Marching around in masks and yelling nonsensical internet memes at people who have no idea what you are talking about does not a protest make.
If you are going to try and send a message, at least make it vaguely coherent... right?
I had people ask me to go along, but quite frankly I am not sure what they are "protesting". If people want to spend their hard earned money joining Scientology, let them. If people want to lose a day standing around in a dumb mask chanting about a looooong cat, or whatever this weeks meme is, so be it.
The tax exemption status is a little annoying, but why not hit all religious institutions on that point?
I tend to agree with your assesment. The IRC channel is terrible. I had an issue with the libstdc++ libs being all screwed up when I upgraded to gutsy (it kept installing the 32 bit one on my 64 bit system) and the forum help was pathetic. The upgrade broke nearly everything on my system this time around, and it took me a couple of days to fix it. The last time I did an upgrade I ended up reinstalling because all the deps were completely screwed. Once again, no help on the forums other than reinstall, or other non starter answers. I consider myself a veteran of Linux as I have been using it for over 8 years, but some suggestions in the forums make we want to change distro to a group with more competent forum posters.
(PS Replied to your ubuntu query as ginge... good luck!)
I had a go at doing this a while ago using AR toolkit plus which uses AR Tags as a reference point to send the mouse data to the computer. I never really did get the camera filter working so I abandoned it. I did ask Daniel Wagner (the lead guy on artoolkit plus) for the DSVideoCE component source, which is a CE directshow filter, but he replied that it wasn't possible to release it. CE is a pain in the backside so I gave up. It worked pretty well from a video file I pre-recorded, so I reckon it would have worked well.
Pretty much everything about artoolkit plus worked out of the box, and the bluetooth code to emulate a mouse was pretty simple. if someone wants to give something like this article a bash, I would start with something like this.
I also get this on my Compaq presario laptop from the front aluminium plates. I currently have duct tape over them to stop the shocks. My previous laptop, a Toshiba satellite has screws on the sides that shocked too.
I'm not Mac inclined, but I did notice ext2fsx http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ which is the Mac driver for ext2/3. Although at first look it doesn't say anything about ext3, the filesystems are compatible. Ext3 is just the journalling on top of ext2 IIRC. I assume Mac does FAT filesystems, so just pop the driver in that partition on your external drive.
Agreed about the NAS solution. What I now do is have a drive with 2 partitions. The first is a 100MB FAT partition with some windows tools (firefox vlc etc), and the rest of the drive as an ext2 partition. The FAT partition contains the windows driver for ext2/3 so I can use the drive nearly anywhere.
In that case I don't know where my complaint went. I suspect that their complaints stats are plain wrong or their customer service department is just >/dev/null.
Two complaints my arse.
yeah, you can get the listing directly from the stream. A friend of mine wrote a whole load of scripts to parse the data out into an xml based TV guide. It didn't take him long to do so I guess it s pretty trivial.
I know the feeling. Sued twice and counting. You try and do something to make a few £ to supplement your income, and before you know it you have a slick lawyer knocking on the door. Someone should start a club for inventors that have had their fingers burned.
This is the most insane flame war I have seen in a while.
Don't like that it doesn't have a replaceable battery? Don't buy it.
If you are going to drop hundreds of dollars on phone, you damn well make sure you know what it is about. I wouldn't dream of buying a product that I had not researched first. I like to know what I am getting myself in to, and on the whole I am better off for it.
I have a Windows Mobile PDA phone that has two batteries. 1 is replaceable, the other? soldered in. If I lose the internal soldered battery, the device will not power on. Did anyone bring a lawsuit then? Does anyone care? No. More to the point do I care? No. These things last for so long I will be getting the new one before the old one is dead. If not, I can pay for a repair.
If the iPhone does not do what you want, get a different phone. Give it a year, and there will be 1000 clones on the market. Who knows, maybe one will be better than the iPhone!
Dave, you were spot on. Thank you.
"buyer beware", or "Caveat emptor" springs to mind.
So how would this have played out if the intern had done as he was told, his house had been broken into, and the tapes stolen? My guess is his neck would still be in that noose. He looked to be in a lose/lose situation.
No need to wait for Google to port gtalk. The protocol works with most of the popular IM programs such as Gaim (Now called birdshit or something) or Kopete.
IIRC all of the protocols relay through the Jabber network anyhow.
It is pretty trivial to set up, and unless you walk to specifically use a crappy closed source app, I am not sure what your concerns are. Did I miss the point?
From my tiny amount of research into the Player project there is only limited support for certain real world hardware.
It seems to be the right thing to use if you have a mobile robot. or some kind of football-playing-robot, but for serious robotics it doesn't seem to have the full package.
OROCOS as a (static) robotics platform. It is mightily powerful, and has a sane license. The downside is that the docs are non existant, and has a steep learning curve.
Am I wrong? Does anyone know if player has some decent Cartesian motion planning and IK, that I seem to have missed?
At least the news came from a reputable news source... wait, thats not right. The sun is possible the worst of tabloid news. I would wait and see if this is confirmed from a news source that is less obsessed with celebrity and made up bs.
"The BBC has given an official statement to FreemaAgyeman.com, calling the Sun's story "absolute rubbish"."
So, a bucket of salt needs to be taken with this.
"Are the people doing the crimes that scary? Or is it true what I've read about defending oneself over there, that it is not worth the hassle you'll get from the authorities?"
Yes. The people really are that bad.
If you defend yourself, the last thing you need to worry about is the police. You are much more likely to be stabbed, hit or mugged. A friend of mine stood up to one of the little shits where he lives (Greater Manchester) and within a couple of hours his car was stolen and the house was pelted with bricks. The police are far too busy to deal with some 10 year old kids throwing bricks at a house, and most people are too afraid to do anything about the behaviour.
"what stops someone from calling the person out and publicly berating them?"
The fear of death. These people are like pack animals. If you berate one of them, you have berated them all.
So I have no right to privacy in my garden while sunbathing? I have a large fence that blocks the view from 99% of the people, but these cameras are up on 40 foot poles. They see all. it's one thing having your neighbor squinting to see what you are doing, but having the police watch you in your garden is a different matter. Not only that, but they can pan and zoom into the windows of houses. I am not saying that they do though!
Agreed. Bad parking should cost a lot of money. It annoys me on a daily basis that people park like idiots. The point I was trying to make was that most parking attendants don't care if you are parked illegally or not. They issue you a ticket and therefore you are guilty. You cannot reasonably fight the ticket as there is no evidence either way. The fact you have a ticket is normally enough for the courts to take the side of the parking attendant. Cameras should help here. If the ticket was incorrectly applied (i.e the attendant misinterpreted the hours on the parking zone signs) you can then take it higher up in the legal system and be fairly sure of it being overturned.
As a resident of Eccles I can say that there is a massive problem with antisocial behaviour over this side of the city. The police have gone as far as to put a row of 30+ CCTV camera down the main road every 70ft apart. They have total blanket CCTV covereage of the area.
The bad behaviour of the few nasty residents causes social problems for the rest of us, and it is about time someone did something about it.
I personally don't think that head mounted cameras are the way to go, but these cameras are more about stopping parking disputes for wrongly issued tickets. I know that the parking attendants are on a target based system, so are very likely to blanket ticket an area because there is no recource for the driver. I think these cameras will help this problem out a lot, and stop these idiots from fining a random vehicle just to make target. Believe me, a £40 ($80) parking fine for doing nothing wrong is not nice.
I am more concerned about the 100's of camera that appear over night covering the entire of the Eccles/Manchester region. There is some serious invasion of privicy going on that makes me less than comfortable. I did a small counting excercise while I travelled into work... I can see over 40 cameras during my work journey. Scary.
I say we should all ask for the footage of us on camera under the Data Protection Act and swamp the government/businesses with stupid amounts of administrative paperwork.
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Marching around in masks and yelling nonsensical internet memes at people who have no idea what you are talking about does not a protest make.
If you are going to try and send a message, at least make it vaguely coherent... right?
I had people ask me to go along, but quite frankly I am not sure what they are "protesting". If people want to spend their hard earned money joining Scientology, let them. If people want to lose a day standing around in a dumb mask chanting about a looooong cat, or whatever this weeks meme is, so be it.
The tax exemption status is a little annoying, but why not hit all religious institutions on that point?
I tend to agree with your assesment. The IRC channel is terrible. I had an issue with the libstdc++ libs being all screwed up when I upgraded to gutsy (it kept installing the 32 bit one on my 64 bit system) and the forum help was pathetic. The upgrade broke nearly everything on my system this time around, and it took me a couple of days to fix it. The last time I did an upgrade I ended up reinstalling because all the deps were completely screwed. Once again, no help on the forums other than reinstall, or other non starter answers. I consider myself a veteran of Linux as I have been using it for over 8 years, but some suggestions in the forums make we want to change distro to a group with more competent forum posters.
(PS Replied to your ubuntu query as ginge... good luck!)
I had a go at doing this a while ago using AR toolkit plus which uses AR Tags as a reference point to send the mouse data to the computer. I never really did get the camera filter working so I abandoned it. I did ask Daniel Wagner (the lead guy on artoolkit plus) for the DSVideoCE component source, which is a CE directshow filter, but he replied that it wasn't possible to release it. CE is a pain in the backside so I gave up. It worked pretty well from a video file I pre-recorded, so I reckon it would have worked well.
Pretty much everything about artoolkit plus worked out of the box, and the bluetooth code to emulate a mouse was pretty simple. if someone wants to give something like this article a bash, I would start with something like this.
My 2p
I also get this on my Compaq presario laptop from the front aluminium plates. I currently have duct tape over them to stop the shocks. My previous laptop, a Toshiba satellite has screws on the sides that shocked too.
I'm not Mac inclined, but I did notice ext2fsx http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ which is the Mac driver for ext2/3. Although at first look it doesn't say anything about ext3, the filesystems are compatible. Ext3 is just the journalling on top of ext2 IIRC. I assume Mac does FAT filesystems, so just pop the driver in that partition on your external drive.
Agreed about the NAS solution. What I now do is have a drive with 2 partitions. The first is a 100MB FAT partition with some windows tools (firefox vlc etc), and the rest of the drive as an ext2 partition. The FAT partition contains the windows driver for ext2/3 so I can use the drive nearly anywhere.
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
In that case I don't know where my complaint went. I suspect that their complaints stats are plain wrong or their customer service department is just >/dev/null. Two complaints my arse.
The page linked in the summary is generating a 403 error.
The front page of the main website seems ok.
The page is returning an error, and this:-
"This Website Is Powered by Doteasy.com $0 Web Hosting"
I guess you get what you pay for.
The 45 pence charge was actually a credit card admin charge. If you put 0 in the box you didn't have to pay anything at all.
yeah, you can get the listing directly from the stream. A friend of mine wrote a whole load of scripts to parse the data out into an xml based TV guide. It didn't take him long to do so I guess it s pretty trivial.
You make some good points. I am replying to fix an accidental "redundant" mod because of this crappy mod2 system. Sorry.
I know the feeling. Sued twice and counting. You try and do something to make a few £ to supplement your income, and before you know it you have a slick lawyer knocking on the door. Someone should start a club for inventors that have had their fingers burned.
It should be an easy fix. Start->Run msconfig Click "Startup items" tab and then remove the offending crapware. Either that or use the PC decrapifier
The link in the original firehose submission is this:
r s-class-arbitration-waiver-ruled-unconscionable-by -9th-circuit-court-of-appeals-290806.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/victories/cingula
Though I agree it is poor form not including one in the article.
vaguely off topic...
If you are a Psion fan, you might want to keep one eye on project Psion Resurrection which aims to put a Linux powered Gumstix in a psion shell. Cool
This is the most insane flame war I have seen in a while.
Don't like that it doesn't have a replaceable battery? Don't buy it.
If you are going to drop hundreds of dollars on phone, you damn well make sure you know what it is about.
I wouldn't dream of buying a product that I had not researched first. I like to know what I am getting myself in to, and on the whole I am better off for it.
I have a Windows Mobile PDA phone that has two batteries. 1 is replaceable, the other? soldered in. If I lose the internal soldered battery, the device will not power on. Did anyone bring a lawsuit then? Does anyone care? No. More to the point do I care? No. These things last for so long I will be getting the new one before the old one is dead. If not, I can pay for a repair.
If the iPhone does not do what you want, get a different phone. Give it a year, and there will be 1000 clones on the market. Who knows, maybe one will be better than the iPhone!
Dave, you were spot on. Thank you.
"buyer beware", or "Caveat emptor" springs to mind.
So how would this have played out if the intern had done as he was told, his house had been broken into, and the tapes stolen? My guess is his neck would still be in that noose. He looked to be in a lose/lose situation.
Also it should be 10 types, which is binary for 2, not 11 which is binary for 3.
No need to wait for Google to port gtalk. The protocol works with most of the popular IM programs such as Gaim (Now called birdshit or something) or Kopete.
IIRC all of the protocols relay through the Jabber network anyhow.
It is pretty trivial to set up, and unless you walk to specifically use a crappy closed source app, I am not sure what your concerns are. Did I miss the point?
From my tiny amount of research into the Player project there is only limited support for certain real world hardware.
It seems to be the right thing to use if you have a mobile robot. or some kind of football-playing-robot, but for serious robotics it doesn't seem to have the full package.
OROCOS as a (static) robotics platform. It is mightily powerful, and has a sane license. The downside is that the docs are non existant, and has a steep learning curve.
Am I wrong? Does anyone know if player has some decent Cartesian motion planning and IK, that I seem to have missed?
At least the news came from a reputable news source... wait, thats not right. The sun is possible the worst of tabloid news. I would wait and see if this is confirmed from a news source that is less obsessed with celebrity and made up bs.
Just reading the unofficial fan page, I noticed this: (about half way down)
"The BBC has given an official statement to FreemaAgyeman.com, calling the Sun's story "absolute rubbish"."
So, a bucket of salt needs to be taken with this.
"Are the people doing the crimes that scary? Or is it true what I've read about defending oneself over there, that it is not worth the hassle you'll get from the authorities?"
Yes. The people really are that bad.
If you defend yourself, the last thing you need to worry about is the police. You are much more likely to be stabbed, hit or mugged. A friend of mine stood up to one of the little shits where he lives (Greater Manchester) and within a couple of hours his car was stolen and the house was pelted with bricks. The police are far too busy to deal with some 10 year old kids throwing bricks at a house, and most people are too afraid to do anything about the behaviour.
"what stops someone from calling the person out and publicly berating them?"
The fear of death. These people are like pack animals. If you berate one of them, you have berated them all.
So I have no right to privacy in my garden while sunbathing? I have a large fence that blocks the view from 99% of the people, but these cameras are up on 40 foot poles. They see all. it's one thing having your neighbor squinting to see what you are doing, but having the police watch you in your garden is a different matter. Not only that, but they can pan and zoom into the windows of houses. I am not saying that they do though!
Agreed. Bad parking should cost a lot of money. It annoys me on a daily basis that people park like idiots. The point I was trying to make was that most parking attendants don't care if you are parked illegally or not. They issue you a ticket and therefore you are guilty. You cannot reasonably fight the ticket as there is no evidence either way. The fact you have a ticket is normally enough for the courts to take the side of the parking attendant. Cameras should help here. If the ticket was incorrectly applied (i.e the attendant misinterpreted the hours on the parking zone signs) you can then take it higher up in the legal system and be fairly sure of it being overturned.
As a resident of Eccles I can say that there is a massive problem with antisocial behaviour over this side of the city. The police have gone as far as to put a row of 30+ CCTV camera down the main road every 70ft apart. They have total blanket CCTV covereage of the area. The bad behaviour of the few nasty residents causes social problems for the rest of us, and it is about time someone did something about it.
I personally don't think that head mounted cameras are the way to go, but these cameras are more about stopping parking disputes for wrongly issued tickets. I know that the parking attendants are on a target based system, so are very likely to blanket ticket an area because there is no recource for the driver. I think these cameras will help this problem out a lot, and stop these idiots from fining a random vehicle just to make target. Believe me, a £40 ($80) parking fine for doing nothing wrong is not nice.
I am more concerned about the 100's of camera that appear over night covering the entire of the Eccles/Manchester region. There is some serious invasion of privicy going on that makes me less than comfortable. I did a small counting excercise while I travelled into work... I can see over 40 cameras during my work journey. Scary.
I say we should all ask for the footage of us on camera under the Data Protection Act and swamp the government/businesses with stupid amounts of administrative paperwork.