Which is why I said those people who believe they are suffering from this sensitivity should learn to live with it or move to location that has less of it.
The problem is that I struggled on my own for 6 agonizing years to prove the pain I was suffering from wasn't psychological or just an excuse to get pain medication. Thankfully, one Doctor who did his homework finally found the reason for my pain; unfortunately it was too late and the damage done to my nerves are permanent. So, it's hard for me to say, "These people are just plain nuts".
Who are we to think we know it all and can, without any room for doubt, declare these people insane? Are MOST of the arguements concerning these people not correct? They sure seem to be, but perhaps, just perhaps, our understanding of everything involved in this isn't as complete as we believe it to be?
Am I saying people should be sued for this? No, if someone has a true sensitivity to whatever is happening in a Wi-Fi setting, that's not the Wi-Fi's producers fault, it just means you have to learn to live with it or go somewhere where this won't be all that bad for you.
Until we can be absolutely sure we know everything about everything, I'll say there's a possibility. I have to, considering what happened to me in the past, I'm just not going to be like those "professionals" that refused to look harder because they thought they knew it all too. I would rather see a full study on each person performed. Whatever it proves, Wi-Fi sensitive or not, perhaps we can find the reason for their suffering and help aleviate it.
Personally I think parents do a great harm to their children by allowing them to have a TV in their room, or a cell phone just like all the other kids have, or INet Access in their rooms.
Sure, the distractions are out there, but it's the parents job to keep those away from their kids, not the kids job to ignore them.
While it's true, growing up there were less "Technological" distractions, we had our share of distractions none the less. Remember that Refrigerator box you turned into Jupiter 2 and flew across the Universe? How about those "woods" only a block away that you could explore for hours without ever getting bored? Or those Caves those men are making, if you go around to the other entrance you can get in without getting caught!
Our distractions were there, they were just different. Our parents had the same job then, as we have today. Let our kids be dreamers, but only after they've done the chores, completed their homework, had dinner, and it's not past 9:00PM. Today's kids just need a strong guiding hand like we had to weave their way through these distractions, and as Parents we need to provide that guidance.
Being someone that has just finished going thru the whole damn Disability process, this is mis-information designed to make the SSA look good.
The problem isn't that the records don't arrive in a timely manner, the real issue is the ridiculous way SSA goes about processing requests.
After filing my Disability Claim, two months later, SSA asks me to go see one of their "approved" Doctors. I arrived for my appointment, was taken to an exam room, and when the Doctor came in was greeted with, "So, what brings you to my office?" I had to explain to him I was here for a Disability exam. He asked me why I was in pain, to which I replied I had ACM (http://www.wacma.com) and he said, "What's that?" This is when I figured out the government sent me to a Physiarist (Muscle Doctor) when my issues are Neurological. This Doctor gave me a10 minute exam, not even a Neurological Exam, and then said "Thanks, you can leave". Of course, his report claimed I was fine, and of course, SSA denied my claim.
After this I filed my appeal, got an attorney to handle it, and waited, and waited, and waited. Three years went by, and finally I got my Disability Hearing this past February. I received my Disability Hearing Results in 2 weeks, and was found to be fully Disabled and part of the record reads that the Judge gave NO WEIGHT to the Govt., Doctor because he didn't exam me correctly.
The facts speak clearly for themselves. 99% of the first filing for Disability are Denied. Those that file an appeal, 75% are approved. The problem, and of course this is govt. so that explains a lot, is that the SSA is denying claims hoping to get rid of the fakers, but then making millions of people wait for hearings when they know they are disabled.
Sorry, this "getting records" quickly BS won't make anything quicker, knowing the govt,. it will somehow slow it down.
One last fact for you to chew on, when I got notice of my Hearing, it was 30 days before the hearing. The Court and Atty., were able to received updated Medical Records from my Hospital and Doctors in a timely manner and were there quickly enough to be added into the record and burned on a CD. Not sure why they now claim they don't get records in a timely manner.
personally, i feel that you want the general public engaged in science, any way you can, even if that involves purposeful misconceptions or blowing things out of proportion.
Don't we have enough of this with people stating that the THEORY of Evolution is both FACT and THEORY?
Let's not forget, it's the VOTER'S right to ask for assistance using whatever type of system is in place for them.
Voters can also instruct the helpers to vote for the candidate of their choosing so they don't need to even touch a machine if they don't want to.
While no one wants to look stupid, I think making sure your VOTE goes towards your Candidate trumps feeling stupid or not. This is your VOTE, it's your responsibility to be sure it goes to the person you want elected.
All too often Society believes that these machines take our Responsibility away from us, they don't. NOTHING will ever be fool proof and it's up to the VOTER to be sure their votes got counted and counted correctly.
The problem with your argument is you fail to take in the courts decision against MS tying their OS with Explorer, Search, et al.
It's not a far jump from this courts decision to making Apple live up to the same precedent. With Apple keeping things out of the court systems, it says to me, that Apple realizes they are one step away from providing an OS and making their own Hardware. Once that has been breached, Apple will have a hard time "bundling" all their cutsy items with their OS the way MS use to do.
If Apple wasn't offering Psystar something pretty significant, most likely the ability to make low-priced MAC's exclusively, I doubt Psystar would even be entertaining this "quitely squashed" solution.
I had the pleasure to meet Richard Garriot at E3 a few years ago.
You would think some bigwig like Mr. Garriot would go out to eat, but no, he was standing in line with the rest of us schmoe's at the cafeteria.
I didn't even take notice of who was who until someone asked if they could sit at the only empty chair across from me, to which I muttered "whatever" and went on reading my material. When I finally looked up, I was shocked to say the least. The interesting thing was that Mr. Garriot spent the hour and a half talking to me, laughing at his past antics, moaning about all that money he had to spend on his "castle sinking". Even when we were interrupted by the occasional fan asking for his autograph, this man never once got upset or even looked cross.
I'm not much for meeting a lot of the Game Developer Gods, I've had my share of not-so-good meetings, but I will say "Good for you Richard", reach for the moon, if you miss, you will still be among the stars!
NASA hasn't just lost communication with Hubble, it's no longer there. An intergallactic Spaceship has entered our system and is currently use other satellites to coordinate a world wide attack.
Where's Will Smith when we need him!
Given that the US Military is already involved in IRAQ (Whether you agreed with it or not), and if we leave the country it could disintegrate into a full Civil War and millions could die, what is your plan for removing the troops without this occurring?
Actually, if a Private Company puts in place a retention policy, that also includes a policy concerning who owns the emails (the company most of the time), then the judge in any jurisdiction should be happy if the Company can show the policy and that it is strictly enforced.
This doesn't mean the judge won't order the IT Dept. to search for any emails dealing with whatever the company is in litigation for, but it also means the IT Dept. doesn't have to lose a bunch of hours doing work for other lawyers. Just provide the lawyers with copies of whatever backup tapes you have and say, "Here you go, this is all we have".
The problem with this is, most private companies also like to do yearly backups that contain all emails that went and came for the last year, which of course, is usually against their own Retention Policy, but some bosses just have to have their cake and eat it to.
I last worked for a Local City structure, and we had a very aggressive retention policy.
Everyone except management or higher, were to keep only 10 days worth of email in their inboxes, but we did allow people to move important emails into other folders for safe-keeping.
Management and higher officials, were required to save 30 days worth of email in their inboxes, but they could also put emails into other folders for safe-keeping.
The IT Dept., was required to do NIGHTLY backups, and send off-site the Friday Tapes, which would be kept at a undisclosed location by a private firm would that would keep 3 months of backups.
We also would keep a quarterly tape for each quarter so we could always recover emails from each quarter, and finally, a yearly backup, made from the quaterly tapes, so yes, we would have a complete years worth of emails for everyone. We were too keep the yearly email backups for eternity I think.
This was a pain in the a** to put all together and keep track of, but it also ensured we would be ready for ANY Public Records request that came our way, and they did about every week.
It's a lot different in the private sector, where you don't have to answer to Public Records Requests.
Being a LONG TERM Resident of Second Life I think I can shine some more light on this subject then the LA Times is able to.
Yes, it's true, the Resident Numbers shown on the Website are over-inflated, by about 7.5 million I would say, and even then I would consider it suspicious. Linden Lab began allowing FREE ACCT's over a year ago, and many of the regular Residents of course decided they wanted a FREE Alternate Acct to mess with. Since there is not active way to track these FREE ACCT's, (LL doesn't track based on IP and MAC Address) there is no real way to tell how many of these FREE ACCTs are for already established Residents and how many are for New Residents coming into the world.
Yes, it's also true, there's a large part of the Resident Community that get their kicks out of Virtual Sex. This is true with just about any Online World though, so there's no real big news here.
Yes, it's also true as well, that there is a SMALL contingent of Residents that vehemently oppose the commercialization of the Second Life world. These groups actively seek out Commercial establishments and hold regular protests. The LA TIMES is incorrect those in assuming that MOST of the Community is against these Commercial establishments. The thing is, with the Commercial establishments, they usuall BUY their OWN ISLAND, therefore, if you don't want to go there, you don't have to. Most of the Resident Community might visit these Commercial Islands once or twice, but after that they figure, "So what else is new?" It's not that they don't like the Commercialization, its just simple that there's nothing new about them. Just another store to visit, big deal, we've been to stores before, and quite frankly, a Car Dealership showing new models in SL doesn't really do it for many people. Now if say someone like Netflix or Blockbuster came to SL, and rented movies, then you would see people flocking to them. It's a matter of the right product for the Community, not that the Community doesn't want them there. On a side note to this example, there are DVD stores in Second Life that are renting DVD's. This has been brought to the attention of Linden Lab, but they feel until the MPAA actually tells them to remove the offending material, then they don't really have to do anything about the illegality of this.
Which brings us to the REAL REASON the Commercial avenues are disappearing in Second Life. It's got little to do with the "assumptions" given in the LA TIMES, it has everything to do with a very unstable World and the amount of BUGS that continue to plague the world. A day doesn't go by that I don't hear from someone that has spent a considerable amount of Linden Dollars (in-world currency) and when they went to put the product out on their property, it simply disappeared and never returned. Linden Lab of course, says they can do nothing about reimbursing the people for this major issue, yet provide no fix to this issue that has now lasted over three months. Not only that, but it was recently divulged in-world by the BUG TEAM members that BUG REPORTS that don't have REPRODUCABLE steps are ignored because, as they put it, they just don't have time to try and figure those out. Yet, the bug list still has bugs listed over 4 years ago on it. The BUG TEAM also has decided it would be a good idea to let the Community VOTE on which bugs will be fixed first. I would say if you like BUG tracking and coding, a great place to work would be at Linden Lab, since they are still waiting to be told by the Resident Community what BUGS to fix first. Of course, Linden Lab has failed to provide some venue in which to "vote" on these issues, so I guess the BUG people are just taking the summer off. Also, Linden Lab continues to add more and more enhancements to Second Life, which continues to increase the stress on the GRID. A month or so ago, Linden Lab introduced a new enhancement called WINDLIGHT to the world. It's purpose was to make the worlds SKY more realistic and "prettier". Once the enhancement was added, peopl
I have used MusicMatch since it's inception, and loved it. My friends all sword by WINAMP and others, but there was something about MusicMatch that was more appealing.
You COULD RIP CD's, download network stream music and save it to your Music Library so it will always be there, Play Radio of your Favorite Music Genre, and loads of other things.
Now, after "upgrading" here's what I get. Constant stream interruption from Yahoo, as they must check my "license". LESS music from the UNLIMITED listen area. Before you could find just about ANYONE, now, IF you find your favorite 60's band (shut up, it's already established that I'm old), you are lucky if there are more then 8 tracks for you to choose. Just this past evening (I'm suffering thru some insomnia) I was listening to the "Classic Rock" channel and no less then 4 times did the Stream stop because Yahoo was trying to check for a license. Apparently they were having trouble checking, because I was told the music stopped because they couldn't find a license for it. The instructions on the screen said I should DOWNGRADE my MusicMatch to 8.1 and use it instead.
I really was hopeful that since Yahoo took things over, they might actually improve the service; although it didn't need MUCH improvement. As it stands right now though, when September 1 comes (my due date for renewal) if things haven't changed, I'll be looking for a new music streaming source, suggestions friends?
The DOCUMENT was, and still is, considered a State Secret. Whether or not you read it, doesn't mean you can do anything about it. In order for the Wiretapping Cases to go forward, the govt. will have to "unseal" this document, and that probably won't happen for another 200 years or so.
Remember, the court was using "Circular Logic" to drop the case. You can't sue because you can't prove you were harmed. You can't prove you were harmed because the documents you want are State Secrets and therefore can't be used. Of course, this is the kind of thing I would have expected to read in a Russian Court in the 1980's, no offense to our Comrades here.
If any of you are Don McLean Fans (yes, I'm a bit older then most), then you know Don SHARES the Chords to his songs freely. Since the RIAA owns the copyrights of these songs, I guess that means that all Don McLean fans that learn his songs, from HIS chords, will be going to jail.
I know I'm "preaching to the choir" here, but the RIAA is so over-stepping their boundaries here and just about every where else they go. I can't understand how some Federal Judge with these new counter-suits going on hasn't slapped a temporary injunction on the RIAA for possible relief from their illegal activities.
Taking down the RIAA would be a simple matter of a Class Action Lawsuit, once the "victims of the RIAA" could prove the RIAA's illegal activities, and there seems to be enough court room documentation for that, the courts could force the RIAA to bring ANYTHING to a Federal Judge before acting on it for a Judicial Review.
Of course, INAL, but I've seen Matlock a lot of times:)
This is flipped flopped in my family. Both my Father and I were the LAST BORN sons in the family and yet, we both have noticeably higher IQ's then our siblings.
This isn't saying all that much, since my "older" brother started out decent in the Navy, stalled there, then took countless dead-end jobs and now is working at a Security Company, you should seriously fear if he's in charge of your cargo:)
Not being a farmer, when I came to live with my sister and her husband, I have become quite spell-bound when my brother-in-law tells me his "Farm" Stories.
One of those, he recounts to me, is about this guy that bought a new Ford F250 and found he was getting 30mpg no matter how he drove it. On the Farm, on the Highway, in the city, no matter what he did, he got 30mpg. Instead of thanking his lucky stars and keeping this a secret, the guy returns the truck to the dealership, where they take it from him and tell him they have to order him a new one. Apparently, this F250 was made for Saudi Arabia and not to be used in the US.
So, I got to ask this. Are those folk-stories true that the BIG Car Companies having gobbled up the technology that would allows to get 60, 70, 80, or even 90mpg in our autos and trucks? And if so, then why would we even have to consider hybrids?
Just one of those hmmmm moments
You know, I was just passing this bye, and thought, interesting viewpoint. Then I went back to my google browser page and said,
"You know what, this person needs a high-five"!
HIGH-FIVE
I really do appreciate what you said, that those people that label themselves really mean, "My way or the highway". While I agree with you totally, in the respect of politics, I will say, as a devout Christian, I do believe GOD said that in so many words, but then if you have a problem with that, you should take it up with GOD and not me:)
But overall, I loved your sentiment and wanted to applaud you for stating it!
Josh:
You won't believe how excited I am that you are teaching kids to think outside the box. I got this feeling that Conner wanted to know if the EJECT command could be used to open all other machines on the network and you said, "Figure it out". It's great to see kids that age getting excited and learning something they will be able to carry on to their future.
Keep up the great work!
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Which is why I said those people who believe they are suffering from this sensitivity should learn to live with it or move to location that has less of it.
The problem is that I struggled on my own for 6 agonizing years to prove the pain I was suffering from wasn't psychological or just an excuse to get pain medication. Thankfully, one Doctor who did his homework finally found the reason for my pain; unfortunately it was too late and the damage done to my nerves are permanent. So, it's hard for me to say, "These people are just plain nuts".
Who are we to think we know it all and can, without any room for doubt, declare these people insane? Are MOST of the arguements concerning these people not correct? They sure seem to be, but perhaps, just perhaps, our understanding of everything involved in this isn't as complete as we believe it to be?
Am I saying people should be sued for this? No, if someone has a true sensitivity to whatever is happening in a Wi-Fi setting, that's not the Wi-Fi's producers fault, it just means you have to learn to live with it or go somewhere where this won't be all that bad for you.
Until we can be absolutely sure we know everything about everything, I'll say there's a possibility. I have to, considering what happened to me in the past, I'm just not going to be like those "professionals" that refused to look harder because they thought they knew it all too. I would rather see a full study on each person performed. Whatever it proves, Wi-Fi sensitive or not, perhaps we can find the reason for their suffering and help aleviate it.
Personally I think parents do a great harm to their children by allowing them to have a TV in their room, or a cell phone just like all the other kids have, or INet Access in their rooms.
Sure, the distractions are out there, but it's the parents job to keep those away from their kids, not the kids job to ignore them.
While it's true, growing up there were less "Technological" distractions, we had our share of distractions none the less. Remember that Refrigerator box you turned into Jupiter 2 and flew across the Universe? How about those "woods" only a block away that you could explore for hours without ever getting bored? Or those Caves those men are making, if you go around to the other entrance you can get in without getting caught!
Our distractions were there, they were just different. Our parents had the same job then, as we have today. Let our kids be dreamers, but only after they've done the chores, completed their homework, had dinner, and it's not past 9:00PM. Today's kids just need a strong guiding hand like we had to weave their way through these distractions, and as Parents we need to provide that guidance.
Sorry friends, but this is just plain wrong.
Being someone that has just finished going thru the whole damn Disability process, this is mis-information designed to make the SSA look good.
The problem isn't that the records don't arrive in a timely manner, the real issue is the ridiculous way SSA goes about processing requests.
After filing my Disability Claim, two months later, SSA asks me to go see one of their "approved" Doctors. I arrived for my appointment, was taken to an exam room, and when the Doctor came in was greeted with, "So, what brings you to my office?" I had to explain to him I was here for a Disability exam. He asked me why I was in pain, to which I replied I had ACM (http://www.wacma.com) and he said, "What's that?" This is when I figured out the government sent me to a Physiarist (Muscle Doctor) when my issues are Neurological. This Doctor gave me a10 minute exam, not even a Neurological Exam, and then said "Thanks, you can leave". Of course, his report claimed I was fine, and of course, SSA denied my claim.
After this I filed my appeal, got an attorney to handle it, and waited, and waited, and waited. Three years went by, and finally I got my Disability Hearing this past February. I received my Disability Hearing Results in 2 weeks, and was found to be fully Disabled and part of the record reads that the Judge gave NO WEIGHT to the Govt., Doctor because he didn't exam me correctly.
The facts speak clearly for themselves. 99% of the first filing for Disability are Denied. Those that file an appeal, 75% are approved. The problem, and of course this is govt. so that explains a lot, is that the SSA is denying claims hoping to get rid of the fakers, but then making millions of people wait for hearings when they know they are disabled.
Sorry, this "getting records" quickly BS won't make anything quicker, knowing the govt,. it will somehow slow it down.
One last fact for you to chew on, when I got notice of my Hearing, it was 30 days before the hearing. The Court and Atty., were able to received updated Medical Records from my Hospital and Doctors in a timely manner and were there quickly enough to be added into the record and burned on a CD. Not sure why they now claim they don't get records in a timely manner.
Bob
personally, i feel that you want the general public engaged in science, any way you can, even if that involves purposeful misconceptions or blowing things out of proportion.
Don't we have enough of this with people stating that the THEORY of Evolution is both FACT and THEORY?
Let's not forget, it's the VOTER'S right to ask for assistance using whatever type of system is in place for them.
Voters can also instruct the helpers to vote for the candidate of their choosing so they don't need to even touch a machine if they don't want to.
While no one wants to look stupid, I think making sure your VOTE goes towards your Candidate trumps feeling stupid or not. This is your VOTE, it's your responsibility to be sure it goes to the person you want elected.
All too often Society believes that these machines take our Responsibility away from us, they don't. NOTHING will ever be fool proof and it's up to the VOTER to be sure their votes got counted and counted correctly.
This way you can give some credence to the Mayan's prediction that something tragic will happen.
How many of them have reached the Space Stage?
How many are still Tribal? Or Civ?
I think you should consult Will Wright about this!
The problem with your argument is you fail to take in the courts decision against MS tying their OS with Explorer, Search, et al.
It's not a far jump from this courts decision to making Apple live up to the same precedent. With Apple keeping things out of the court systems, it says to me, that Apple realizes they are one step away from providing an OS and making their own Hardware. Once that has been breached, Apple will have a hard time "bundling" all their cutsy items with their OS the way MS use to do.
If Apple wasn't offering Psystar something pretty significant, most likely the ability to make low-priced MAC's exclusively, I doubt Psystar would even be entertaining this "quitely squashed" solution.
I thought any posting about Microsoft had to be hate-filled and fear-mongered at /.
Aren't you going to get in trouble for posting that Microsoft actually did something right?
I had the pleasure to meet Richard Garriot at E3 a few years ago.
You would think some bigwig like Mr. Garriot would go out to eat, but no, he was standing in line with the rest of us schmoe's at the cafeteria.
I didn't even take notice of who was who until someone asked if they could sit at the only empty chair across from me, to which I muttered "whatever" and went on reading my material. When I finally looked up, I was shocked to say the least. The interesting thing was that Mr. Garriot spent the hour and a half talking to me, laughing at his past antics, moaning about all that money he had to spend on his "castle sinking". Even when we were interrupted by the occasional fan asking for his autograph, this man never once got upset or even looked cross.
I'm not much for meeting a lot of the Game Developer Gods, I've had my share of not-so-good meetings, but I will say "Good for you Richard", reach for the moon, if you miss, you will still be among the stars!
NASA hasn't just lost communication with Hubble, it's no longer there. An intergallactic Spaceship has entered our system and is currently use other satellites to coordinate a world wide attack. Where's Will Smith when we need him!
Given that the US Military is already involved in IRAQ (Whether you agreed with it or not), and if we leave the country it could disintegrate into a full Civil War and millions could die, what is your plan for removing the troops without this occurring?
Actually, if a Private Company puts in place a retention policy, that also includes a policy concerning who owns the emails (the company most of the time), then the judge in any jurisdiction should be happy if the Company can show the policy and that it is strictly enforced.
This doesn't mean the judge won't order the IT Dept. to search for any emails dealing with whatever the company is in litigation for, but it also means the IT Dept. doesn't have to lose a bunch of hours doing work for other lawyers. Just provide the lawyers with copies of whatever backup tapes you have and say, "Here you go, this is all we have".
The problem with this is, most private companies also like to do yearly backups that contain all emails that went and came for the last year, which of course, is usually against their own Retention Policy, but some bosses just have to have their cake and eat it to.
I last worked for a Local City structure, and we had a very aggressive retention policy.
Everyone except management or higher, were to keep only 10 days worth of email in their inboxes, but we did allow people to move important emails into other folders for safe-keeping.
Management and higher officials, were required to save 30 days worth of email in their inboxes, but they could also put emails into other folders for safe-keeping.
The IT Dept., was required to do NIGHTLY backups, and send off-site the Friday Tapes, which would be kept at a undisclosed location by a private firm would that would keep 3 months of backups.
We also would keep a quarterly tape for each quarter so we could always recover emails from each quarter, and finally, a yearly backup, made from the quaterly tapes, so yes, we would have a complete years worth of emails for everyone. We were too keep the yearly email backups for eternity I think.
This was a pain in the a** to put all together and keep track of, but it also ensured we would be ready for ANY Public Records request that came our way, and they did about every week.
It's a lot different in the private sector, where you don't have to answer to Public Records Requests.
Being a LONG TERM Resident of Second Life I think I can shine some more light on this subject then the LA Times is able to.
Yes, it's true, the Resident Numbers shown on the Website are over-inflated, by about 7.5 million I would say, and even then I would consider it suspicious. Linden Lab began allowing FREE ACCT's over a year ago, and many of the regular Residents of course decided they wanted a FREE Alternate Acct to mess with. Since there is not active way to track these FREE ACCT's, (LL doesn't track based on IP and MAC Address) there is no real way to tell how many of these FREE ACCTs are for already established Residents and how many are for New Residents coming into the world.
Yes, it's also true, there's a large part of the Resident Community that get their kicks out of Virtual Sex. This is true with just about any Online World though, so there's no real big news here.
Yes, it's also true as well, that there is a SMALL contingent of Residents that vehemently oppose the commercialization of the Second Life world. These groups actively seek out Commercial establishments and hold regular protests. The LA TIMES is incorrect those in assuming that MOST of the Community is against these Commercial establishments. The thing is, with the Commercial establishments, they usuall BUY their OWN ISLAND, therefore, if you don't want to go there, you don't have to. Most of the Resident Community might visit these Commercial Islands once or twice, but after that they figure, "So what else is new?" It's not that they don't like the Commercialization, its just simple that there's nothing new about them. Just another store to visit, big deal, we've been to stores before, and quite frankly, a Car Dealership showing new models in SL doesn't really do it for many people. Now if say someone like Netflix or Blockbuster came to SL, and rented movies, then you would see people flocking to them. It's a matter of the right product for the Community, not that the Community doesn't want them there. On a side note to this example, there are DVD stores in Second Life that are renting DVD's. This has been brought to the attention of Linden Lab, but they feel until the MPAA actually tells them to remove the offending material, then they don't really have to do anything about the illegality of this.
Which brings us to the REAL REASON the Commercial avenues are disappearing in Second Life. It's got little to do with the "assumptions" given in the LA TIMES, it has everything to do with a very unstable World and the amount of BUGS that continue to plague the world. A day doesn't go by that I don't hear from someone that has spent a considerable amount of Linden Dollars (in-world currency) and when they went to put the product out on their property, it simply disappeared and never returned. Linden Lab of course, says they can do nothing about reimbursing the people for this major issue, yet provide no fix to this issue that has now lasted over three months. Not only that, but it was recently divulged in-world by the BUG TEAM members that BUG REPORTS that don't have REPRODUCABLE steps are ignored because, as they put it, they just don't have time to try and figure those out. Yet, the bug list still has bugs listed over 4 years ago on it. The BUG TEAM also has decided it would be a good idea to let the Community VOTE on which bugs will be fixed first. I would say if you like BUG tracking and coding, a great place to work would be at Linden Lab, since they are still waiting to be told by the Resident Community what BUGS to fix first. Of course, Linden Lab has failed to provide some venue in which to "vote" on these issues, so I guess the BUG people are just taking the summer off. Also, Linden Lab continues to add more and more enhancements to Second Life, which continues to increase the stress on the GRID. A month or so ago, Linden Lab introduced a new enhancement called WINDLIGHT to the world. It's purpose was to make the worlds SKY more realistic and "prettier". Once the enhancement was added, peopl
I have used MusicMatch since it's inception, and loved it. My friends all sword by WINAMP and others, but there was something about MusicMatch that was more appealing.
You COULD RIP CD's, download network stream music and save it to your Music Library so it will always be there, Play Radio of your Favorite Music Genre, and loads of other things.
Now, after "upgrading" here's what I get. Constant stream interruption from Yahoo, as they must check my "license". LESS music from the UNLIMITED listen area. Before you could find just about ANYONE, now, IF you find your favorite 60's band (shut up, it's already established that I'm old), you are lucky if there are more then 8 tracks for you to choose. Just this past evening (I'm suffering thru some insomnia) I was listening to the "Classic Rock" channel and no less then 4 times did the Stream stop because Yahoo was trying to check for a license. Apparently they were having trouble checking, because I was told the music stopped because they couldn't find a license for it. The instructions on the screen said I should DOWNGRADE my MusicMatch to 8.1 and use it instead.
I really was hopeful that since Yahoo took things over, they might actually improve the service; although it didn't need MUCH improvement. As it stands right now though, when September 1 comes (my due date for renewal) if things haven't changed, I'll be looking for a new music streaming source, suggestions friends?
The DOCUMENT was, and still is, considered a State Secret. Whether or not you read it, doesn't mean you can do anything about it. In order for the Wiretapping Cases to go forward, the govt. will have to "unseal" this document, and that probably won't happen for another 200 years or so.
Remember, the court was using "Circular Logic" to drop the case. You can't sue because you can't prove you were harmed. You can't prove you were harmed because the documents you want are State Secrets and therefore can't be used. Of course, this is the kind of thing I would have expected to read in a Russian Court in the 1980's, no offense to our Comrades here.
If any of you are Don McLean Fans (yes, I'm a bit older then most), then you know Don SHARES the Chords to his songs freely. Since the RIAA owns the copyrights of these songs, I guess that means that all Don McLean fans that learn his songs, from HIS chords, will be going to jail. I know I'm "preaching to the choir" here, but the RIAA is so over-stepping their boundaries here and just about every where else they go. I can't understand how some Federal Judge with these new counter-suits going on hasn't slapped a temporary injunction on the RIAA for possible relief from their illegal activities. Taking down the RIAA would be a simple matter of a Class Action Lawsuit, once the "victims of the RIAA" could prove the RIAA's illegal activities, and there seems to be enough court room documentation for that, the courts could force the RIAA to bring ANYTHING to a Federal Judge before acting on it for a Judicial Review. Of course, INAL, but I've seen Matlock a lot of times :)
This is flipped flopped in my family. Both my Father and I were the LAST BORN sons in the family and yet, we both have noticeably higher IQ's then our siblings.
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This isn't saying all that much, since my "older" brother started out decent in the Navy, stalled there, then took countless dead-end jobs and now is working at a Security Company, you should seriously fear if he's in charge of your cargo
Sorry bro, just telling the truth!
The most irritating word of the day is CRACKERS!
Not being a farmer, when I came to live with my sister and her husband, I have become quite spell-bound when my brother-in-law tells me his "Farm" Stories. One of those, he recounts to me, is about this guy that bought a new Ford F250 and found he was getting 30mpg no matter how he drove it. On the Farm, on the Highway, in the city, no matter what he did, he got 30mpg. Instead of thanking his lucky stars and keeping this a secret, the guy returns the truck to the dealership, where they take it from him and tell him they have to order him a new one. Apparently, this F250 was made for Saudi Arabia and not to be used in the US. So, I got to ask this. Are those folk-stories true that the BIG Car Companies having gobbled up the technology that would allows to get 60, 70, 80, or even 90mpg in our autos and trucks? And if so, then why would we even have to consider hybrids? Just one of those hmmmm moments
Sounds like real life to me...God help us, "The Running Man" era is here!
You know, I was just passing this bye, and thought, interesting viewpoint. Then I went back to my google browser page and said, "You know what, this person needs a high-five"! HIGH-FIVE I really do appreciate what you said, that those people that label themselves really mean, "My way or the highway". While I agree with you totally, in the respect of politics, I will say, as a devout Christian, I do believe GOD said that in so many words, but then if you have a problem with that, you should take it up with GOD and not me :)
But overall, I loved your sentiment and wanted to applaud you for stating it!
Josh: You won't believe how excited I am that you are teaching kids to think outside the box. I got this feeling that Conner wanted to know if the EJECT command could be used to open all other machines on the network and you said, "Figure it out". It's great to see kids that age getting excited and learning something they will be able to carry on to their future. Keep up the great work!