Sorry, I should have RTFA first. It wasn't a yes/no question it was a three parter. You would answer "humans evolved, God guided the process" Which would put you in the 32% group as of the latest poll. Interestingly, it is this group which seems to have lost the most people at the same time as the young earth group gained.
Then you don't believe humans were created IN THEIR PRESENT FORM WITHIN THE LAST 10,000 YEARS. You only believe the very first part, humans were created and therefore SHOULD answer no on the poll.
Because everyone else that anonymous has attacked has been forced to clean up their act or get out of public life altogether right? Don't get me wrong, I am grateful to Anonymous for the amusement they provide every time they stick it to someone that deserves it but I can't think of anything they have actually solved yet.
My first thought, like many of the comments here was that this would be completely unenforceable. Then I realized, it doesn't have to be enforced across the board. Sure, there is no way a law can completely eliminate anonymous speech on the internet, especially a law that is only applied to one state. What this does do however is give anyone who is against free, anonymous speech a new tool for removing posts they don't like from the internet. If the site is hosted in NewYork this is a 'get it off the net free' card for anybody who wants to remove something.
Typical kid. Thinks everybody should want to use the same interface he does because it is 'newer' and that anybody trying to keep something that they like is an oldtimer fanboy.
Naturally if 50 states scores are tallied then one or more will by tied for first and one or more will be tied for last place. It had to be somebody! Why is this news outside of California?
Maybe the actual numbers are news? 22% seems awfully low as does 31%. Then again, without actually seeing the contents of the test they are meaningless. I remember one class I took in college where 22% was in the B range after the curve was applied because it was just plain hard! Granted, when I was in school none of the standardized tests seemed difficult at all but 20 years later what do I know about the tests that 8th graders just took? My gut feeling is that these numbers show an appalling lack of knowledge but nothing I see proves it.
"And very difficult to keep viable from a business perspective." Umm -- it's called AMATEUR radio for a reason! Still manufacturers such as Yaseu, Kenwood, ICom, Wouxon, TenTec and probably others seem to do all right, as do several large vendors and numerous small ones.
"Clinging to nostalgia for nostalgia's sake" -- What's wrong with that? Not every ham is in to old school gear, hams also get into things like SDR, digital audio/data, etc... but for those that get nostalgic for the glowing warm tubes of an old boat anchor what's wrong with them indulging themselves?
"Kind of fun too" -- What more point do you need?
"You want to learn how things work? You fire up GNUradio and hack a flow-graph" -- Ok, that's one viable method to learn something and certainly not something I would discourage anyone from doing. Real devices still do use components though. I've never seen a consumer SDR with the exception of some ham equipment though so I'm not sure how much it will teach you about the devices around you. GNURadio was started by a ham btw
"Transceivers can be bought by the hand-full now - they are the 'new' discreet components." -- Really? Where? Do tell! I suppose there are some low speed single channel data only transcievers that are pretty affordable. Then there are more advanced things like Xbee which I certainly wouldn't want to buy by the handful out of my pocket! If you know a source of transcievers that are capable of voice and data and video and all the other things hams do and a normal person could afford to buy 'by the handful' then please share!!
"...there are very real reasons why the majority of people no longer..." -- The majority of people don't really do much of anything! Especially anything one would discuss on Slashdot!
"Not at all surprising that a business built on an dead model didn't survive." -- Ahh... I agree with you there! But what was Heath's business model? Sell expensive courses in a day when MIT, Stanford and others are giving them away for free while vaguely promising to eventually sell a small number of kits?
At the time Heathkit stopped producing kits their kit business WAS profitable. Their executives just didn't want to be in that business anymore. They wanted to solely be an education company. At the time there were all sorts of articles stating this.
Here's a question, once they dropped the kits who was their customer?
Schools? Certainly not. Schools are busy teaching a state defined curriculum that does little more for teaching kids about technology and building things than would a lifetime spent finger painting. They weren't going to buy anything from Heath. If they thought schools were going to keep them in business then I would like to know what they were smoking!
Universities? Maybe... I don't know, any EEs out there want to speak up and say they did or did not use Heath materials in their classes? I'm guessing not As a CS major I never had a class with any sort of company provided program. It was just textbooks, mostly only read in certain parts and out of order following the professor's personal syllabus. Is EE different? Do universities use Heath for EE? Come on EE majors, respond and let me know!
Were they going to make a living selling courses to individuals? I haven't checked their offerings in quite a while and their site currently says to call for prices. When I did check some years ago I could have just about obtained a degree from an accredited university for the price. Why would anyone buy a course from Heath?
Was this the wrong time to get back into the kit business? I really doubt it. With the maker movement of today? Sure, most of society is very non-technical, non-geek preferring a night of brain-dead reality tv over building something but has it ever been any different? If you got in your Delorian and went back to the 50s when Heathkit was in it's prime do you really think you could pick any average person off the street, question them and expect to hear about the great new kit they assembled last Friday night? Yeah, right! But would you find anything like today's maker movement? People so into making that they commit to creating organizations with overhead like hackerspaces? I think this is a better time for a kit business then there has been in a long time, maybe ever. Heath came back with too little too late. Did they even really intend to succeed?
The mystery to me is what has kept Heath around all this time since they first discontinued kits? My suspicion is that nothing has. I don't think they were trying, I think they were just disassembling the company very very slowly so the money they made years ago could go into somebody's pocket without getting them in trouble. That's my theory anyway.
I don't really know who the Intel device is marketed too so I can only really continue with the Raspberry Pi comparison. The Raspberry Pi is marketed as an inexpensive computer with some embedded controller like capabilities (ie all the GPIOs) for getting kids into programming. It's not about making a really smart kegerator and the like. So, yes, most of the kids probably have a tv in their living room that has HDMI. So what? Is that where the kid is going to spend his/her time? I'm sure the parents will just love that! They didn't have anything else to use that tv for did they?
OTOH VGA unused VGA devices are lying around EVERYWHERE
How can it be 'most' of them? It must be either all, 1/2 or none! Unless fractional people get opinions. You can't get a 'most' of a group of only 2 people!
Turn the lights off for security? I'd rather have it turn them on for that. Maybe certain rooms at certain times of the day so it looks actually lived in. Oh.. and randomize the times just a bit so that it follows a pattern more or less but not so exact that it is obviously fake. Always have at least one light on. Let the neighbors think that both a morning person and a night owl live in the house, there are no unoccupied shifts!
Many microwaves have had scheduling features since the 80s. (it turns on at a certain time or after a certain delay) Anybody here ever actually use that?
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Sorry, I should have RTFA first. It wasn't a yes/no question it was a three parter. You would answer "humans evolved, God guided the process" Which would put you in the 32% group as of the latest poll. Interestingly, it is this group which seems to have lost the most people at the same time as the young earth group gained.
Then you don't believe humans were created IN THEIR PRESENT FORM WITHIN THE LAST 10,000 YEARS. You only believe the very first part, humans were created and therefore SHOULD answer no on the poll.
The US vs the UN - No matter who wins.... We lose!
Orange soda? I wasn't aware of that stereotype. Is it one?
No, they are not all alike.
Because everyone else that anonymous has attacked has been forced to clean up their act or get out of public life altogether right? Don't get me wrong, I am grateful to Anonymous for the amusement they provide every time they stick it to someone that deserves it but I can't think of anything they have actually solved yet.
My first thought, like many of the comments here was that this would be completely unenforceable. Then I realized, it doesn't have to be enforced across the board. Sure, there is no way a law can completely eliminate anonymous speech on the internet, especially a law that is only applied to one state. What this does do however is give anyone who is against free, anonymous speech a new tool for removing posts they don't like from the internet. If the site is hosted in NewYork this is a 'get it off the net free' card for anybody who wants to remove something.
I use emacs because I like it. You can use whatever you want imho. LOL, referencing a Slashdot number! What a dork!
Typical kid. Thinks everybody should want to use the same interface he does because it is 'newer' and that anybody trying to keep something that they like is an oldtimer fanboy.
Couldn't write a summary about something Emacs without complaining it's not Vim? Really?
Between golf outings?
How many camps does the US have filled with prisoners who don't get trials?
I was with you until the part about the rest of the world
Without the Apple of old how would Jobs have had the money to start NeXT?
Brings a whole new meeting to space junk
Naturally if 50 states scores are tallied then one or more will by tied for first and one or more will be tied for last place. It had to be somebody! Why is this news outside of California?
Maybe the actual numbers are news? 22% seems awfully low as does 31%. Then again, without actually seeing the contents of the test they are meaningless. I remember one class I took in college where 22% was in the B range after the curve was applied because it was just plain hard! Granted, when I was in school none of the standardized tests seemed difficult at all but 20 years later what do I know about the tests that 8th graders just took? My gut feeling is that these numbers show an appalling lack of knowledge but nothing I see proves it.
Oh.. and the USR is still way too expensive for GNURadio to be a 'mainstream' hobbyist tool.
"And very difficult to keep viable from a business perspective." Umm -- it's called AMATEUR radio for a reason! Still manufacturers such as Yaseu, Kenwood, ICom, Wouxon, TenTec and probably others seem to do all right, as do several large vendors and numerous small ones.
"Clinging to nostalgia for nostalgia's sake" -- What's wrong with that? Not every ham is in to old school gear, hams also get into things like SDR, digital audio/data, etc... but for those that get nostalgic for the glowing warm tubes of an old boat anchor what's wrong with them indulging themselves?
"Kind of fun too" -- What more point do you need?
"You want to learn how things work? You fire up GNUradio and hack a flow-graph" -- Ok, that's one viable method to learn something and certainly not something I would discourage anyone from doing. Real devices still do use components though. I've never seen a consumer SDR with the exception of some ham equipment though so I'm not sure how much it will teach you about the devices around you. GNURadio was started by a ham btw
"Transceivers can be bought by the hand-full now - they are the 'new' discreet components." -- Really? Where? Do tell! I suppose there are some low speed single channel data only transcievers that are pretty affordable. Then there are more advanced things like Xbee which I certainly wouldn't want to buy by the handful out of my pocket! If you know a source of transcievers that are capable of voice and data and video and all the other things hams do and a normal person could afford to buy 'by the handful' then please share!!
"...there are very real reasons why the majority of people no longer..." -- The majority of people don't really do much of anything! Especially anything one would discuss on Slashdot!
"Not at all surprising that a business built on an dead model didn't survive." -- Ahh... I agree with you there! But what was Heath's business model? Sell expensive courses in a day when MIT, Stanford and others are giving them away for free while vaguely promising to eventually sell a small number of kits?
At the time Heathkit stopped producing kits their kit business WAS profitable. Their executives just didn't want to be in that business anymore. They wanted to solely be an education company. At the time there were all sorts of articles stating this.
Here's a question, once they dropped the kits who was their customer?
Schools? Certainly not. Schools are busy teaching a state defined curriculum that does little more for teaching kids about technology and building things than would a lifetime spent finger painting. They weren't going to buy anything from Heath. If they thought schools were going to keep them in business then I would like to know what they were smoking!
Universities? Maybe... I don't know, any EEs out there want to speak up and say they did or did not use Heath materials in their classes? I'm guessing not As a CS major I never had a class with any sort of company provided program. It was just textbooks, mostly only read in certain parts and out of order following the professor's personal syllabus. Is EE different? Do universities use Heath for EE? Come on EE majors, respond and let me know!
Were they going to make a living selling courses to individuals? I haven't checked their offerings in quite a while and their site currently says to call for prices. When I did check some years ago I could have just about obtained a degree from an accredited university for the price. Why would anyone buy a course from Heath?
Was this the wrong time to get back into the kit business? I really doubt it. With the maker movement of today? Sure, most of society is very non-technical, non-geek preferring a night of brain-dead reality tv over building something but has it ever been any different? If you got in your Delorian and went back to the 50s when Heathkit was in it's prime do you really think you could pick any average person off the street, question them and expect to hear about the great new kit they assembled last Friday night? Yeah, right! But would you find anything like today's maker movement? People so into making that they commit to creating organizations with overhead like hackerspaces? I think this is a better time for a kit business then there has been in a long time, maybe ever. Heath came back with too little too late. Did they even really intend to succeed?
The mystery to me is what has kept Heath around all this time since they first discontinued kits? My suspicion is that nothing has. I don't think they were trying, I think they were just disassembling the company very very slowly so the money they made years ago could go into somebody's pocket without getting them in trouble. That's my theory anyway.
Ah, that's not as bad then. I caught that the screw was in the battery compartment and I guess just fixated on that detail
I don't really know who the Intel device is marketed too so I can only really continue with the Raspberry Pi comparison. The Raspberry Pi is marketed as an inexpensive computer with some embedded controller like capabilities (ie all the GPIOs) for getting kids into programming. It's not about making a really smart kegerator and the like. So, yes, most of the kids probably have a tv in their living room that has HDMI. So what? Is that where the kid is going to spend his/her time? I'm sure the parents will just love that! They didn't have anything else to use that tv for did they?
OTOH VGA unused VGA devices are lying around EVERYWHERE
It takes a certified tech to change a battery without starting a fire??? Yeah, no snarky comments deserved there...
How can it be 'most' of them? It must be either all, 1/2 or none! Unless fractional people get opinions. You can't get a 'most' of a group of only 2 people!
Turn the lights off for security? I'd rather have it turn them on for that. Maybe certain rooms at certain times of the day so it looks actually lived in. Oh.. and randomize the times just a bit so that it follows a pattern more or less but not so exact that it is obviously fake. Always have at least one light on. Let the neighbors think that both a morning person and a night owl live in the house, there are no unoccupied shifts!
Many microwaves have had scheduling features since the 80s. (it turns on at a certain time or after a certain delay) Anybody here ever actually use that?