Ok, Microsoft, Bundling, I get it. But... has anyone here actually used Spark?
What exactly is it, is it the slicing and machine control software? Or is it a CAD program with emphasis on creating designs for 3d printed objects? Or is it both? How does it compare with the open source equivalents normally used with Repraps?
It's still important to protect the bands in-between disasters.
You want hams to have working equipment ready to go when the disaster strikes. Very few are going to go through the work and expense of obtaining and maintaining equipment that they don't even get to use. Just keeping the bands interference free enough that hams get to talk to one another means that they will be turning their radios on regularly and know when something needs fixing.
You also want the hams themselves to be ready for the disaster. Well practiced people with a procedure can communicate much more efficiently than panicky people first picking up the mike in an emergency. Hams have events for practicing this sort of thing which turns it into sort of a game. There has to be open bands available during non-disaster times to do this.
Look at where and when they plan to use these. It sounds like they intend them for situations where a live doctor is not available. If they use it in 10 emergencies, 1/2 of the time it is succesful and 1/2 of the time it is hacked then that's 5 lives saved that would have died and 5 lost that would have died anyway.
Don't get me wrong, these things should be secured and the goal should be to save all 10. But.. no use letting the 5 lucky ones die just because it isn't ready yet!
Well.. I don't know about the rest of Slashdot but whenever I hear chimps being referred to as monkeys I picture some young earth creationist going around saying something like "my grandmother wasn't no damn monkey".
"It's really hard to pull yourself out of the mindset and start doubting what you are told by people you used to trust"
Why did people ever trust anyone in the first place? In the history of this world has there ever been a leader of any even halfway-powerful nation, empire, kingdom or tribe that wasn't thoroughly corrupt? Surely no one gets that far without learning to lean on the media!
Maybe, just maybe somwehere some leader started out good before being corrupted by power. I doubt it though. The very personality that drives one to seek power in the first place will prevent that.
Humanity as a species is and always has been lead by sociopaths! It's in our nature so that we probably always will.
They are people being unlawfully detained so the fix is to send them to a sanctuary? Wouldn't that be like sending groups of humans to reservations? What's next? Smallpox bedding?
Obviously they can't be left to just roam the city. Maybe that's a clue that they are still animals...
Meh... everywhere I have seen low income apartments built they start out nice but vandalism, crime and tennants who just generally are very rough on things have brought the places down in quality very quickly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some very deserving good people who need that housing. It just only takes a few bad apples... Unfortunately I don't think you can really help people very well that way.
On the other hand.. Nice! If they thought they didn't want a studio in their neighborhood let's see how they deal with this! If only there was a George Lucas for every HOA!
What makes these old things interesting is that they show change over time. Imagine a museum with decade-themed rooms for each decade from about 1900 till now. There would be something unique to see for each room. Even the 2000s vs the 20-teens would be obvious with big desktops and blackberries in the former, tablets and iPhones or Androids in the latter. You could really see the style changes in the 50s through tte 80s. The prosperity of the 20s vs the austerity of the 30s would be apparent. Watch those early radios change from the bulky aparatis of the early 1900s to the pretty furnature consoles and tombstones of the 20s then the bakelite shelled AC/DC models of the depression and after the war.
Now let's look at the REALLY REALLY ancient stuff. The first few million years of human history are dominated by stone tools. Those tools can be separated into a mere handful of techological periods with little variation within a period.
Of course there are a lot of periods of artifacts in-between. As you get closer to the present though the changes acclerate making there more to study.
If we waited until our current stuff was 100s or 1000s of years old a lot of this information would be lost forever. Do your kids know what an 8-track is?
I'm pretty sure it's a product of negative thinking about the present and the future of society vs the past. In other words it goes with the idea that some time in the past was an ideal that that has somehow been lost.
I think it starts as by frequently referring to what one perceives as having been lost from the past ex) "people just don't have morals anymore now that they are all using birth control" After thinking this way for so long one begins to see time in general that way, today is just a degeneration of the glorious past. This is all we have left "any more". So.. any more just becomes a way to talk about the present vs the past.
Is it regional? I think seeing the future through rose colored glasses and being pessimistic about the future is a common disease that has infected people in all times and places. However.. it is probably more pronounced in the Bible Belt where conservatives dream of living in some idealized version of the 1950s.
Are you offended yet? This doesn't mean that anyone and everyone who uses the phrase necessarily is thinking that way. They might just have a lot of people around them who do. Sometimes a cigar really is a cigar but you don't necessarily want to know what your neighbors would do with it.
Nope! What ever gave you that idea?!?! The only people who have any interest in doing that are the ones who never talk about it. The moment someone talks about it they are obviously trying to tip the scales one way or the other.
"Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?"
Should I let my daughter chose her school? She is 5, next year will be kindergarten. The school in our district has horrible test scores and we are very concerned. Do you think she has all the knowlege, wisdom and maturity to make that kind of decision herself?
At Maker Faire last year I came across a booth for our local tech high school. I'm very interested in all things tech myself and would love to see her grow up the same. One of the kids at the booth started talking to me.. he told me how the school was so great because there was no sports art or music stuff. They could spend all day working on "STEM".
Now I wish everyone would learn more science and technology but hearing this kid go on about how great it was to not have any sports or arts and smiling about it.. I found that rather apalling!
Balance people! Be a well rounded individual! Otherwise you really are losing out on something great!
So.. unless she really really wants this... and then.. only after much discussion I don't intend to send her to THAT school!
So... now in an effort to reduce the imbalances between sexes even more children will be subjected to unbalanced educations.
Yay progress!
Then again... from what I remember of going to a 'normal' school.. they were pretty unbalanced already. Mostly towards big reading, writing and social studies programs with stunted science and technology classes. Although.. they seemed to do ok with math.
Well, that sounds like things are improving then. That still sounds kind of sucky though. Imagine explaining whatever doesn't work to a non-geeky new user! That is the kind of thing that makes Linux look bad.
Can I use the tools built in to my desktop manager to configure a multi-headed desktop environment? I mean to do things like add/remove screens, switch between extending the desktop or cloning it, swap monitors left/right, up/down, etc...
Or.. do I have to use Twinview, NVidia's proprietary tool still? Even though... with any other manufacturer the built in tools work fine.
Even if the NVidia now supports doing all that stuff through their own tool without restarting X and even if their propietary tools has some snazzy, good looking and easy to use interface.. that solution still sucks!
The problem is that it leaves an important part of the Desktop environment's control panel non-functional. It means that in the obvious place that a new user would click to change those settings.. settings exist.. but they do'nt do anything. It means said new user has to go search for how to do it "the Nvidia way".
That makes Linux look cheap, unfinished or broken. It's a really shitty way to do things.
You realize I'm not asking "can Nvidia do those things". Nvidia had "Twinview(tm)" when I last used them which allowed multiple monitors and was compatible with Xinerama on an API level.
That just meant you could extend your desktop across two monitors and when you maximize something it only maximizes in the monitor it is displayed in. It doesn't stretch across the whole virtual desktop splitting itself between the two screens.
However.. since it was only an Nvidia proprietary thing which was emulating Xinerama that meant utilites meant for configuring Xinerama didn't work with Nvidia cards.
Here's why that matters.
If you were using for example KDE (and I am assuming Gnome was similar) you could go into the control panel and change how your multiple monitors are set up. You could switch between desktop stretching vs cloning. You could swap left/right, etc... It was very easy and tidy... very Windows like.
BUT if you had an Nvidia card.. nope! You still have those functions in your control panel... but... THEY DON'T WORK! Instead you had to load this proprietary Nvidia app which then makes edits to your xorg.conf for you. Then.. it would restart X! So... all your applications you had open... now are closed.
I just did a Google search for Nvidia and Xinerama. The first result was an Ubuntu page about using Twinview. I take that to mean that your "years and years" comment is wrong and you are just assuming everything is ok because yes.. you can have two monitors.
Do they? It's been a long time since I have used Nvidia. Do their drivers work properly with Xinerama and XRandR now? So you can do things like setting up your multiple displays, screen rotation, etc... inside of the normal config panel of your favorite desktop manager?
Or do you still have to use that funky proprietary Nvidia utility for that which writes stuff to the xorg.conf file that only Nvidia cards undertand.
"Who pays who and how much is based on supply and demand, not anybody's ideology of what should be free."
What are you talking about? Nobody is asking for anything for free. Well.. except Verizon and Comcast. They seem to think that they can have our money for free.
If I pay an ISP for a connection to all of the Internet and I decide that I want to watch Netflix or I want to play a video game or any of the other stuff that those a-holes have been throttling and/or blocking then I am not getting what I paid for. They owe me a product for the money I paid but they are keeping it. That's theft!
Talk about vision! They are teaching their children to make things with 3d printers. AND they are converting their air into something that can be fed into the extruders instead of filament. Just plug it in and start printing.
It's going to be like everyone having a Star Trek replicator!
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Ok, Microsoft, Bundling, I get it. But... has anyone here actually used Spark?
What exactly is it, is it the slicing and machine control software? Or is it a CAD program with emphasis on creating designs for 3d printed objects? Or is it both? How does it compare with the open source equivalents normally used with Repraps?
Sounds like some politicians are buying an expensive lesson in what can and can't be automated by computer on their tax payers' dime.
Here in the US it's the military that usually serves that particular function but Autstalia has their schools doing it.
"Pick almost ANY topic and the parties are going to take polar opposite views of it."
So long as those two topics are popular yet inconsequential.
It's still important to protect the bands in-between disasters.
You want hams to have working equipment ready to go when the disaster strikes. Very few are going to go through the work and expense of obtaining and maintaining equipment that they don't even get to use. Just keeping the bands interference free enough that hams get to talk to one another means that they will be turning their radios on regularly and know when something needs fixing.
You also want the hams themselves to be ready for the disaster. Well practiced people with a procedure can communicate much more efficiently than panicky people first picking up the mike in an emergency. Hams have events for practicing this sort of thing which turns it into sort of a game. There has to be open bands available during non-disaster times to do this.
Look at where and when they plan to use these. It sounds like they intend them for situations where a live doctor is not available. If they use it in 10 emergencies, 1/2 of the time it is succesful and 1/2 of the time it is hacked then that's 5 lives saved that would have died and 5 lost that would have died anyway.
Don't get me wrong, these things should be secured and the goal should be to save all 10. But.. no use letting the 5 lucky ones die just because it isn't ready yet!
Well.. I don't know about the rest of Slashdot but whenever I hear chimps being referred to as monkeys I picture some young earth creationist going around saying something like "my grandmother wasn't no damn monkey".
He both could and couldn't accomplish as much by spending a year in a Schrodinger box. It isn't determined until you measure it.
"It's really hard to pull yourself out of the mindset and start doubting what you are told by people you used to trust"
Why did people ever trust anyone in the first place? In the history of this world has there ever been a leader of any even halfway-powerful nation, empire, kingdom or tribe that wasn't thoroughly corrupt? Surely no one gets that far without learning to lean on the media!
Maybe, just maybe somwehere some leader started out good before being corrupted by power. I doubt it though. The very personality that drives one to seek power in the first place will prevent that.
Humanity as a species is and always has been lead by sociopaths! It's in our nature so that we probably always will.
The word 'music' is entirely unecessary in that sentence.
They are people being unlawfully detained so the fix is to send them to a sanctuary? Wouldn't that be like sending groups of humans to reservations? What's next? Smallpox bedding?
Obviously they can't be left to just roam the city. Maybe that's a clue that they are still animals...
I'm not sure how one monkey eating another might be affected by a ruling about chimps. It does beg the question about one chimp eating another though!
Meh... everywhere I have seen low income apartments built they start out nice but vandalism, crime and tennants who just generally are very rough on things have brought the places down in quality very quickly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some very deserving good people who need that housing. It just only takes a few bad apples... Unfortunately I don't think you can really help people very well that way.
On the other hand.. Nice! If they thought they didn't want a studio in their neighborhood let's see how they deal with this! If only there was a George Lucas for every HOA!
I totally disagree.
What makes these old things interesting is that they show change over time. Imagine a museum with decade-themed rooms for each decade from about 1900 till now. There would be something unique to see for each room. Even the 2000s vs the 20-teens would be obvious with big desktops and blackberries in the former, tablets and iPhones or Androids in the latter. You could really see the style changes in the 50s through tte 80s. The prosperity of the 20s vs the austerity of the 30s would be apparent. Watch those early radios change from the bulky aparatis of the early 1900s to the pretty furnature consoles and tombstones of the 20s then the bakelite shelled AC/DC models of the depression and after the war.
Now let's look at the REALLY REALLY ancient stuff. The first few million years of human history are dominated by stone tools. Those tools can be separated into a mere handful of techological periods with little variation within a period.
Of course there are a lot of periods of artifacts in-between. As you get closer to the present though the changes acclerate making there more to study.
If we waited until our current stuff was 100s or 1000s of years old a lot of this information would be lost forever. Do your kids know what an 8-track is?
I meant "seeing the past through rose colored glasses" not the future.
Sorry
I'm pretty sure it's a product of negative thinking about the present and the future of society vs the past. In other words it goes with the idea that some time in the past was an ideal that that has somehow been lost.
I think it starts as by frequently referring to what one perceives as having been lost from the past ex) "people just don't have morals anymore now that they are all using birth control" After thinking this way for so long one begins to see time in general that way, today is just a degeneration of the glorious past. This is all we have left "any more". So.. any more just becomes a way to talk about the present vs the past.
Is it regional? I think seeing the future through rose colored glasses and being pessimistic about the future is a common disease that has infected people in all times and places. However.. it is probably more pronounced in the Bible Belt where conservatives dream of living in some idealized version of the 1950s.
Are you offended yet? This doesn't mean that anyone and everyone who uses the phrase necessarily is thinking that way. They might just have a lot of people around them who do. Sometimes a cigar really is a cigar but you don't necessarily want to know what your neighbors would do with it.
I guess the concept of a rhetorical question is too difficult for some A/Cs.
"I thought we were trying to end sexism?"
Nope! What ever gave you that idea?!?! The only people who have any interest in doing that are the ones who never talk about it. The moment someone talks about it they are obviously trying to tip the scales one way or the other.
"Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?"
Should I let my daughter chose her school? She is 5, next year will be kindergarten. The school in our district has horrible test scores and we are very concerned. Do you think she has all the knowlege, wisdom and maturity to make that kind of decision herself?
At Maker Faire last year I came across a booth for our local tech high school. I'm very interested in all things tech myself and would love to see her grow up the same. One of the kids at the booth started talking to me.. he told me how the school was so great because there was no sports art or music stuff. They could spend all day working on "STEM".
Now I wish everyone would learn more science and technology but hearing this kid go on about how great it was to not have any sports or arts and smiling about it.. I found that rather apalling!
Balance people! Be a well rounded individual! Otherwise you really are losing out on something great!
So.. unless she really really wants this... and then.. only after much discussion I don't intend to send her to THAT school!
So... now in an effort to reduce the imbalances between sexes even more children will be subjected to unbalanced educations.
Yay progress!
Then again... from what I remember of going to a 'normal' school.. they were pretty unbalanced already. Mostly towards big reading, writing and social studies programs with stunted science and technology classes. Although.. they seemed to do ok with math.
Well, that sounds like things are improving then. That still sounds kind of sucky though. Imagine explaining whatever doesn't work to a non-geeky new user! That is the kind of thing that makes Linux look bad.
Ok but that's just RandR. What about Xinerama?
Can I use the tools built in to my desktop manager to configure a multi-headed desktop environment? I mean to do things like add/remove screens, switch between extending the desktop or cloning it, swap monitors left/right, up/down, etc...
Or.. do I have to use Twinview, NVidia's proprietary tool still? Even though... with any other manufacturer the built in tools work fine.
Even if the NVidia now supports doing all that stuff through their own tool without restarting X and even if their propietary tools has some snazzy, good looking and easy to use interface.. that solution still sucks!
The problem is that it leaves an important part of the Desktop environment's control panel non-functional. It means that in the obvious place that a new user would click to change those settings.. settings exist.. but they do'nt do anything. It means said new user has to go search for how to do it "the Nvidia way".
That makes Linux look cheap, unfinished or broken. It's a really shitty way to do things.
You realize I'm not asking "can Nvidia do those things". Nvidia had "Twinview(tm)" when I last used them which allowed multiple monitors and was compatible with Xinerama on an API level.
That just meant you could extend your desktop across two monitors and when you maximize something it only maximizes in the monitor it is displayed in. It doesn't stretch across the whole virtual desktop splitting itself between the two screens.
However.. since it was only an Nvidia proprietary thing which was emulating Xinerama that meant utilites meant for configuring Xinerama didn't work with Nvidia cards.
Here's why that matters.
If you were using for example KDE (and I am assuming Gnome was similar) you could go into the control panel and change how your multiple monitors are set up. You could switch between desktop stretching vs cloning. You could swap left/right, etc... It was very easy and tidy... very Windows like.
BUT if you had an Nvidia card.. nope! You still have those functions in your control panel... but... THEY DON'T WORK! Instead you had to load this proprietary Nvidia app which then makes edits to your xorg.conf for you. Then.. it would restart X! So... all your applications you had open... now are closed.
I just did a Google search for Nvidia and Xinerama. The first result was an Ubuntu page about using Twinview. I take that to mean that your "years and years" comment is wrong and you are just assuming everything is ok because yes.. you can have two monitors.
Oh, and do you still have to recompile a wrapper every time you upgrade the kernel?
"Nvidia's drivers do work 100% with Linux."
Do they? It's been a long time since I have used Nvidia. Do their drivers work properly with Xinerama and XRandR now? So you can do things like setting up your multiple displays, screen rotation, etc... inside of the normal config panel of your favorite desktop manager?
Or do you still have to use that funky proprietary Nvidia utility for that which writes stuff to the xorg.conf file that only Nvidia cards undertand.
Chimps kill each other.
"Who pays who and how much is based on supply and demand, not anybody's ideology of what should be free."
What are you talking about? Nobody is asking for anything for free. Well.. except Verizon and Comcast. They seem to think that they can have our money for free.
If I pay an ISP for a connection to all of the Internet and I decide that I want to watch Netflix or I want to play a video game or any of the other stuff that those a-holes have been throttling and/or blocking then I am not getting what I paid for. They owe me a product for the money I paid but they are keeping it. That's theft!
Talk about vision! They are teaching their children to make things with 3d printers. AND they are converting their air into something that can be fed into the extruders instead of filament. Just plug it in and start printing.
It's going to be like everyone having a Star Trek replicator!