How does the Department of Education play an important role exactly? When I first read Ron Paul's views on educations, I thought "wow, this guy doesn't like education?" However, I've learned that since the inception of the Department of Education, educational standards have only decreased while higher education has become less affordable. Seriously, why is it that educational costs have skyrocketed (beyond the rate of inflation) over the past 20-30 years? Hmm...
We have ourselves one worthless government agency.
And isn't it creepy that our government dictates learning curriculum anyways?
I want a president that will either fix our welfare state (super democrat), or just get rid of the shit that's broken (super conservative).
The thing is, I take only 5 seconds to tune. It's not the crowd problem. When I think of a guitar with automatic tuning, I'm envisioning one that tunes your guitar while you're playing, not between songs. So imagine, you're halfway through your song, you smack a chord too hard, or your singer bumps into your headstock, or who knows what, you go out of tune and you're forced to play the remainer of your song out of key. Then you try desperately tuning in the middle of a song (which I've gotten good at without being noticeable). That's where electric tuning would be sweet, but I like a lot of the people, am doubtful it'll be any time soon it's perfected. C'mon though, wouldn't it be rad?:)
I'm talking about playing live shows. You obviously have never played one, otherwise you'd know that in front of large crowds, you tend to hit the strings harder than normal. I've been a professional musician for 10 years. I'm pretty sure I know how to stretch my strings. Machine heads are one of the first things I change out, even on a higher-end guitar.
... at least I hope it is anyways. I've grown quite dependent of tuning electronically, which I'm trying to steer away from, but this is a MUST HAVE for anyone who performs live. Nothing is more embarrassing that your strings detuning a performance. And I don't play on cheap equipment.
I've attempted installing 7.04 on five different systems:
1. Abit AB9-Pro Core 2 Duo System
2. Dell Inspiron 1100
3. Dell Inspiron 2500
4. Dell Inspiron 2600
5. Toshiba Laptop (I forget the model, single core Celeron 2.0ghz)
The AB9-Pro system would get to the Live CD options but would freeze with graphical issues. The Inspiron 1100 installed without a hitch, but in 640x480 which required a LOT of tweaking and eventually, X Server would come up with errors and wouldn't even boot thereafter.
The final three laptops would get past the Live CD options but wouldn't get beyond X Server graphic errors.
I used two different copies of Ubuntu 7.04, X Ubuntu and Ubuntu Alternate with the same errors each time. I know this wasn't related to my burning methods.
I then downloaded PCLinuxOS (which I'm using now) and it installed without a hitch on both my AB9-Pro and my Inspiron 1100 (which I'm using now).
When I first started working for my current employer, we had a Macintosh network of roughly 20-30 Macs and a Mac server, all using OSX. Though I was very much PC biased when I started, I did grow to enjoy the Mac platform. They make a great MP3 player. *snicker*
After working with the existing Mac network for a few years and getting very familiar with the inner workings, I have to say, Macs are expensive and slow and limited beyond practicality when it comes to business software solutions.
Those who say "they make a product that just works," we've had several motherboards go tits up and the cost of repairing the computers damn near leaves them totaled. In fact my bosses laptop's hard drive died and he was quoted (from 1 of 2 of the only decent Mac vendors in the state) $800 dollars to repair / replace the drive. I took it upon myself to replace it and found out the hard way that hard drive replacement is a surgery that requires 20-30 screws removed, some hidden under keys. If that's not a sign that Apple is the next evil empire, I don't know what is.
And Apple support? Forget it. I'd talk to the gypsies that work the Dell call centers any day.
At any rate, the office manager that fooled the president into deploying a full-Mac network has since left. We have begun to phase out the Macs. Cleaning up the Apple mess left all over my work has been expensive but using computers that can actually keep up with their users pays for themselves. Plus there are so many better programs for accounting, scheduling, billing, basically any typical office-related software.
Of course there are more security issues on the PC side than on the Mac side and it makes sense, there's a million more software applications to support and a million more choices for cheaper, faster hardware than that slow, proprietary, expensive crap they load in a Mac.
If you want a stable, secure and wonderful alternative to XP, use Linux. But that's besides the point. Mac has no place in the workplace. (And my $800 Dell workstation would blow past the fastest dual-core Mac any day on an Adobe benchmark comparison).
Flame on.
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How does the Department of Education play an important role exactly? When I first read Ron Paul's views on educations, I thought "wow, this guy doesn't like education?" However, I've learned that since the inception of the Department of Education, educational standards have only decreased while higher education has become less affordable. Seriously, why is it that educational costs have skyrocketed (beyond the rate of inflation) over the past 20-30 years? Hmm...
We have ourselves one worthless government agency.
And isn't it creepy that our government dictates learning curriculum anyways?
I want a president that will either fix our welfare state (super democrat), or just get rid of the shit that's broken (super conservative).
I still can't figure out why slashdot never posted my submission for Ron Paul's article at http://www.news.com/Technology-Voters-Guide-Ron-Paul/2100-1028_3-6224161.html?tag=st.num which is much more interesting.
The thing is, I take only 5 seconds to tune. It's not the crowd problem. When I think of a guitar with automatic tuning, I'm envisioning one that tunes your guitar while you're playing, not between songs. So imagine, you're halfway through your song, you smack a chord too hard, or your singer bumps into your headstock, or who knows what, you go out of tune and you're forced to play the remainer of your song out of key. Then you try desperately tuning in the middle of a song (which I've gotten good at without being noticeable). That's where electric tuning would be sweet, but I like a lot of the people, am doubtful it'll be any time soon it's perfected. C'mon though, wouldn't it be rad? :)
I'm talking about playing live shows. You obviously have never played one, otherwise you'd know that in front of large crowds, you tend to hit the strings harder than normal. I've been a professional musician for 10 years. I'm pretty sure I know how to stretch my strings. Machine heads are one of the first things I change out, even on a higher-end guitar.
... at least I hope it is anyways. I've grown quite dependent of tuning electronically, which I'm trying to steer away from, but this is a MUST HAVE for anyone who performs live. Nothing is more embarrassing that your strings detuning a performance. And I don't play on cheap equipment.
I've attempted installing 7.04 on five different systems:
1. Abit AB9-Pro Core 2 Duo System
2. Dell Inspiron 1100
3. Dell Inspiron 2500
4. Dell Inspiron 2600
5. Toshiba Laptop (I forget the model, single core Celeron 2.0ghz)
The AB9-Pro system would get to the Live CD options but would freeze with graphical issues. The Inspiron 1100 installed without a hitch, but in 640x480 which required a LOT of tweaking and eventually, X Server would come up with errors and wouldn't even boot thereafter.
The final three laptops would get past the Live CD options but wouldn't get beyond X Server graphic errors.
I used two different copies of Ubuntu 7.04, X Ubuntu and Ubuntu Alternate with the same errors each time. I know this wasn't related to my burning methods.
I then downloaded PCLinuxOS (which I'm using now) and it installed without a hitch on both my AB9-Pro and my Inspiron 1100 (which I'm using now).
When I first started working for my current employer, we had a Macintosh network of roughly 20-30 Macs and a Mac server, all using OSX. Though I was very much PC biased when I started, I did grow to enjoy the Mac platform. They make a great MP3 player. *snicker* After working with the existing Mac network for a few years and getting very familiar with the inner workings, I have to say, Macs are expensive and slow and limited beyond practicality when it comes to business software solutions. Those who say "they make a product that just works," we've had several motherboards go tits up and the cost of repairing the computers damn near leaves them totaled. In fact my bosses laptop's hard drive died and he was quoted (from 1 of 2 of the only decent Mac vendors in the state) $800 dollars to repair / replace the drive. I took it upon myself to replace it and found out the hard way that hard drive replacement is a surgery that requires 20-30 screws removed, some hidden under keys. If that's not a sign that Apple is the next evil empire, I don't know what is. And Apple support? Forget it. I'd talk to the gypsies that work the Dell call centers any day. At any rate, the office manager that fooled the president into deploying a full-Mac network has since left. We have begun to phase out the Macs. Cleaning up the Apple mess left all over my work has been expensive but using computers that can actually keep up with their users pays for themselves. Plus there are so many better programs for accounting, scheduling, billing, basically any typical office-related software. Of course there are more security issues on the PC side than on the Mac side and it makes sense, there's a million more software applications to support and a million more choices for cheaper, faster hardware than that slow, proprietary, expensive crap they load in a Mac. If you want a stable, secure and wonderful alternative to XP, use Linux. But that's besides the point. Mac has no place in the workplace. (And my $800 Dell workstation would blow past the fastest dual-core Mac any day on an Adobe benchmark comparison). Flame on.