On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ron K. Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You're also free to >>> use a different microcontroller to communicate with the transceiver.
Not 'free' as in beer and not 'free' as in free-speech. so what sense of the word am I 'free'? > $$RKJ Panthera, the tone of what you wrote (above) is not civil. civil late 14c., "relating to civil law or life," from Fr. civil (13c.) and directly from L. civilis "relating to a citizen, relating to public life, befitting a citizen," hence "popular, affable, courteous;" alternative adj. derivation of civis "townsman" (see city). The sense of "polite" was in the Latin, from the courteous manners of citizens, as opposed to those of soldiers. But English did not pick up this nuance of the word until late 16c. >>>> Open, Libre hardware is fabulous. But let's >>>> allow users to employ the hardware any >>>> way they choose to. >>>> >>>> ~That~ is freedom. ;) > $$RKJ I still believe that. > $$RKJ was that aimed at Werner? Again, that UNCIVIL tone is not what I It was aimed at those that freedom doesn't extend to anything they consider deviant. Deviance is concerned with the process whereby actions, beliefs or conditions (ABC) come to be viewed as deviant by others. Deviance can be observed by the negative, stigmatizing social reaction of others towards these phenomena. Criminal behaviour, such as theft, can be deviant, but other crimes attract little or no social reaction, and cannot be considered deviant (e.g., violating copyright laws by downloading music in the internet). They are not necessarily moral, or even grounded in morality; in fact, they are just as often pragmatic and, paradoxically, irrational. (A great many of what we call manners, having no logical grounds, would make for good examples here.) Norms are rules of conduct, not neutral or universal, but ever changing; shifting as society shifts; mutable, emergent, loose, reflective of inherent biases and interests, and highly selfish and one-sided. They vary from class to class, and in the generational "gap." They are, in other words, contextual. Some beliefs in society will attract negative reaction, such as racism and homonegativity or alternatively even race-mixing or homosexuality, but that depends on the society. People may have a condition or disease which makes them treated badly by others, such as having HIV, dwarfism, facial deformities, or obesity. The issue of social power cannot be divorced from a definition of deviance because some groups in society can criminalize the actions of another group by using their influence on legislators. Viewing deviance as a violation of social norms, sociologists have characterized it as "any thought, feeling or action that members of a social group judge to be a violation of their values or rules"; "violation of the norms of a society or group"; "conduct that violates definitions of appropriate and inappropriate conduct shared by the members of a social system"; "the departure of certain types of behavior from the norms of a particular society at a particular time"; and "violation of certain types of group norms [... where] behavior is in a disapproved direction and of sufficient degree to exceed the tolerance limit of the community." Some acts of deviance may be criminal acts, but also, according to the society or culture, deviance can be strictly breaking social norms that are intact. Deviance is relative to time and place because what is considered deviant in one social context may be non-deviant in another (e.g., fighting during a hockey game vs. fighting in a nursing home). Killing another human is considered wrong except when governments permit it during warfare or self-defense. Deviance as a violation of social norms are the specific behavioral standards, ways in which people are supposed to act, paradigms for predictable behavior in society. Deviance can be described as a violation of these norms. Deviance is a failure to conform with culturally reinforced norms. This definition can be interpreted in many different ways. Social norms are different in one culture as opposed to another. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society or culture that breaks a social norm there, but may be considered normal for another culture and society. > have come to expect from this outstanding community. So you are egocentric, That's about as common as having 10 fingers. Authoritarian regimes don't want to give up bigotry because their power comes from unquestioning belief of the sanctity government. Egocentric people don't want to give up bigotry because then their egocentricness want cause problem for themselves and not just others. > because it uses an AVR chip, that is OK. If you choose > to not take intake of what (for example Werner is doing, > you have what is known as a self-imposed hardship. Next time the police stop you, tell him/her you choose not to intake of the legal system and so aren't going to participate any farther in that traffic stop and then drive off. See how SELF-imposed that hardship is. > applications where the target system will be AVR or ARM or TI MSP430. speeching of TI MSP430 and RF transcivers... Why doesn't TI list The CC430F513x, that combines MSP430™ MCUs with CC1101 RF transceivers, under: TI Home > RF/IF and ZigBee® Solutions > Low Power RF ICs > Sub 1-GHz ? Their is a reason practically all RF transceivers SOCs use silab's 5051 MCU core. Their 8051 MCU core is the fastest and lowest-power in the industry. Sincerely, Panthera Tigris Altaica _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
