Get your TV company to turn off these or those channels
Install this or that filter on computer
...
The novel idea of supervision does seem to escape most people. I guess it's the government's job to educate, supervise, instill morals, AND otherwise pay for their kids...
And how do you deal with commercials for Ultimate fighting Championship that air in the middle of G rated TV show? How about the previews for PPV movies that are rated R airing in the middle of a G rated show?
I do supervise my child's TV watching (the total of which is about 30 minutes to an hour a couple of times per week). Explain to me why cable and satellite providers must providing the rating of a TV show, like say Mythbusters (G rated), but then can air whatever they want during the commercial breaks.
Funny that, because "patching" for DST involved downloading one file to update. That's it, no installers, no reboots. Just update a time zone file. Should be that easy on Windows too, but it's not. Can't complain though, Microsoft high administration cost keeps me employed.
Oh let's see, here are a few suggestions:
- make the product affordable
- make the product so that I can freely move it from one PC to another as I upgrade
- stop crippling the OS so I can use it the way I need to. e.g. removing the ability to join a domain for Home editions.
- allow me the choice of what I want to use and not use for my tools and utilities
- allow me the choice of whether you will spy on me or not
- allow me to choose the interface I want, not the newest eye candy you think I need.
Actually that is likely wrong. If you "own" the CD you can do whatever you like with it, it's your property. The one thing you cannot do is profit from someone else's intellectual property, i.e. sell the artist's songs. If he was giving it away and not profiting then there was not infringement of copyright.
The industry is doing this to itself with ads like "own it on DVD February 10th". If I own it then it's mine. Of course a marketing ad of "lease the rights to view/listen to it on February 10th" would likely not generate the required revenues from consumer sheep.
Sure Gentoo has the ~ flags. But they don't work. Quite a bit of very unstable code gets moved from ~x86 to x86. I had a machine that did not allow any unstable flags, none, zero, nadda. The machine still went down on 3 occasions because of updates to baselayout, which required updates to udev, which required updates to dbus,....
It's not of everyone and I for one agree that it's not production capable, unless you leave the box alone and never update.
Oh and I did read the manual, many, many times and for several versions of the manual. And the forums. And the wiki.
I had Gentoo running on 4 machines at one point: personnal workstation, myth tv, intranet file server and a wireless workstation in the garage.
At first I though this was the holy grail that will allow to never re-install the OS ever again. Well that did not really. I'm at a point in my life where the technology my family relies on just needs to work. The constant feeding and caring of a Gentoo is just too time consuming, and that's when the updates work.
The constant updates to keep a multimedia machine working with codecs and such was just too much. Myth box converted to Knoppmyth, up and running in 35 minutes. Haven't touche it since.
Then you take into consideration the amount of time needed to fix the problems that were created by the updates. On one occasion a simple update to a config (which I did not notice at the time) caused 2 days of downtime for our file server. And many many days of downtown for my workstation. Both workstations are now running Windows, much to my chagrin. And the new internet gateway I was building is now a Fedora Core 6 box. Yeah I know I'll be re-installing in 24 months, maybe by then I'll able to afford a RedHat Enterprise license.
I now have Gentoo only on one machine and that one will likely get rebuilt to something else soon.
My next workstation purchase: A Mac Book. They just work.
Exactly the case. If I wanted to pay$0.99 per song, I'd just buy the damn CD. Which has some manufacturing cost, as well as extra content in the form of liner notes. Digital media should be a fraction of the cost of CD as there are no manufacturing costs and the labour involved in the ripping of the media (which is not necessary when you own the original content) is miniscule when amortized over millions of downloaded copies.
Also, the RIAA has lost in court on several occasion for price fixing on CDs. So in effect I've ripped off by them over the last 2 decades for every single one of the over 600 CDs that I own. Now they want to do it with digital formats. And they want to limit the formats I can use and the quality of those formats. AllofMP3 catered to those of us with discerning tastes that want our files in non-DRM encumbered formats and at the quality level we want for any song.
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b) it is designed for children, not the Slashdot demographic
You don't read slashdot much do you then :)
Supervise and/or...
The novel idea of supervision does seem to escape most people. I guess it's the government's job to educate, supervise, instill morals, AND otherwise pay for their kids...
And how do you deal with commercials for Ultimate fighting Championship that air in the middle of G rated TV show? How about the previews for PPV movies that are rated R airing in the middle of a G rated show? I do supervise my child's TV watching (the total of which is about 30 minutes to an hour a couple of times per week). Explain to me why cable and satellite providers must providing the rating of a TV show, like say Mythbusters (G rated), but then can air whatever they want during the commercial breaks.
Funny that, because "patching" for DST involved downloading one file to update. That's it, no installers, no reboots. Just update a time zone file. Should be that easy on Windows too, but it's not. Can't complain though, Microsoft high administration cost keeps me employed.
Oh let's see, here are a few suggestions: - make the product affordable - make the product so that I can freely move it from one PC to another as I upgrade - stop crippling the OS so I can use it the way I need to. e.g. removing the ability to join a domain for Home editions. - allow me the choice of what I want to use and not use for my tools and utilities - allow me the choice of whether you will spy on me or not - allow me to choose the interface I want, not the newest eye candy you think I need.
Actually that is likely wrong. If you "own" the CD you can do whatever you like with it, it's your property. The one thing you cannot do is profit from someone else's intellectual property, i.e. sell the artist's songs. If he was giving it away and not profiting then there was not infringement of copyright. The industry is doing this to itself with ads like "own it on DVD February 10th". If I own it then it's mine. Of course a marketing ad of "lease the rights to view/listen to it on February 10th" would likely not generate the required revenues from consumer sheep.
Sure Gentoo has the ~ flags. But they don't work. Quite a bit of very unstable code gets moved from ~x86 to x86. I had a machine that did not allow any unstable flags, none, zero, nadda. The machine still went down on 3 occasions because of updates to baselayout, which required updates to udev, which required updates to dbus, ....
It's not of everyone and I for one agree that it's not production capable, unless you leave the box alone and never update.
Oh and I did read the manual, many, many times and for several versions of the manual. And the forums. And the wiki.
I had Gentoo running on 4 machines at one point: personnal workstation, myth tv, intranet file server and a wireless workstation in the garage. At first I though this was the holy grail that will allow to never re-install the OS ever again. Well that did not really. I'm at a point in my life where the technology my family relies on just needs to work. The constant feeding and caring of a Gentoo is just too time consuming, and that's when the updates work. The constant updates to keep a multimedia machine working with codecs and such was just too much. Myth box converted to Knoppmyth, up and running in 35 minutes. Haven't touche it since. Then you take into consideration the amount of time needed to fix the problems that were created by the updates. On one occasion a simple update to a config (which I did not notice at the time) caused 2 days of downtime for our file server. And many many days of downtown for my workstation. Both workstations are now running Windows, much to my chagrin. And the new internet gateway I was building is now a Fedora Core 6 box. Yeah I know I'll be re-installing in 24 months, maybe by then I'll able to afford a RedHat Enterprise license. I now have Gentoo only on one machine and that one will likely get rebuilt to something else soon. My next workstation purchase: A Mac Book. They just work.
Exactly the case. If I wanted to pay$0.99 per song, I'd just buy the damn CD. Which has some manufacturing cost, as well as extra content in the form of liner notes. Digital media should be a fraction of the cost of CD as there are no manufacturing costs and the labour involved in the ripping of the media (which is not necessary when you own the original content) is miniscule when amortized over millions of downloaded copies. Also, the RIAA has lost in court on several occasion for price fixing on CDs. So in effect I've ripped off by them over the last 2 decades for every single one of the over 600 CDs that I own. Now they want to do it with digital formats. And they want to limit the formats I can use and the quality of those formats. AllofMP3 catered to those of us with discerning tastes that want our files in non-DRM encumbered formats and at the quality level we want for any song.