But this was my point. Why write in a platform that's suppose to be cross platform, but write stuff that can't be used with anything, only KDE.. Why not just stick with C++ or something? --
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This is very true, but most geeks have other skills as well. Mostly some sort of orginization. The problem is that most of the slashdot people don't understand what you're saying and will probably try to get names and addresses out of their palm pilot before planting the next crop of food and then they'll die. --
And Slashdot expects me to talk in there forum (and that gives them most of their contect, and what makes it special). Submit articles that I wrote for them to post. And moderate people in the comments sections.
If anything, we should get some kind of compensation from slashdot, and I think no banner ads is a good tradeoff. --
the read aloud thing was that the book didn't come with the ability to read itself aloud for deaf people. Not that you couldn't read it aloud to kids. See the original slashdot story, they posted an update. --
Okay, so it runs Linux, big woop, so do a lot of things. Things that are much more portable then this. Not to mention that in the article itself it links back to an earlier article.. of the same product! Did this really need to be posted again?
And what's this wearable potential BS? You have to plug it into the wall, at best it's a good pc to have in a car, but hardly wearable. You could get a nice MicroATX case with one of those motherboard with everything build in and have something about the same size (with the CD/DVD drive attached) --
First off, don't misquote me. I didn't say "Something you can't do at home". I said "Something you can't do on a home unit" And I was speaking in general terms. There are a few home units that can do region free or be modified to do region free. But most DVD drives for computer (I think all of them actually) can be made region free with just some software. My Apex DVD player can be made region free, but not without an eeprom swap.
The MPAA is also trying to make it impossible to get a region free home DVD player, while the computer DVD drives seem to be left alone, at least for now. --
Well you can easily change the country code on a computer DVD player. Something you can't do with a home unit. So buying a "data" DVD drive isn't really that bad. Well at least not as bad as buying a normal DVD player that's just for movies. --
I totally agree with this. One summer when I was still in high school I worked as a janitor for a different school. It was amazing working there. First off, every day they would push me to join the union. No way I was going to give up that much money for a union I would never use, I was only there for the summer. The other thing was the fact that they gave me shit for doing to MUCH work. I was constantly told to slow down. They would tell me that there was no need to work that hard, and I don't have to worry about getting fired... if I join the union. --
I totally agree with you on the telescope deal. Hell, we can build telescopes that can see the different rings on Saturn, we can see the "face" on Mars, I was at the mall the other day and they had home build little telescopes that got VERY close to the moon, you can't tell me that one of those huge ass observatory telescops can't zoom in on the moon and see SOMETHING. --
The pictures which have 'missing' crosshairs are pictures that were prepared for print in magazines like Life and National Geographic. The crosshairs were removed to make the pictures look better. The photos in the NASA archives (which are available online) show the appropriate crosshairs.
The pictures very much had crosshairs, but they were behind the objects. I belive this was do to overexposure of the white objects, not because of editing. If you saw the show you would have seen that only parts of the crosshairs were missing, not the whole thing, and they were closups of the image that had crosshairs. --
Then what would the footprints that the astronauts left be in? It must be dust, even the NASA guys say it's covered in dust. You can't leave a footprint on a rock.
4. No sound because there's no air for it to travel through. It's near enough a vacuum on the moon so all you hear is stuff from the microphone which is inside a suit.
I buy this for the most part, but there would be vibrations and you should hear some kind of noise or hum, that's a rocket engine, it's gotta make some major vibrations.
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"2. The cameras the astronauts had crosshairs permanantly in the frames. In some moon photos the crosshairs are BEHIND objects on the moon.
The astronauts used standard Hasselblad 2-1/4 inch film cameras and TV cameras. These cameras do not put "crosshairs" on the film. Those would have been added later. I haven't seen the show or the pix you are referring to, but I do know that some pix I have seen on the Web have clearly been tampered with -- not by NASA but by someone else out to make "unbelievable" moon photos."
The guy that worked on the cameras as well as the NASA guy on the program said that they crosshairs were etched into the camera so that they would be on every shot in the same place. They were not put on after they were developed. So the crosshairs would HAVE to be in front of any object. --
If you look at the time and date I submitted the story it was over a week ago. So it's been sitting there for a week, then this story comes along and it was rejected then. I have also had stories rejected within 10mins of me submitting them. I just thought it was odd that it was pending for so long. --
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I don't know if this is totally true, they did have to get people to work for them, and I know programmers that think MS is great. They also do turn out a few good programs. SOME programmers might thing MS is satanic, but I know others that think Linux is communistic, and many think that's worse.
#1 - US airspace does not extend into where spaceships orbit to. So US law won't effect them.
#2 - There is a region for international use. It's not toatally unbelivable that the MPAA would make DVDs that fall under that region (either 7 or 8 I belive)
#3 - The DVD player going to the space station is comming from another country so again, it doesn't fall under US law.
#4 - If it is a region 1 DVD player with Region 1 DVDs they'll just put it in the US section of the space station because that should/could be considered US teritory. --
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So it must be good!
But this was my point. Why write in a platform that's suppose to be cross platform, but write stuff that can't be used with anything, only KDE.. Why not just stick with C++ or something?
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This is very true, but most geeks have other skills as well. Mostly some sort of orginization. The problem is that most of the slashdot people don't understand what you're saying and will probably try to get names and addresses out of their palm pilot before planting the next crop of food and then they'll die.
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If anything, we should get some kind of compensation from slashdot, and I think no banner ads is a good tradeoff.
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the read aloud thing was that the book didn't come with the ability to read itself aloud for deaf people. Not that you couldn't read it aloud to kids. See the original slashdot story, they posted an update.
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And what's this wearable potential BS? You have to plug it into the wall, at best it's a good pc to have in a car, but hardly wearable. You could get a nice MicroATX case with one of those motherboard with everything build in and have something about the same size (with the CD/DVD drive attached)
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Welcome to Slashdot, the department of redundencey department.
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The MPAA is also trying to make it impossible to get a region free home DVD player, while the computer DVD drives seem to be left alone, at least for now.
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Well you can easily change the country code on a computer DVD player. Something you can't do with a home unit. So buying a "data" DVD drive isn't really that bad. Well at least not as bad as buying a normal DVD player that's just for movies.
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I totally agree with this. One summer when I was still in high school I worked as a janitor for a different school. It was amazing working there. First off, every day they would push me to join the union. No way I was going to give up that much money for a union I would never use, I was only there for the summer. The other thing was the fact that they gave me shit for doing to MUCH work. I was constantly told to slow down. They would tell me that there was no need to work that hard, and I don't have to worry about getting fired... if I join the union.
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I totally agree with you on the telescope deal. Hell, we can build telescopes that can see the different rings on Saturn, we can see the "face" on Mars, I was at the mall the other day and they had home build little telescopes that got VERY close to the moon, you can't tell me that one of those huge ass observatory telescops can't zoom in on the moon and see SOMETHING.
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The pictures which have 'missing' crosshairs are pictures that were prepared for print in magazines like Life and National Geographic. The crosshairs were removed to make the pictures look better. The photos in the NASA archives (which are available online) show the appropriate crosshairs. The pictures very much had crosshairs, but they were behind the objects. I belive this was do to overexposure of the white objects, not because of editing. If you saw the show you would have seen that only parts of the crosshairs were missing, not the whole thing, and they were closups of the image that had crosshairs.
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The landing feet were covered in that gold foil stuff, you would have seen it.
3. The entire surface isn't dust. It's rock. Quite solid rock.
Then what would the footprints that the astronauts left be in? It must be dust, even the NASA guys say it's covered in dust. You can't leave a footprint on a rock.
4. No sound because there's no air for it to travel through. It's near enough a vacuum on the moon so all you hear is stuff from the microphone which is inside a suit.
I buy this for the most part, but there would be vibrations and you should hear some kind of noise or hum, that's a rocket engine, it's gotta make some major vibrations.
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The guy that worked on the cameras as well as the NASA guy on the program said that they crosshairs were etched into the camera so that they would be on every shot in the same place. They were not put on after they were developed. So the crosshairs would HAVE to be in front of any object.
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There's even an SSL encrypted one, but I don't know the URL for that one off hand.
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If you look at the time and date I submitted the story it was over a week ago. So it's been sitting there for a week, then this story comes along and it was rejected then. I have also had stories rejected within 10mins of me submitting them. I just thought it was odd that it was pending for so long.
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But it got rejected...
Read what I posted here
It's not the same as above, it's a different story, but it's related.
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I said to some. I could care less. but some weird people think Communism is the most evil thing ever.
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I don't know if this is totally true, they did have to get people to work for them, and I know programmers that think MS is great. They also do turn out a few good programs. SOME programmers might thing MS is satanic, but I know others that think Linux is communistic, and many think that's worse.
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#1 - US airspace does not extend into where spaceships orbit to. So US law won't effect them.
#2 - There is a region for international use. It's not toatally unbelivable that the MPAA would make DVDs that fall under that region (either 7 or 8 I belive)
#3 - The DVD player going to the space station is comming from another country so again, it doesn't fall under US law.
#4 - If it is a region 1 DVD player with Region 1 DVDs they'll just put it in the US section of the space station because that should/could be considered US teritory.
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