on education... What do you propose instead? Let the private market deal with it? Let's get rid of all regulation and requirements! Riiight. I'll also sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for two dollars. What did I just say about capitalism's ultimate goals? Either you will end up with a single corporation maintaining a monopoly over education (with all the bureaucratic lunacy that sadly exists in our current public education system, but you'll be perfectly content with that, so long as it's the private sector doing it instead of the state) - and corporations, without some kind of restraint, will do completely detrimental things like, for instance, decide that students are perfectly educated enough once they know how to add two and two. After all, their only real goal is to make a profit. Or, you end up with a school that fails, but ends up damaging the education of whatever students it has before it falls - no decently sized corporation falls literally overnight, and that's what would be required in a private education sector to mitigate harm from occurring to a student. Capitalism says in theory that all the parents would disenroll their kids and go find some other school to put them in at the drop of the hat. Sounds good in theory, but then again, so does socialism.
Finally, Libertarianism is a self-contradicting philosophy. It's mostly aligned with the concept of meritocracy, but yet at the same time, places importance in individuals, and not just those that have proven themselves, but ALL individuals, because of the potential. Well, guess what? A meritocracy rewards based on RESULTS, not POTENTIAL. And as for potential... Every human alive has the potential to kill you. Does that mean we should lock the entire human race away in prison? Sorry, but the idea of promoting and identifying the importance of individuals based on merit also means that those with no merit are of no importance. If you died tomorrow, who will remember you? Your family and friends. And when THEY are dead, who then? The only remaining testament you leave is a tombstone atop a plot in a cemetery, slowly eroded away by nature. You will be nothing but a statistic unless you actually accomplish something. And until then, if you die - if you are killed - then your death is still just a statistic, albeit a different kind, but nothing more.
You want some kind of actual solutions to the prob
I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04, and kept the "Ubuntu Classic" desktop. Pretty much the GNOME 2 desktop + Ubuntu's little touches I've had since... 4.10? Upgraded to 11.10, and now the login UI has changed drastically, and forces me to Unity. At least, until I can figure out how to select a new login session type, then it's back to Ubuntu Classic for me (unless they've flat out taken it from me right under my feet.)
Or maybe one of the other desktop session types I have (had?) installed. KDE? XFCE? LXDE? Maybe I'll feel IRIX-y and go with MaXX. Or the generic GNOME2 session that's not the Ubuntu Classic desktop... oh, the options, if only this new login UI had some obvious drop-down like the old GDM prompt.
Oh, here's one! I could fork Ubuntu and name the fork after my ex, Virginia. Then rip off Microsoft nomenclature and call the login UI "GINA", for "Graphical Login and Authentication". Not to mention that "Gina" is short for "Virginia". Replace "MS" with "VA" - the state initalism for "Virginia" (the state). I'd end up with VAGINA. The "Virginia Linux Graphical Login and Authentication library". Or you could take that in a few other ways... I'll leave that to the reader to figure out:)
Except that this provides practical future value, especially in a world where "web apps" seem to the the Next Big Thing. It may be cost-efficient to run some legacy client application in a browser using JavaScript virtual hardware to translate, e.g. serial port I/O, into some AJAX or similar request towards an equally-legacy (emulated?) mainframe.
This similarly would allow companies to squeeze additional blood from stones by offering old DOS games running in a JavaScript emulator using HTML5 Local Storage for save games, while keeping the main game executable, bit-for-bit, to that they shipped two or more decades ago on floppy disks (or CD-ROMs).
Rewriting said games for the modern web is not a port. That is a remake, unless you are using LLVM + Emscripten to port the original C/C++ to the web. And it has to be the original game code, not a brand new codebase from scratch. There are some games whose experience would actually be changed by a remake, due to subtle programmer errors in the original code, which for accuracy's sake, must be maintained.
You misunderstand; OnLive doesn't run games on your computer. They run the games on their (OnLive's) computers, and they send the VGA signal back to you over the Internet, similarly to an Internet TV stream. It only looks like the game is running on your computer; in reality, it is not. Your keyboard and mouse are then behaving like they have cords several hundred miles long, because your keypress/mouse use is sent to the OnLive computers that are in some office building somewhere. It's like GoToMyPC, or TeamViewer, or VNC, but for video games. And they have control over the computer that runs the games, not you.
Everyone who bought an iPad and didn't return it seems perfectly satisfied with that. Of course, those same people only know three, maybe four, bits of technical information abut their iPad: 1. whether it is the iPad or iPad 2; 2. How much storage it has; 3. If it has 3G or not; 4. (may not know this one) what version of iOS theirs runs. And that information alone confuses the hell out of these people because they're too lazy to think (and trust me, it's not any other reason what-so-ever, no matter what they try to tell you.) Hell, giving them an SD card slot would confuse them to no end; they'd actually have to THINK about where they want their content to go - internal memory, or SD... and these people just want these decisions made for them so that they can "do useful work cause thinking about how the tool works is a time waste; it should just work and that's it."
Probably worth noting that these same people are totally brainwashed by the RIAA into believing that any media acquired outside of iTunes is likely illegal and they must not use it (unless they used iTunes to rip their CDs.)
I'd like to point out that AT&T still bills minutes for sending callers to voicemail. You are being billed ISDN time to call forward to voicemail. And it is legal to do so, I believe Verizon does the same. Although, prepaid customers may not be billed, but I have seen my bill, and they counted time a caller spent leaving voicemail against my minutes as a forwarded call. And yes, this is their voicemail service. I thus use Google Voice instead, since I pay either way.
No, the x86 platform is not "proprietary". It may have proprietary extensions (GPU acceleration features, etc.), but there is a universal base set of hardware interfaces and behaviours that every single x86 machine has. And this base set is openly documented, in full, no NDAs required.
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Wouldn't polygamy also allow a woman to have multiple husbands? And the man with multiple wives, his wives could then have multiple husbands, and you don't just end up with a married couple, you end up with this weird marriage net. Or matrix. Or star-topology marriage network. Say! Can you run IPv6 over it?
What exactly are "godless politicians"? I thought politicians were far too stupid to be Atheists, and, AFAIK, the vast majority of American politicians are Christian - 434 Congresspeople are. And also, what is "Nazi Darwinism", and how exactly does it differ from normal Darwinism?
... what [the] constitution says (in plain English...)
If only the Constitution was written in plain English. It's rather more English words applied to Latin structure, that is, not plain English. Nice try, though.
Because it wasn't always free, and at one point, cost money.
Are we forgetting that you can also purchase apps on Android, in some (but not all) cases, with direct carrier billing? For example, I bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition by billing it to my AT&T account
Whatever happened to the bargaining part of the free market?
Some parts of Eastern Europe deploy CDMA2000, but their handsets use SIM for authentication. And the CDMA SIMs they use have GDM authentication capabilities for GSM roaming.
Additionally, I would like to see the exact fine print involved, and until then, [citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshift Added that for you.
What's the bandwidth of a GPS signal? What's the bandwidth of LightSquared's LTE deployment? What's the power-per-Hz once you factor it all together?
So it's clear you don't know the way the Doppler effect works. It works both ways - both shifting up AND down. LightSquared only has spectrum downwards of GPS, so what does that have to do with all the GPS signals that get blueshifted?
Then said airlines need to to invest in proper GPS equipment, instead of shit-ass receivers that don't know what the fuck 1575.42 MHz means. LightSquared's licensed spectrum is 1525-1559 MHz, and GPS L1 is 1575.42 MHz. Now, unless you can point to some solid evidence that LightSquared is broadcasting outside their spectrum, or that LTE is susceptible to causing interference a full 16MHz outside the (multi-)carrier signals' spectrum. And due to the use of OFDMA in LTE, I don't even want to hear a fucking bit about how they should use WiMAX (802.16m) instead, as it's also based on OFDMA.
I'll probably get modded "-1, Troll", or more likely, "-1, Flamebait", for the strong language, but this whole LightSquared vs. GPS mess seems like a total crock of badly-designed GPS crapola to me. Especially since some GPS equipment has zero issues what-so-fucking-ever even if you tape the damn GPS receiver to the LTE transceiver antenna up top the mast (and therefore reducing the distance to point-blank zero meters for interference testing).
Maybe it's worth noting that this "Lawrence Person" guy is a self-promoting hack, and that the article he linked in the parent is one he wrote himself, with enough political bias to make Fox News looks like it might be "fair and balanced" after all. It's probably a SEO ploy, after all, because he turns around and links right back to this very Slashdot story! And as for his claimed credentials on GPS tech... He simply claims he has them, but fails to provide any detail as to what they are. This guy's as trustworthy on the subject of GPS as Stephen Wolfram is on the scientific method.
Government testing reveals 75% of GPS receivers don't know to keep their nose out of spectrum GPS doesn't operate in.
The AC might be, but I'm not. I leave my email address unobfuscated, Google will provide the rest. 'Cept I know that Mr. Wolfram is a kook, plain and simple.
"See! My laptop that I play Minecraft on runs Windows, not Java!"
Hey AC, if you have a cell phone, and your carrier is AT&T, T-Mobile, Cincinnati Bell, i-Wireless, or any other GSM carrier, please get the fuck off of EUROPEAN cellular technology. Thanks.
You mean Connecticut, not Texas. Dubya is about as much Texan as Fox is news.
It's pretty obvious that you're a Libertarian. Ron Paul links in your ~/.signature, the idea that the individual is the most important, and your comment about the "monopoly" of education in the United States. And I'll agree with you with one point: Pure socialism, at least in the idea that the system is wrong, the idea that we should all work as a unified national commune, etc., fails. But then again, so does capitalism. Why? Because neither system scales up. Capitalism has only two ultimate ends: Monopoly, or failure. Capitalism itself only works when the means for companies to scale large enough to become monopolistic is eliminated, which would sadly mean going technologically backwards about two hundred years via the removal of communications technology to limit the reaches of command and control, or via "government interference" that makes the economy not quite the laissez-faire system your Libertarian mind would like. Have you even read The Wealth of Nations? Pretty much the vast majority of businesses used as examples are small businesses, like local blacksmiths and such. Although one could argue that in his day these small businesses had "monopolies" in the sense that it was prohibitively expensive to travel to another town to find competitively-priced services, as the towns of the day were small enough that you'd have only one of each type of business. But there wasn't such a strong market pull from the incumbent business to prevent another, say, shoemaker to enter town and compete with said incumbent.
And as to your statement about the federal government's monopoly on education... What do you propose instead? Let the private market deal with it? Let's get rid of all regulation and requirements! Riiight. I'll also sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for two dollars. What did I just say about capitalism's ultimate goals? Either you will end up with a single corporation maintaining a monopoly over education (with all the bureaucratic lunacy that sadly exists in our current public education system, but you'll be perfectly content with that, so long as it's the private sector doing it instead of the state) - and corporations, without some kind of restraint, will do completely detrimental things like, for instance, decide that students are perfectly educated enough once they know how to add two and two. After all, their only real goal is to make a profit. Or, you end up with a school that fails, but ends up damaging the education of whatever students it has before it falls - no decently sized corporation falls literally overnight, and that's what would be required in a private education sector to mitigate harm from occurring to a student. Capitalism says in theory that all the parents would disenroll their kids and go find some other school to put them in at the drop of the hat. Sounds good in theory, but then again, so does socialism.
Finally, Libertarianism is a self-contradicting philosophy. It's mostly aligned with the concept of meritocracy, but yet at the same time, places importance in individuals, and not just those that have proven themselves, but ALL individuals, because of the potential. Well, guess what? A meritocracy rewards based on RESULTS, not POTENTIAL. And as for potential... Every human alive has the potential to kill you. Does that mean we should lock the entire human race away in prison? Sorry, but the idea of promoting and identifying the importance of individuals based on merit also means that those with no merit are of no importance. If you died tomorrow, who will remember you? Your family and friends. And when THEY are dead, who then? The only remaining testament you leave is a tombstone atop a plot in a cemetery, slowly eroded away by nature. You will be nothing but a statistic unless you actually accomplish something. And until then, if you die - if you are killed - then your death is still just a statistic, albeit a different kind, but nothing more.
You want some kind of actual solutions to the prob
I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04, and kept the "Ubuntu Classic" desktop. Pretty much the GNOME 2 desktop + Ubuntu's little touches I've had since... 4.10? Upgraded to 11.10, and now the login UI has changed drastically, and forces me to Unity. At least, until I can figure out how to select a new login session type, then it's back to Ubuntu Classic for me (unless they've flat out taken it from me right under my feet.)
Or maybe one of the other desktop session types I have (had?) installed. KDE? XFCE? LXDE? Maybe I'll feel IRIX-y and go with MaXX. Or the generic GNOME2 session that's not the Ubuntu Classic desktop... oh, the options, if only this new login UI had some obvious drop-down like the old GDM prompt.
Oh, here's one! I could fork Ubuntu and name the fork after my ex, Virginia. Then rip off Microsoft nomenclature and call the login UI "GINA", for "Graphical Login and Authentication". Not to mention that "Gina" is short for "Virginia". Replace "MS" with "VA" - the state initalism for "Virginia" (the state). I'd end up with VAGINA. The "Virginia Linux Graphical Login and Authentication library". Or you could take that in a few other ways... I'll leave that to the reader to figure out :)
Except that this provides practical future value, especially in a world where "web apps" seem to the the Next Big Thing. It may be cost-efficient to run some legacy client application in a browser using JavaScript virtual hardware to translate, e.g. serial port I/O, into some AJAX or similar request towards an equally-legacy (emulated?) mainframe.
This similarly would allow companies to squeeze additional blood from stones by offering old DOS games running in a JavaScript emulator using HTML5 Local Storage for save games, while keeping the main game executable, bit-for-bit, to that they shipped two or more decades ago on floppy disks (or CD-ROMs).
Rewriting said games for the modern web is not a port. That is a remake, unless you are using LLVM + Emscripten to port the original C/C++ to the web. And it has to be the original game code, not a brand new codebase from scratch. There are some games whose experience would actually be changed by a remake, due to subtle programmer errors in the original code, which for accuracy's sake, must be maintained.
No, it will be documented, but you must be one of the inner circle to learn the arcane APIs.
Oh, shit, I already said too much! I better hide before they fi-
You misunderstand; OnLive doesn't run games on your computer. They run the games on their (OnLive's) computers, and they send the VGA signal back to you over the Internet, similarly to an Internet TV stream. It only looks like the game is running on your computer; in reality, it is not. Your keyboard and mouse are then behaving like they have cords several hundred miles long, because your keypress/mouse use is sent to the OnLive computers that are in some office building somewhere. It's like GoToMyPC, or TeamViewer, or VNC, but for video games. And they have control over the computer that runs the games, not you.
Everyone who bought an iPad and didn't return it seems perfectly satisfied with that. Of course, those same people only know three, maybe four, bits of technical information abut their iPad: 1. whether it is the iPad or iPad 2; 2. How much storage it has; 3. If it has 3G or not; 4. (may not know this one) what version of iOS theirs runs. And that information alone confuses the hell out of these people because they're too lazy to think (and trust me, it's not any other reason what-so-ever, no matter what they try to tell you.) Hell, giving them an SD card slot would confuse them to no end; they'd actually have to THINK about where they want their content to go - internal memory, or SD... and these people just want these decisions made for them so that they can "do useful work cause thinking about how the tool works is a time waste; it should just work and that's it."
Probably worth noting that these same people are totally brainwashed by the RIAA into believing that any media acquired outside of iTunes is likely illegal and they must not use it (unless they used iTunes to rip their CDs.)
I'd like to point out that AT&T still bills minutes for sending callers to voicemail. You are being billed ISDN time to call forward to voicemail. And it is legal to do so, I believe Verizon does the same. Although, prepaid customers may not be billed, but I have seen my bill, and they counted time a caller spent leaving voicemail against my minutes as a forwarded call. And yes, this is their voicemail service. I thus use Google Voice instead, since I pay either way.
No, the x86 platform is not "proprietary". It may have proprietary extensions (GPU acceleration features, etc.), but there is a universal base set of hardware interfaces and behaviours that every single x86 machine has. And this base set is openly documented, in full, no NDAs required.