Although it seems harder for true political speech to be harassment, that is a good point. But free speech does not imply immunity from consequences, which is a distinction people don't often realize. The government can't keep you from saying something, but if it's harming someone else they can seek reparations.
I agree completely. Political speech needs to always be protected; it's a fundamental aspect of democracy. Some people even believe that the first amendment was referring specifically to political speech.
On a somewhat unrelated note, the FTC making regulations like this isn't exactly law, because the FTC is an executive agency. But it more or less has the force of law.
Seriously, I hope a Warcraft 4 is at least in the planning stages because I would much rather play a new Warcraft RTS than more WoW. At least SC2 will fill in the RTS genre for some time but SC and WC3 are really different and I don't think SC2 will be more like WC3.
Shit, they don't even have a plugin for 64 bit Windows. Although this doesn't really matter besides people who run IE7 64 bit on Vista, but the sidebar on 64 bit versions uses IE, so gadgets with Flash in them fail on 64 bit Vista. Adobe sucks at platform support in general, it seems.
The even nicer thing is that the N800 is even cheaper than an EeePC. I was thinking of getting an N800 since the N810 is somewhat expensive, but I don't know whether I'd use it much and I have a smallish tablet PC so I feel like it might be redundant. How's the battery life on that? And would it fit in a (somewhat large) pocket?
Just curious, why not upgrade to a Tilt? Or maybe a Touch Pro, that looks awesome but I don't know when it's going to AT&T. For once CDMA carriers got the flagship HTC phone first.
Woah! This is probably not the best place to ask, but do you have any idea on an ETA for the first phone, and what network it might be on? And do you know if any Android phones will be headed to Verizon in the near future? I just got locked into a new two-year contract so the only way for me to get an Android phone is get a Verizon-branded phone and replace my existing phone, or something like that.
I'm curious though, are those genuine iPods or cheap knockoffs? From what I've seen in Bangladesh, there are a lot of cheap knockoffs that look like iPods, although I have seen what looked like genuine iPods too. However, those were owned by some pretty well off people, so I don't think it's that common in Bangladesh overall.
Haha, yeah. The thing is the president was never intended to have so much power, and the Legislative was supposed to be the dominant branch. Of course that kind of goes out the window when parties and career politicians come around, especially recently where everything seems to be divided across sharp party lines, and with the whole either with us or against us mentality.
I'd give you modpoints if I had any. Just because some people think the electoral college system sucks doesn't mean they should just ignore it. Personally I think it's a good idea in the way it was conceived, but now it's just an imperfect proxy for the popular vote. The founders had originally intended for the vote to eventually go to the House because they felt Congress was most qualified to choose the president. They didn't really account for parties and tickets though, which completely throw off their plans.
Yeah, our team was only two tents down from them (Amador) and I could see the amount of effort they put into their sub. They seemed really humble too, since it was only their second year at the competition, and I overhead them saying "Well, second place next to ETS wouldn't be so bad." When they got first I was so happy for them. It's kind of boring watching the same teams win over and over again (before this, the only teams that had won were MIT, UF, URI, and Cornell.) Last year though, MIT apparently had a newbish team and ranked third-last last year, and didn't come back this year. Also, if you're checking out some of the competitors' sites, I highly recommend you check out iBotics' site. Stupid Apple-knockoff name notwithstanding (I hope they aren't Apple fanboys), their sub design is really cool. It's basically a stingray made out of foam and fiberglass. They didn't do so well, but their sub is awesome.
Sidenote: I was wondering whose network RAM-AUV was. Now I know!
PS: Although I'm not competing next year since I graduated, you guys better watch out for Amador! We've gotten pretty close to being able to use our hydrophones to pinpoint the pinger, and we could have hit the buoy if we hadn't been so focused on simply fixing our hull and our compass we could have tested our vision and mission code and actually done something besides going straight, although for those who haven't seen the competition, going straight is impossible unless you've got some sort of feedback control system going (like PID).
Haha, Florida needed to lose this time, three years in a row and I guess they got kind of cocky. It didn't help that their team was mostly new recruits and their most experienced members had graduated.
Incidentally, I was actually on the only high school team to compete, Amador Valley High School, as the main programmer, although in the end none of my code was used as our vision processing code had been untested so we just ran our sub on a PIC that another member programmed, which did low-level motor control and PID to keep the sub going straight. We had uffered a crack in our tube, which lost us a day to fix, and we hadn't realized that our motors caused huge magnetic interference with our compass, which took another day to work around. Due to these more pressing issues, we never tested our vision processing code, and it likely wouldn't have worked anyway.
But yeah, Maryland did a great job and their performance was amazing, although I was disappointed that they didn't attempt any vision related tasks. The math for hydrophones is really difficult, but it seems like once you've got it done it's 100% guaranteed to work and since Florida got it last year it's become kind of boring to watch teams just gun straight for the recovery zone. Vision processing is a lot more fuzzy and I noticed several teams were thrown off by noise in the background. Incidentally, ETS, another amazing team (they've gotten 2nd a lot of times and they're consistently great) had actually done one of the vision processing tasks (playing blackjack) during a practice run. If they had done this during their final run they definitely would have won. Overall, the competition was a great experience and I'm going to miss it in college since my school (Berkeley) doesn't have a team in the competition, and I would probably fail if I tried to start one since I have no mechanical background.
I'd really like to know what you're smoking because freedom of speech definitely does not mean freedom from consequences, and never has. It simply means that you can say what you want and no one will keep you from saying it, but if you're harming someone else then of course they can seek reparations. The purpose of government is for the betterment of society, otherwise we would have no reason for a government. When government is formed the citizens create a social contract, which limits individual freedoms for the good of the whole. If that's not the purpose of government, I don't know what is.
Yeah, I've seen that, and it's always seemed like a nice way to do things. It just seems too simple for me, I mean, installing applications is supposed to be hard!;) There's got to be something that could go wrong. Really though, I like the idea but I also like having more control over things that Linux and Windows give you, and the fact that OS X automates so much actually kind of scares me.
I do agree that app support is the major problem with linux, but I'd actually argue that for the apps that are in package managers, it's a lot easier and more seamless to install them than a random Windows or OS X app. Of course, if the package manager doesn't have it or fails, then you might be worse off...
Mod parent up, he knows what he's talking about. Although bushing did say that Waninkoko was a nice guy, he also said he didn't think things through all the time, and I do notice that his new things come out right after someone else makes a breakthrough.
This doesn't circumvent anti-piracy. This only allows homebrew to access the whole contents of a DVD unencrypted. Normally you would need a modchip to do so. As there isn't any method of booting pirated games through homebrew, this doesn't help piracy at all, just lets homebrew read DVDs, which I'm hoping leads to a homebrew DVD player for Wii.
Well no shit sherlock, but that's the tradeoff for actually supporting a plethora of hardware configurations, and I think that's well worth the small troubles of being able to control what goes into your PC. Apple thinks differently, and I seem to get a control-freakish vibe from them, which really freaks me out. Your question is like asking whether consoles have driver issues, really, since a Mac is almost the same as a console in that regard.
Now that I think of it, the same probably can be said about Macs, if you start talking about printer drivers or say, nonstandard graphics card drivers (in a Mac Pro).
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Although it seems harder for true political speech to be harassment, that is a good point. But free speech does not imply immunity from consequences, which is a distinction people don't often realize. The government can't keep you from saying something, but if it's harming someone else they can seek reparations.
I agree completely. Political speech needs to always be protected; it's a fundamental aspect of democracy. Some people even believe that the first amendment was referring specifically to political speech.
On a somewhat unrelated note, the FTC making regulations like this isn't exactly law, because the FTC is an executive agency. But it more or less has the force of law.
Seriously, I hope a Warcraft 4 is at least in the planning stages because I would much rather play a new Warcraft RTS than more WoW. At least SC2 will fill in the RTS genre for some time but SC and WC3 are really different and I don't think SC2 will be more like WC3.
Shit, they don't even have a plugin for 64 bit Windows. Although this doesn't really matter besides people who run IE7 64 bit on Vista, but the sidebar on 64 bit versions uses IE, so gadgets with Flash in them fail on 64 bit Vista. Adobe sucks at platform support in general, it seems.
The even nicer thing is that the N800 is even cheaper than an EeePC. I was thinking of getting an N800 since the N810 is somewhat expensive, but I don't know whether I'd use it much and I have a smallish tablet PC so I feel like it might be redundant. How's the battery life on that? And would it fit in a (somewhat large) pocket?
Just curious, why not upgrade to a Tilt? Or maybe a Touch Pro, that looks awesome but I don't know when it's going to AT&T. For once CDMA carriers got the flagship HTC phone first.
Woah! This is probably not the best place to ask, but do you have any idea on an ETA for the first phone, and what network it might be on? And do you know if any Android phones will be headed to Verizon in the near future? I just got locked into a new two-year contract so the only way for me to get an Android phone is get a Verizon-branded phone and replace my existing phone, or something like that.
I'm curious though, are those genuine iPods or cheap knockoffs? From what I've seen in Bangladesh, there are a lot of cheap knockoffs that look like iPods, although I have seen what looked like genuine iPods too. However, those were owned by some pretty well off people, so I don't think it's that common in Bangladesh overall.
Haha, yeah. The thing is the president was never intended to have so much power, and the Legislative was supposed to be the dominant branch. Of course that kind of goes out the window when parties and career politicians come around, especially recently where everything seems to be divided across sharp party lines, and with the whole either with us or against us mentality.
I'd give you modpoints if I had any. Just because some people think the electoral college system sucks doesn't mean they should just ignore it. Personally I think it's a good idea in the way it was conceived, but now it's just an imperfect proxy for the popular vote. The founders had originally intended for the vote to eventually go to the House because they felt Congress was most qualified to choose the president. They didn't really account for parties and tickets though, which completely throw off their plans.
Yeah, our team was only two tents down from them (Amador) and I could see the amount of effort they put into their sub. They seemed really humble too, since it was only their second year at the competition, and I overhead them saying "Well, second place next to ETS wouldn't be so bad." When they got first I was so happy for them. It's kind of boring watching the same teams win over and over again (before this, the only teams that had won were MIT, UF, URI, and Cornell.) Last year though, MIT apparently had a newbish team and ranked third-last last year, and didn't come back this year. Also, if you're checking out some of the competitors' sites, I highly recommend you check out iBotics' site. Stupid Apple-knockoff name notwithstanding (I hope they aren't Apple fanboys), their sub design is really cool. It's basically a stingray made out of foam and fiberglass. They didn't do so well, but their sub is awesome.
Sidenote: I was wondering whose network RAM-AUV was. Now I know!
PS: Although I'm not competing next year since I graduated, you guys better watch out for Amador! We've gotten pretty close to being able to use our hydrophones to pinpoint the pinger, and we could have hit the buoy if we hadn't been so focused on simply fixing our hull and our compass we could have tested our vision and mission code and actually done something besides going straight, although for those who haven't seen the competition, going straight is impossible unless you've got some sort of feedback control system going (like PID).
Haha, Florida needed to lose this time, three years in a row and I guess they got kind of cocky. It didn't help that their team was mostly new recruits and their most experienced members had graduated.
Incidentally, I was actually on the only high school team to compete, Amador Valley High School, as the main programmer, although in the end none of my code was used as our vision processing code had been untested so we just ran our sub on a PIC that another member programmed, which did low-level motor control and PID to keep the sub going straight. We had uffered a crack in our tube, which lost us a day to fix, and we hadn't realized that our motors caused huge magnetic interference with our compass, which took another day to work around. Due to these more pressing issues, we never tested our vision processing code, and it likely wouldn't have worked anyway.
But yeah, Maryland did a great job and their performance was amazing, although I was disappointed that they didn't attempt any vision related tasks. The math for hydrophones is really difficult, but it seems like once you've got it done it's 100% guaranteed to work and since Florida got it last year it's become kind of boring to watch teams just gun straight for the recovery zone. Vision processing is a lot more fuzzy and I noticed several teams were thrown off by noise in the background. Incidentally, ETS, another amazing team (they've gotten 2nd a lot of times and they're consistently great) had actually done one of the vision processing tasks (playing blackjack) during a practice run. If they had done this during their final run they definitely would have won. Overall, the competition was a great experience and I'm going to miss it in college since my school (Berkeley) doesn't have a team in the competition, and I would probably fail if I tried to start one since I have no mechanical background.
Haha, that's Super Mario Brothers and Simple Message Service obviously /sarcasm
I agree in general, although for stuff like that, context helps, but it's usually not enough.
I'd really like to know what you're smoking because freedom of speech definitely does not mean freedom from consequences, and never has. It simply means that you can say what you want and no one will keep you from saying it, but if you're harming someone else then of course they can seek reparations. The purpose of government is for the betterment of society, otherwise we would have no reason for a government. When government is formed the citizens create a social contract, which limits individual freedoms for the good of the whole. If that's not the purpose of government, I don't know what is.
Haha, that joke is good. Too bad it's probably an instant troll or flamebait mod here...
Haha I like your sig.
Yeah, I've seen that, and it's always seemed like a nice way to do things. It just seems too simple for me, I mean, installing applications is supposed to be hard! ;) There's got to be something that could go wrong. Really though, I like the idea but I also like having more control over things that Linux and Windows give you, and the fact that OS X automates so much actually kind of scares me.
I do agree that app support is the major problem with linux, but I'd actually argue that for the apps that are in package managers, it's a lot easier and more seamless to install them than a random Windows or OS X app. Of course, if the package manager doesn't have it or fails, then you might be worse off...
Not if I've got SATA though...
How'd he get the copyrighted code? Disassembly? I saw something about that on hackmii.com, but I didn't quite understand what it was talking about.
Mod parent up, he knows what he's talking about. Although bushing did say that Waninkoko was a nice guy, he also said he didn't think things through all the time, and I do notice that his new things come out right after someone else makes a breakthrough.
Yeah, I've installed it but haven't run it but after this firmware I think it should be fairly easy.
This doesn't circumvent anti-piracy. This only allows homebrew to access the whole contents of a DVD unencrypted. Normally you would need a modchip to do so. As there isn't any method of booting pirated games through homebrew, this doesn't help piracy at all, just lets homebrew read DVDs, which I'm hoping leads to a homebrew DVD player for Wii.
Well no shit sherlock, but that's the tradeoff for actually supporting a plethora of hardware configurations, and I think that's well worth the small troubles of being able to control what goes into your PC. Apple thinks differently, and I seem to get a control-freakish vibe from them, which really freaks me out. Your question is like asking whether consoles have driver issues, really, since a Mac is almost the same as a console in that regard.
Now that I think of it, the same probably can be said about Macs, if you start talking about printer drivers or say, nonstandard graphics card drivers (in a Mac Pro).
Uh, except this guy's UID is a lot lower than twitter's. It's probably just someone genuinely agreeing...