It will also be dangerous.
Fission power is what fuels the hydrogen bomb, and we are proposing that we put fission reactors in everyone's
home?
Actually, it's fusion, the uniting of two or more atoms of hydrogen isotope into helium, that powers the hydrogen bomb. Fission, the splitting of the atom into smaller atoms, is what powers all those nuclear bombs that are sitting in Russian, Chinese, American, etc. silos, waiting to destroy us all.
Just a minor point, but I thought it might help to clarify just what we should all be skeptical of here.
Also, there are social implications - unemployment and the death of an industry. Do we really want to cause the
death of an industry for the sake of cheap electricity?
Why not? The biggest problem with the modern electrical system, imo, is transmission and distribution. Fuck it; if we can produce our own power, let the power companies wither on the vine. In many cases, they richly deserve it.
We must not embrace new technologies solely
because they are new, but rather because they improve our quality of life. I don't think fission reactors fulfil that
requirement.
I agree, for different reasons (such as: what do we do with the nuclear waste???). Although I adamantly believe that nuclear power is nowhere nearly as evil as the present practise of burning fossil fuels to produce electricity.
Just out of curiosity, what would "we" do about it if "we" decide we don't want IBM supporting Linux? Seriously.
We'd pretty much have to bend over and take it. Linux and most of the software surrounding it are under the GPL; that gives anyone, including IBM, the right to modify that software for whatever purposes they like, and to distribute the modified software so long as they release the source code.
So, we'd have no legal options. We could have social options, such as being extremely unco-operative with IBM. Frankly, I don't see most Linux geeks doing this; I'm personally pleased as could be with IBM's involvement.
That depends on which version of the Python language you use. Python 1.5.2 is fully GPL-compatible; Python 2.1 isn't. If you're worried about GPL compatibility, stick with 1.5.2.
Very sorry to hear about your accident. I'm hoping everything turned out within episilon of OK in the aftermath.
I think there is a general assumption that by "cybernetic (body part)," we mean a body part that is (1) artificial and (2) computer assisted. For example, unless your shoulder had an embedded processor to handle certain functions, it wouldn't qualify in many people's books as cybernetic. Not that it's not cool.:)
I think computer assistance could do wonders for artificial limbs...they wouldn't even necessarily have to *control* the limb, they'd just have to *adjust* the limb for different circumstances (e.g., rock climbing, bicycling,
using an automobile). This could open up a whole new world of accessibility for those with certain disabilities.
Another idea, relatively simpler: computer assisted glasses and hearing aids.
The Free Software foundation mentions the license that comes with Python versions 1.6b1 and later
as being incompatible with the GPL. In particular they have this to say about it:
This is a free software license but is incompatible with the GNU GPL. The primary incompatibility is that this Python license is governed by the laws of the "State" of
Virginia in the USA, and the GPL does not permit this.
So, my question is a two parter:
What was your motivation for saying that Python's license is governed by the laws of Virginia?
Is it possible that a future Python license could be GPL-compatible again?
This is consenting men and women subjecting themselves to being rated by sex appeal.
This is not rape and murder of women.
Even the slipperiest of slippery slope arguments doesn't connect the two as a matter of fact.
Maybe it's just me being weird, but the older
I get, the less stuffy I become about things like
pornography, strip clubs and the like. Maybe it's a fundamental realization on my part that most people should just mind their own fricking business.
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that data visualization is a matter of wanting things to be too easy. The fact is that a picture does a great deal more to help us build a model of how a pheonomenon works than a whole shitload of numbers in a table.
Human beings are pattern recognizers. Our hardware is wired best to look/listen/feel/taste
and match that stimulus to some other previously established pattern. We put a lot of effort into data visualization because it is easier for us to look at a picture and create a pattern than to look at raw data and create a pattern. Even the most difficult mathematical phenomena (noncommutative groups) make better sense when you give someone a concrete or highly visual example (rubik's cube, arrangements of books, etc.)
Sometimes the most brilliant of mathematical work comes from building a simple model that greatly simplifies the work (think Feynmann diagrams).
This can even apply to theology: when God intersects in our lives, we try to create a pattern to explain what God is, even though God is unfathomable. And thus we end up with many people who end up believing in Jesus or Allah or Nirvana, and then some people who end up believing in the UFO behind the comet. This also uncovers the problem with pattern matching: sometimes the patterns we find are dead fucking wrong (Aristotle). Fortunately we also have scientific method and reason to weed out self-contradicting, nonsensical, or otherwise false patterns.
Sprint is one of the cheapest providers out there! Sorry dude, but cell phones don't come for free. With Sprint, you can get 2000 minutes a month for
$75. Last I checked, that's $0.0375 a minute, much less than long distance, or even local calling charges. The $10/month lets you use any of your
minutes to use the wireless web, or any of their proprietary services. That's actually pretty damn cheap.
OK, how many people here actually talk on their
phone for 2000 minutes a month? An hour a day every day isn't typical usage for voice, and that
barely scrapes by at 1860 minutes (max).
On the other hand, for Internet access, 2000
minutes (33 hours 20 minutes) is about two weeks
worth of 'net usage for me (assuming I'm running
IRC:)). If I keep my 'net usage to a minimum and
have high speed access, 2000 minutes per month
might actually meet my needs for wireless Internet, both for business and recreation. Not bad for $75.
If we get a small enough meteor, we can just
take out Hollywood and that would be the end of
all three.
Of course, with our luck, MS will bribe all
the right people and send the meteor to San Jose. Good bye Sun, most of Cisco and Intel, Linus Torvalds, and a whole bunch of other threats to
Microsoft's power.
f you were thinking about going out and just getting Tribes 2 for Linux, you may want to think again. I've been on the beta cycle for it, and have lost
countless hours doing nothing more than sitting in front of my computer playing it. Infact, I would say that unless you're absolutely sure you won't mind
being seriously addicted to a game for the next dozen months, you should think again.
A year from now, the Wall Street Journal will be writing about the severe slowdown of Linux and other open source projects caused by Tribes 2. Is that what you're telling us?
Will I buy it? Hell fucking yeah. I've been dying for a copy of Alpha Centauri for Linux for ages. Now I can finally get rid of Windows 95.
Between Alpha Centauri and Maelstrom, I'm going
bonkers on games. All I need now is to find the
old text-based Infocom games for Linux and I'm
set for life.
Actually, a copy of Ultima 4 for Linux wouldn't
hurt either.
But that might be stretching it.
Unfortunately, this is completely the wrong measure of how long this operation takes. What you have measured is the length of time it takes in Office
2000 once you know how to do it.
The real problem is if you don't know the magic sequence of operations and you spend time looking in the tools section (is it Customize or Options?)
then clicking on various confusing tabs and other options looking for the bit that turns off that damned paperclip.
This isn't a bad cricitism of the goddamn paperclip. Another problem is that the goddamn paperclip by default starts up whenever you do something to a document/spreadsheet/email, and is set up by default to start when you first open Outlook/Word/Excel/Access/etc.
Microsoft would have saved a lot of people a lot of frustration (and themselves a lot of flack for poor design) if they had put a button on the paperclip saying "GO AWAY" and another button that says "GO AWAY UNTIL I TELL YOU TO COME BACK."
Microsoft's problem isn't that they cater to the lowest common denominator, but that they're not willing to also accomodate people who want something more than the lowest common denominator.
And this is the one that really annoyed me: when you clocked on it to go away, it would wait a few seconds, then wink, then eventually disappear. If it
was a person I would have punched its lights out.
Yes, that goddamn paperclip is annoying on slow systems (anything short of 400MHz and 128MB of RAM).
Name the legislator. Let's vote the idiot out of office.
I'm serious; I have no more patience for technoretards who legislate about technology without clue one about what they're doing. We need to put our votes and our dollars behind people who know more about technology than how to play solitaire.
After the CDA passed, I had a chance to thank Paul Simon (D-IL) for his vote against CDA. He didn't have a clue what I was talking about. He voted against the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 because he thought it would stiffle competition. He had no idea that title V of that Act contained broad, odious and (it turns out) unconstitutional censorship provisions. And this guy was one of the most respected legislators in the US Senate.
These are the people who are making up the rules we have to play by. Enough is enough; we have to punish legislators for their cluelessness by supporting their opponents and voting them out of office. Maybe then some of them will at least hire a compitent staffer to advise them on technology matters.
I assume the Mastercard lawyers know about parody being protected. If not, maybe education in law is lacking something these days.
Mastercard's lawyers also know that sending off a bark letter when their client is offended is a slam dunk. It's cheap (for them), the hours are billable, and it's 100% within the law. Best case scenario, it could lead Mastercard to take rhf to court. Which would be lots and lots of billable hours.
Oh yeah...rights? Well, they're nice and all, but there's money to be made.
Most lesbians (go ahead and hang around them) find the sexual behavior of gay men
to be disgusting, and lesbians could hardly be called homophobes, could they?
You'd be surprised. Many lesbians find men in general disgusting, regardless of their sexual habits. Gay and lesbian cultures are very different from one another; the two groups didn't have much to do with each other until recently.
They only really get along because there's a group of right-wing assholes who can't mind their own goddamn business. These assholes want to throw people in jail for being homosexual, or sometimes subject them to psychological torture in order to "heterosexualize" them. Then there's the NARTH camp, which promises hysterical parents that they can "straighten out" their children through reparative therapy; except that their claims have only anecdotal support.
Eventually the homophobes are just going to have to deal with the fact that some people are just plain homosexual, much like some people are just plain left-handed. Bush and Cheney seem just fine with it, which puts them
light years ahead of most so-called "social conservatives."
The Kudzu epidemic is a deliberate act of biological warfare against the people of the United States.
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Dude, you're a laugh riot! Deliberate environmental genocide...what a joke!
Tell you what, let's make a compromise. We on the left will call off our Kudzu and our nazi skinheads, if you call off the Army of God and the developers ripping whole square miles of trees out of the ground in North Georgia. We got a deal?
Simple common sense. Imagine you're running a business. Imagine that one of your employees sets your office on fire. Would you consider that
person a good and loyal servant, or a dangerous nut? Would you give him a raise, or fire him? You'd fire him. You'd get rid of the dumb bastard,
because even if he believes that he is right, he is still a dangerous lunatic. So it is with the liberals: They are devoted to destroying the foundations of
our nation. We have a right to act in self-defense, whether you like it or not.
Strange, I feel exactly the same way about many elements of the extreme right.
Then again, I also know better than to not respect other people's rights.
Maybe that's the real difference between left and right.
Anyways, you just provided me with a one paragraph argument that I can show to my fellows on the ultra-left to convince them that RKBA is a valuable cause. Thanks a ton.
The problem here is that you and the rest of the liberals do not acknowledge your Creator.
Problem? What problem? I acknowledge the Creator every day. I just don't see the Creator the same way that you do. But that's part of life in a pluralistic society, isn't it?
By rejecting the holy and spiritual basis for our Constitution, you reject the Constitution as well.
An interesting theory, except that I haven't seen any legal precendents to the effect that one's Constitutional rights are in any way dependent upon religion. Additionally, since these rights are endowed by our Creator, who are you to take them away?
By
all reasonable standards, you are not a patriot, nor even a citizen
That's a pretty idiotic statement on your part. For all you know, the guy was a US Marine. (Yes, there are liberals who have served in the military. My dad was one. I didn't, but I put in a stint with the US Army Corps of Engineers, doing urban planning for well below market salary for my skill set). You also don't know whether he votes in every election (I've voted in every election but one, and that one was because my absentee ballot didn't get sent to me, bastards), or whether he keeps and bears arms (which is one "reasonable" definition of a citizen).
Tying patriotism and citizenship to Christianity is a sign of likely mental retardation, in my view.
We have earned our rights. The liberals have earned nothing.
Sure, which is why we have civil rights, women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights, the right to engage in political action free from police harrassment, a 40 hour work week, social security, FDIC, and most of our national parks. Because of the right wing
To extend the rights of free men to liberals is to institute a moral welfare state. I, for one, refuse to do so..
What is this, "Troll Slashdot" day on FreeRepublic? The right would gladly shut people like me up in a heartbeat, because I don't agree with their cultural agenda. Hell, me and about half the pro-choice activists I know have received death threats from the "freedom-loving" right. Many of them want to make it a capital crime to support abortion rights. So much for defending freedom.
The only right that the Right has stood up for, really, in the last 20 years, is the right to keep and bear arms. For this much, I am grateful. But I can't help but feel that many persons on the extreme right would gladly take *that* right away from me, too, because I don't subscribe to their side of the culture wars.
This is going to sound like I'm just a wxFanboy, but I really recommend wxPython for this project. wxWindows can act as a wrapper for GTK (wxGTK) and should give you most of the widget set you need. I agree though, Tkinter pretty much sucks for GUI:)
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Actually, it's fusion, the uniting of two or more atoms of hydrogen isotope into helium, that powers the hydrogen bomb. Fission, the splitting of the atom into smaller atoms, is what powers all those nuclear bombs that are sitting in Russian, Chinese, American, etc. silos, waiting to destroy us all.
Just a minor point, but I thought it might help to clarify just what we should all be skeptical of here.
Why not? The biggest problem with the modern electrical system, imo, is transmission and distribution. Fuck it; if we can produce our own power, let the power companies wither on the vine. In many cases, they richly deserve it.
I agree, for different reasons (such as: what do we do with the nuclear waste???). Although I adamantly believe that nuclear power is nowhere nearly as evil as the present practise of burning fossil fuels to produce electricity.
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We'd pretty much have to bend over and take it. Linux and most of the software surrounding it are under the GPL; that gives anyone, including IBM, the right to modify that software for whatever purposes they like, and to distribute the modified software so long as they release the source code.
So, we'd have no legal options. We could have social options, such as being extremely unco-operative with IBM. Frankly, I don't see most Linux geeks doing this; I'm personally pleased as could be with IBM's involvement.
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That depends on which version of the Python language you use. Python 1.5.2 is fully GPL-compatible; Python 2.1 isn't. If you're worried about GPL compatibility, stick with 1.5.2.
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Someone obviously read Upski's book..
Bomb the suburbs!
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Very sorry to hear about your accident. I'm hoping everything turned out within episilon of OK in the aftermath.
I think there is a general assumption that by "cybernetic (body part)," we mean a body part that is (1) artificial and (2) computer assisted. For example, unless your shoulder had an embedded processor to handle certain functions, it wouldn't qualify in many people's books as cybernetic. Not that it's not cool. :)
I think computer assistance could do wonders for artificial limbs...they wouldn't even necessarily have to *control* the limb, they'd just have to *adjust* the limb for different circumstances (e.g., rock climbing, bicycling, using an automobile). This could open up a whole new world of accessibility for those with certain disabilities.
Another idea, relatively simpler: computer assisted glasses and hearing aids.
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So, my question is a two parter:
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OK, so I'm falling for a troll again.
Let us put this in perspective.
This is consenting men and women subjecting themselves to being rated by sex appeal.
This is not rape and murder of women.
Even the slipperiest of slippery slope arguments doesn't connect the two as a matter of fact.
Maybe it's just me being weird, but the older I get, the less stuffy I become about things like pornography, strip clubs and the like. Maybe it's a fundamental realization on my part that most people should just mind their own fricking business.
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Human beings are pattern recognizers. Our hardware is wired best to look/listen/feel/taste and match that stimulus to some other previously established pattern. We put a lot of effort into data visualization because it is easier for us to look at a picture and create a pattern than to look at raw data and create a pattern. Even the most difficult mathematical phenomena (noncommutative groups) make better sense when you give someone a concrete or highly visual example (rubik's cube, arrangements of books, etc.)
Sometimes the most brilliant of mathematical work comes from building a simple model that greatly simplifies the work (think Feynmann diagrams).
This can even apply to theology: when God intersects in our lives, we try to create a pattern to explain what God is, even though God is unfathomable. And thus we end up with many people who end up believing in Jesus or Allah or Nirvana, and then some people who end up believing in the UFO behind the comet. This also uncovers the problem with pattern matching: sometimes the patterns we find are dead fucking wrong (Aristotle). Fortunately we also have scientific method and reason to weed out self-contradicting, nonsensical, or otherwise false patterns.
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OK, how many people here actually talk on their phone for 2000 minutes a month? An hour a day every day isn't typical usage for voice, and that barely scrapes by at 1860 minutes (max).
On the other hand, for Internet access, 2000 minutes (33 hours 20 minutes) is about two weeks worth of 'net usage for me (assuming I'm running IRC :)). If I keep my 'net usage to a minimum and
have high speed access, 2000 minutes per month
might actually meet my needs for wireless Internet, both for business and recreation. Not bad for $75.
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Of course, with our luck, MS will bribe all the right people and send the meteor to San Jose. Good bye Sun, most of Cisco and Intel, Linus Torvalds, and a whole bunch of other threats to Microsoft's power.
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A year from now, the Wall Street Journal will be writing about the severe slowdown of Linux and other open source projects caused by Tribes 2. Is that what you're telling us?
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Will I buy it? Hell fucking yeah. I've been dying for a copy of Alpha Centauri for Linux for ages. Now I can finally get rid of Windows 95. Between Alpha Centauri and Maelstrom, I'm going bonkers on games. All I need now is to find the old text-based Infocom games for Linux and I'm set for life. Actually, a copy of Ultima 4 for Linux wouldn't hurt either. But that might be stretching it.
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This isn't a bad cricitism of the goddamn paperclip. Another problem is that the goddamn paperclip by default starts up whenever you do something to a document/spreadsheet/email, and is set up by default to start when you first open Outlook/Word/Excel/Access/etc.
Microsoft would have saved a lot of people a lot of frustration (and themselves a lot of flack for poor design) if they had put a button on the paperclip saying "GO AWAY" and another button that says "GO AWAY UNTIL I TELL YOU TO COME BACK."
Microsoft's problem isn't that they cater to the lowest common denominator, but that they're not willing to also accomodate people who want something more than the lowest common denominator.
Fortunately for us, there's GNU/Linux.
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Yes, that goddamn paperclip is annoying on slow systems (anything short of 400MHz and 128MB of RAM).
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I'm serious; I have no more patience for technoretards who legislate about technology without clue one about what they're doing. We need to put our votes and our dollars behind people who know more about technology than how to play solitaire.
After the CDA passed, I had a chance to thank Paul Simon (D-IL) for his vote against CDA. He didn't have a clue what I was talking about. He voted against the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 because he thought it would stiffle competition. He had no idea that title V of that Act contained broad, odious and (it turns out) unconstitutional censorship provisions. And this guy was one of the most respected legislators in the US Senate.
These are the people who are making up the rules we have to play by. Enough is enough; we have to punish legislators for their cluelessness by supporting their opponents and voting them out of office. Maybe then some of them will at least hire a compitent staffer to advise them on technology matters.
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In fact, the GOP didn't go really hardcore right wing until the Great Depression.
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It takes about 30 seconds in Office 2000:
Now it's gone indefinitely.
To bring the paperclip back, click on Help->Show Office Assistant
Hope this helps
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Mastercard's lawyers also know that sending off a bark letter when their client is offended is a slam dunk. It's cheap (for them), the hours are billable, and it's 100% within the law. Best case scenario, it could lead Mastercard to take rhf to court. Which would be lots and lots of billable hours.
Oh yeah...rights? Well, they're nice and all, but there's money to be made.
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You'd be surprised. Many lesbians find men in general disgusting, regardless of their sexual habits. Gay and lesbian cultures are very different from one another; the two groups didn't have much to do with each other until recently.
They only really get along because there's a group of right-wing assholes who can't mind their own goddamn business. These assholes want to throw people in jail for being homosexual, or sometimes subject them to psychological torture in order to "heterosexualize" them. Then there's the NARTH camp, which promises hysterical parents that they can "straighten out" their children through reparative therapy; except that their claims have only anecdotal support.
Eventually the homophobes are just going to have to deal with the fact that some people are just plain homosexual, much like some people are just plain left-handed. Bush and Cheney seem just fine with it, which puts them light years ahead of most so-called "social conservatives."
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Dude, you're a laugh riot! Deliberate environmental genocide...what a joke!
Tell you what, let's make a compromise. We on the left will call off our Kudzu and our nazi skinheads, if you call off the Army of God and the developers ripping whole square miles of trees out of the ground in North Georgia. We got a deal?
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Strange, I feel exactly the same way about many elements of the extreme right.
Then again, I also know better than to not respect other people's rights.
Maybe that's the real difference between left and right.
Anyways, you just provided me with a one paragraph argument that I can show to my fellows on the ultra-left to convince them that RKBA is a valuable cause. Thanks a ton.
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Problem? What problem? I acknowledge the Creator every day. I just don't see the Creator the same way that you do. But that's part of life in a pluralistic society, isn't it?
An interesting theory, except that I haven't seen any legal precendents to the effect that one's Constitutional rights are in any way dependent upon religion. Additionally, since these rights are endowed by our Creator, who are you to take them away?
That's a pretty idiotic statement on your part. For all you know, the guy was a US Marine. (Yes, there are liberals who have served in the military. My dad was one. I didn't, but I put in a stint with the US Army Corps of Engineers, doing urban planning for well below market salary for my skill set). You also don't know whether he votes in every election (I've voted in every election but one, and that one was because my absentee ballot didn't get sent to me, bastards), or whether he keeps and bears arms (which is one "reasonable" definition of a citizen).
Tying patriotism and citizenship to Christianity is a sign of likely mental retardation, in my view.
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Sure, which is why we have civil rights, women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights, the right to engage in political action free from police harrassment, a 40 hour work week, social security, FDIC, and most of our national parks. Because of the right wing
What is this, "Troll Slashdot" day on FreeRepublic? The right would gladly shut people like me up in a heartbeat, because I don't agree with their cultural agenda. Hell, me and about half the pro-choice activists I know have received death threats from the "freedom-loving" right. Many of them want to make it a capital crime to support abortion rights. So much for defending freedom.
The only right that the Right has stood up for, really, in the last 20 years, is the right to keep and bear arms. For this much, I am grateful. But I can't help but feel that many persons on the extreme right would gladly take *that* right away from me, too, because I don't subscribe to their side of the culture wars.
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Hope this helps.
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