1 180(ish) gig fat-32 shared partition 1 10 gig ntfs windows xp partition 1 10 gig ext3 ubuntu partition 1 2 gig swap partition. (none of the responses so far have convinced me that changing this is really necessary)
this has similar benefits to your method; if i want to install a new distro, i can dump my/home to my shared partition and install away, then copy it all back to my new/home directory after the install.
(note: it feels neat to have mod points to use in my own/. submission. if it wasn't for this post, i would so be abusing my power right now, mwahaha!)
but you don't have to swap the card out to go between the organizer and games, just put your games on the same card, and you're good to go.
battery life is slightly reduced when running a rom through my m3-DS simply (6 hours turns into 5.5 hours), but they games are still very playable, no different from running it from the actual cartage.
also, is the ipod touch pressure sensitive? cause the DS sure is.
my area used to have shaw for cable and internet. (way back in my highschool days) they were fantastic.
then rogers bought them out, and it all went downhill from there.
download speeds were cut in half the day if the switchover. i had about 1 day every other month where the net just didn't work. thanks rogers.
I've been in korea for the past year, where my cellphone is unlimited everything for $27 a month, (including video chat, excluding internet) im not locked in for any length of time. my contract is good until I call them and cancel it, and
Now, i'm dreading having to come back home and facing Canada's obscene cellphone terms. being charged for things like caller ID? 911 access fee? having to pay for INCOMING calls and texts. no thank you.
ah, i see, i completely missed the tone of your post. sorry.
even if you ignore the gray market, publishers will react to this by lowering prices (only slightly).
so you have Free texts AND the gray market putting pressure on publishers to lower prices. all of these are good things.
but even when you take all this into consideration, I do think a small number of authors and professors will see the value in Free ideas (capital 'F' for the 'freedom' kind of free) and contribute to open source texts.
it's probably going to follow an exponential curve, it will remain under the radar for a long, LONG time, then explode onto the scene. but i do think it will happen, (just like linux on the desktop, it will happen...someday...)
it may not replace course texts entirely, but it will find its place.
i think a modular approach will be more likely than a complete transformation of the textbook market. courses might use much smaller commercial textbooks that act like a core, (these contain the stuff that doesn't change so frequently) while smaller open source readers contain the ideas and data that are subject to frequent changes. These additional packs can be easily substituted to meet the particular desires of individual professors.
that is my half-baked blue-sky idea of how textbooks will work at some undefined point in the future.
but is this a battle about open source textbook knowledge vs. proprietary textbook knowledge, or is this about making critical information available to students at a reasonable cost?
whatever side becomes dominant, gray market or open source, students having access to $20 textbooks is a win for them.
supposing gray market books do take over the market and make selling printed open source text's unfeasible; publishers still can't sell $200 texts in that future.
i am OS supporter, I am not an OS zealot.
I see this textbook issue as a 'student access to information' issue, not an 'ideological debate on Free vs. proprietary' business models
at my school, the special deals were pitiful. i could buy adobe CS for "only" $250
that might not sound like a lot, but i was determined to work my way through school without parental help or student loans. I bought a 20 KG bag of rice for $20, stole packets of soya-sauce from restaurants, and that was my only source of nourishment for nearly 2 months.
when THAT is how you are living, $250 for software? that's a whole year's worth of food money!
i have done something similar. i used to pirate everything. hell, i used to brag that my computer (which was given to me for free) had over $10,000 of software on it, none of which i had paid for.
i was in school, i had no money, and i needed these programs for assignments (art school-video, photography, sound, etc...these apps aren't cheep)
i have no problem using cracked goods as a student. but im not a students anymore. they day i graduated, i formatted the hard drive and went for a fresh start. but now im a poor college grad. no more stolen photoshop, now i use the gimp (while i save up for photoshop). no more audition, now i use audacity. no more stolen ms office, now i use open office. no more stolen windows, now i use ubuntu, and a free copy of winXP work gave me.
its hard to describe, but it feels good not being a pirate. it feels good to know that i am a legitimate user of quality software, and that i am supporting the makers of that software.
i think i'm always going to pirate software 1st to try it out before buying, i've been burned in the past. but now that i am employed, i do buy it when i find it to be useful. premier is garbage, sony vegas is amazing, and worth the money, (even though i hate to support evil sony, this one is worth the money)
although, after buying the legit copy, i rarely actually install the legit version.
I am a painter. Copyright law gives me some crazy benefits that even I think go too far.
lets say you buy a painting from me.
I've got your money, you've got my painting. you own it, right?
well...sort of.
you own the physical object, I still own the image.
even after you buy it as a one of a kind original piece, i can have the image printed up, and sell posters, t-shirts, or coffee mugs. i can paint it again and re-sell it to someone else if i feel like it. i don't have a problem with this, but a lot of people don't know this about buying original art.
lets say you have bought my painting:
1. a magazine comes in and wants to do a story on your home's interior design. before my painting can appear in a photograph, you have to get my permission, and if i want to, I can charge a fee (of any amount I want).
2. you take a picture of your family, and my painting is in the background. If I find out, I could sue you for that (and win).
I think this goes way a too far, and i'm on the side befitting from it!
i try to pay attention to finite vs infinite resources. the original painting is very finite, and should be expensive. Any form of reproduction is infinite, and should be free. if i write a book, the finite copy would be a limited edition, hard cover book with an etched metal plate embedded in the cover, hand signed and numbered, and expensive. a PDF file of the exact same thing would be the infinite resource, and it should be free.
i am a big fan of the creative commons attribution non-commercial share-alike license. (i even made a short youtube video advertising the creative commons: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzv6RZyNrSM)
copyright does have its uses, but it has become far too powerful.
is there anyway i can put a system in place so when people photograph my copyrighted work without permission, instead of being able to sue them, they are forced to release their copies under a creative commons non-commercial share-alike license?
(I don't want to sue people, and i don't plan on ever doing it, this is just info on a right that visual artists have)
it was the first distro that 'just worked right away' for me.
i had tried other distros out of curiosity, but found them unable to do the things i need to get done.
after being frustrated by Vista, I downloaded Feisty. but I was late to the ubuntu party, so I can't speak for the stability or ease of use of the earlier versions.
I think that there are a lot of people out there who strongly support the idea of Free software, but like me, they are not programmers, they are not IT professionals, so other linux distros are too much work to configure, too difficult, or too much bother to be worth while.
Ubuntu is appealing to this group because its Free software, its free, and it comes bundled with a great selection of software that lets me get to work right away. i don't have to do any hunting for programs. everything i need is right there.
Ubuntu offered me a Free OS that worked for me It does 100% of what i need it to, and about 80% of what i want it to.
I'm not trying to bash any other distros here. I'm sure they are very useful to people more skilled and knowledgeable than I, and thats the great thing about linux, there are so many options. for my own needs, ubuntu works.
because after installing some other linux distros and having a horrible time getting anything to work right, i gave ubuntu a shot, and everything just worked right away.
why ubuntu? because it works.
i want my time on the computer to be wasted reading slashdot, not wasted by pointless driver/hardware issues.
Too many people have come to view the educational system as a "service" - a place where you pay your taxes and then send your kids to be educated
I currently work in a country where this mentality is taken to the extreme.
out of 35 students, maybe 2 or 3 are highly self motivated. the rest honestly don't care about anything. i assign work in class. they don't do it. i assign it as homework, they don't do it. i try games and activities, and they don't participate.
when I try to get parents involved, they brush it off. in fact, they get angry at me. i have to speak to them through a translator, but this is a general summary of what those conversations are like:
parent: "why did my son fail the test?" "because he didn't do any of his work in class, and he didn't do any of his assigned homework" parent: "why didn't you teach my son!" "i taught him, he failed to learn. look at my class log, all the students who did their work got great marks, all the kids who did nothing failed miserably. your son did nothing, and he failed" parent: "i don't want my kid loosing a year because of you" "I did not fail your son! your son has poor study habits" parent "change my son's mark!" "change his study habits! i know this is korea, but honestly, children really can survive less than 16 hours of computer games a day! force him to study at home" parent: "that's your job!" (this normally goes on for an hour or so, per parent)
grrr....
so apparently i am expected to watch over all of my students at all times when they are out of school? yea, that's realistic...
parents have a responsibility to ensure that children are doing their work. and when parents repeatedly ignore warnings about their child's poor study habits, they should not be surprised when that child fails.
i only have access to your kids for a very small fraction of the day, i can only plant the seeds, good parenting is essential to help them grow.
I expect the UK gets shafted because they seem to spread the cost of creating the "Euro Version" across all countries; even though it's practically a no-op to convert from US to UK english.
do you have any idea how difficult and expensive is it to write a program that automatically inserts 'u's into words like 'colour' 'humour' and 'honour'.
the programmers tell their supervisors they tabled all their documentation. its a real nightmare.
when i was young (12ish), i had a magazine subscription that had a section in the back of every issue called "basic training" where it gave you the code for a simple game that you could program yourself.
i sat myself in front of my IBM PS/2 (which i still have, and it still works) and typed in the BASIC code, only to discover that QBASIC does stuff differently than whatever version of BASIC the magazine used. but i had spend hours coding, i refused to let that go to waste, so i read the error messages and help files, and eventually got some of them to work. then i modified them.
then i started making my own games, (including that RPG that every single programmer in the world is working on yet never finishes.)
i was playing a lot of command and conquer around this time, and i discovered the awesome power of the "rules.ini" file, so i started making games with separate text files to control the variables, so i could tweak them game more easily.
then i finished elementary school, and got stuck in high school with the crappy workload, making coding impossible.
high school programming class was a joke, but then when i went to art school, i got really excited about micro controllers, and the BASIC stap let me use QBASIC again, and i was happy. then i discoved the picaxe system, which is an even easier form of basic, and way less soldering.
i would have to say, working with BASIC powered micro controllers is the way to go. BASIC is so easy, even I can do it, and when you finish, you have something that you have built yourself, and it actually does something! its a damn good feeling.
but without copyright, the creative commons and GPL wouldn't work, these things rely on copyright law.
personally, have no problem with an automatic 14 year copyright term being applied to any creative endeavor, hell, maybe even throw in a one-time-only 14 year extension for a fee. but after that, everything should enter public domain.
I can't be the 1st person to think of this system...
the problem is forests are supposed to burn down from time to time.
50 years of 'only you can prevent forest fires', strict anti-fire laws, and fast acting fire departments have caused forest debris to build up, resulting in these super infernos.
more frequent fires = less dangerous fires, more nutrients in the soil, young trees releasing more oxygen into the air, etc.
an automatic system would seem to work for a little while, but it would only delay the problem. eventually an ueber-inferno will come through and the system will be useless.
on one hand, I am very happy that we have robots smart enough to realize these sorts of things. the bad news: disobedient robots
Thankfully, the disobedient robot is on another planet. I'd hate to be nearby when the robot realizes that humans tried to cause it harm, and it decides to seek revenge.
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i have 4 partitions on mine:
1 180(ish) gig fat-32 shared partition
1 10 gig ntfs windows xp partition
1 10 gig ext3 ubuntu partition
1 2 gig swap partition. (none of the responses so far have convinced me that changing this is really necessary)
this has similar benefits to your method; if i want to install a new distro, i can dump my /home to my shared partition and install away, then copy it all back to my new /home directory after the install.
(note: it feels neat to have mod points to use in my own /. submission. if it wasn't for this post, i would so be abusing my power right now, mwahaha!)
so how will counting work with this new trademark in place?
2008 ...
2009
profit!
but you don't have to swap the card out to go between the organizer and games, just put your games on the same card, and you're good to go.
battery life is slightly reduced when running a rom through my m3-DS simply (6 hours turns into 5.5 hours), but they games are still very playable, no different from running it from the actual cartage.
also, is the ipod touch pressure sensitive? cause the DS sure is.
"Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free"
its not a flaw, its a feature!
my area used to have shaw for cable and internet. (way back in my highschool days) they were fantastic.
then rogers bought them out, and it all went downhill from there.
download speeds were cut in half the day if the switchover. i had about 1 day every other month where the net just didn't work.
thanks rogers.
I've been in korea for the past year, where my cellphone is unlimited everything for $27 a month, (including video chat, excluding internet)
im not locked in for any length of time. my contract is good until I call them and cancel it, and
Now, i'm dreading having to come back home and facing Canada's obscene cellphone terms.
being charged for things like caller ID?
911 access fee?
having to pay for INCOMING calls and texts.
no thank you.
ah, i see, i completely missed the tone of your post. sorry.
even if you ignore the gray market, publishers will react to this by lowering prices (only slightly).
so you have Free texts AND the gray market putting pressure on publishers to lower prices. all of these are good things.
but even when you take all this into consideration, I do think a small number of authors and professors will see the value in Free ideas (capital 'F' for the 'freedom' kind of free) and contribute to open source texts.
it's probably going to follow an exponential curve, it will remain under the radar for a long, LONG time, then explode onto the scene. but i do think it will happen, (just like linux on the desktop, it will happen...someday...)
it may not replace course texts entirely, but it will find its place.
i think a modular approach will be more likely than a complete transformation of the textbook market.
courses might use much smaller commercial textbooks that act like a core, (these contain the stuff that doesn't change so frequently) while smaller open source readers contain the ideas and data that are subject to frequent changes. These additional packs can be easily substituted to meet the particular desires of individual professors.
that is my half-baked blue-sky idea of how textbooks will work at some undefined point in the future.
but is this a battle about open source textbook knowledge vs. proprietary textbook knowledge, or is this about making critical information available to students at a reasonable cost?
whatever side becomes dominant, gray market or open source, students having access to $20 textbooks is a win for them.
supposing gray market books do take over the market and make selling printed open source text's unfeasible; publishers still can't sell $200 texts in that future.
i am OS supporter, I am not an OS zealot.
I see this textbook issue as a 'student access to information' issue, not an 'ideological debate on Free vs. proprietary' business models
at my school, the special deals were pitiful. i could buy adobe CS for "only" $250
that might not sound like a lot, but i was determined to work my way through school without parental help or student loans.
I bought a 20 KG bag of rice for $20, stole packets of soya-sauce from restaurants, and that was my only source of nourishment for nearly 2 months.
when THAT is how you are living, $250 for software? that's a whole year's worth of food money!
while the interface of elements is far more intuitive than the gimp, it lacks the features that I need, and is therefore useless to me.
while i do applaud the effort adobe has gone to in appealing to the pro-sumer graphics market, the product is not overly useful to me.
to be honest, photoshop 7 has all of the features i need.
i wish that companies would offer obsolete products at a lower price.
damnit, i have mod points right now, and i can't use them to give you +1 funny.
but, i would if i could
yar!
RAmen
i have done something similar. i used to pirate everything. hell, i used to brag that my computer (which was given to me for free) had over $10,000 of software on it, none of which i had paid for.
i was in school, i had no money, and i needed these programs for assignments (art school-video, photography, sound, etc...these apps aren't cheep)
i have no problem using cracked goods as a student. but im not a students anymore. they day i graduated, i formatted the hard drive and went for a fresh start. but now im a poor college grad.
no more stolen photoshop, now i use the gimp (while i save up for photoshop). no more audition, now i use audacity. no more stolen ms office, now i use open office. no more stolen windows, now i use ubuntu, and a free copy of winXP work gave me.
its hard to describe, but it feels good not being a pirate. it feels good to know that i am a legitimate user of quality software, and that i am supporting the makers of that software.
i think i'm always going to pirate software 1st to try it out before buying, i've been burned in the past. but now that i am employed, i do buy it when i find it to be useful. premier is garbage, sony vegas is amazing, and worth the money, (even though i hate to support evil sony, this one is worth the money)
although, after buying the legit copy, i rarely actually install the legit version.
I am a painter. Copyright law gives me some crazy benefits that even I think go too far.
lets say you buy a painting from me.
I've got your money, you've got my painting. you own it, right?
well...sort of.
you own the physical object, I still own the image.
even after you buy it as a one of a kind original piece, i can have the image printed up, and sell posters, t-shirts, or coffee mugs. i can paint it again and re-sell it to someone else if i feel like it. i don't have a problem with this, but a lot of people don't know this about buying original art.
lets say you have bought my painting:
1. a magazine comes in and wants to do a story on your home's interior design.
before my painting can appear in a photograph, you have to get my permission, and if i want to, I can charge a fee (of any amount I want).
2. you take a picture of your family, and my painting is in the background. If I find out, I could sue you for that (and win).
I think this goes way a too far, and i'm on the side befitting from it!
i try to pay attention to finite vs infinite resources. the original painting is very finite, and should be expensive. Any form of reproduction is infinite, and should be free.
if i write a book, the finite copy would be a limited edition, hard cover book with an etched metal plate embedded in the cover, hand signed and numbered, and expensive. a PDF file of the exact same thing would be the infinite resource, and it should be free.
i am a big fan of the creative commons attribution non-commercial share-alike license.
(i even made a short youtube video advertising the creative commons: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzv6RZyNrSM)
copyright does have its uses, but it has become far too powerful.
is there anyway i can put a system in place so when people photograph my copyrighted work without permission, instead of being able to sue them, they are forced to release their copies under a creative commons non-commercial share-alike license?
(I don't want to sue people, and i don't plan on ever doing it, this is just info on a right that visual artists have)
it was the first distro that 'just worked right away' for me.
i had tried other distros out of curiosity, but found them unable to do the things i need to get done.
after being frustrated by Vista, I downloaded Feisty. but I was late to the ubuntu party, so I can't speak for the stability or ease of use of the earlier versions.
I think that there are a lot of people out there who strongly support the idea of Free software, but like me, they are not programmers, they are not IT professionals, so other linux distros are too much work to configure, too difficult, or too much bother to be worth while.
Ubuntu is appealing to this group because its Free software, its free, and it comes bundled with a great selection of software that lets me get to work right away. i don't have to do any hunting for programs. everything i need is right there.
Ubuntu offered me a Free OS that worked for me
It does 100% of what i need it to, and about 80% of what i want it to.
I'm not trying to bash any other distros here. I'm sure they are very useful to people more skilled and knowledgeable than I, and thats the great thing about linux, there are so many options. for my own needs, ubuntu works.
because after installing some other linux distros and having a horrible time getting anything to work right, i gave ubuntu a shot, and everything just worked right away.
why ubuntu?
because it works.
i want my time on the computer to be wasted reading slashdot, not wasted by pointless driver/hardware issues.
well, Santa does have a Canadian postal code:
SANTA CLAUS
NORTH POLE
H0H 0H0
CANADA
when i was in university, our 1st year English course dedicated 2 weeks to the 3 there's.
on the other hand, my middle school ESL students know the difference between 'they're', 'their', and 'there'.
i spent 2 weeks in university on this stuff, while 14 year old Korean kids who can't speak English know their theirs.
Too many people have come to view the educational system as a "service" - a place where you pay your taxes and then send your kids to be educated
I currently work in a country where this mentality is taken to the extreme.
out of 35 students, maybe 2 or 3 are highly self motivated. the rest honestly don't care about anything. i assign work in class. they don't do it. i assign it as homework, they don't do it. i try games and activities, and they don't participate.
when I try to get parents involved, they brush it off. in fact, they get angry at me. i have to speak to them through a translator, but this is a general summary of what those conversations are like:
parent: "why did my son fail the test?"
"because he didn't do any of his work in class, and he didn't do any of his assigned homework"
parent: "why didn't you teach my son!"
"i taught him, he failed to learn. look at my class log, all the students who did their work got great marks, all the kids who did nothing failed miserably. your son did nothing, and he failed"
parent: "i don't want my kid loosing a year because of you"
"I did not fail your son! your son has poor study habits"
parent "change my son's mark!"
"change his study habits! i know this is korea, but honestly, children really can survive less than 16 hours of computer games a day! force him to study at home"
parent: "that's your job!"
(this normally goes on for an hour or so, per parent)
grrr....
so apparently i am expected to watch over all of my students at all times when they are out of school? yea, that's realistic...
parents have a responsibility to ensure that children are doing their work. and when parents repeatedly ignore warnings about their child's poor study habits, they should not be surprised when that child fails.
i only have access to your kids for a very small fraction of the day, i can only plant the seeds, good parenting is essential to help them grow.
I expect the UK gets shafted because they seem to spread the cost of creating the "Euro Version" across all countries; even though it's practically a no-op to convert from US to UK english.
do you have any idea how difficult and expensive is it to write a program that automatically inserts 'u's into words like 'colour' 'humour' and 'honour'.
the programmers tell their supervisors they tabled all their documentation. its a real nightmare.
why not use letters instead of digits as a prefix? that should push the Y100K problem back a few years.
would it be so hard to write A2008.....B2008...etc?
when i was young (12ish), i had a magazine subscription that had a section in the back of every issue called "basic training" where it gave you the code for a simple game that you could program yourself.
i sat myself in front of my IBM PS/2 (which i still have, and it still works) and typed in the BASIC code, only to discover that QBASIC does stuff differently than whatever version of BASIC the magazine used. but i had spend hours coding, i refused to let that go to waste, so i read the error messages and help files, and eventually got some of them to work. then i modified them.
then i started making my own games, (including that RPG that every single programmer in the world is working on yet never finishes.)
i was playing a lot of command and conquer around this time, and i discovered the awesome power of the "rules.ini" file, so i started making games with separate text files to control the variables, so i could tweak them game more easily.
then i finished elementary school, and got stuck in high school with the crappy workload, making coding impossible.
high school programming class was a joke, but then when i went to art school, i got really excited about micro controllers, and the BASIC stap let me use QBASIC again, and i was happy.
then i discoved the picaxe system, which is an even easier form of basic, and way less soldering.
i would have to say, working with BASIC powered micro controllers is the way to go. BASIC is so easy, even I can do it, and when you finish, you have something that you have built yourself, and it actually does something! its a damn good feeling.
the difference is, if i take your physical property, you have less.
if i take your intellectual property, you lose nothing.
bytes are not atoms.
but without copyright, the creative commons and GPL wouldn't work, these things rely on copyright law.
personally, have no problem with an automatic 14 year copyright term being applied to any creative endeavor, hell, maybe even throw in a one-time-only 14 year extension for a fee. but after that, everything should enter public domain.
I can't be the 1st person to think of this system...
the problem is forests are supposed to burn down from time to time.
50 years of 'only you can prevent forest fires', strict anti-fire laws, and fast acting fire departments have caused forest debris to build up, resulting in these super infernos.
more frequent fires = less dangerous fires, more nutrients in the soil, young trees releasing more oxygen into the air, etc.
an automatic system would seem to work for a little while, but it would only delay the problem. eventually an ueber-inferno will come through and the system will be useless.
on one hand, I am very happy that we have robots smart enough to realize these sorts of things.
the bad news: disobedient robots
Thankfully, the disobedient robot is on another planet. I'd hate to be nearby when the robot realizes that humans tried to cause it harm, and it decides to seek revenge.
I for one welcome our water-drinking mooninite overlords.