I don't think they would implement this, but wouldn't it be interesting if they made 3 parties. and whichever was president would be required to resign in congress and the senate? I.E. party one is president, congress and senate are party two and three, etc.
The Naked Scientist actully just had a Podcast [MP3 Link] about music and science. If you find music and science interesting, I think it is a good listen. Not quite on the string theory level, but non the less I think it is relivant.
That actually makes a lot of since. When you say you have to re-read it a few times, I'm assuming you me re-listen if you listen. I think the major advantage if you can read is being able to spell. With computer spell check (I copy and paste all posts from word) I can't spell much at all. I can comprehend the word, or use dictionary.com if I have to. From your post, I don't infer that you can't spell; your thoughts are straight forward and concise. I'm glad to hear that listening to books has widened your horizon.
Piracy most likely hurts DVD sales and rentals more than going to a theater.
But the question you have to ask is if you didn't download that movie for free, would you buy it to begin with? What is small inconvenience to download a movie and watch when you have time, comp aired to spending hard earned money on crap. I would bet that the 7 Billion that they lost wouldn't be there if we had to buy the stuff they try and feed us.
Of course this is what they release. Take a poll of who goes to movies. Smart people are more likely to do something else I'm sure. Read a book, exercise your brain in some way? Movies are the least brain activity of all compaired to TV. See Futerama - Brain Slug
Having posted the original post to start this, now I have to agree with you. While I do listen to books, I frequently listen to them 5 or 6 times to get the same reading comprehension that I used to get when I read the actual book. That is in the car at least. When you jog (outside or on treadmill) your motions are just repetitive. I can easily get lost in a good book and end up running farther, as I don't pay attention to the stress of actually running. There are always pro's and con's to everything. I agree overall, it is less literate to listen to a book. I did recently pick up a good book though, and realized that I can read just as well as I ever did (500 pages in about 8 hours with comprehension). I don't know if that comes from the large quantity of books that I read as a child though. I used to read a 500 page book a day all the way through High School. Overall, I don't know how audio books have helped or hindered the literate community though.
Both Audible and iTunes audio books support CD Burning out of the box.
I'm not arguing that you can't strip the DRM. The problem with the DRM is time involved in striping, and quality of said striped file. If you repeatedly burn and encode, I understand the file will downgrade. Now whether you can hear the difference is another thing, I for one have bad hearing so am unlikely to. It is still a hassle.
Also, I remember hearing on Buzz Out Loud that there is a program just for removing DRM in the software. The name escapes me, but it plays the song to itself through the analog hole and re encodes. Again, time in the process (even encoding at 48x+), and possibility of audio loss. DRM free is more desirable and as stated above in thread, will sell.
And in the mean time, very few have noticed that one of Microsoft's published future plans is to dumb down IT to the point where any idiot can do it with the right software support. This may or may not be a major threat, but once they figure out how to build an operating system that actually works, you had better watch out.
Just what I think! When server 2003 came out I was pissed. All my scripting, all my learning the prompt, all the code I learned to write and love. Turned into a check box for a monkey.
I disagree. I rarely if ever will pick up book anymore. I can't do it while I'm driving, while I'm jogging, or while I do a host of other things. Living in the greater Seattle area, a commute that takes an hour is common place. If you can figure out how to get back a useless hour of your time, I think that it is very profitable.
I understand this was originally causing quite a stir with Audible.com. Audible stats that it will not allow any non DRM books to be placed on there site. Even if the author requests that they do so. I know of one author mentioned on TWIT - This Week In Tech. (I believe was John C Dvorak, but can't remember) that we was not going to put his book up on Audible.com just for the reason he wanted it not DRM'd. With all the major book companies shifting to a none DRM format, I wonder if sites like this that are smaller will change there attitude.
You're right about that being the cheapest way to get a linux machine. I think the objection to that would be on principle more than anything else -- people won't want to pay the Vista license fee if they're not gonna actually use Vista. In fact, if you're trying to get value for money its a little annoying to know that your PC could have been cheaper if you didn't have to pay for s/w you're not going to use.
If you are going to be running Linux anyway, one might assume that you are above average PC user. That being said, why don't you build your own? There are a lot of places you can get a custom built one with no software installed. I live in WA State, and there is a local shop a few cities away, but they also ship. They will put in exactly what you want, or make suggestions if you don't know. They give a warranty on the hardware, and do offer software if you want it. I think they might even offer a Linux distro (Redhat?). Either way, you buy exactly the parts you want, minimal build fee, and no Vista license fee. Just a thought, if you like Linux, look around for a "build your own" store.
Dragon on a reasonably powerful PC might work, but until you can nail 110% correct recognition, in a crowded area, in a shitty little mic on a 400 MHz ARM processor, don't bother. You don't want to start arguing with your PocketPC about traffic and directions: No, I said Springfield, not Slingblade! *crash* I agree completely. I all ready have dealt with voice recognition when it came to a phone line I had. I was forced to speak the commands that I wanted off the menu options. I was always infuriated trying to accomplish anything, and learned that saying "agent" got me a live person. I always did that and never tried the system again. When on a phone if you can hit numbers for options, I frequently run around the menus and in the future memorize a sequence to get where I want fast. End result? I hate voice recognition.
We would have to make a few control groups. Once who drink only bottled water, wait that is just tap water anyway. Maybe we can find a group who aren't all ready using prescription drugs, oh wait. This is the US, never mind can't find a control there. Guess we can't do a study after all we have no control . . . on drugs.
Microsoft doesn't WANT IE to be compatible. Have the most popular browser and have it not be compatible, and you force everyone to be compatible with YOU
I would have to agree. IE5.5 was probably closer to Internet standards. Than at some point in there history, Microsoft realized they had a large market share and switched there thinking. "We are the big guys, lets make everyone follow us." There next versions forced others to code to there form. This wasn't widely accepted, as havening to program twice aggravated a lot of coders. This is forcing Microsoft to go back the other way after breaking there code in the first place.
I had a wireless modem from verizon. I lost it because I stayed at a guys house (payed rent and all) and had to use it to connect to the Internet for my own use. I tired to get it when I left, but he was unable to get a modem he bought to connect. Verizon told him it wasn't certified by the, and he had to pay $200 to buy one from them that may or may not work. 6 months later I still don't have my modem, because after 10 hours on the phone I refuse to deal with his problem, he won't give me the modem, and I now use wired anyway. I could argue, but thought of it makes me want to puke. Verizon sucks big chocolaty balls. Go Chef!!
My apologize, I am still trying to figure out who is saying what to who. I must admit that this is much more active of a forum than I have been part of before, so yes I have gotten confused. I will enjoy my stay, and one day hope to have something worth while to comment on.
Yes, I made a yahtzee game in excel. The reason I did this is that I sat at a desk on a graveyard shift stairing at a gate doing security waiting for someone to show up. I got bored to say the least. I wasn't allowed to play games on the computer, but I was allowed to do work on the office program. My solution? Write a game in excel to play and have a tab that was real data related to a project that I was working on. If someone walked up, I just switched tabs and I was working on a spreadsheet. On camera it just apeared as if I was useing excel (the camera on me wasn't as high res as the one's outside the perimeter). Hours of gameing fun, I evan ended up makeing a high score for the game. Nothin as high tech as this guy, but I was starting to work on other games when I ended up moveing to a better job.
Do VG mirror society or influence it? I guess it's kind of a feedback loop.
I think that Marcello answered your statement above in this thread chain. I also agree that the choir is the only one who is going to read it. The world is continuly biased on there thoughts. My example would be someone who belives in God, versus someone who doesn't. A person who belives in God is likely to read all kinda of books and studies relating to why he exists. A person who doesn't belive in god will read all kinds of books and studies on why evolution exists. I think that very few will look beyond there beliefs to try and understand the other side of the fence. It is much easier to just stick with what you belive, and follow that train of thought.
That being said this book will be more widely read by those who all ready belive that vilant video games are an escape and or anger manegment. It will likely be used to say, "Yes! see I knew that my belief was true." I feel that it is unlikely to be used to change someones belief. Take the Allegory of the Cave by Plato.
QUOTE: Another problem lies in the other prisoners not wanting to be freed: descending back into the cave would require that the freed prisoner's eyes adjust again, and for a time, he would be one of the ones identifying shapes on the wall. His eyes would be swamped by the darkness, and would take time to become acclimated. Therefore, he would not be able to identify the shapes on the wall as well as the other prisoners, making it seem as if his being taken to the surface completely ruined his eyesight.
Jerry Smith #806480
Timmarhy #659436
Jerry if your comment was directed at Tim for his attempt at a funny sig, I find it odd that you are newer to/. than Tim. Does that mean you are admiting you are in that 87%?
Go ahead, down mod me, I just wanted to make a point. I know there are people out there that read everything anyway.
Isn't there now an add compain going on in radio and TV over there telling you if you see strange activity in a house, a person with too many cell phones, or just strange behavior on the street to call a national hotline for terror? Arn't there camera's that talk back if you get unrulely on the street? I don't live in the UK, but listen to pod casts, and that is what I have been hearing from that neck in the woods, or CCTV in the surveillance as it is.
Scary, but true. I worked for a security company that was hired by another company for security. The higher ups did background checks, and part of that was to look into things such as myspace. some 5 years after a post had been put into mysapce, the person in question was out of college (a lot do stupid things in college) and on with his life. Yet when the parent company read the post that was 5 years old from bygone days? The employee was basicly harrased about it and put under a microscope to see if anything about it was left. Scary to think that a random forum post from the old days when you have grown up and no longer think like you did when you were a child can have such ramifications that you will quit a job do to the political pressure from your bosses. Yes, the employee with the myspace page quit within a week of there bringing it up.
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I don't think they would implement this, but wouldn't it be interesting if they made 3 parties. and whichever was president would be required to resign in congress and the senate? I.E. party one is president, congress and senate are party two and three, etc.
The Naked Scientist actully just had a Podcast [MP3 Link] about music and science. If you find music and science interesting, I think it is a good listen. Not quite on the string theory level, but non the less I think it is relivant.
That actually makes a lot of since. When you say you have to re-read it a few times, I'm assuming you me re-listen if you listen. I think the major advantage if you can read is being able to spell. With computer spell check (I copy and paste all posts from word) I can't spell much at all. I can comprehend the word, or use dictionary.com if I have to. From your post, I don't infer that you can't spell; your thoughts are straight forward and concise. I'm glad to hear that listening to books has widened your horizon.
But the question you have to ask is if you didn't download that movie for free, would you buy it to begin with? What is small inconvenience to download a movie and watch when you have time, comp aired to spending hard earned money on crap. I would bet that the 7 Billion that they lost wouldn't be there if we had to buy the stuff they try and feed us.
Of course this is what they release. Take a poll of who goes to movies. Smart people are more likely to do something else I'm sure. Read a book, exercise your brain in some way? Movies are the least brain activity of all compaired to TV. See Futerama - Brain Slug
Having posted the original post to start this, now I have to agree with you. While I do listen to books, I frequently listen to them 5 or 6 times to get the same reading comprehension that I used to get when I read the actual book. That is in the car at least. When you jog (outside or on treadmill) your motions are just repetitive. I can easily get lost in a good book and end up running farther, as I don't pay attention to the stress of actually running. There are always pro's and con's to everything. I agree overall, it is less literate to listen to a book. I did recently pick up a good book though, and realized that I can read just as well as I ever did (500 pages in about 8 hours with comprehension). I don't know if that comes from the large quantity of books that I read as a child though. I used to read a 500 page book a day all the way through High School. Overall, I don't know how audio books have helped or hindered the literate community though.
I'm not arguing that you can't strip the DRM. The problem with the DRM is time involved in striping, and quality of said striped file. If you repeatedly burn and encode, I understand the file will downgrade. Now whether you can hear the difference is another thing, I for one have bad hearing so am unlikely to. It is still a hassle.
Also, I remember hearing on Buzz Out Loud that there is a program just for removing DRM in the software. The name escapes me, but it plays the song to itself through the analog hole and re encodes. Again, time in the process (even encoding at 48x+), and possibility of audio loss. DRM free is more desirable and as stated above in thread, will sell.
Just what I think! When server 2003 came out I was pissed. All my scripting, all my learning the prompt, all the code I learned to write and love. Turned into a check box for a monkey.
I'm an unemployed IT personal. Should I move to India so I can get a visa and move back and work?
I disagree. I rarely if ever will pick up book anymore. I can't do it while I'm driving, while I'm jogging, or while I do a host of other things. Living in the greater Seattle area, a commute that takes an hour is common place. If you can figure out how to get back a useless hour of your time, I think that it is very profitable.
I understand this was originally causing quite a stir with Audible.com. Audible stats that it will not allow any non DRM books to be placed on there site. Even if the author requests that they do so. I know of one author mentioned on TWIT - This Week In Tech. (I believe was John C Dvorak, but can't remember) that we was not going to put his book up on Audible.com just for the reason he wanted it not DRM'd. With all the major book companies shifting to a none DRM format, I wonder if sites like this that are smaller will change there attitude.
Water can be dangrous. Look at all the drugs that they found in it? Prescription drugs found in water
If you are going to be running Linux anyway, one might assume that you are above average PC user. That being said, why don't you build your own? There are a lot of places you can get a custom built one with no software installed. I live in WA State, and there is a local shop a few cities away, but they also ship. They will put in exactly what you want, or make suggestions if you don't know. They give a warranty on the hardware, and do offer software if you want it. I think they might even offer a Linux distro (Redhat?). Either way, you buy exactly the parts you want, minimal build fee, and no Vista license fee. Just a thought, if you like Linux, look around for a "build your own" store.
We would have to make a few control groups. Once who drink only bottled water, wait that is just tap water anyway. Maybe we can find a group who aren't all ready using prescription drugs, oh wait. This is the US, never mind can't find a control there. Guess we can't do a study after all we have no control . . . on drugs.
I would have to agree. IE5.5 was probably closer to Internet standards. Than at some point in there history, Microsoft realized they had a large market share and switched there thinking. "We are the big guys, lets make everyone follow us." There next versions forced others to code to there form. This wasn't widely accepted, as havening to program twice aggravated a lot of coders. This is forcing Microsoft to go back the other way after breaking there code in the first place.
I had a wireless modem from verizon. I lost it because I stayed at a guys house (payed rent and all) and had to use it to connect to the Internet for my own use. I tired to get it when I left, but he was unable to get a modem he bought to connect. Verizon told him it wasn't certified by the, and he had to pay $200 to buy one from them that may or may not work. 6 months later I still don't have my modem, because after 10 hours on the phone I refuse to deal with his problem, he won't give me the modem, and I now use wired anyway. I could argue, but thought of it makes me want to puke. Verizon sucks big chocolaty balls. Go Chef!!
User-Generated Content Vs. Experts
/. proof that people are realizing that the wild west of the Internet isn't the best way to approach it?
Isn't this article on
My apologize, I am still trying to figure out who is saying what to who. I must admit that this is much more active of a forum than I have been part of before, so yes I have gotten confused. I will enjoy my stay, and one day hope to have something worth while to comment on.
Yahtzee!
Yes, I made a yahtzee game in excel. The reason I did this is that I sat at a desk on a graveyard shift stairing at a gate doing security waiting for someone to show up. I got bored to say the least. I wasn't allowed to play games on the computer, but I was allowed to do work on the office program. My solution? Write a game in excel to play and have a tab that was real data related to a project that I was working on. If someone walked up, I just switched tabs and I was working on a spreadsheet. On camera it just apeared as if I was useing excel (the camera on me wasn't as high res as the one's outside the perimeter). Hours of gameing fun, I evan ended up makeing a high score for the game. Nothin as high tech as this guy, but I was starting to work on other games when I ended up moveing to a better job.
by marcello_dl (667940) on Friday March 07, @04:11PM (#22683084) Homepage
Do VG mirror society or influence it? I guess it's kind of a feedback loop.
I think that Marcello answered your statement above in this thread chain. I also agree that the choir is the only one who is going to read it. The world is continuly biased on there thoughts. My example would be someone who belives in God, versus someone who doesn't. A person who belives in God is likely to read all kinda of books and studies relating to why he exists. A person who doesn't belive in god will read all kinds of books and studies on why evolution exists. I think that very few will look beyond there beliefs to try and understand the other side of the fence. It is much easier to just stick with what you belive, and follow that train of thought.
That being said this book will be more widely read by those who all ready belive that vilant video games are an escape and or anger manegment. It will likely be used to say, "Yes! see I knew that my belief was true." I feel that it is unlikely to be used to change someones belief. Take the Allegory of the Cave by Plato.
QUOTE:
Another problem lies in the other prisoners not wanting to be freed: descending back into the cave would require that the freed prisoner's eyes adjust again, and for a time, he would be one of the ones identifying shapes on the wall. His eyes would be swamped by the darkness, and would take time to become acclimated. Therefore, he would not be able to identify the shapes on the wall as well as the other prisoners, making it seem as if his being taken to the surface completely ruined his eyesight.
People want to believe what they want to believe.
Jerry Smith #806480 Timmarhy #659436 Jerry if your comment was directed at Tim for his attempt at a funny sig, I find it odd that you are newer to /. than Tim. Does that mean you are admiting you are in that 87%?
Go ahead, down mod me, I just wanted to make a point. I know there are people out there that read everything anyway.
Isn't there now an add compain going on in radio and TV over there telling you if you see strange activity in a house, a person with too many cell phones, or just strange behavior on the street to call a national hotline for terror? Arn't there camera's that talk back if you get unrulely on the street? I don't live in the UK, but listen to pod casts, and that is what I have been hearing from that neck in the woods, or CCTV in the surveillance as it is.
Scary, but true. I worked for a security company that was hired by another company for security. The higher ups did background checks, and part of that was to look into things such as myspace. some 5 years after a post had been put into mysapce, the person in question was out of college (a lot do stupid things in college) and on with his life. Yet when the parent company read the post that was 5 years old from bygone days? The employee was basicly harrased about it and put under a microscope to see if anything about it was left. Scary to think that a random forum post from the old days when you have grown up and no longer think like you did when you were a child can have such ramifications that you will quit a job do to the political pressure from your bosses. Yes, the employee with the myspace page quit within a week of there bringing it up.