Most of your examples are okay, but "don't try to remove grass clogging lawn mower before turning off" is certainly an example of something that's a problem caused by excess stupidity.
Well, the stuff that's already operating will in no way be barred. (RTFA) Whether or not they have any reason to exist, however, is a different matter.
It's overcomplicated because the daughter was afraid of change in the first place. If she wasn't afraid of change, she wouldn't have needed the entire kubuntu setup to run win2000, she could simply have ran OS X, as you said.
The paying subscriber model alone is probably enough to be worth it for earthlink, I think. (Ads for google). Not to mention the ready access to politicians that can be "donated to" in exchange for favorable laws.
But does it run on Linux?
All joking aside, the service seems pretty decent for a free service (300 Kbps), although $21.95 for a 1 Mbps service is a bit under the norm, but possibly a better deal than whatever internet providers exist in SF now- especially considering the mobility of it. The $12.95 discount for low-income residents makes me go "WTF" though- if your family is "low-income" by the conventional measure (poverty line) you probably shouldn't be spending money on wi-fi. I detect political hijinks.
I wonder how the service is going to know whether each person is "free" or "paid", and how long it'll be before that gets hacked.
I do like the following things, though:
Network neutrality.
The City has required that EarthLink adhere to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) principles of internet freedom to address any potential for abuse of consumers or retail service providers.
Non exclusivity:
The agreement provides access to the City's right of way and facilities on a competitively neutral and non discriminatory basis. Nothing will prevent additional Wi-Fi providers from deploying similar networks should they desire to do so.
Open Access:
The agreement ensures that all internet service providers, including our local businesses, nonprofits and other organizations, will be able to provide commercial services without fear of a local monopoly. The City is not granting an exclusive franchise; rather, the City has negotiated an Agreement that provides the foundation for competition.
As far as the US being a republic goes, that actually makes it worse than a democracy- it has all the flaws of a democracy at multiple times over, as well as suffering from corruption at the highest levels.
The issue is not giving priority to time-sensitive data. The issue is giving priority to data based on how much money they're backing it up with.
As an example, say AT&T signs a deal with yahoo; google doesn't, AT&T can slow google to a crawl for all its customers. This is clearly not in their best interest. This would quash any kind of website that doesn't have a lot of finanical backing- hell, look at Youtube when it was starting up- they certainly couldn't have afforded it.
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You have an excellent point, but I would argue that democracy doesn't even work. The fundamental assumption you must make in order to assume democracy is the correct system is that "the majority is always right". This is clearly wrong, and has been time and time again in American history alone- consider slavery, the lack of women's suffrage, jim crow laws, etc. The majority is a bunch of blind sheep scared by the media and the church. They care more about whether "the gays" can get married than about their freedom.
Halo not running on Playstation hardware is due to technical issues, not artificial restrictions (like, say, DRM). Apple itunes music not playing on anything other than an ipod or itunes, on the other hand, is an artificial restriction, and I do damn them for that. There's a difference.
I think there's a planned deal where you can buy 3 of them, get one for yourself, and send two of them to the 3rd world. I'm not sure if this is still true, or if it was ever true, but I know it was brought up in a previous OLPC thread.
There are several very good calculator programs on Linux. But with all that you said about learning, I'm curious why this project didn't work together with Edubuntu in the first place.
Hrm, good catch- the summary says "Apparently the DVDs will also be subject to DRM restrictions placed by download services such as limiting the times a movie can be played back and how many times the movie can be burned."
A limit to the number of viewings? What the hell? Limiting the number of burns is reasonable (as far as DRM goes) if the number's around 3 or 5, but limiting the number of viewings is outright inane. If you pay for a movie, you should be able to view it as many times as you want.
Consider the alternative scenario:
They were actors. Would it be protected speech if they were acting? If yes, then there's no reason for it to not be protected speech as real. Granted, the vandalism is a problem (illegal within itself) but the video's posting is certainly free speech.
As someone who lives in the south, I'd like to say that "Southern Hospitality" is nothing more than hicksville busybodiness.
The whole image of old ladies giving their neighbors food, men helping each other grow plants, etc- existed in some places, but those places were also the ones where if you didn't go to church every sunday you were ostracized from the community, your neighbors knew practically every aspect of your life, and privacy was basically nonexistent. Those places are still backwards- anyone that moved out was basically a black sheep and rejected from the family when they came back for family reunions. Their kids would be treated terribly and bullied by their cousins, who were told various things along the lines that they're not part of the family, etc.
The southern "Bible Belt" of hospitality is really nothing more than something that's been over-glorified in the media- from a southerner, I'll tell you that it really wasn't that great.
Well Stonehenge gets built earlier, so it will generate a fair amount before the discovery of Calendar obsoletes it.
You're a Civilization player, aren't you?
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Most of your examples are okay, but "don't try to remove grass clogging lawn mower before turning off" is certainly an example of something that's a problem caused by excess stupidity.
That's quite the nice minimum wage there. Can we borrow your legislators here?
Well, the stuff that's already operating will in no way be barred. (RTFA) Whether or not they have any reason to exist, however, is a different matter.
It's overcomplicated because the daughter was afraid of change in the first place. If she wasn't afraid of change, she wouldn't have needed the entire kubuntu setup to run win2000, she could simply have ran OS X, as you said.
The paying subscriber model alone is probably enough to be worth it for earthlink, I think. (Ads for google). Not to mention the ready access to politicians that can be "donated to" in exchange for favorable laws.
But does it run on Linux? All joking aside, the service seems pretty decent for a free service (300 Kbps), although $21.95 for a 1 Mbps service is a bit under the norm, but possibly a better deal than whatever internet providers exist in SF now- especially considering the mobility of it. The $12.95 discount for low-income residents makes me go "WTF" though- if your family is "low-income" by the conventional measure (poverty line) you probably shouldn't be spending money on wi-fi. I detect political hijinks. I wonder how the service is going to know whether each person is "free" or "paid", and how long it'll be before that gets hacked.
I do like the following things, though: Network neutrality. The City has required that EarthLink adhere to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) principles of internet freedom to address any potential for abuse of consumers or retail service providers. Non exclusivity: The agreement provides access to the City's right of way and facilities on a competitively neutral and non discriminatory basis. Nothing will prevent additional Wi-Fi providers from deploying similar networks should they desire to do so. Open Access: The agreement ensures that all internet service providers, including our local businesses, nonprofits and other organizations, will be able to provide commercial services without fear of a local monopoly. The City is not granting an exclusive franchise; rather, the City has negotiated an Agreement that provides the foundation for competition.
As good of a school as GT is, the rest of atlanta is not that great of a place to live. The city seems to be going backwards, not forward.
Meritocracy.
As far as the US being a republic goes, that actually makes it worse than a democracy- it has all the flaws of a democracy at multiple times over, as well as suffering from corruption at the highest levels.
The issue is not giving priority to time-sensitive data. The issue is giving priority to data based on how much money they're backing it up with.
As an example, say AT&T signs a deal with yahoo; google doesn't, AT&T can slow google to a crawl for all its customers. This is clearly not in their best interest. This would quash any kind of website that doesn't have a lot of finanical backing- hell, look at Youtube when it was starting up- they certainly couldn't have afforded it.
The internet is not a highway for trucks to ride. It's a series of tubes.
If you click the ".rm" link, it takes you to a page that says:
.rm RealOne(TM) Player software is required to run the .rm files found on a course site.
Also, it seems that OCW is Free as in speech:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm You are free:
* to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
* to make derivative works
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
GNU may not like the "noncommercial" clause, but I consider something free even if it has a noncommercial clause.
You have an excellent point, but I would argue that democracy doesn't even work. The fundamental assumption you must make in order to assume democracy is the correct system is that "the majority is always right". This is clearly wrong, and has been time and time again in American history alone- consider slavery, the lack of women's suffrage, jim crow laws, etc. The majority is a bunch of blind sheep scared by the media and the church. They care more about whether "the gays" can get married than about their freedom.
Halo not running on Playstation hardware is due to technical issues, not artificial restrictions (like, say, DRM). Apple itunes music not playing on anything other than an ipod or itunes, on the other hand, is an artificial restriction, and I do damn them for that. There's a difference.
This is why the Microsoft Office XML (let's not kid ourself, this is far from "open") format should not become an ISO standard.
I think there's a planned deal where you can buy 3 of them, get one for yourself, and send two of them to the 3rd world. I'm not sure if this is still true, or if it was ever true, but I know it was brought up in a previous OLPC thread.
There are several very good calculator programs on Linux. But with all that you said about learning, I'm curious why this project didn't work together with Edubuntu in the first place.
Hrm, good catch- the summary says "Apparently the DVDs will also be subject to DRM restrictions placed by download services such as limiting the times a movie can be played back and how many times the movie can be burned."
If the project forks away from you, that doesn't stop you from developing it further yourself- just look at Emacs and Firefox as examples.
A limit to the number of viewings? What the hell? Limiting the number of burns is reasonable (as far as DRM goes) if the number's around 3 or 5, but limiting the number of viewings is outright inane. If you pay for a movie, you should be able to view it as many times as you want.
Consider the alternative scenario:
They were actors. Would it be protected speech if they were acting? If yes, then there's no reason for it to not be protected speech as real. Granted, the vandalism is a problem (illegal within itself) but the video's posting is certainly free speech.
America's already been taken. The media-brainwashed masses just don't realize it yet. Once they do, it'll be so far past too late it'll be ridiculous.
As someone who lives in the south, I'd like to say that "Southern Hospitality" is nothing more than hicksville busybodiness.
The whole image of old ladies giving their neighbors food, men helping each other grow plants, etc- existed in some places, but those places were also the ones where if you didn't go to church every sunday you were ostracized from the community, your neighbors knew practically every aspect of your life, and privacy was basically nonexistent. Those places are still backwards- anyone that moved out was basically a black sheep and rejected from the family when they came back for family reunions. Their kids would be treated terribly and bullied by their cousins, who were told various things along the lines that they're not part of the family, etc.
The southern "Bible Belt" of hospitality is really nothing more than something that's been over-glorified in the media- from a southerner, I'll tell you that it really wasn't that great.
Well Stonehenge gets built earlier, so it will generate a fair amount before the discovery of Calendar obsoletes it. You're a Civilization player, aren't you?
That's probably due to the repeated pattern of td/tl/#ffffff . Changing the colors would increase the filesize rather dramatically, I imagine.
Also in apt-get in debian and ubuntu. Probably in yum on rpm-based systems as well.