my experience is just the opposite - I've added, changed and upgraded lots of things and since it's all open and available I can usually get to the bottom of the issue. With Windows it's by guess and by gosh, if something doesn't work there's not much you can do since is closed and hidden away. Even whey you pay for something there is no legal guarentee that their tech support can sort it out, you're just hung out to dry.
And another thing, PC unix doesn't have such a bad case of 'bit rot' - once you have it configured and running it's the same year after year (other than slowly becomming obsolete - I have 233Mhz notebooks with RH6.2 from years ago that still work fine that I use for a serial terminal or other low speed functions). Windows just gets slower and crappier with time untill you're forced to upgrade or do something.
Looks like it's largely made up of ordinary radio control servos - they're less than $20 each and pretty easy to interface with - a pulse from.5 to 1.5 mSec long moves the output shaft almost 180 degrees. This is a nice construction job and the simple face really adds a lot to the humanoid cuteness factor. Everything else is a (snicker) simple matter of programming.
That's an interesting way to look at it, in terms that might appeal to republicans and businessfolk: the fossile fuel reserves represent an energy 'savings account' that has accumulated over billions of years. It would be interesting to quantify how much we are living off of this 'savings' against current energy 'income' from the sun, i.e., what the 'burn rate' is, factoring in growth, and project how long it can go on before earth has to declare an energy 'bankruptcy'.
I know it's very hard to understand the situation from this distance in time, but the 'Japs' were fighting beyond reason - in all the land battles, Okinaha, etc, even when demonstrably beaten they would fight on to the bitter end of the last man. This was the time of the kamakazi suicide pilots, etc. It's not unreasonable to expect a demonstration would be a waste of time and effort. Heck, even after the bomb, many of the Bushido warrior Japanese still didn't want to capitulate, it's just not part of thier code. But saner heads prevailed and realized that there wouldn't be a Japan if they didn't surrender.
Because of the chicken/egg problem - left to their own free will, customers won't buy DTV sets unless there is programming on the air to get and broadcasters won't start DTV b'casts unless there's a viewing public with DTV sets. NASA TV recently switched off analog transmissions.
There's no doubt a lot of those things are going to happen - but they will also learn at a young age how to prevent / recover from those incidents and move on to better things. What do they say, experience is proportional to the amount of equipment damaged;)
With the focus and $$$ being spent on anti-terror being the atmosphere in the executive branch of the US feds, these are the type of ideas that get you promoted, gets noticed and gives you a reputation as a go-getter and get'r'doner. Forget how practical or realistic it is or how easy to circumvent - just whatever you can come up with to fight the baddies makes you look good to the boss.
What, seriously, is so wrong with 'dupes'? Not everybody reads/. 24 hrs/day, lots of times an articles scrolls off before I have a chance to read it and the second time around I get a chance to see it. Just look at other news outlets like CNN, it's dupe/dupe/dupe every hour. There just isn't enough real tech news for nerds like there used to be in the 90's when the rotation schedule was set, so posting duplicate stories is a natural fill in.
Arab terrorists would just find another 'reason' for blowing themselves up and taking civilians, like the existance of the state of Israel, etc. Their civilization if horribly antiquated and unable to provide for their people, just look at all the unamployed muslims wandering around with nothing productive to do except turn religious fanatic and go bezerk out of frustration in light of the relative material success of the west. The worst situation arises when you combine that fanatacism with oil money and suddenly they have means to act on their hatred.
Simple, naive solutions like suggestion "just pulling out" would usher in the age of universal peace and happiness is the same old appeasement that never works with unreasonable fanatics.
Tables calculated by humans also contained a lot of human errors - I understand Charles Babbage was so frustrated by errors in human calculated tables that he wished for some way they could be calculated "by steam" (engine/machine).
Eliminate credit card pre-approvals - January 27, 2005 It's important that you shut down credit card pre-approvals in general to prevent identity theft, but it's even more important if you're planning to move. That's because the companies continue to send pre-approvals to your address even if you move. Identity thieves can simply grab those forms out of your old mailbox and fill them out, pretending to be you. They then rack up all kinds of charges on "your account." So, be sure you OPT OUT of those pre-approvals now! When you do, you can either opt out permanently or for five years. You can either call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT or go to optoutprescreen.com. It won't eliminate every pre-approval. Frequent flier cards and hotel points cards are not blocked, for example. But it will take care of most of the offers you would have received.
Remember, it's not theft if there is nothing physical involved - it's merely identity infringement, and perfectly legal in many countries. Only the US goes overboard and makes a big deal over a little harmless identity infringement in their usual heavy handed, overbearing way.
Why not? IBM sold punch card machines to the Nazi's, which were used to track down Jews. It's the duty of capatilists to sell China the rope they are going to hang us with.
I think we're going to have to ammend Godwin's law to include OBL as well as Hiter - they never found Hitler but that didn't stop all law enforcement cold either. Life went on, traffic tickets were handed out, criminal rings rounded up, boys peeking thru knotholes in the baseball statium walls were chased off by the local flatfoot, and people copying dvds are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Without the BF, Television programmers and media executives will lose control and no longer have the financial incentive to create quality, top notch wholesome family entertainment and informative shows such as... um, well, then there's... ah, oh nevermind.
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my experience is just the opposite - I've added, changed and upgraded lots of things and since it's all open and available I can usually get to the bottom of the issue. With Windows it's by guess and by gosh, if something doesn't work there's not much you can do since is closed and hidden away. Even whey you pay for something there is no legal guarentee that their tech support can sort it out, you're just hung out to dry.
And another thing, PC unix doesn't have such a bad case of 'bit rot' - once you have it configured and running it's the same year after year (other than slowly becomming obsolete - I have 233Mhz notebooks with RH6.2 from years ago that still work fine that I use for a serial terminal or other low speed functions). Windows just gets slower and crappier with time untill you're forced to upgrade or do something.
Looks like it's largely made up of ordinary radio control servos - they're less than $20 each and pretty easy to interface with - a pulse from .5 to 1.5 mSec long moves the output shaft almost 180 degrees. This is a nice construction job and the simple face really adds a lot to the humanoid cuteness factor. Everything else is a (snicker) simple matter of programming.
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That's an interesting way to look at it, in terms that might appeal to republicans and businessfolk: the fossile fuel reserves represent an energy 'savings account' that has accumulated over billions of years. It would be interesting to quantify how much we are living off of this 'savings' against current energy 'income' from the sun, i.e., what the 'burn rate' is, factoring in growth, and project how long it can go on before earth has to declare an energy 'bankruptcy'.
to paraphrase Dan Quayle, "I believe M$ft is on an irreversible trend toward more openness and compatibility. But that could change."
what'd be really neat is a peak oil / singularity synchronicity / conjunction. However if PO happens before the TS it might throw off the schedule.
I know it's very hard to understand the situation from this distance in time, but the 'Japs' were fighting beyond reason - in all the land battles, Okinaha, etc, even when demonstrably beaten they would fight on to the bitter end of the last man. This was the time of the kamakazi suicide pilots, etc. It's not unreasonable to expect a demonstration would be a waste of time and effort. Heck, even after the bomb, many of the Bushido warrior Japanese still didn't want to capitulate, it's just not part of thier code. But saner heads prevailed and realized that there wouldn't be a Japan if they didn't surrender.
Because of the chicken/egg problem - left to their own free will, customers won't buy DTV sets unless there is programming on the air to get and broadcasters won't start DTV b'casts unless there's a viewing public with DTV sets. NASA TV recently switched off analog transmissions.
What if we just chip in and buy the Space Command Generals a few star registry names - maybe that will keep them happy.
There's no doubt a lot of those things are going to happen - but they will also learn at a young age how to prevent / recover from those incidents and move on to better things. What do they say, experience is proportional to the amount of equipment damaged ;)
With the focus and $$$ being spent on anti-terror being the atmosphere in the executive branch of the US feds, these are the type of ideas that get you promoted, gets noticed and gives you a reputation as a go-getter and get'r'doner. Forget how practical or realistic it is or how easy to circumvent - just whatever you can come up with to fight the baddies makes you look good to the boss.
What, seriously, is so wrong with 'dupes'? Not everybody reads /. 24 hrs/day, lots of times an articles scrolls off before I have a chance to read it and the second time around I get a chance to see it. Just look at other news outlets like CNN, it's dupe/dupe/dupe every hour. There just isn't enough real tech news for nerds like there used to be in the 90's when the rotation schedule was set, so posting duplicate stories is a natural fill in.
Arab terrorists would just find another 'reason' for blowing themselves up and taking civilians, like the existance of the state of Israel, etc. Their civilization if horribly antiquated and unable to provide for their people, just look at all the unamployed muslims wandering around with nothing productive to do except turn religious fanatic and go bezerk out of frustration in light of the relative material success of the west. The worst situation arises when you combine that fanatacism with oil money and suddenly they have means to act on their hatred.
Simple, naive solutions like suggestion "just pulling out" would usher in the age of universal peace and happiness is the same old appeasement that never works with unreasonable fanatics.
Robot hand performs remote breast checks
Wow, wait untill the porn industry gets a hold of that one.
"Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!!"
Actually pretty cool toy - wonder what the battery life is. "Command override: I must find a power source in 3.23 minutes beep".
That's why you should use a 5 finger RAID and make a backup to your big toe.
Look like the live8 show has had the desired effect of creating hordes of screaming idiots.
Tables calculated by humans also contained a lot of human errors - I understand Charles Babbage was so frustrated by errors in human calculated tables that he wished for some way they could be calculated "by steam" (engine/machine).
In Soviet Florida, the seafood eats you!
From clarkhoward.com:
Eliminate credit card pre-approvals - January 27, 2005
It's important that you shut down credit card pre-approvals in general to prevent identity theft, but it's even more important if you're planning to move. That's because the companies continue to send pre-approvals to your address even if you move. Identity thieves can simply grab those forms out of your old mailbox and fill them out, pretending to be you. They then rack up all kinds of charges on "your account." So, be sure you OPT OUT of those pre-approvals now! When you do, you can either opt out permanently or for five years. You can either call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT or go to optoutprescreen.com. It won't eliminate every pre-approval. Frequent flier cards and hotel points cards are not blocked, for example. But it will take care of most of the offers you would have received.
Remember, it's not theft if there is nothing physical involved - it's merely identity infringement, and perfectly legal in many countries. Only the US goes overboard and makes a big deal over a little harmless identity infringement in their usual heavy handed, overbearing way.
Why not? IBM sold punch card machines to the Nazi's, which were used to track down Jews. It's the duty of capatilists to sell China the rope they are going to hang us with.
I think we're going to have to ammend Godwin's law to include OBL as well as Hiter - they never found Hitler but that didn't stop all law enforcement cold either. Life went on, traffic tickets were handed out, criminal rings rounded up, boys peeking thru knotholes in the baseball statium walls were chased off by the local flatfoot, and people copying dvds are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
if you get put on hold you can listen to your own music instead of theirs?
Without the BF, Television programmers and media executives will lose control and no longer have the financial incentive to create quality, top notch wholesome family entertainment and informative shows such as ... um, well, then there's ... ah, oh nevermind.